The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Beyond Estrogen & Progesterone: The Hidden Hormones That Transform Aging

Oct 25, 2025

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Learning how to harness the power of the lesser-known hormones is an important part in your overall hormone health. Dr. Thierry Hertoghe joins today to discuss some of these hormones and how he uses them in his medical practice. Dr. Hertoghe is a hormone doctor in Brussels, Belgium and is an international authority on medical hormone and nutrition therapies. He believes aging is due to hormone, lifestyle, and nutrition deficiencies and shares his expertise with us today.

In this episode:

Clarifying the myths about growth hormone.
How much younger you can look and feel with hormone therapy.
How peptides can support your hormone treatment.
Changing your body composition to look completely different.
What the physical signs are of a decrease in thyroid hormone.
What drives a thyroid hormone deficiency.
The biggest stimulator of thyroid function.
The ways that your emotions impact your hormones.
How your thyroid plays a vital role in heart function.
How melatonin protects your heart from damage.
The features of melatonin that make it an especially safe supplement.
How to tell from appearance if you may have high or low cortisol.
What the right dosage of cortisol is for you.
How supplementing with oxytocin can change your life.
The different forms of oxytocin that you can take.
Pregnenolone and the benefits it provides.
When your body's growth hormone starts decreasing.
Why you may want hormone therapy pre-menopause.
What a 24-hour urine test can tell you about your hormones.
The benefit of a urine test versus a saliva hormone test.
What DHEA is, along with what the benefits and side effects are.