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Hello, I'm Kimberly King, and welcome to the mother's market radio show, a show dedicated to the Truth, Beauty and Goodness of the human condition. On today's show, we are excited to have one of the foremost natural health doctors in the world of women's health, and she's gonna help you get to the info you need on everything from controlling hot flashes to increasing your libido.

Later, we'll find out what's going on around town. And what's new at mother's market?

But first step, Dr. Tory Hudson is a naturopathic physician and one of the nation's foremost voices in the field of women's health care and natural medicine. Dr. Hudson has been addressing the needs of women in her natural medicine health practice for 32 years, and in 1999, the Association of naturopathic physicians awarded Dr. heads on the prestigious title, naturopathic physician of the Year for her leadership in the field of women's health, committed to education and research, safe and effective naturopathic medicine. She has devoted her career to advancing women's health, and we welcome her to the mother's market radio show, Dr. heads on. How are you?

I'm good, thank you so much for having me back.

Thanks, it's great to have you here.

Why don't you fill our audience a little bit on your mission and your work before we get to today's show topic... Well, basically, in my clinical practice and in my formulating natural supplements and in teaching and writing, it sort of comes down to how to help more women more of the time and as safe and effective way as possible.

That is sort of simple.

The easy way to put it, but yeah.

Yeah, well, congratulations in all your work. Today we are talking about women's health and let's get started. I wanted to know what's new in women's health and natural medicine that you're getting excited about, that you're excited to talk about?

Well, if I just straight women's health in natural medicine, I would say sort of globally, there's just this much more robust body of evidence and published research in botanicals and diet and exercise and nutraceuticals, so we just see much, much, much more research being published and good studies on everything from cinnamon and menstrual cramps to calcium and menstrual cramps, to Anise cysteine and polycystic ovarian syndrome, lemon bomb and heart palpitations. The list goes on and on, and I mention things that people might not readily see as women's health, that women's health is defined by problems obviously that happened only in women like menstrual cramps, but it's also defined by problems that happen more often in women than in men, and that list is quite long, like depression, anxiety, hypothyroid constipation, ARA, bow, on and on and on, so many, many primary care problems, and then the third aspect of women's health or problems that happen, maybe not more often, but have some unique characteristic clinical feature in women versus men, so that's why I mentioned some of those studies, and again, just every month, every week, there's just a lot being published in different parts of the world, for example, Iran is a steady stream of botanical and nutritional medicine research, but certainly not only them, but lots of good research from other countries, as well as the United States and other Western countries, so I would say in general, just the amount of research and we could talk about really any problem and what might be new, I'd say polycystic ovarian syndrome is an area where there's sort of quite a bit that keeps coming out, menopausal hot flashes is always ripe for research on botanicals and has a consistent stream of a published research.

The things you wanna see research on that we don't really have much on outside of calcium and vitamin D is things like osteoporosis or things like Alzheimer's disease, things that are sort of long brewing serious chronic health problems that we desperately need solutions for, and that is still ongoing, I was... Obviously, that is right there, and I do believe that is not the forefront, so going back to your research point, and you mentioned Iran, where are we at in the United States with wrapping our arms around the botanicals and then Nathan, I don't really have a grasp on how many studies come out from this country versus that country, but I would say the United States is not overly impressive in terms of botanical research, much stronger I think in nutritional research and including nutraceuticals as well as actual nutrition, and of course, some of these plants are from other countries, research on Safran and PMs and turmeric, and the dozens of documented indications for tumor is partly it might just be where is the plant grown, how easily access and what does the culture know about it and use it for already? But we have Institute, universities and the... And the government, to some degree, funding research and alternative medicine is probably right at the very tip, but at the forefront, but seeing what's happening in other countries and hoping we're at a point where we can make a difference, but you're at the forefront like...

