Simplify your office visit,
your practice,
and your life . . .

I’ve completely overhauled, rewritten, re-recorded, and re-edited this flagship course.

It’s designed to address the confusion, fears, and hesitation women in menopause feel as a direct result of the lies they’ve been told for the past 20+ years.

Since the Women’s Health Initiative, women have been “. . . misled about menopause” (The New York Times, February 5, 2023).

Simple Hormones for Menopause is a digital course structured around

• searches
• stories
• studies

. . . each of which contributes to systematically dismantling the misperceptions about hormones women have been led to believe.

Searches – What do women actually ask “Dr. Google” about menopause and hormones?

This course provides easy-to-understand, truthful answers to those search questions, without all the biases, advertising, and confusion that result from an actual Google search.

Stories – “You’re not alone!”

The stories in Simple Hormones for Menopause help women recognize they’re not in this by themselves. These are stories from women who . . .

• suffer awful, life-changing symptoms . . . for years
• have been told “get over it,” “wait it out,” and “hormones are dangerous – there’s nothing we can do”
• walk in desperate misery from symptoms but also in terror about the assumed risks of HRT
• have experienced the life-transforming power of hormone optimization

Studies – What does the evidence actually say?

This course explains (without medical jargon) what the research shows about hormones for menopause.

Studies mentioned include:

• An in-depth, critical view of The Women’s Health Initiative, what it says and doesn’t say about HRT and its risks
• Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS)
• Early vs. Late Intervention Trial with Estradiol (ELITE)
• The Danish Osteoporosis Prevention Trial (DOPS)
• The EPIC-E3N Cohort Study

In my experience, patients don’t know or care much about the studies. What they want is clear, concise, easy-to-grasp explanations of the truth behind hormones. “Just tell me the bottom line.”

That’s exactly what Simple Hormones offers to patients.

The bottom line about . . .
. . . hormones and breast cancer
. . . hormones and heart disease
. . . hormones and osteoporosis
. . . hormones and Alzheimer’s
. . . hormones like estradiol for hot flashes and progesterone for sleep

Bite-sized videos in Simple Hormones for Menopause are 1 to 8 minutes long. They get right to the point.

Patients can watch all 36 videos from 7 modules in less than 2 hours – like 2 episodes on Netflix, but WAY more informative.

They can download 4-6 .pdf handouts that visually reinforce both the videos and your office visit teaching.

Simple Hormones for Menopause helps patients understand that optimal hormone levels accomplish 2 major goals:

1. They reduce or eliminate dozens of menopause symptoms like hot flashes, weight gain, vaginal dryness, painful intimacy, insomnia, depression, anxiety, joint pain, etc.
2. They reduce long-term health risks for osteoporosis, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s

I’ve surveyed over 2500 women in menopause and receive daily emails from women asking the same questions you hear repeated in each office visit:

• “Don’t hormones increase the risk for breast cancer?”
• “How long will I have to take hormones?”
• “What are the side effects of estradiol and progesterone?”
• “Won’t hormones increase my risk for blood clots, heart attacks, and stroke?”
• “Will HRT help with [weight gain, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, painful intimacy, insomnia, anxiety, depression, heart palpitations, and many other symptoms]?”
• “Why did my doctor say I didn’t need progesterone if I’ve had a hysterectomy?”
• “Can’t I take something natural for menopause?”

Simple Hormones answers those questions (and many more), relieves patient fears, and addresses their hesitations. That means you and your staff don’t have to answer them!

Learning Outcome: Women can move from being fearful of hormones and desperate for effective solutions to being confident that they can get their lives back, free from symptoms and protected from long-term health risks.

Benefits for Providers: This course saves providers “about 1 full hour” for each new patient (according to subscribers’ feedback).

Simple Hormones helps head off “push back” from other providers who just don’t get optimal hormones. The course encourages patients to trust YOU as their hormone optimization specialist, rather than their “other doctor” who hasn’t invested in the training and expertise you’ve earned.

Recently re-recorded and re-edited, this course is short and sweet.

6 modules with a total of 14 videos that are 1 to 7 minutes long. Simple Hormones for Men takes under an hour to complete.

The course has 2 primary objectives:

1. Understand and embrace hormone optimization primarily with testosterone but also with other hormones
2. Recognize the importance of optimal hormones for BOTH symptom relief and long-term health

Simple Hormones for Men helps men understand the reasons behind their lack of energy and motivation, low sex drive, erectile dysfunction, muscle weakness, weight gain, and general malaise. It’s all about low testosterone.

The course addresses the benefits of testosterone optimization. It also covers the risks of both taking testosterone and not taking it.

Unlike women in menopause, men with low testosterone are not generally fearful. But they have a limited understanding of testosterone and all the systems it affects.

Simple Hormones for Men is more concise than the menopause course. It addresses the facts and benefits of testosterone replacement, the risks of low testosterone, as well as the symptoms of low testosterone.

Learning Outcome: Men move from unmotivated, tired, weak, and disinterested to feeling strong, amorous, and fit.

Benefits for Providers: Simple Hormones for Men helps providers by prepping men for testosterone replacement therapy. It answers common questions, though not as many as women have.

This course helps women struggling with missed menstrual periods, masculinization symptoms, weight gain, anxiety, depression, and infertility to understand what’s going on with their reproductive system.

3 video modules help women with PCOS understand the complex relationships between:

• low thyroid
• insulin resistance
• high insulin (hyperinsulinemia)
  
• high testosterone
• not ovulating
• low progesterone
• missed periods
• Infertility

Simple Hormones for PCOS videos are 1 to 10 minutes long. Most are bite-sized at around 7 minutes.

