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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, as women, we go through many stages in life and we can feel better at every stage of life with just a few lifestyle changes, the latest on women's health is here, you won't wanna miss this information, so listen close, plus later. We'll tell you what's going on around town and tell you what's new at mother's market, but first up, Dr. Tori 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 30 plus years. In 1999, the Association of naturopathic physicians awarded Dr. Hudson, the prestigious title naturopathic physician of the Year for her leadership in the field of women's health and 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. Hudson, how are you?

I'm good, thank you, Kimberly. Thanks for having me.

Absolutely, thank you for being here.

Why don't you fill our audience in a little bit on your mission and your work before we get to the show's topic today.

Okay, well, I could just kinda shrink it down to a nugget, which is I really want to help more women more of the time, and that's through my doctoring in my clinic, through teaching, through education and writing and speaking and formulating products and advising other companies to formulate products that really are based on good, solid science and not just effective products, but safe and effective products.

Well, obviously, you're Fortis about women and about women women's health, so thank you.

I'd like to start by talking and asking you about, are there any plants that have been studied for acute menstrual cramps? They actually have recently, there was some research on a study on valerian, but two studies more come to mind, which is both studies on ginger, 'cause this is the plan that's been used historically for a long time in menstrual cramp formulas, you'll see it in numerous formulations on the shelves, but there have been two studies in probably the last three, four years on ginger and acute menstrual cramps, and it was comparable to comparing it to the drug that they studied, which was great news, and it doesn't... Derive doesn't have to be better than a drug, but to prove that it's as good as the drug, I think is fabulous basis for confidence and optimism on the part of women, and that this is one of those items where you're having cramping now, you want pain relief now, you wanna take something now, which is what makes some of the over-the-counter and prescription drugs so appealing, so if we have something a symbol as Ginger, 250 milligrams four times a day. That helps then. That is a great thing to go to first, I think, and of course, none of these things drug or herb helps all women, but these two studies on gender were very comforting and also starting with a teenager, so age type... So we can start with this any age, ginger is not a toxic or it can have a little bit of a stomach irritation, so that's more dose-related, so a younger person might need to take 250 milligrams twice a day. But other than that, it's a very safe thing for them to try, and usually these kind of herbs for acute menstrual cramps or actually even not herbal as well, even something like ibuprofen or Tylenol, the best results are when you can start a couple days beforehand, like if you're someone who knows you have regular menstrual cycle and you have regular menstrual cramps with your menstrual cycle, than starting a couple days ahead of time helps change all those pro-inflammatory chemicals that are happening in the uterus that's causing all that pain, so getting a little jump on that is ideal.

And then, of course, there are in great natural ingredients that help you not have cramps over the long haul, so something like ginger is for in the moment, but something like fish oils taken every day over a couple of months period of time, then you start to see Oh, I have, I'm starting to have less menstrual cramps, and I mentioned fishers, 'cause there was a study on young women in a certain dose of fish oils, so that's... We want something to help immediately with cramps, and we want something to help reduce the severity and the frequency in the length of time they have those cramps that just being... 'cause so interesting, and it's nice to see the shift there, you believe, rather than the over the counter and going in the natural way.

Yeah, so this is a good option.

What about, say, safe in breast cancer patients. Can you talk about that?

So has gotten an unfair bad rap that still lingers, I think, thankfully, it's waned quite a bit, but the evidence is really quite compelling and quite clear after three very, very, very large studies were done in breast cancer patients and soy intake, and they found that eating a serving of say, minimum every day and each study was a little bit different, but somewhere at least like 50, 60 milligrams of ISO flows, those are the compounds in the, say, something like a glass of soy milk would be an example of a serving of... So women with breast cancer who had a serving of soy or a soy supplement every day had lower rates of recurrence and less disease progression and longer survival rates, so it's really anything that your customers might be reading that says So is unsafe for breast cancer patients is antiquated outdated information. And similarly, we can say that soy is a safe food, and I say supplement for non-breast cancer patients, it does not increase the risk of breast cancer, and it is safe and perhaps helpful medicinal for breast cancer patients.

