{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Felice Gersh, MD: Gynecologist and integrative medicine physician shares the truth about women\u2019s hormones, and how to manage PCOS and menopause.","description":"Many women who can benefit from hormones are still sitting on the sidelines because of long-held misconceptions about health risks of hormone therapy. \u201cWe need to move on from that crazy debate that hormones are bad,\u201d says gynecologist and integrative medicine physician Felice Gersh MD, author of PCOS SOS and Menopause: 50 Things You Need to Know. \u201cEstradiol is the elixir of life!\u201d In this episode, Dr. Comite interviews Dr. Gersh about how insufficient hormones dramatically impact a woman\u2019s current and future health. You\u2019ll learn\u2026 \u00b7         Not only can hormone therapy ease hot flashes, sleep disturbance, and other symptoms of menopause, it reduces insulin resistance and cardiovascular disease risk in menopausal women, optimizes production of growth factors in the brain and supports bone health. \u00b7         Breast cancer is more common after menopause when estrogen levels drop. \u00b7         The close connection between PCOS and Menopause. \u00b7         Chronic inflammation upregulates aromatase and changes estrogen into an unhealthy form called \u201cestrone.\u201d \u00b7         50% of women with PCOS have a first-degree relative who has PCOS. \u00b7         While excess testosterone is blamed for PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome is primarily a condition caused by not enough estradiol. \u00b7         \u201cYou can\u2019t heal without hormones, but until you\u2019re healed, you won\u2019t make the hormones,\u201d says Dr. Gersh. \u00b7         Why you should take estradiol in cream or patch form, not orally. ","author_name":"Healthy Longevity","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/537072","html":"