Menopause How Dr. Churchill Treats Symptoms and Root Causes And Why.

Hi, it's Dr. Dana Churchill. How are you guys doing today? One thing I want to talk about today is what I treat most often in my practice. I do a lot of different things, pretty diversified in my diagnosis, labs, treatments. One of the mainstays of my practice is menopausal women. It's always been that way. I don't know why. I get along great with menopausal women or with my patients. I'm going to talk a little bit about that and why we do what we do and how we can help you and put it into a concerted, not envelope, but organized fashion to show people who haven't come here yet why it's so important that it's a comprehensive system that the doctor understands because he's treated thousands of other women before you. We know what to do because we've seen so many different variables, so many different things happening. Basically, menopausal women, let me say a few words about that because women, what I've seen, and I have a good relationship with a lot of different people. A lot of people, a lot of my patients, I talk to them about other things. Menopausal women are doing great or women in general are doing great. They are the matriarchs of society. Everybody knows that. They take on the world. Some aren't married. Some don't have kids, but many do. I'm not alienating the ones that don't, but let's just say that women have a lot of different things to do. If they have a family, they're taking care of their kids. They're driving their kids all over the place to school and a lot of extracurricular things. Then they have their husbands. They're helping their husbands. A lot of times they're in the back of what the husband's doing and for his business or they're part of the business or they're running the business. A lot of women now are running their own businesses without being married at all. There's a lot of things that I see is put on women's back more than men in the society, at least right now. They're doing well. They're keeping everything. This is what they told me. They're keeping it, everything good, and then all of a sudden the hormones go south. But before the hormones went south, I'm talking about estrogen, progesterone, testosterone start to lose those hormones. When you go into perimenopause, they change and then when you go into menopause, they change again. Before that even starts happening, I believe that 50 percent of the population has a problem with their thyroid. Many people are told they have no problem because the lab values say that they're fine. Well, the only lab that's usually done for screening in your screening labs, which is only two pages, and within those two pages, it's one lab done the TSH. This is a big disservice to patients. I'm going to tell you right now. We've done comprehensive lab work with functional medicine now probably 15 years and had really great labs for the last 10 years that are affordable to people. We've gotten to do a lot of panels. We've seen a lot of pathology. TSH is a really bad lab. It's a horrific lab. It doesn't measure much of anything. I mean, I use it in seven other thyroid labs. I'll use it as a gauge, a monitor for treatment sometimes, but that's about it. So let me just say if your TSH is over two, you're going to have some serious thyroid symptoms and we call it subclinical just because it's not over the 4.5, which is end of the range of the TSH in most labs. Even the thyroid society has lowered that number to some extent. I've seen people at 4.5 or 4 who are almost in bed. They can't function, and specifically because of thyroid, not because of anything else. So basically, we want to run a saliva panel, okay? The saliva panel is going to measure all your hormones. It's going to measure for cortisol, which is your adrenal glands, your energy. It also works with the immune system. It also works for your glucose metabolism, okay? Everybody wants to make sure their glucose is metabolizing properly, unless you're keto, you know, then you don't have to worry about it too much because then you have good energy, you can lose weight, you know, you can build muscle, you don't have brain fog, your memory, everything seems to be working well. If your glucose is all over the place and it's going up and down, up and down like a yo-yo, you're going to feel terrible. You're going to be reaching for sugar and coffee just to pick yourself up in the lows and the highs. You'll feel great. You won't have a normal, even metabolic, you know, sustained energy release is what you want. So getting back to menopausal women, we usually do a saliva panel for the hormones because the hormones and saliva are measured with the intracellular stores. It basically measures what's inside the cells, not just what's in the blood. I do blood a lot of times as well or I will depend on budget. Some people just want to do blood and I want to say one thing, I have a very comprehensive blood panel that I do. I try to do it for every new patient unless they have their own panel and they, you know, it's a really good panel, they went to functional medicine or they're in perfect health. You know, that doesn't happen that often but if that's, you know, the way you are and that's what you want to do, I'm totally fine with it. But I do need to get hormones at least if we're looking at menopause and the hormones would be the ones I mentioned. Testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, 4-cortisol, 2-DHEA. That's in your saliva panel. Thyroid has to be measured in blood. Some people measure in urine but blood is the main marker, the main medium for that. We're measuring seven thyroid labs and I'm not going to go into every one what it does in this lecture but I can do that in another lecture. We're also measuring major inflammatory markers, vasculature inflammatory markers and systemic inflammatory markers because inflammation is the name of the game. The more inflammation you have, the more disease you have and we could target it to specific areas especially in the vasculature. If you have a lot of inflammation in your vessels, in your heart arteries, you're going to lay down plaque a lot faster, you're going to get a heart attack a lot faster than somebody who doesn't. As well in the brain, you'll have a stroke faster. Insulin and diabetes and glucose plays a very large part of that so we do six markers looking at diabetes, insulin, glucose, hemoglobin A1c. Also looking at pancreas beta cell function because that's where you get your insulin from, from your pancreas, from your beta cells and they can be killed off by autoimmunity. A lot of people are lacking beta cells unfortunately and a lot of diabetics in this country already on insulin so we want to check that very carefully. We want to look at all the cardiac markers extremely carefully because I want to make sure my patients are okay