Menopause Making You Look Masculine?: Dr.Berg on Menopause Symptoms & Androgens In Females

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hey guys Dr Burg here I want to answer the question why does menopause trigger High Androgen levels a lot of women going into menopause or postmenopause end up having these high levels of Androgen so I want to talk about that uh here are the symptoms of high Androgen levels Mal pattern baldness okay up here alopecia which is patches of hair that come out at different places polycystic ovarian syndrome it’s acne facial hair and hair loss deep voice too infertility deep voice oily skin skin inflammation increased sex drive okay so these are some of the symptoms in a female body so what causes well it’s not that menopause will trigger um high enens but really what happens is this your your insulin levels go up that’s really what causes polycystic ovarian syndrome the insulin levels go up and then you start converting all this this male hormone which is Androgen and this can come from um a couple reasons one maybe you’re eating a lot of sugar but maybe you’re not maybe it’s during Menopause the ovaries uh stop working and then the adrenal gland backs up the ovaries so the adrenal gland is the backup to the ovary and what happens um when you get this sudden Spike of cortisol which is a stress hormone at menopause because the adrenals are overacting to try to make up the the hormone loss it can then convert into insulin okay so that’s really the mechanis mechanism with that so then High cortisol directly because High cortisol coming from stress will cause high levels of antigen okay now um also this thing here I want to talk about decrease sex hormone binding globula what the heck does that mean it’s this shbg okay this basically is a protein in the liver that helps buffer and regulate androgens it keeps enery in trck it keeps enery low okay so this protein is supposed to keep enery low but when you have a problem with the liver you decrease shb and now antigen goes up because it can’t regulate it anymore so that protein that keeps it in check doesn’t do its job so then we get a spike of Androgen okay but this is the most interesting thing during Menopause the body stops releasing estrogen faster than it stops releasing androgens okay so in a female body you have this testosterone and estrogen level always kind of balanced and and your ovaries make these two hormones and so do your adrenals so during menopause when the ovaries go in retirement we get the this huge spike a huge drop of estrogen but the drop in Androgen is not quite great as great as estrogen so we have this relative High ratio of high Androgen to low estrogen ratio so it makes it so it appears that you have more um Androgen so it’s not necessarily that it triggers it just basically you end up with high because the estrogen goes way way too far okay so I just want to kind of explain why you might be having these symptoms and I put some links Down Below on what you need to do you know you need to correct your insulin your adrenals your liver those are the most important things okay thanks for watching hey guys thank you so much for watching please click the Subscribe button and I will see you in the next video