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Welcome to sex RX I'm Dr.
Manny we -- W recharge your sex life.
Hormones change as you age and can throw off your -- -- but don't worry can be fixed.
He -- to help you rewire your desire is chief medical officer of body logic MD doctor Jennifer land.
You gonna -- chart -- what.
Anyway listen we're talking about hormones and how it affects.
Against the sex drive especially women -- this is I think.
We still have a long way to go and don't worry you're not off -- -- and -- and -- bad guy that I have the Viagra but anyway.
So what happens to the hormones as we age.
So what happens is eighteen to 25 is when we have.
And for some hormones as early as eighteen to 25.
After right after that period they start to drop some of them start to drop -- thirty.
Everybody thinks about how hormones don't have to menopause after fifty but it's really not true a lot of our hormones go down a lot earlier than -- and can have a lot of effects adverse effects on -- sex life and a lot of other things.
Now we talk about sex when we talk about lead beat you know the desire to have sex.
-- but there -- other symptoms.
Yes it will be one of the first symptoms that so many people have is the drop in -- -- We need hormones for energy hormones -- the chemical messengers that go through outer body.
-- at my website Harmon the -- quiz dot com.
I get issues issues from women all the time anything from a low sex drive to low energy to Fuzzy thinking foggy thinking foggy brain.
All of that.
And any and also -- lots of confidence loss of self esteem little depressions -- little depression where of course the mood swings the doctored up problems as tight end.
But who -- in particular -- two hormones that are very significant.
In the reproductive cycle that being progesterone.
And estrogen.
And you know you need to balance those -- especially you can have a good sex life right.
-- -- how do we how do you know how do we tackle this problem especially as we age -- what.
The biggest problems that I see is that we are attacked every day by a ton of environmental estrogens and most people don't even realize it.
Like their estrogens in our foods.
In chicken cow is milk eggs all those kinds of things.
Have excess hormones and it's estrogen especially said that throws are estrogen and progesterone balance off.
And we have too much estrogen which causes what's called estrogen dominant.
That can definitely kill a -- sex drive but it also causes her to feel irritable overwhelmed have -- sleeping.
The -- breast tenderness PMS symptoms -- a whole host of problems.
So when -- we say that we need a fair balance of these two hormones.
You -- measure them.
Yes you absolutely can measure them and in that -- -- that we on that when love -- off one of the -- -- textbooks and gynecology.
What we're looking at -- -- we want to balance of about.
500 to one progesterone.
Estrogen.
So we want a pretty -- -- dominated environment but most of us live in a very -- on the environment from the estrogens in the food and also.
Heart behind chemical that's raptors firm disrupt -- that we find in our environment like even in our shampoo and conditioners things -- -- Good but if you are deficient in progesterone then you can and take progesterone as a supplement -- green.
Just to help -- increase -- Yes women started our thirty is really is one protester on seems to drop and that's why we see that also drop in fertility -- at a -- thirty.
It starts to drop from keeps going because of the drop -- protester it's a natural drop in -- -- and the more stressed women are.
The more -- progesterone drops.
Another hormone of significance is the hormone that I carry.
-- -- -- -- I hope you've got lots I got lots would have got -- -- -- -- -- a lot of the stuff so very little S magistrate Eric that I got I -- is.
As -- as an -- but also.
Is very applicable in women especially in the sex -- area.
Tell me about testosterone and its use in females.
Yet you know a lot of people don't realize that women have a ticket to -- around.
We haven't in about a tenth the amount -- that men have -- but it's a very significant important part of a woman's life.
Besides being a -- of desire -- so it really helps us sexually.
Helps with the desire also helps -- lubrication thickness of a vaginal tissues and it also helps with energy memory.
Mood it's women's emotional shield.
So you know when women certainly being too easily on from from commercials or even in the boardroom right testosterone tends to be what they're missing.
And you can use testosterone replacement.
And that's usually obtained through a compound in pharmacy and -- testosterone cream or there's other ways to administer -- well.
It affect you see that you know I think a lot of pharmaceutical companies are going that route.
That making testosterone available for for that -- is not yet but -- but they're an FDA testing the the last one -- don't talk about is.
-- -- -- Suppose in a very familiar I'm sure that a lot of pregnant patients -- there they know about the Towson.
Yes which is to stimulate contractions and that's exactly absorb it but you like -- at -- for your sex life.
Yes acts -- very important source excellent because we -- oxy Towson.
After we orgasm for example and also we produce -- to listen to make it easier to -- So it's not only the -- one of inducing labor but it's got a lot of other sexual function with him and we can the -- -- about foxy tunes in is it's easy to -- Proxy -- in our bodies will produce more oxy -- and from all kinds of things including sensual experiences like just.
-- looking at a beautiful flower smelling a beautiful smells something that you connect with with your senses that you can supplement to to.
You can supplement it but -- so many natural ways -- -- it and it and I just want to mention so instead of just that quick peck on the cheek when you first come in the door.
If you make out for ten or twenty seconds you're gonna amp up your proxy OK floor lying naked skin to skin -- foxy Towson and it makes it easier to have an orgasm and -- -- multiple orgasms and yes you can take oxy Tillerson.
In a supplemental form.
It's usually used in an intra nasal spray.
Or a -- candies are sort of -- that goes under the Tom.
All right.
Now you have and you -- line program called rewire your desire.
I can't so tell me quickly.
That will be the last word here what what what is it about.
So at -- land at MD dot com.
You can learn more about the rewire your desire program and basically be wired to your desire is that's a passion project for me because I lost my own sex drive when I was only twenty years old.
And sex drive is such an important part of women's lives women's relationships.
So what I teach.
Online is really a lot of the stuff that I teach my patients about how to bring your sex drive back how to bring it back naturally what hormones go into that.
And everything that we can do to rewire our desire.
All right well thank you so much for being here rewire your desire you got to -- check it out because I think you have a lot of good information thank you so much for coming here.
Do you have any sex questions you can send them -- Dr.
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