YES!

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YOU CAN LOSE WEIGHT AND FEEL GREAT WHILE "PAUSED."

 

IT'S ALL ABOUT YOUR HORMONES

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When you were twenty-nine, your hormones were elevated and harmonized.  As you age, your hormones become disrupted, deficient, and imbalanced, causing you to feel and look older than you would like. There are three hormones involved with being paused.

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THE "PAUSE" HORMONES

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ESTRADIOL - PROGESTERNE - TESTOSTERONE

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ESTRADIOL is the "feminine" hormone. 

PROGESTERONE is the "happy" hormone

TESTOSTERONE is the "masculine" hormone.

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Estradiol

• Estradiol is the feminine hormone. It makes women and men feminine. The more estradiol you have, the more feminine you will be.

• Estradiol is a strong fat-storing hormone. The more estradiol you have, the more you will store fat in your breasts, hips, and bellies.

• Estradiol is an incredible anti-aging hormone. Estradiol makes you pretty and keeps you young-looking; therefore, we want a lot of it. We just don't want it to be the dominant hormone.

 

Progesterone

• Progesterone is the happy hormone.  I call it the 60's hormone because it's all about peace, love, and flower power.

• Progesterone is also, indirectly, a woman's fat-burning hormone. I say indirectly because it keeps estradiol's ability to store fat in check.

• Progesterone is also your sleep hormone. It puts you to sleep at night and keeps you asleep. It is the hormone that keeps us cool, calm, and collected.

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Testosterone

• Testosterone is the masculine hormone. It builds muscle and creates V-shaped bodies. It also grows hair where you least desire it. 

• Testosterone is also the drive hormone. Testosterone causes increased sex drives, the drive to be successful, and the drive to be first in line at the next red light.

• Testosterone is the ultimate fat-burning hormone. It especially burns belly fat. Men and women with high levels of testosterone will usually have six-pack abs.

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MENO-PAUSE

 

A woman's typical menstrual cycle lasts twenty-eight days. Estradiol increases daily during the first fourteen days until it hits its mark, causing ovulation. The ovum is released into the fallopian tube, and progesterone and testosterone ooze like lava from the spot where the egg was released.

 

As a woman ages, her estradiol level decreases, and eventually, she doesn't achieve the estradiol level that causes her to ovulate. If she does not ovulate, her ovaries no longer produce progesterone and testosterone, and she falls into the hormone abyss.

 

"Menopause is, in reality, hormonal chaos caused by the cessation of ovulation."

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Without the ovarian hormones that cause calmness and drive, a woman falls into the hormone abyss of menopause.

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 ANDRO-PAUSE

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As a man ages, his testosterone level decreases, and eventually, he loses his drive, gains weight, and walks into being "a grumpy old man."

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Where women fall into the hormone abyss, men stroll over a decade or so into the hormone abyss of andropause.

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The first signs of being in Meno or Andro Paused are

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• Sudden weight gain 

• And the inability to lose that weight no matter what you do. (Weight Loss Resistance)

 

You can cut your calories, join a gym, hire a personal trainer, go to boot camps, and when paused, a woman or man will continue to gain weight, especially around the belly. The reason is that their fat-burning hormones become deficient and, in some cases, nonexistent. 

 

"You can't burn fat without fat-burning hormones."

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ESTROGEN BECOMES THE DOMINANT HORMONE 

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As a woman ages, her progesterone levels become deficient, and she becomes estrogen-dominant.

 

As a man ages, his testosterone levels become deficient, and he becomes estrogen-dominant.

 

The first phase of the hormone abyss for both women and men is a hormonal condition called...

 

ESTROGEN DOMINANCE

 

Recall that estradiol is a powerful fat-storing hormone, and progesterone is indirectly a woman's fat-burning hormone because it keeps estradiol's ability to store fat in check, and testosterone is the ultimate fat-burning hormone. 

 

When estradiol becomes your dominant hormone, you start storing fat like crazy. I call it The Paused 30 because most of us gain 30 or more pounds in a matter of months once we become Paused.

