In this episode of The Dr. Hedberg Show, I interview Dr. Lindsey Berkson in an in-depth discussion about hormones, brain health, gut health, Hashimoto's disease, post-birth control syndrome and much more.

Dr. Berkson had breast cancer 24 years ago and has made remission her mission. Dr. Berkson now specializes in working with breast cancer survivors to do the same; addressing food, herbs, hormone balancing and sometime protective replacement as well as nutraceuticals. Dr. Berkson formulated Metagenic's female hormone protective nutrient line. Dr. Berkson is considered a thought leader in functional medicine and now teaches MDs, Nurse Practitioners, pharmacists and other health care professionals continuing education courses. Dr. Berkson has authored 21 books, hosts the Dr. Berkson's Best Health Radio, writes the Berkson Blog (see it at DrLindseyBerkson.com) and is a research fellow with Health Sciences Collegium. Dr. Berkson has published original research with the University of Houston Medical School and Nathan Bryan PdD, the world's authority on nitrous oxide.  Dr. Berkson was a scholar at an estrogen think tank at Tulane University and worked with the scientists that discovered estrogen receptor functionality and endocrine disruption.

Dr. Berkson is a best-selling author; Healthy Digestion the Natural Way (Wiley 2000) was the first gut, nutrition, mind book.

Her newest book SEXY BRAIN explains environmental castration and how to test, detox and protect your hormones and brain.

Below is a transcript of my interview with Dr. Lindsey Berkson

Dr. Hedberg: Well, hello, everyone, and welcome to the "Dr. Hedberg Show." This is Dr. Hedberg. I'm excited today to have a very special guest, Dr. Berkson. She's been in practice for many years, has a lot of experience. And welcome to the show, Dr. Berkson.

Dr. Berkson: Very nice to be on the show with you. You have such a nice radio voice that it's like an extra audio candy here. So, thank you.

Dr. Hedberg: All right. Well, thank you for that. So why don't you, just fill everyone in on your work and what you're focused on these days.

Dr. Berkson: So, I've been in practice for many decades. I've got 21 books out and one of the big deals in my background is that I had the honor of being a hormone scholar at an estrogen think tank called the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane University. So, I got to work academically with the scientists that discovered the first and second estrogen receptor, Elwood Jensen, and Jan-Ake Gustafsson. And they taught me so much about how hormones really work. So, really knowing about hormones isn't just getting a blood, urine, or saliva level. It's whether the hormone can really deliver its signal and all of the bigger picture that's involved in that. I've written many books on hormones. Hormones have been my love. I did my very first rotation in integrative medicine in 1977 with Dr. Jonathan Wright who's now called the father of bioidentical hormones. So, I've been testing, running, looking at, writing about hormones and hanging out with the scientists that have really changed the way we understand hormones. And even Elwood Jensen was responsible for how we profiled breast cancer tumors.

So, besides that, I have a lot of background and degrees in nutrition, so I merged all of that together and I wrote one of the very first books on the concept...