Why Your Heart and Brain Like Estrogen

<p>Maintaining a healthy alignment with our bodies so often comes back to keeping things balanced and our hormones are no different.</p> <p>Dr. Felice Gersh is dedicated to helping women navigate life in an optimal way, particularly when it comes to the roles hormones play in aging. She joins this conversation to discuss her philosophy on how women can approach supporting their hormonal systems in a variety of ways.</p> <p>When dealing with hormone imbalances, Dr. Gersh doesn't aim for "natural," but rather an alignment with the body's systems that optimizes physiology.</p> <p><strong>On Today’s Episode of A Healthy Curiosity:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why we need to pay attention to the effects of hormones on women’s health</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The other roles sex hormones play in the body aside from reproduction</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How estrogen metabolites interact with and support the heart</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why she reframes bio-identical hormones as human identical</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What the role of testosterone is in women’s bodies</span></li> </ul> <p>Felice Gersh, M.D. is an award-winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, a comprehensive women’s healthcare practice. She taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine for 12 years as an Assistant Clinical Professor and now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Felice is the bestselling author of PCOS SOS and has published several articles in peer-reviewed medical journals. She has als