Hormones, Skin & Hair: WTF Is Happening to My Face? Part 2 of 3
The Luminescence Podcast with Schuyler GrantShow Notes
You look in the mirror and something's different. Your skin, your hair. And nobody really warned you that this was coming, or that it was hormonal.
This is part two of the conversation on the visible changes of midlife. Schuyler Grant, Dr. Somi Javaid, Dr. Sarah de la Torre, and Elena Brower get into the biology behind what's actually happening to skin and hair as estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone decline.
They discuss:
What declining hormones actually do to collagen, elastin, and blood flow and why your skin is your largest organ, not just a vanity concern
Topical estrogen for the face. What it is, how it differs from vaginal estrogen, and why even the doctors in this conversation hadn't heard of it
The Women's Health Initiative, the black box warning that just came off vaginal estrogen, and what two decades of misinformation actually cost women
Whether starting HRT earlier makes a visible difference and what the data does and doesn't support
How to tell the difference between a choice that's genuinely yours and one that's been shaped by outside pressure
Most women are handed moisturizer and told to drink more water. This episode goes considerably further than that.
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