Dr. Valerie Bonnett MD

Collagen can't work well if your hormones levels are in the toilet.

Hormones should be fixed first.

Progesterone is so awesome.

What’s the big deal about progesterone? Progesterone is vitally important for optimal health in women. Progesterone is important for all areas of the body, but especially for the brain, bones, and breast tissue. Women need progesterone in all stages of life.

This poor guy lost 6 years of his life from being prescribed an SSRI for shyness, otherwise known as social anxiety. He's actually lucky that he was able to get off meds before acting on his thoughts of self-harm.

Brain altering meds are not magic. They can cause severe harm, even long term disability or death.

It is always better to start with natural lifestyle improvements such as moving the body, eating nutritious food, being exposed to sunlight in the morning and darkness at bedtime, spending time with supportive people, avoiding too much screen time (especially in kids), and when necessary, supplements. And especially for women- achieving and maintaining hormonal balance.

Escaping the Hell of Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome I painfully and gradually learned to function with my dysfunctions. Over time, I noticed genuine improvement. I painfully and gradually learned to function with my dysfunctions. Over time, I noticed genuine improvement.

Can you imagine seeing a nurse practitioner who has only 500 hours of direct patient care before seeing patients in a clinical setting? This is frankly terrifying. I probably have 500 hours of direct patient care in my first two months of residency, preceded by thousands of hours of education in medical school, and followed by thousands of hours of direct patient care in residency.

During that training, I had access to experienced, well-trained medical doctors with decades of experience.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to learning the information that you need when seeing a living human being in front of you in the office or hospital setting. If your provider doesn’t have that training, then I pray for your health and safety.

There are good nurse practitioners. They’re good because they had thousands of hours of nursing care at the bedside before they went on to become a nurse practitioner. And they’re also good because they know what they don’t know, and when they’re in over their heads. 

And it takes seeing hundreds of patients to know that 

The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners They don’t merely support doctors—NPs increasingly treat patients independently, including in specialty practices and emergency rooms. When they aren’t well trained, the results can be tragic.

This is truly disturbing. You might want to read and think about this article before putting mind altering meds into your or your child’s body.

Are these medications safe and effective?

How in the world can we know that if drug companies are the ones doing the research?

At this point in my life, I believe that if it isn’t found in nature, it probably shouldn’t be going in our bodies.

Our Medical System Protects Wrongdoers and Punishes Whistleblowers: An Interview with Carl Elliott MIA’s Ayurdhi Dhar interviews Carl Elliott about scandals in psychiatry and the challenges faced by whistleblowers.

This is important research. Could probiotics decrease the chances of developing urinary tract infections, by crowding out pathogens?

It certainly makes sense.

Also important is having optimal hormone levels to prevent harmful atrophy and pH changes that can occur after menopause.

Link Found Between an Altered Vaginal Microbiota and Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections Researchers have identified a link between altered vaginal microbiota and recurring UTIs in post-menopausal women.

Thankful for Peter Buxton raising awareness of this appalling lack of compassion to the victims of this "study". The "researchers" should have been punished but never were.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study Whistleblower Peter Buxtun Has Died at Age 86 Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research scandal in U.S. history.

It’s probably actually worse than the stats show.

More than 1 million Americans lose their doctors to su***de each year. (& that’s an underestimate) https://www.idealmedicalcare.org/ripple-effect-of-one-doctor-su***de/

Did you know that having ideal estrogen levels is important for your entire body? It is-from the top if your head to the tips of your toes!

Having enough estrogen on board is important for fundamental biological functions like the production of collagen-necessary for healthy skin, joints, tendons, and nails; for blood pressure control and healthy blood flow; for mitochondrial health and energy production, and for brain size and function.

This Saturday August 3rd, at 10am, we will be discussing many of the benefits of estrogen and what happens when we lose it. Next Saturday we will discuss how we can replace estrogen in the best method possible, without overdosing and increasing the risk of cancer and other adverse effects.

After that, we will discuss ways to get progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, and cortisol into ideal range.

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Which is better? FDA approved or bio-identical hormone replacement? In this video, I review a discussion between a famous podcaster and a board certified OBGyn as they talk about hormone replacement.

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The person who cares more about their money
than their health,
will end up with neither.

If you are a woman in your 40's or beyond, or if you have had a hysterectomy, you need this information to preserve your health.

Hormonal Harmony: 12 Weeks to Balanced Hormones Balance your hormones through this 12 week course/group coaching program.

What if the best reason to optimize your hormones is so you can be healthy for your loved ones?
Longer.