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"Most of the adverse symptoms related to being over forty are hormonal,

and the primary hormonal condition we suffer from is Estrogen Dominance."

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The textbook symptoms of Estrogen Dominance are:

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• Weight Gain

• Weight Loss Resistance

• Sleeping Disorders

• Hormonally Induced Anxiety

• Hormonally Induced Depression

• Loss of Interest in Being Intimate

• Loss of Motivation to be Social

• Hot Flashes/Night Sweats

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Before I move into how we tame Estrogen Dominance, let me tell you a little about how my wife and I eventually opened seven medical clinics specializing in hormone and weight optimization throughout Northern California.

 

After I received my Doctorate, I dreamed of owning and operating a wellness center that offered lifestyle changes to create the health we desired. I soon discovered that wellness was a synonym for Nutritional Medicine.  That was a problem because we were taught very little about nutrition as undergraduates. Nearly all of my nutritional knowledge came from attending post-graduate nutritional conferences and experimenting with and treating patients. 

 

Then...as my wife and I aged, we became hormonally challenged by our pauses, menopause, and andropause. At that time, I had been practicing Nutritional Medicine for twenty-five years. I knew a lot about nutrition but very little about hormones. I asked my colleagues for a referral, but no one knew of anyone who specialized in reducing the symptoms of being "paused."

 

My wife and I knew that our hormones were causing our symptoms, but just like nutrition, doctors and nurses were taught very little about hormones, especially the hormones involved with our pauses. We soon discovered that the only place we could learn about hormones was The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. 

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My wife and I attended their conferences, and I eventually took their test to become board-certified in anti-aging medicine and passed. I combined my newfound hormone knowledge with my decades of practicing nutritional medicine and voilà.

 

We took our knowledge and developed an integrative medical clinic that employed medical doctors, naturopaths, chiropractors, and nurses working together to optimize our patients' hormones and weight.

 

We became the go-to clinic for the relief of the plethora of symptoms caused by the hormonal disruption caused by menopause and andropause.

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Once we added hormone optimization protocols to our weight optimization protocols, the demand for our protocol allowed us to open seven integrative medical clinics throughout Northern California in eighteen months. 

 

After helping thousands of women and men alleviate their pause symptoms, I have put all I learned into a step-by-step protocol called The HOPE Protocol. It is particularly designed for women and men to tame estrogen dominance and return to their ideal healthy weight.

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Since combining hormone optimization with weight optimization in 2010, I have written books, a well-read blog, and a popular newsletter called The Pause that helps women and men alleviate the symptoms of menopause and andropause. We have tens of thousands of subscribers to our newsletter alone.  You can subscribe to our free weekly newsletter by clicking the link below. After you enroll, please return to this webpage because I want to show you some case studies and how they achieved the results they did.

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THE PAUSE: A NEWSLETTER ON HOW TO BE PAUSE AWESOME

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Once we retired from practice in 2015, Vicky and I purchased a small, fancy RV. Our two oldest children and our three oldest grandchildren live in Florida, and our three youngest children and our three youngest grandchildren live in California. We started diddle-daddling back and forth across the country. We stay in Florida, then California, then Florida.

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While traveling, Vicky discovered we had forgotten to disconnect our 800 number. When she discovered my mistake, there were numerous voicemails of women wanting help. We listened to their voicemails, and they broke our hearts. She convinced me to call and talk to some of these women, especially since I had given up golf. It turned out that golf was a great way for me to "ruin a good walk." I called and talked to these women and fell in love with virtual coaching.

 

As we travel coast to coast, I now spend my time helping menopausal women and andropausal men lose weight, sleep again, lose their hormonal-induced anxiety and depression, get their self-confidence back, and be who they should be while in their "Third Act" of life.

 

This is the time we should be our best. We should look and feel great, enjoy our spouses, and travel to all the places we promised to visit someday.  

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IT'S ALL ABOUT YOUR HORMONES!

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Let me introduce you to Laura.

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