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Elizabeth Poynor
10 things Elizabeth uses or recommends, from 1 episode.
What Elizabeth warns against
Things Elizabeth says to avoid or be careful with. Other experts don't always agree.
Premarin
"It's called Premarin. It's a conjugated equine estrogen preparation. It's oral. It contains mainly estrone which is an inflammatory estrogen."
Provera
"Our older preparations what or oral preparations Premarin and Provera that were studied in the women's health initiative study that made this so controversial"
Experts most like Elizabeth Poynor
They use many of the same things Elizabeth does. Pick the ones you trust and see what they all swear by.
All 10 of Elizabeth's picks
- PubMed Uses it "I did a PubMed search and I just put in estrogen clinical trials, estrogen, women's brain health and got 300 pages on PubMed and that's like 10 studies a page" +4 others
- CoQ10 Recommends it "If you're on a statin, you want to check your CoQ10 levels. You want to make sure that those are adequate not only from statin associated myopathies but also with brain health." +4 others
- Continuous glucose monitors Recommends it "I love CGMs because they can you put one on for a couple weeks and you can say you can see okay what's what's working what's not working and then take it off" +10 others
- Creatine monohydrate Recommends it "Creatine is like the one supplement that's been the most proven benefit. I think certainly supporters of creatine in terms of brain health currently." +30 others
- DEXA scans Recommends it "I like DEXA body comp. You get bone mass, you get your body comp and your bone mass with that DEXA." +9 others
- DUTCH Test Recommends it "You can move into some of this home urine testing, which I love actually. One is called DUTCH testing actually, which is very validated in terms of looking at estrogen and progesterone and estrogen metabolites." Only Elizabeth
- GLP-1 Recommends it "This is where the GLP-1s actually I think are super super valuable because this is a problem of insulin resistance. The GLP ones break this insulin resistance. They also break food noise." +12 others
- Menopause Society Recommends it "There's a group called the Menopause Society actually and there is the Menopause Society which does have a great resource of menopause practitioners actually." Only Elizabeth
- Multivitamin Recommends it "The Cosmos trial showed that individuals who took a multivitamin had better brain health protection. So, I'm actually I'm a supporter of multivitamins for women." +6 others
- Omega-3 fatty acids Recommends it "Omega-3 fatty acids super super important. They decrease inflammation. Omega-3s are extremely important for women's midlife brain health." +8 others