Well, I definitely welcome this research from other countries 'cause it really keeps moving the ball forward, and I think motivate is... Motivating is like, Wow, look at all those studies that they're doing, and I think it's helpful to see that and to sort of follow that lead, not to say there's plenty of good researchers in the United States and plenty of great research going on in medicine, but now that's just sort of expanded the plant medicine awareness, you might say, there's plenty of good research coming out of all these other countries as well... Endowment Ning earlier, before I get to my next question about some of the... Like you mentioned, a cinnamon with... So can you kind of put together what goes with what ailments, possibly some of... Some examples.

Yeah, some of the the... Some of those studies... In the last year, I would say, yeah. Cinnamon and menstrual cramps. Calcium and menstrual cramps.Lemon balm I mentioned in heart palpitations, calcium and menstrual cramps, I'm sounding like I'm getting hung up on that. And in terms of the polycystic ovarian soy is fly-on PCOS, spearmen T and A cellist there, my inositol de-Cairo and assaults are things that have some nice Reese documentation for polycystic ovarian syndrome, PMs and study curcumin and PMs, and there's a few studies now accumulating on curcumin and depression again, a problem is more common in women than in men, there was a recent study on curcumin and major depression, people who were taking drugs already for their major depression, and the group that added a certain amount of curcumin to their drug had a much better response and outcome than the drug only, so that's sort of more of an integrative medicine model of using drug with a drug with nutrient, and I imagine that we'll be seeing more and more of that 'cause it's a very compelling area as a clinician that's a sort of a, I just naturally find myself in that arena, people take have a chronic health problem, they're already taking a drug, they come to a naturopathic physician to either feel better than they're feeling on the medicine or to try to get off the drugs, so it's a natural... Situation where we would use pharmaceuticals and nutrients or pharmaceuticals and botanicals or all of it together, and there is lots to be learned about good and bad interactions of things, but that particular study was using the Curcumin is an added benefit. There's another study I can think of on for fish oils using fishes as an added medication to... I think it was for schizophrenia, not something I'm gonna be seeing every day, but by any means, but just another example of, Oh, you take the drug and the fish as you help more people than maybe just the drug alone or done just the natural ingredient alone, National medicine doesn't... Isn't the right fix for every situation, but the right fix might be a combination of a pharmaceutical and a natural agent, and I think that you mentioned that that is sort of the direction that they're coming together in a combination that I think practical and then the natural and I think that's great that more doctors may be open to that, more medical and more conventional practitioners or open to that, and even of my side of the fence, the natural medicine trained physicians, we are increasingly gaining skills and using the two together, and so I think that sort of whole spectrum of treatment options, I like to see if they're not gonna come see me, who is the practitioner in your area that has not only respect for but some knowledge of the whole spectrum and in women's health, obviously, hormones come up a lot in menopausal women, but not everybody needs hormones, and not everybody can do without hormones, and so how do we take you through that spectrum of options and what might be the best fit for you or best combination, and what it sounds like is... You're looking at the person as an individual and in the respecting both sides and really talking to each other on both sides and having that mutual respect as the patient... As a person. As an individual.

Absolutely, and if that's... If they have two different practitioners, absolutely, that sort of more team approach, but even within a single prescriber, that prescriber like myself in naturopathic physician can become more knowledgeable of the whole spectrum of options and a conventional practitioner can become more knowledgeable.

Now, that takes a lot of time and effort. And we can't do everything all the time. So yeah, I want the rheumatologist that I can refer my patients too in the cardiologist and etcetera, etcetera, and the more open they are, they don't have to know necessarily, but to be open to their patients choosing and seeing me as well, I'm interested especially in that kind of model.

Well, I think this is one fund... You're right, all of this research is amazing, what do we need any updates on the benefits and risks of... You mentioned say, and I think what you were talking about with the, say, the soy foods for women because I still have a bad rap or...

