The Hormone Doctor: The Truth About Cortisol, Estrogen and Balancing Your Hormones

About this episode

Dr. Gillian Goddard joins Tamsen Fadal to discuss hormone balance, perimenopause, and effective treatments for women's health issues.

Most of what you've heard about hormone balance, perimenopause symptoms, and hormone therapy online is wrong. That misunderstanding is costing women years of unnecessary suffering through puberty, pregnancy, and menopause stages when effective solutions like testosterone for women already exist and can make a real difference. Endocrinologist Dr. Gillian Goddard is joining Tamsen Fadal on The Tamsen Show to cut through the noise and explain how your hormonal system actually works and what to do when it feels like it isn't. She breaks down the feedback loop mechanism that keeps your hormones self-regulating, why that process is far more dynamic than any "hormone optimization" trend on social media, and what happens when those loops are disrupted at key life transitions. In this episode, Tamsen and Dr. Goddard cover: - What a hormone actually is, and why the feedback loop model changes everything - The thyroid-immune system connection and why puberty, pregnancy, and perimenopause are your highest-risk windows for thyroid disease - The late reproductive stage: the perimenopause phase most doctors miss, and why it matters - HRT vs. birth control for perimenopausal symptoms, and why…

People in this episode

Host: Tamsen Fadal

Guest: Dr. Gillian Goddard

Topics covered

• hormone balance
• perimenopause
• hormone therapy
• thyroid health
• women's health
• doctor-patient communication

Keywords

• hormones
• cortisol
• estrogen
• perimenopause symptoms
• hormone therapy
• testosterone for women
• thyroid disease
• HRT
• birth control

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: hormone therapy, HRT, birth control, testosterone, thyroid

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