They Lied About Estrogen — And Your Doctor Probably Doesn't Know It | ft. Dr. Lindsey Berkson

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In 2002, a press release changed everything — and it was based on no statistical evidence. The result? Hormones were pulled from medical school curricula, millions of women were scared off hormone therapy, and 25 years of patient care suffered for it. The FDA's own 28th director has since admitted: they got it wrong.

In this episode of Between the Sheets with Dr. Z, Dr. Stephanie Zwonitzer, DNP sits down with returning guest Dr. Lindsey Berkson — hormone scholar, researcher, two-time cancer survivor, and author of Oxytocin Medicine — for one of the most information-dense conversations this podcast has ever had. Dr. Berkson has been working with oxytocin in clinical practice for 18 years and has 556 scientific citations in a book that's only 193 pages. She knows her stuff, and she is not pulling punches.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• The truth about the Women's Health Initiative and how a single press release — with no statistical backing — convinced medicine that estrogen causes breast cancer
• Why hormones actually protect tumor suppressor genes — and what the science really says about estrogen, testosterone, and cancer risk
• What oxytocin actually is, why it's one of the most powerful and underused hormones in medicine, and how to get it over the counter
• How oxytocin works as an appetite adaptogen — helping people who overeat eat less, and helping anorexics have a healthier relationship with food
• Why women make more oxytocin during sex with someone they love (yes, the science backs this up)
• How oxytocin can be used for PTSD, GERD, Barrett's esophagus, inflammatory bowel disease, bone metastasis pain, and blood sugar regulation
• Why men with stage four prostate cancer are now being put on testosterone — and thriving
• Dr. Berkson's own cancer story, the radiation she refused, and the principal investigator who called her while she was on the table

This episode is for the patient who has been told "we got it all — go home and hope for the best." There are more tools. This is where you start finding them.

📖 Book: Oxytocin Medicine by Dr. Lindsey Berkson — available wherever books are sold 

📧 Reach Dr. Berkson: [email protected] 

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