today, tomorrow, next month, next year, five years down the road or maybe even longer and I can ascertain this by looking at your past history, by looking at a comprehensive 10-page blood marker panel, by looking at your saliva panel. We may do other labs if you want them if needed. I try to only do those one or two for most people who are coming in for menopause because they're not here for pathology. If we find something else that's great. You may have heavy metal toxicity. A lot of people don't know about it. You may have a lot of food sensitivities, allergies. You may have gut issues. I know you have gut issues. Everybody does. Some may be more serious than others. We can do a stool panel looking at very carefully at your flora, at your digestion, your metabolism which is also going to help you lose weight, build muscle, burn fat. That's another thing I want to say. Everybody wants to be beautiful especially in California so my treatments started in West LA where it's even more strenuous for that than it is over here in Orange County but still it's very important for people to look good and to you know look younger especially the push for looking younger now is actually out of control but I do as much as I can and we have a quite a nice system called Inside Outside Beauty. So if people come in for menopause in the beginning I may not mention this but I'm always looking at those aspects and if they want to do more later we're definitely going to do it but by doing the saliva and the blood panel probably an allergy panel if there are if needed that's going to clear out 50 to 75 percent of your symptoms, of your not being able to lose weight, of your brain fog, of your lack of energy, your lack of libido, your mind, your memory, cognition, a lot of different things it's going to clear those out right away. We usually start with three to five IVs usually the recovery performance it has seven amino acids, seven minerals, seven vitamins, and 10 grams of vitamin c just once a week. I also monitor you when you're coming anytime for that I don't charge you for visits you only get charged for the first visit then we get the labs back we go over the labs and then we make the treatments but after we make the treatments if you're coming in the first three to five weeks and I'm seeing you every week right after going over all the information you are fresh in my mind I'm going to help you each time I see you I'm going to mention different things to you which I'm not going to charge you for which is definitely helps a lot of people because I may not peg the exact perfect system on the first day only having 30 minutes with you but by seeing you the recovery from your lab from your IVs and how you are and what you're telling me because I usually greet my patients and talk to them for a few minutes even if I'm busy I try to do that. So that's what we're looking at for menopausal women they come in here they're beaten down they are really the matriarchs of society a lot of weight on their backs as soon as their hormones go south everything falls apart I mean this may not be you but this is 50 to 75 percent of the women in this country I think from what I've seen if it's if my practice is any gauge of that and what we need to do is we need to rebuild those hormones so we'll give you bioidentical hormones we'll use herbals we use peptides different things to balance your hormones balance is the name of the game you don't want too much you don't want too little you want it completely balanced you will feel great then your adrenals need to be balanced your thyroid needs to be balanced okay there's thyroid formulas there's thyroid hormones there's four or five different types of thyroid hormones I know how to use them all very well and burst in that I treat Hashimoto's quite often which is I used to say it's impossible now I just say it's a little harder than hypothyroidism because we have the systems to do it looking at exercise if you can't exercise you can't lose weight you can't look your best and I'm talking about just walking some people you know they just walk three times four times a week and they're doing great it cuts the heart attack rate in half I didn't mention before the bioidentical hormones cuts the heart attack rate in half as well it cuts the reproductive cancer the propensity to get a reproductive cancer in half and it fixes bone density many times with other things like weight-bearing exercises so I guess what I'm trying to say it's a one-stop shop I can help you on all levels of your life I do homeopathics too mind we have HDL we have different formulas to help crave arrest different amino acids to stop you from craving sugar that's a really big one I see deters a lot of people from being their best I want you to be your best in every way shape and form because I've become that way I feel I have and I have to go through steel walls in my life you can watch my video I had you know a tough life when I was younger and I've overcome majority of that and it was because somebody helped me they gave me a leg up and I want to help you guys do that same thing so we're looking at all the different labs and then one other thing we have a new shockwave machine here which we can do erectile dysfunction and vaginal rejuvenation the erectile dysfunction is a big claim to fame on that but also joints any kind of joint pathology I should say not pathology but joint pain decreased range of motion sprain strains those kind of things back pain intractable back pain we do a lot of biologics as well stem cell injections exosomes PRP ozone I'm a mad scientist I have systems to mix those things together and get really really good results and using a shockwave machine at the same time so that will get you back in your feet it will get you exercise and get you working out that's when you're going to be at your best you go back to your routine you used to do some people I take them back to 20 30 years old they're coming in at 40 50 60 and they want to get back to where they were in high school and we can do it it's not impossible with the methods and with the medicines and the peptides the IVs the stem cells we have today you can definitely do it so you know don't be a stranger come in call me if you have any questions I'll do a free 15 minute consultation some people say I'm all over the place it's not that it's just I have such a huge breadth of treatments and modalities that I use each person is an individual you need to match up the breadth of those treatments and modalities labs imaging everything to each person you are individuals you're not the same there's no cookie cutter here I don't know how to do cookie cutter it would be a lot easier but it won't work I mean we we see what happens out there with that so call me if you need anything I'm here for you and have a great day thank you very much take care