I'm sorry, I'm always sad to hear that we... Tell me, He... For many years, there was some very strong voices out there that communicated to consumers all these negative things about say... And I would assert that those negative things were never very numerous or significance, the most significant thing about say, would be if someone's allergic to it, or you might say sensitive to it, 'cause other that it's hard to find an actual contraindication, but the bad rapid got... Was especially, I'd say probably around breast health and that of maybe if you ate Sawyer took, say supplements. It might increase your risk. Well, that was never true, or if you're a breast cancer patient, you should avoid soy because it would increase your recurrence or metastasis or something... Well, that was never true either, but there was some somewhere rare little peculiar laboratory thing that someone was pointing to look at that, but that wasn't... But it was always sort of confined to something very unique and sort of some weird little... Not weird, but just laboratory, high amount of some individual compound in the say... And it was never out of the 27 studies. It was maybe two or three of these little laboratory... Well, what is going on there? But I would say, my perception is there were three big huge studies, the lay study, the Shanghai Women's Health Study, and the well-to-be he, I think it's called Study, and these were all in breast cancer patients, and they added a certain amount of soy in supplement or food to their life and what was their outcomes?

It was better.

I was like, They lived a little longer, they last likely had breast cancer recurrence and breast cancer metastasis, it was nothing but better, and so those anti-soy voices, it seems to me really kind of like, Okay, we can't say that anymore. And I was always sort of arguing with that voice, not really arguing, but I was trying to counter that voice with what I thought was a more accurate statement anyway, but now it's... In breast cancer patients, the population we might be most worried about with soy, it's not a safe, it's beneficial, so it's actually a part of my treatment plan to recommend a daily serving of soy or a soy supplement to a breast cancer patient, whether it was diagnosed this year or five years ago. But it's true that some people are allergic. And some people don't digest it well. But that's true with strawberries or eggs or other things, so then we just pay attention to who that might be the case, and it doesn't... Other than that, the boy is just a bean, by the way, right. And there are what are called... Are traditional soy foods. So I knock tofu temp at a MOMA. I think these highly manufactured say hot dogs, and so I scream, well, yeah, that's maybe a little different story, not that it's bad, but I wouldn't say it's therapeutic, like these other foods are medicinal foods, I think... Well, thank you for clearing that. toyotomi, appreciate that. A great information right now, we have to take a quick break, but more with Dr. Hudson in just a moment. Don't go away. We will be right down.

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All the men are going, turn it up. But there is a small amount, I'm more interested in the research. And one of her that has probably the most meaningful research is a Peruvian plant called MOKA, and in particular, there are different varieties of Macedon called The pinion Peruvian um, for the more studious listeners, because not all the Maka powders and capsules out there have shown the benefit but this lepidoptera II and then Peruvian, and there is a particular proprietary product out there on the market, I couldn't mention if you want or not, it's got a company called Natural Health International, and it's called reminiscence, so that has a little bit more compelling story than some other than other herbs, there was a study in Oshawa Ganda and younger women that showed some benefit, the maka is we especially... I use that in my clinical practice and perimenopausal and postmenopausal women and their libido issues, and sometimes there are some interesting combination products out there that have a Tinian herb called Shot-ovarian, they might be combination, shaiva, OSHA, Gana, Mana. You'll see these libido formulas out there, it's not a strong area for national medicine by any means, and the other issue is, libido is a complex... Sexuality is a complex issue. Is it really her libido or is it she's dissatisfied in her relationship in some way, or does she... Is she chronically fatigued or she in some kind of chronic pain, or is it painful when she does have sex and vaginal penetration, all those things need to be ironed out, and not just assume that it's her hormonal, low libido, it could be something else, emotional, or in the relationship to the fatigue, comfort, all of that.

So sometimes if sex is painful and you have low libido, well, that's sort of the brain is like, Well, I don't wanna do something that's gonna be painful, so we have to fix the painful part, vaginal moisturizer or vaginal estrogen, and then see if... For libido improves because it's not painful anymore, or for... She's chronically fatigued. Address that.

But yes, Asiana make... Those are the two places I would look. First, there's an over-the-counter week version of a testosterone called DHEA, and that's another something, a supplement that can be bought over the counter that has some potential to help lino. Okay, well, that's interesting. We were also talking again with both these women's issues, menopause, and is it safe to take black coast long-term?

