81 - Your HRT Questions Answered with Jennifer Gularson.

In today's episode Jody chats with Jennier Gularson, a physician assistant who specialises in hormone health for women in perimenopause and menopause. Jennifer is a functional medicine practitioner who spends her days helping women understand the type of HRT they may need for their symptoms. We discuss the different types of HRT, pellets, transdermal, shots and why. Some women benefit from taking HRT daily in the form of a trans dermal cream or others with busy lives may be better off with a patch that is applied several times a week. We speak about some of the side effects of HRT, like reflux and why it occurs. 

How HRT differs from birth control and what a compounding chemist does and how what you get from a prescription you get from your pharmacy.

Jennifer talks about how she uses a compounding pharmacist for progesterone for women experiencing anxiety as it is not dumped into the system.

Jennifer describes the ingredients used for bio identical hormones, soy and yam and why this type of HRT is the best choice for women. 

We talk about the different doshas and their approach to menopause and their HRT treatment.

This is a very interesting episode for women considering HRT or who are looking for questions answered around HRT.

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The Optimal Body Podcast

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