Empowering Patients Through Education

Discover resources for patient education, including our favorite books, podcasts, and videos, along with downloadable PDFs to enhance your understanding and support your health journey.

Books

• Normal Isn't Optimal Dr. Neal Rouzier

• Rethinking Hypothyroidism: Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do by Dr. Antonio Bianco

• Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve and Lengthen Women's Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer by Dr. Avrum Bluming, Carol Tavris

• Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease and How to Fight It by Dr. Benjamin Bikman

Podcasts

• Women Want Strong Men host Amy Stuttle

  • Specifically any interviews with Dave Lee

• Huberman Lab host Dr. Andrew Huberman

  • The Science of How to Optimize Testosterone & Estrogen" (Episode 15)

  • How to Optimize Your Hormones for Health & Vitality" (with Dr. Kyle Gillett)

  • Dr. Natalie Crawford: Female Hormone Health, Fertility & Vitality"

  • How to Optimize Fertility in Males & Females"

  • Dr. Shanna Swan: How to Safeguard Your Hormone Health & Fertility

• The Drive by Dr. Peter Attia

  • Ep. #352 Female fertility: optimizing reproductive health, diagnosing and treating infertility and PCOS, and understanding the IVF process with Dr. Paula Amato

  • Ep. #351 Male fertility: optimizing reproductive health, diagnosing and treating infertility, and navigating testosterone replacement therapy with Dr. Paul Turek

  • Ep. #253 Hormone replacement therapy and the Women’s Health Initiative: re-examining the results, the link to breast cancer, and weighing the risk vs reward of HRT | JoAnn Manson, M.D.

  • Ep #42 Avrum Bluming, M.D. and Carol Tavris, Ph.D.: Controversial topic affecting all women—the role of hormone replacement therapy through menopause and beyond—the compelling case for long-term HRT and dispelling the myth that it causes breast cancer

Youtube

• Channel: TRT and Hormone Optimization

  • Episode: EVERYTHING You Need to Know about Testosterone Cream for Men with Dr Keith Nichols.

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-s01wT7C4&t=16s

Articles

Testosterone

• Dosing of Testosterone Replacement in Women:

  https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9331845/

• Testosterone Insufficiency and Treatment in Women:

  https://jwhollandwellness.com/storage/2024/08/JW-Holland-Wellness-Testosterone-Insufficiency-and-Treatment-in-Women-in-Tulsa-OK.pdf4

• Androgen Receptor Polymorphism and Female Sexual Function and Desire: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1743609518312098

• Testosterone therapy in women: Myths and misconceptions: Testosterone therapy in women: Myths and misconceptions - ScienceDirect

• Genetic variations in the androgen receptor modifies the association between testosterone and vitality in middle aged men: Genetic Variation in the Androgen Receptor Modifies the Association Between Testosterone and Vitality in Middle-Aged Men - PubMed

• A Personal Prospective on Testosterone Therapy in Women—What We Know:

  A Personal Prospective on Testosterone Therapy in Women—What We Know in 2022 - PMC

  
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

Educational Resources

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