Episode 72: What If Everything You’ve Been Told About Hormones Is Incomplete—Or Flat-Out Wrong?

In this episode of Positively Altered, Dr. Cindy sits down with hormone expert Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson to unpack decades of misinformation around hormones, aging, and women’s health. They dive into why hormones matter at every stage of life, how fear replaced science after flawed studies, and why oxytocin may be one of the most powerful—and misunderstood—hormones of all. This is a bold, research-backed conversation that will change how you think about hormones, health, and longevity.

In this episode, we cover:

• (5:00) Why have doctors turned away from teaching about hormones over the years?
• (8:00) How to get people unafraid and fully informed.
• (11:00) Hormones rule the wifi of your physiology.
• (12:00) Hormones rule the wifi of your physiology.
• (14:00) What hormones should patients have checked?
• (22:00) A deep dive into Oxytocin.
• (29:00) A natural way to boost your Oxytocin.
• (31:00) Hormones and Aging
• (35:00) Rapid-fire questions

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About Dr. Lindsey Berkson:

As a Distinguished Hormone Scholar from the highly praised Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities, Dr. Berkson worked shoulder-to-shoulder with

pioneering scientists who discovered the first hormone receptors. Her breakthrough book, Hormone Deception (McGraw-Hill 2002, Awakened Medicine Press 2016), earned her this prestigious invitation, as she exposed the public health emergency of environmental toxins assaulting our hormones and provided the original guidelines for reducing exposure.

Her impact on medical literature continues to grow. Dr. Berkson’s book Healthy Digestion the Natural Way (Wiley & Sons, 2000) was the first gut, nutrition, and mindfulness book to sell over 1 million copies. Her work Sexy Brain (Awakened Medicine Press, 2017)

further explored endocrine disruption and gender-bending, while her latest book, Oxytocin Medicine, reveals how the “hormone of connection, empathy and calm” is under attack – and what we can do about it.

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