So I milk, tofu temp, all those things you have in the store, and then there's ISO-Flavia that generally have about 60 milligrams of ISO flat ones per capsule. Actually, that's something I prescribe for my breast cancer patients, is they take a say capsule or they eat a soy food every day, and one can start to then maybe dig under a little bit, well, what is a healthier so food than another soy food. And that gets into genetically modified or not organic or not, but that's a different conversation, and highly, more highly processed or not, I prefer to tell my patients about just good old fashion soy milk, which is a very traditional food in Asia. All those Asian Chinese women are drinking it, they're getting low rates of breast cancer, but that's just one tiny little piece of evidence. So traditional foods, so I milk tofu temp at a mommy, I tend to not steer my patients towards tofu hot dogs, although I love them, but those are not what Japanese and Chinese women have been doing for centuries. it, but yeah, I think anybody who's still afraid of soy around breast health, I really, really encourage you to just let that go because the science supports the point of view that I'm sharing.

Thank you for clarifying that. And that said, But that recent study, let's talk a little bit about women who may or may not take too much calcium, can you clarify that?

That's also something that got a little bit of buzz in the last couple of years, and the buzz was about if you had an intake of greater than 1400 milligrams a day, taking into count calcium in your diet and calcium in your pills, that that might increase the risk of some cardiovascular disease, like some calcification on the heart arteries... What was the number again? 1400 above 1400 might be problematic. But since then, that has really kind of been teased out and vetted and looked at from every which way, and it's not very compelling that that's the case, that being said, there is no compelling reason for women to have more than 1400 milligrams a day, there's no reason to do that.

So on the off chance, there might be reasons not to do that, I would say We should keep post-menopausal women in the range of 120 to 1400 milligrams a day, but what we have to remember, and this is really important in a store like Mother's markets, is we're talking about you have to kind of guesstimate how much calcium you're getting in your diet from the food you're buying off the shows, and then if you're not getting 12 to 1400 milligrams as a post-menopausal woman, then you add your multi or your calcium formula, you're bone formula to make up that difference. And they're easy charge to look at one glass of milk is about 300 milligrams, one serving of Cotes, Jesus about X, and one serving in yogurts kind of a serving of dairy a day, you can easily look up and see how many milligrams of calcium in getting in that serving, and then just the rest of the diet, we kind of just kinda guesstimate and automatically give them 250 milligrams of credit, so if we get 250... Pretty easy for everybody to get that just by eating average... Not even eating well, and then a serving of dairy or a serving of soy, which is calcium fortified, so we tack on usually another 3-00 there.

So now we got that 250 plus that 300 is 550.So we only need to supplement 800-900 milligrams, and so then they can look in their multi and their bone formula and take the difference 'cause the message that hasn't been a clear message, people are taking a thousand in a pill, they're taking 1500.And while I do not think it's compelling that that increased... This is the risk of cardiovascular disease.

This calcium is a big molecule, and so it can inhibit the absorption of smaller nutrients, manganese, copper, zinc, silica born, and those all go to bone health, so it is important to try to stay in that range for post-menopausal women of 12, 1400... Thank you.

That clarified it.

That was a long answer to obtain was worthwhile. Thank you. Let's talk them now about natural ingredients and what are some effective natural ingredients for acute bladder infection?

Well, I think the one that most women know about is cranberry, Cramer is actually best evidence is if you get recurring infections, to be honest, so if you get recurring Three to Six infections a year, let alone more staying on cranberry every day and some form is actually gonna reduce the incidence and the frequency for acute bladder infections, yes, you can have cranberry in a formula, but something like MANOS has some good evidence, and you'll see that in some of your forms... I'm sure on the shelves at mother's market, they have MANOS Powder by itself, but you all still see it in some of the combination formulas. One of my favorite herbs for bladder infections is Oregon gray group or actually some source of Berbera that doesn't have to be Orinoco oun. Berbera in particular, can actually inhibits the most common bacteria associated with the bladder infections, so if you inhibit the overgrowth and then you flush it out with water or a diuretic, and you're taking Manos and good kind of bacteria active oil that inhibit the infection-causing bacteria from sticking to the bladder wall, you're doing antibacterial herbs, you're keeping the bad bacteria from inhabiting, you're replacing good bacteria and you're flushing... That's sort of like the recipe for bladder infections.

