163. Elizabeth Yurth, MD, Myths About Women’s Hormone Therapy Part 1 of 2

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In today’s episode, I interviewed Elizabeth Yurth, Medical Director of Boulder Longevity Institute which she co-founded in 2006. When it comes to hormone treatment for women, they have often been fed unchecked facts. In this episode, Elizabeth broke down the myths about women’s hormone therapy and how it can effectively treat them.

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Elizabeth Yurth, MD is the Medical Director of the Boulder Longevity Institute which she co-founded in 2006. The Boulder Longevity Institute specializes in advanced, research-based longevity medicine including treatments such as Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, Regenerative Orthopedic Procedures, and Regenerative Peptide Therapy, with a result-oriented approach to health optimization. Dr. Yurth obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and completed her residency at the University of California – Irvine. Along with her 25-plus years as a practicing orthopedist specializing in sports and spine medicine, Dr. Yurth has made it her mission to learn and share the latest scientific research on how to truly heal the body at the cellular level. She is double board-certified in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation and Anti-Aging/Regenerative Medicine. As a specialist in Sports, Spine, and Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Yurth has a Stanford-affiliated Fellowship in Sports and Spine Medicine, and a dual-Fellowship in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (FAARM) and Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine (FAARFM) through the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M). Dr. Yurth has also completed Fellowship training in Human Potential & Epigenetic Medicine and Cellular Medicine, is part of the first cohort of providers to receive the A4M National Peptide Certification, and is a founding faculty member and national lecturer for SSRP (Seeds Scientific Research and Performance).

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• Instagram: @boulderlongevity, @dryurth

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Timestamps

00:00 - Precap

00:42 - Intro

01:51 - Guest introduction

04:28 - Myths surrounding women’s hormone therapy

07:47 - Hormone replacement - Insanity starts

10:33 - Women should not be on hormones

11:20 - Women's hormones, increase the rate of breast cancer

13:11 - US Preventive Task Force released a statement

15:54 - Commercial Starts

16:27 - Commercial ends

16:43 - Can hormones cause cancer?

17:05 - Metabolizing Hormones

18:09 - Does testosterone cause cancer in men?

19:10 - Know how hormones metabolize

21:20 - Liver-protecting process

24:25 - What’s the process of going through hormone replacement therapy?

26:28 - Women have estrogen dominance

28:00 - Birth control pills block testosterone

29:50 - Testosterone is always bioidentical

30:28 - Outro