The 71 total minutes of video helps women recognize the importance of optimal hormones to relieve PCOS symptoms and reduce long-term health risks, including serious risks for type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

Patients can also download 3 .pdf handouts that visually reinforce both the course and your teaching on PCOS and metabolic dysfunction.

Learning Outcome: Women move from confused, frightened, and frustrated by missed periods, weight gain, and masculinization from PCOS to seeing a clear path toward solving insulin resistance and getting their normal reproductive cycles back, providing a strong sense of relief and hope.

Benefits for Providers: Simple Hormones for PCOS helps female patients recognize the symptoms they’ve been experiencing are likely due to low thyroid, high insulin, high testosterone, and low progesterone. It also emphasizes the role of insulin resistance, diet, exercise, and hormone optimization in managing PCOS.

This brief course explains the symptoms and risks of low thyroid hormones and helps patients recognize thyroid deficiency, even when they’ve been told, “Your levels are normal.”

It helps them understand that mainstream medical providers may only have a partial understanding of thyroid issues, based on insufficient blood testing and only prescribing levothyroxine (T4).

The total of 9 thyroid videos (about 3 minutes each) in 3 modules takes less than 30 minutes to complete.

THYROID: It’s That Simple explains why testing for free liothyronine (T3), reverse T3, thyroid antibodies, and other biomarkers give a more complete thyroid picture than just testing T4 and TSH.

Learning Outcome: Patients who struggle with weight gain, fatigue, lethargy, sexual dysfunction, hair loss, and many other symptoms see that the root problem underneath these symptoms is their thyroid hormones. Even if they’ve had their thyroid tested, they may not have experienced relief, because the testing was incomplete. This course provides hope that these symptoms can actually be improved.

Benefits for Providers:

THYROID: It’s That Simple asks patients, “Who can you trust with your thyroid hormones?”

The course explains some aspects of thyroid optimization that mainstream physicians don’t understand and may push back against.

Of all the hormone issues hormone providers deal with, thyroid is the one that gets them the strongest push back from colleagues who don’t understand the nuances of thyroid optimization.

This course helps cut off that push back at the pass by helping patients recognize the training and experience that qualify you as the thyroid expert.

This course is designed to introduce patients concerned about Alzheimer’s Disease to 12 actionable steps that can reduce their risk.

The 22 videos range from 2 to 7 minutes in length and total about 105 minutes over 4 modules.

The course lays out 12 “Action Steps,” each of which is explained in a 5-minute (more or less) video lesson. The steps are presented in a framework using the acronym HEALTHY BRAIN.

H – Head Trauma

E – Eat for Ketosis & Autophagy

A – Avoid Insulin Resistance

L – Let Go Of Stress

T – Target Deficiencies With Supplements & Hormones

H – High Blood Pressure Reduction

Y – Your Family, Friends, and Community

B – Brain Training

R – Regular Exercise

A – At Least 7 Hours Every Night

I – Inflammation Reduction

N – No Smoking, Molds, or Toxins

Simple Hormones for Brain Health introduces patients to the concept of reducing cognitive risk – especially the risk for Alzheimer’s.

These video lessons . . .

• emphasize empathy around the terrifying diagnosis of Alzheimer’s
• acknowledge the devastation of watching a loved one’s gradual decline into total dependence on others
• offer practical hope in the form of evidence-based strategies that can make a difference in slowing, preventing, or even reversing cognitive decline

Learning Outcome: Patients with a family history and fear of Alzheimer’s (or even genetic risk factors like ApoE4) can have their fears relieved and feel confident they’re taking simple, actionable steps toward preventing cognitive decline.

Patients can have the experience of . . .

1. “You’re not alone . . .”
2. “There IS hope . . .”

. . . in the face of Alzheimer’s risk.

Benefits for Providers: The HEALTHY BRAIN course explains that patients CAN take these steps without a specialist physician . . . but there are numerous roadblocks that make it very difficult.

The course ultimately acknowledges that a trained and experienced provider can make the process much easier and more practical. Patients come to realize that a knowledgeable provider can order labs, interpret results, advise on supplements, fine tune diet, and optimize hormones, among many other things.

That’s the name I’ve given to a course created by insulin resistance expert Benjamin Bikman, Ph.D. and his team at InsulinIQ. Their course is designed to help patients grasp the risks and treatment of insulin resistance or “pre-diabetes.”

The course is divided into 4 modules:

1. What is insulin resistance?
2. Why is reversing insulin resistance so important?
3. How do I reverse insulin resistance?
4. Additional helps

The 15 short lessons in Simple Hormones for Insulin Resistance explain metabolic disease in easy-to-understand language, without medical jargon.

Lesson topics include:

• Today’s Plagues of Prosperity – a euphemism for the overabundance of carbohydrates and inflammatory foods in our modern American diet
• Diabetes & Pre-Diabetes
• Fatty Liver & PCOS (and how to reverse both)
• Weight Loss (usually a byproduct of reversing insulin resistance)
• Time-Restricted Eating
• Exercise & Insulin Resistance

Patients who have experienced reversal of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes by following the InsulinIQ program share their success stories.

InsulinIQ also offers an affordable, paid insulin resistance health coaching program that’s “soft sold” within the course and through an email series sent out to course students.

Learning Outcome: Patients can use the actionable steps in this course to reverse insulin resistance (or even type 2 diabetes) and drastically reduce their health risks.

Benefits for Providers: Patients who complete the course will understand and embrace the idea that insulin resistance is one of the most important risk factors for chronic disease.

More importantly, patients will be equipped with actionable tools to change their diet and lifestyle to reduce . . .

• hemoglobin A1C
• fasting blood glucose levels
• fasting insulin levels
• HOMA-IR insulin resistance
• long-term health risks for diabetes, kidney disease, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s