Antidepressants During Pregnancy Linked to Risk of Fetal Death The researchers found an increased risk of fetal death with SSRI use at any stage of pregnancy.

Before allowing someone to put a hormone pellet under your skin, injecting yourself with testosterone that you don't need, or overdosing yourself with topical creams in super high doses, you should really protect yourself by reading this book.

Navigating Your Hormones-Ebook Download For optimal health, a woman must have available and balanced hormones. But a cloud of confusion surrounds this important topic. This ebook was written to help you understand how hormones impact your general health, the different methods of hormone replacement available, and the different testing opt...

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Another big reason that rural hospitals can't keep delivery centers open is that there are not enough doctors available who are trained to do OB.

And here is why:

Our government has not funded the residency programs needed to train doctors following medical school. The state of Iowa, with 3 million people, has only one training program in obstetrics. It's at the U of I, and I believe only 6 specialists graduate from that program every year. And not all of them are going to practice OB when they finish residency.

In the past, most babies in rural areas were delivered by family docs, but that has changed, because now most family docs don't deliver babies. In the early 80's, over 40% of FPs delivered babies. In 2018, it was only 14%, and by now it's probably significantly less.

In Iowa, only 48 Family Medicine residents graduate yearly. If 10% of them decide to provided OB care (and they will need to work harder and longer than their peers to get the extra deliveries to be competent), that is only 4 more doctors in the entire state providing OB care-and that's if they stay in Iowa.

So what has happened is that midwifery is filling some of the void, but still must be backed up by medical doctors with vastly more intense and longer training.

And at the root, residency training spots are funded by our short-sighted, feckless representatives in Congress. So blame them if you can't find a doctor.

As a baby bust hits rural areas, hospital labor and delivery wards are closing down In some rural areas, births have dropped by three-quarters since the late 1950s, and hospitals are shuttering labor and delivery units, leaving mothers little access to care when they need it.

If it’s not natural, it probably shouldn’t go in your body, especially if you’re pregnant, or want to be pregnant in the future

Infant Leukemia Induced by Maternal Exposures If maternal exposures lead to infant leukemia, is infant leukemia preventable?

Having a healthy pelvic floor is not possible if hormone levels are not in ideal range.

Why YOU Must Be Your Own Hormone Expert Hormones are complex. You have to learn the basics to prevent being harmed by unscrupulous wellness and hormone clinics.

This is a very important article showing that intense lifestyle changes can slow down the ravages of brain loss in dementia.

You know what also helps?

Achieving hormonal balance through low dose bio-identical hormone therapy followed by the use of saliva testing to determine tissue hormone levels.

The reason hormones are important is because s*x hormones are actually also neurosteroids which are necessary for brain health.

Unfortunately, this information is not likely available at your doctors office and many people aren’t willing to invest in their own health to determine their hormone levels or work with a hormone expert to get hormones into ideal range. Watching people suffer and decline because they are hormone depleted is tragic.

If you are a woman in early menopause, who have people around you that you care about, you owe it to them to get your hormones in balance now and forever so it could potentially help them from having to watch your decline into dementia later on in life.

Alzheimer's Slowed by Intensive Lifestyle Changes Small trial led by Dean Ornish, MD, shows cognitive improvement

Our mitochondria are necessary for brain health and the health of every single cell in your body. Stress can affect mitochondrial health through elevated stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol, which can be damaging long-term. Hormones like estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA are important for brain health by being direct neurosteroids, improving brain cell growth. Estrogen (and probably the others) also improves mitochondrial health by improving the health of mitochondrial walls.

Brain Health Is Rooted in State of Mind, Finds Study New research shows positive experiences may boost the brain’s energy transformation, possibly building resilience against brain disorders in later life.

Blood tests are pretty much worthless when looking at s*x hormone levels. Only unbound, active hormones matter. Chasing blood levels can cause women to overdose or end up on expensive pellets or injections because they think they are not absorbing hormones.

Hormone testing-why you can't do blood testing with topical hormone creams. If you are using topical hormones, blood testing isn't accurate. Here's why.

This is a profoundly important article.
Our brains are filled with special brain cells called mirror neurons. These neurons are designed to reflect back what we see from other people you can see them in action when babies are interacting with their moms and other adults. So our brains are literally wired for relationships.

Why Your Brain Needs Other People Developmental psychology has long recognised the social element in thinking. The emergence of individual thought can be understood as the internalisation of interpersonal dialogue, as the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky observed almost a hundred years ago.

No it doesn't.

“If you have hot flashes, it just means you need more estrogen!” "If you have hot flashes, it just means you need more estrogen." Nope. No way. This is dangerous and short sighted. Here's why.