I have practiced hormone, weight, health, and mind optimization for over forty-five years. I retired 9 years ago; at least, that is what I thought. When I retired, my wife and I owned and operated seven medical clinics specializing in hormone and weight optimization. As we enter our pauses (menopause and andropause), our hormones become disrupted, causing us to gain weight, suffer from the inability to lose the extra weight, sleeping disorders, hormonally induced anxiety and depression, loss of interest in being intimate, and lose our motivation to be social. Our internal chemistry, our hormones, governs how we feel, look, live, and think. Subscribe to my free weekly newsletter, which over 30,000 'paused' women and men already have, by entering your email address below and learn the tools we use to optimize our hormones and weight ‘naturally.’
The "Pause" - The Brain and Menopause
“Doc, I recently became peri-menopausal. I noticed I started suffering from brain fog, forgetting words, and finding myself in a room, not knowing why I was there. Since I am peri-menopausal, is this hormonal? ”
YES!
The combination of aging and entering a paused state provides a wake-up call for women and men.
IT’S TIME TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR BRAIN!
Do you want to slow down, neutralize, and reverse an aging brain?
Read on!
THE PAUSE
A NEWSLETTER TO MAKE US PAUSE-AWESOME
BRAIN HORMONES: AN INTRODUCTION
I love this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt:
My God-given purpose in life is to be an aging work of art and then to teach what I have learned about the art of aging well.
The HOPE Protocol is the system I developed to guide us as we age beautifully.
The HOPE Protocol has four strands. I call them strands because they must be intertwined.
The four strands are:
- Hormone Optimization
- Organic Sustenance
- Purification Protocols
- Enlightenment Coaching
The four strands Haves (goals) are:
- Optimized Hormones
- Optimized Weight
- Optimized Health
- Optimized Minds
In today’s teaching, we work in the Third Strand, the Purification Strand. But wait! Aren’t optimized minds in the fourth strand?
Yes! But… in the Purification Strand, we optimize health by optimizing different organ systems. There are three different organ optimization protocols we concentrate on.
- Liver Optimization
- Gut Optimization
- Brain Optimization
Today’s course is an introduction to…
BRAIN OPTIMIZATION
Instead of a brain that slowly diminishes as we age, how about making a commitment to slowing down, stopping, and reversing the aging process of our brains?
When I ask my clients what concerns them most about the health of their brains, the answer is nearly always the same.
They want to avoid acquiring the debilitating disease of dementia.
CDC
Dementia sure sounds a lot like being paused.
I want you to pay attention to the last sentence from the quote above.
When you read books about dementia and Alzheimer’s, most will say that it was a disease that was rarely seen in our grandparents' generation.
The books will also say that the primary reason dementia is so prevalent today has to do with us living much longer.
We do live longer.
If you have been reading my newsletter, you know that my Have in my Me Strand of life is to dance at my grandchildren’s weddings. For that to happen, I must live to be in my 90s.
For you newbies:
There are four strands to life.
- Me
- Us
- Them
- Him
Within each strand are three states of being
- Be
- Do
- Have
To repeat the Have in my Me Strand, IT is to dance at my grandchildren’s weddings. The key to my Have statement is to dance.
I did not get to meet three of my four grandparents. Three of them had passed before I was born. The one I did meet was in his 90s when I met him. He was still working. He painted the smoke stack of a large sugar factory in the middle of the jungles in the Yucatan. He climbed hundreds of feet in the air to paint this towering smoke stack. He lived to be well over 100 years old.
I have the genes. My mother is still alive in her 90s. I have longevity genes. My job is not to screw them up.
In my 44 years of practicing health optimization, I have learned…
The body is nothing more than a vehicle for the brain. The brain is the driver.
Maurice Chevalier
If you have heard of Maurice Chevalier, you’ve reached a mature age and should pay close attention to the rest of this lesson.
The better we care for our bodies, the better our brains will age.
MENOPAUSE, HORMONES, AND DEMENTIA
Dementia is a severe impairment of cognitive function.
Mild cognitive impairment is the space between normal cognitive function and dementia.
Science has found that cognitive changes are higher in women than in men. Because of this, it is believed that hormonal changes brought on by hormonal disruption as they enter menopause contribute to their cognitive decline.
So what would I do hormonally to slow down, stop, and reverse my brain from aging?
Many might blame estrogen as being the hormone that sparks cognitive decline. Lower estrogen levels get all the blame because it is the hormone that brings about menopause. But…to me, menopause isn’t the decrease in estrogen that causes a woman not to ovulate. It’s not ovulating!
When a woman doesn’t ovulate, her ovaries no longer produce progesterone and testosterone.
I can’t point my finger at just one hormone as the culprit to memory loss, brain fog, and losing words. These symptoms are caused by all three of the ovarian hormones going into chaos.
So…let’s take a look upstream. That would be the logical way to examine the connection between our pause hormones and cognitive decline.
THE MOTHER OF ALL HORMONES
DHEA is the mother hormone for our ovarian/gonadal hormones.
What if we ensured that we had plenty of DHEA so that our body turned into estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone?
The problem with DHEA is that it is controversial. My colleagues and I, who practice anti-aging medicine, disagree. But this is what is being said about DHEA.
WebMD
THE GRANDMOTHER OF ALL HORMONES
The grandmother of all hormones is also called the Brain Hormone
The Journal of Biological Chemistry
The first step to optimizing our brains is hormonal.
In the next newsletter, I will delve into how we may use the precursors, pregnenolone and DHEA, of our ovarian hormones, estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone, to optimize our brain hormonally.
Brain health is important, and its optimization is complex. Be patient because I want you to understand each step thoroughly.
There is no magic pill.
It's a process.
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THIS WEEK’S US-IE
Vicky and I stayed home this week and watched as one storm after another dropped flooding rains and produced tree-toppling winds. We made the best of the weather by binging television and cooking soups.
And remember...
"IT'S ALL ABOUT YOUR HORMONES!"
"Because when your hormones are sound, your weight, health, and mind will follow."
🌪 Doc
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Hi! I'm Doc Mac.
I have practiced hormone, weight, health, and mind optimization for over forty-five years. I retired 9 years ago; at least, that is what I thought. When I retired, my wife and I owned and operated seven medical clinics specializing in hormone and weight optimization. As we enter our pauses (menopause and andropause), our hormones become disrupted, causing us to gain weight, suffer from the inability to lose the extra weight, sleeping disorders, hormonally induced anxiety and depression, loss of interest in being intimate, and lose our motivation to be social. Our internal chemistry, our hormones, governs how we feel, look, live, and think. Subscribe to my free weekly newsletter, which over 30,000 'paused' women and men already have, by entering your email address below and learn the tools we use to optimize our hormones and weight ‘naturally.’
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