This is really interesting information, and we're gonna have to take a break, we're gonna be right back, but this is really interesting. So more with Dr. Hudson, in just a moment. Don't go away. We will be right back.

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And now back to our interview with Dr. Terry Hudson and we're talking about women's health, so Dr or we're talking about women's health, and what are your top five plants for menstrual hot flashes?

Well, menopausal hot flashes? Yes, so yes, Peri menopause, menopause. And by the way, the latest study on this topic show that women on average can have flashes for seven years, so that we thought it was a little shorter, but it's seven years at... So I know I suggested this question, but I'm having a hard time with five, but I'll put in my top five, black co hash is the most research plant for hot flashes, a plant called MOCA Peruvian or MARA-Peruvian plant has some excellent research.

Also, something that might be a little hard to find, but Siberian rebar is a study that had a plant that I'm nice, four studies on the hot flashes showing efficacy, and then I wanna put in a plug for a combination of St. John's wort and black co-host because we usually think of St. John's wort for just sort of mild to moderate depression, but in perimenopausal women and menopausal women, depression does have a little bit of an uptick, but women who took the two together had better hot flash relief than black Cohan, and then I would just look for some other really good combination products, Conflict of Interest, announced by Tania has an example of that called Women's phase two, one of my formulas, which has five herbs in it, but there are other great products out there... Combination products from other companies. So look for plants, look for combinations that had the black cohort, St. John's wort, maybe some down why? Maybe some Bardot may be some. So maybe some red clover, those are the things that I would have looked for, and I know that's passive gone to five, but oddly enough, there's been a few studies on pine bark extract, which I know you have on your shows that was quite effective for hot flashes. And one very recent study on grape seed extract for hot flashes, which we normally think of her blood pressure and cardiovascular, but those are my thoughts for the moment, what about speaking and when you can use it for... If with ventral or pre-menstrual terminal, what about it?

You can't get your water factors... Yes, we'll say yes.

How about that?

That goes, it's a good... A good reason to get an explanation... A good excuse, I just have to throw that in. But cognitive changes are associated, perimenopausal menopause, focus less concentration, little memory glitches with recall, which is like, what is your name?Away, that's mine.

I try...

BIM, looking at you in a... What is that name again?

Thank you for wearing a name tag too, should women... Oh, okay, let me go to the next question. Are there some new and interesting things in the women's health research in the last one to two years that I have surprised you?

Yes, I love some of the... The study on green T, shrinking fibroids, uterine fibroids, we hardly ever have anything in natural medicine to shrink fibers or in conventional medicine, by the way, usually it comes down to surgery essentially, and another study shrinking fibers on black coach, so those are two big... Was in my mind something that was actually studied in a good study showed actual documentation with the ultrasound showing smaller fibroids, less fibroids and more well-behaved fibroids after the end of the day.

So those are two things, also a great little study on Melton and 10 milligrams a day and endometriosis, some charter picking on two conditions that are very hard for doctors to treat, let alone for women to self-treat.

So melatonin had significant impact on the pain associated with endometriosis, and then one of my favorite all time women's health supplements in the last year is something called nesting or Mac for short, again, effective in many women for endometriosis, it's a great fertility ingredient, improves ovulation, improves. What's called insulin sensitivity in women who have polycystic ovarian syndrome, such that then they ovulate after they take NAC and they get pregnant, so those are some things that I'm sure your listeners might not have easily heard of.

Wow, well, making big strides in there, and I like that, yeah, this is something that's new and that it is good sound... You know what, I haven't really heard a lot of things about fibroids, so I like that that was the first thing out of the gate. Because a lot of women suffer from fibroids and they can be very painful.

