Staying Forever Young - What Your Physician Is Not Telling You
Author: Dessy T. Vautrin, Health Coach
For centuries, the world’s elite have sought ways to preserve their youth, beauty, and strength. Today, most Hollywood stars, media moguls, and political figures—from Angelina Jolie to Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama—understand a fundamental scientific truth: declining hormones are the primary cause of aging, affecting vitality, health, and appearance. That’s why they have made Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) an integral part of their lives early on, preserving their energy, well-being, and timeless beauty. While expensive skincare products and cosmetic procedures promise youth, they only address the symptoms on the surface. The real key to beauty and longevity lies within—through Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT).
Beyond Beauty: Strength, Vitality, and Health
A youthful appearance isn’t just about glowing skin and beautiful hair—it’s also about staying strong and active. Many women don’t realize that hormones protect muscles and bones just as much as they enhance beauty. When estrogen drops, bone density decreases, leading to osteoporosis, fractures, and muscle loss. BHRT supports bone strength, prevents muscle deterioration, and helps maintain flexibility, allowing women to remain physically active and independent well into their later years. It also plays a crucial role in cardiovascular health, reducing bad cholesterol, increasing good cholesterol, and improving blood vessel elasticity—helping lower the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other life-threatening conditions. Hormones are deeply intertwined with brain function too, impacting memory, focus, and emotional stability. BHRT helps sharpen cognitive function, supports neurotransmitter production, and lowers the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Women who maintain hormonal balance often report improved clarity, mood stability, and an overall sense of well-being. Similarly, the digestive system is highly sensitive to hormonal changes. Many women struggle with bloating, constipation, and unexplained weight gain as their hormones fluctuate. Estrogen and progesterone play a key role in gut motility and metabolism. BHRT helps restore balance, reducing inflammation, improving digestion, and preventing the accumulation of stubborn belly fat. A healthy gut means better nutrient absorption, stable energy levels, and a stronger immune system.
The Beauty Connection: Skin, Hair, and Nails
Declining hormones have a tremendous impact on how you look. Estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone are key to maintaining skin elasticity, hydration, and collagen production. After the age of 35, as hormone levels gradually decline, skin becomes dry and saggy, fine lines deepen, and hair thins over time. BHRT works from within to restore balance, boosting collagen, improving moisture retention, and strengthening hair and nails. Unlike expensive serums that only work on the surface, BHRT offers a true age-defying solution at the cellular level.
The Hidden Hormonal Epidemic
Despite the overwhelming benefits of hormone therapy, many doctors—OBGYNs and family physicians alike—wait until it’s too late, only addressing hormonal decline when patients have already lost much of their health and vitality. We can’t blame them, as this is not taught in full in medical schools. We have as clients physicians, whom we had to explain from scratch the whole science behind BHRT.
What makes matters worse is that we live in an increasingly toxic world. The World Health Organization has recognized a global epidemic of hormonal disruption, with reports dating back to 2012 and further studies in 2017 addressing widespread endocrine disruption. Everyday exposures from plastic packaging, flame-retardant furniture treatments, and countless other chemicals interfere with our body’s natural balance. These endocrine disruptors contribute to the premature decline of vital hormones, further accelerating aging and disease.
The Modern Stress Crisis: A Fast Track to Hormonal Burnout
We, women live in an era of relentless stress—constant deadlines, disrupted sleep, and the pressure to juggle multiple responsibilities. Chronic stress has an especially devastating impact on hormones, rapidly depleting levels of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, while spiking cortisol - the stress hormone, and often as a result wreaking complete havoc in our hormonal systems. Women are expected to “thrive”, yet under these extreme conditions our hormonal systems are under siege. Our team have seen clients in their late 30s with hormonal profiles resembling those of menopausal women. Other clients have entered full menopause by the age of 40—a phenomenon unheard of in previous generations! Stress is not just a psychological burden, it is a biological wrecking ball, accelerating hormonal decline and making it nearly impossible to maintain youthful energy, vitality, and health without proactive intervention.
The Sensitivity of Hormonal Receptors: Why Even Tiny Decline Matters
Our hormone receptors are sensitive to astonishingly low concentrations—nanomolar (nM) and picomolar (pM) levels—meaning our bodies respond to incredibly tiny amounts. To put this in perspective, imagine a drop of ink in a swimming pool: one nanomolar (nM) is like a drop of ink in an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and one picomolar (pM) is like a drop of ink in 1,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools!! That’s how minuscule the hormonal signals our bodies rely on truly are. Yet, many conventional physicians dismiss hormone therapy as something only to be used in extreme cases, failing to grasp this delicate balance. In reality, by the time hormone levels have reached crisis levels, significant damage has already been done.
Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science
In the Western medicine hormones were formally discovered in 1902 by British scientists Ernest Starling and William Bayliss, but traditional medicine has long understood their power. For thousands of years, Chinese physicians treated emperors and the wealthy essentially with BHRT - with extracts of steroid hormones, preserving their patients’ vitality, virility, and strength. Scientific literature confirms these ancient practices were remarkably effective, demonstrating that hormone therapy has stood the test of time, resulting in those patients looking a lot younger, and being a lot healthier than the rest.
Aging is Optional—Decline is Not Inevitable
Even the most well-intentioned and respected physicians may unintentionally mislead you. Let us repeat: medical schools still do not teach the full depth of hormonal science, leaving millions of men and women to needlessly suffer from preventable aging. BHRT is not just about prolonging life—it’s about adding life to the years you live. The question isn’t whether you should “play” with hormones—it’s whether you should let aging and decline take hold when solutions exist. With BHRT, beauty, vitality, and strength are no longer reserved for the privileged few—they’re accessible to every woman who chooses to take control of her health, beauty and well-being.
Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1033362/pdf/medhist00159-0005.pdf