Testosterone Receptor sites accept Estrogens, E1 and E2 as well as T. Estrogens and T compete for attaching to the T receptors, and estrogen is three times as “sticky” as testosterone. This makes the level of estrogens very important to both men and women. This competition explains why women can have total T levels as high as a man, yet if her estrogen is present at normal levels then the free T levels are very low compared to what it would be in a man with low E2 levels.

My medical practice and my research is based on the basic need for the hormone testosterone in both men and women as they age. We have plenty of this hormone when we are young, and it is the factor that makes us look and feel youthful. As we age, after 40 for women and 50 for men we lose our testosterone which then causes our growth hormone and other metabolic systems to malfunction.

4 years ago, we wrote a book called The Secret Female Hormone, after almost 30 years as a gynecologist Dr. Maupin had a personal experience of the loss than comes to a woman’s life when she loses her testosterone and her estrogen after menopause. As we recount in the book, Dr. Maupin went to a number of physicians and even a psychiatrist or two.

Cardiac disease is not the only thing that results from plaque formation. ED is the first sign of narrowing of the arteries, and then high blood pressure, poor cognition, stroke, poor circulation to the legs, and then heart damage from heart attacks. Not a good way to spend the golden years.

Everyone gets very excited about high cholesterol findings on blood work testing and inevitably all people both men and women who have high total cholesterol test values and or high LDL are put on a drug called a statin to lower that cholesterol like a knee jerk decision. Then a patient can feel “protected” from future heart disease! Unfortunately, this is a fairy tale

In April of this year, Dr. Maupin will be presenting a talk to the national convention of AMMG (Age Management Medicine Group). This is a convention that she and her staff have attended twice a year for the last 10 years. Several times she has been asked to participate in a panel of experts or to present independently on a topic where she is considered to be an expert by this group of physicians who all have practices focusing on the management of the aging process

There are many myths floating around the medical community regarding hormone replacement with testosterone pellets. On this weeks’ podcast, Dr. Maupin and Brett Newcomb discuss those myths and challenge incorrect thinking.

When the human body is exposed to radiation (even the sun), toxins, stress, unhealthy food, infection and extremes of temperature and physically stressful environments, it creates unstable free radicals, charged cells that travel through the body causing cellular damage.

Mitochondria are discussed like they are understood by the common man in advertisements, and in discussions about nutrition, but most people don’t know really what they are. For example, the ads read…

“Take these Anti-oxidants every day and you will heal your mitochondria, and live longer…”

What is an AI? It stands for Aromatase Inhibitor. This group of medications is an enzyme blocker that slows or stops the conversion of Testosterone into Estrone and Estradiol. The common use, as stated by the FDA, is for Estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer, to decrease the estrogen in the bloodstream that comes from testosterone.