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In the final segment of Functional Medicine Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the female hormones.



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Hi, this is Dr. Rutherford and we are now down to what I believe is the last in the series of functional medicine back to basics that we started several months ago, and thank you for all of your kind words and thank you and I'M glad for those of you say that you're getting help from this and that it's, really pretty cool.



I really really makes me get up in the morning and do this so female hormones yo-yo. Why? I am. Why is this the last in this series? This is the last in the series because, as my mentors would say, everything flows downstream to the female hormones if female hormones are affected by everything, particularly if you're, still, menstruating and and to a degree, even if you're in Menopause and I'm gonna talk about both of those.



So let's. First talk about let's, just first talk about and female hormones and and like the natural cycle of what a female hormone should look like. So the natural cycle of a female hormone is, I'm gonna start with the brain and, and there's a there is a structure in your brain called the hypothalamus.



What you need to know about the hypothalamus is it &? # 39 s, this, it's, this little organ in the brain. It's, not an organ, but it's. This little this little yeah it's, an organ in the brain that senses all of the balances of chemicals, particularly hormones in in your system, in your in your bloodstream, and so it senses how much estrogen that a woman has okay and then, if It's.



If, if there's, not enough estrogen, there then being produced by the ovaries, then your hypothalamus talks to another organ, that's called your pituitary gland. Many of you may be familiar with it, and that is called the master gland, because it sends signals to all it pretty much controls all the hormones it sends signals to the thyroid.



It sends signals out for you to make growth hormone. It sense they goes out for you to make estrogen testosterone. It's, the master gland. So when it is told that you do not have enough estrogen, it then tells your ovaries to make estrogen okay, but that's, not the end of it.



The over the estrogen then has to be made, and it has to go out to the cells that needed and and and in women, that's, certainly that it goes. It goes into your brain. It gives you it gives you better mood.



Estrogen certainly controls how your ovaries work and, and so because there's, a lot of feedback in there relative to medical periods and and having them and along with progesterone having proper cycles and and so and then estrogen in women.



Well, the next step would be once it hits all of the cells, the frontal lobe cells, and it gives you good mood and and and and and it just ultimately has to be cleared after it goes to all the cells. So it goes through these cells and then it - and so the estrogen goes to the cell.



This is a cell, it hits the cell, the cell opens it goes in there. The cell uses it when it when it uses it. It has mechanisms to detox itself to send the the and the unused estrogen and they use it and and the they kind of used estrogen now has to be cleared from your body.



This is a very,