Let's talk about should women get screening with... For mammograms, Amram, as you see that is a complicated topic. Let me first say, any answer I give to this question right now, I'm talking about women who are at low risk for breast cancer, they do not have a first degree relative with breast cancer, they have not had breast cancer themselves, they are not obese, they do not have a genetic marker that's tested positive, so we're talking about low-risk women, and basically... And I'll really try to do this short, there are four camps to the answer to this question, Should low risk in me get screening mammography. The dominant camp is the American College of OB-GYN, American Cancer Society, the American College of Radiologists, and the Susan common foundations, every woman should get them at age 40 every year.

The second camp is the US government independent Task Force that said that we're not... That the data on that is really actually worth doing it that young and that often... So we recommend every other year starting at 50, so right there, you have two significant knowledgeable expert bodies advising completely different things, and then the third camp is a more European model every three years, and the fourth camp is not at all like the Swedish government recently adopted and what's interesting about these four campuses, they're all reading the exact same science, the exact same literature, the exact same numbers, but the first camp is saying, We're okay with having to screen 2500 women every single year for 10 years to save one woman's life from breast cancer by detecting it early and treating it early. And Camp number two is saying, those numbers are terrible. Why do all those mammograms, all those extra callbacks, all those biopsies, it's unimpressive that how... All those mammograms and all that screening, what it's doing, so basically the issue is detecting it early on a mammogram before you can feel it... Is not really all it's cracked up to be.

So detecting it early and treating it early. Isn't really saving very many women's lives, and I'm not saying don't get mammograms, I'm just saying, consider if you're a low risk, maybe this at least every other year starting at 50.That's interesting, and again, that the science behind that is showing the four different camps, so again, thank you for dispelling that or showing them research behind that with that. I don't think I've ever heard that either.

They might... Listeners might be interested, I think I wrote about this in a fair amount of detail on my blog, a Dr. Tories dot com, and they could read more about where the details a how this has been backed up, so... Thank you, I appreciate that.

Let's talk about the black co-host, 'cause you mentioned this a bit before, is this safe for breast cancer patients, it is, and the science is quite clear on that as well, there are no pierces and black coasters... No estrogen in black holes, it doesn't increase estrogen levels, and it's been proven to be safe for breast cancer patients, so it's my first go-to Herb in a breast cancer patient who is suffering from hot flashes, it's because we know if it's safety and then we hope that it's going to help her.

Thank you.

But there are five things I want to talk about for breast health in general are... Since we're talking about breast, and if I were to give my top five advice items for breast health, I'd say fish oils routinely, say serving a day, green tea, either a cup, upper two or capsule a day, four hours of exercise a week. Minimum and manage weight, do not get overweight, let alone get obese, all those things are on my top five because they all have some nice science to support their benefits in reducing the risk of breast cancer.

And over and over again, we read, especially about exercise and weight management, and that seems to be the top no matter where you're going, so that...

I know that exercise, I like to tell my patients, there's no drug, there's no prescription drug, over-the-counter drug, vitamin mineral herb that has as many health benefits across the board as regular exercise.

Right.

So wherever you are on the spectrum, when any research for women and infertility... Yeah, that's really picked up a lot of pace lately, there's some good research on inositol improving ovulation and implantation and pregnancy outcomes. There's DHEA, 25 milligrams three times a day. Again, this end a section that I was mentioning before, I... Nassau comes in a few different forms, and they all seem to kind of work, Ciro, inositol, Myo-inositol, I'm not sure what you have in the store. But they all seem to work.

And then good old fashioned Chase tree berry. If the problem is not ovulating regularly and having sort of infrequent men's Chase tree berry has been shown to improve fertility as well, so those are some things to get people started. I do have an infertile chapter in my book, The Women's encyclopedia natural medicine, with more details on that as well. Wonderful, well, this has been very interesting, and I would imagine your book is also mentioned on your website...

I hope so.

I do so too. That would be... That'd be a big miss if it wasn't... Well, thank you so much, we really appreciate your time, Dr. Hudson, and some great advice, and we appreciate your knowledge, and it sounds like there's just so much booming and exploding in the area of women's health right now, and we appreciate your research in the meantime, you can get more information on Dr. Hudson on her website. It is Bianca, I'm gonna spell that. V as in Victor, I-T-A-N-I-C-A dot com, Titanic dot com. We look forward to your next visit back, your remote.

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