For maybe 7 or 8 months last year, I went down a rabbit hole of functional medicine to help my perimenopause sleep symptoms because I had been dismissed by my ob gyn and thought MHT caused cancer. During that time (before I came to my senses and found a better doctor), I listened to a number of podcasts, one by a Canadian woman who said estradiol was “bad estrogen” and estriol is “good.” You could get your levels in a DUTCH test, a $400-700 dry urine hormone test. And then there was Dr. Mark Hyman and some other MD on his show talking about the superiority of bioidentical hormones to Premarin. Thank God I woke up before wasting my money on any of this.
For maybe 7 or 8 months last year, I went down a rabbit hole of functional medicine to help my perimenopause sleep symptoms because I had been dismissed by my ob gyn and thought MHT caused cancer. During that time (before I came to my senses and found a better doctor), I listened to a number of podcasts, one by a Canadian woman who said estradiol was “bad estrogen” and estriol is “good.” You could get your levels in a DUTCH test, a $400-700 dry urine hormone test. And then there was Dr. Mark Hyman and some other MD on his show talking about the superiority of bioidentical hormones to Premarin. Thank God I woke up before wasting my money on any of this.