For most everybody? Absolutely, yes. There are some exceptions, if someone has elevated liver enzymes for whatever reason, is probably better to not take black cash at all or not take it for longer than a couple of months, just because of some glitchy things that have been observed in a very, very small... Few folks, but none the less. We don't quite understand it. And so if you have elevated liver enzymes from chronic hepatitis or some kind of chronic liver disease or like fatty liver disorder, which is fairly common these days, then I would take another herb for my menopause solutions and other than that, yes, it's safe. And some... A very small percentage of people might get a headache from black coach, but that's very rare as well, and black... Oh, this being a supplement form... Yes, so yeah, cap in CAPS, herbal encapsulated product, and the research has mostly been done on what's called 40 milligrams of a standardized extract, once maybe twice a day, if listeners wanna look to my brand, so I do have this disclosure conflict of interest, but Botanic, that's one of our products is a black co, has standardized extract, but there are other good ones out there for sure, but generally, we start with the one capsule a day, and if we have to go up to one twice a day, than we do, but we give it a month and see what's up is if you are getting now in terms of hot flashes, no matter what you're starting with folks, if it's black cash or something else, you should see something in one month, if you see nothing, I would move on to product number two.

If you see a little to a lot of something, you might... I would stay on it because its Plateau is a benefit is probably in about two months, so whatever benefit you get after two months... That's probably gonna be it. Of course, it's important to remember in perimenopausal, the transition time, things do come and go, So what look like the herb helped you now, but it's not helping you then it doesn't mean the Erb pooped out, it means your perimenopausal is progressing along and just becoming more intense.Joy, the joy is a vain woman.

Right. Okay, well, thank you for explaining that as you will, and this is available at mother's market, by the way, this is... It's called Bianca, that's the one... What are some natural medicine solutions are going to a different direction and... I'm a migraine sufferer.

Okay, and I have been for years, but some natural medicine solutions for migraine... Well, in terms of individual ingredients that have been research, so magnesium has been researched by itself, I hydroxy trip to fan, melatonin, ginger, riboflavin, those are probably the top players, but migraine, the brain chemistry of a migraine suffer, there's a lot of complex things going on in their... Inflammatory changes, unstable dilation and vasoconstriction, little cells called blood platelets are sticking together, the pain receptors are getting all glitchy and serotonin is Latham a big fan of combination natural ingredient formulas to target chronic migraines because you wanna target as many of those mechanisms of... As you can... And if you just use melatonin, you're targeting one... If you're just using magnesium or targeting one... Oh, you know what? We should add to that list as butter Waterberg definitely has some nice documentation, so I like to use a combination of those ingredients together in a formula Titanic, it does happen to have one called Butter bur extra, but people can cobble it together themselves.

I just wrote a study on Melton and three milligrams a day by itself reducing the frequency, the number of days that women had and men had their migraines, hormonal menstrual migraines, mid-cycle migraines before... During your period, migraines, those can be a little bit more complex, and sometimes we have to do something hormonal management-wise, along with these natural ingredients, the main ingredient herb that's been studied for a huge... I want relief today versus my matrix or my ibuprofen is Ginger.

And so there's some nice recent evidence on Ginger for acute migraine and same, and it worked in this one study, it worked as well as the matrix, really, and as a supplement, Caritas, I can't remember the dose, but you can find that on my blog or somewhere... Okay, I'm gonna definitely check that out on your blog... From your website? Yes.

Okay, we're gonna talk about that right now because we ran out of time, but I could definitely talk more with you, but... Great information, Dr. Hudson, and it was really great to have you back on all of these women's issues, but in the meantime, you can get more on the information on Dr. Hudson, the website is Dr. Tori Hudson, Dr. T-O-R-I, Hudson dot com, or viana visitor. I-T-A-N-I-C-A dot com, and we look forward to your next visit.

I find you so much for having me.

Thank you.

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