Episodios

  • 7.3 Menopausal Psychosis and Hormone Therapy: Basics of Menopause and Menopausal Psychosis
    Feb 6 2024

    In this segment, I start out by providing a history of hormone discovery and using hormones as treatment. Dr. Grider gives us a basic explanation of what menopause is, including typical patient presentations, symptoms, and the relationship to fluctuating reproductive hormone levels. And Dr. Wood tells us what to expect with peri-menopausal psychosis patients and reviews some of the consistencies in their presentations. It's interesting to note that Dr. Grider has very little experience with menopausal psychosis, while typically Dr. Wood has less experience with milder presentations of menopausal depression. Based on the severity of the patient's symptoms (and possibly a lack of making a connection between hormones and psychosis), there's almost a type of natural selection AWAY FROM the psychiatric and OB/GYN provider crossing paths or both being involved with the same cases.

    Thanks for listening.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @Renegadepsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

    Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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  • 7.4 Menopausal Psychosis and Hormone Therapy: FLAWED Women's Health Initiative/WHI Study
    Feb 9 2024

    In this segment, Drs. Wood, Grider, and I discuss the flaws of the large NIH-sponsored Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Study that was intended to provide more clarity on the role of hormones during female transitional periods and its impact on the use of female reproductive hormones after 2002. The WHI was a 10+ year endeavor studying thousands upon thousands of female patients and evaluating the safety of utilizing different combinations of hormones (at a time when hormone replacement therapy was popular, with 15% of the female population taking it). The results came out in 2002 and were widely reported by the media as negative and associated hormones with significant risks of different forms of cancers and cardiovascular disease primarily. The only problem was... the average age in the study was >63, and the majority of women had already completed menopause and were therefore hormone naive. WE KNOW re-introducing medium or high levels of our natural hormones at a time in life when it has become unnatural IS DANGEROUS. Later re-analyses of this study, when we parse out the women who are IN THE MENOPAUSAL TRANSITION PHASE, or UNDER THE AGE OF 50, there is actually a decreased cardiovascular risk, and any increase in the risk of breast cancer is likely offset by the decreased risk of colon cancer. Unfortunately, the mass media widely reported on the negative findings, but interestingly, did not report on the positive re-analyses of the data. This led to a massive discontinuation of hormone therapy, with 50% of women in the US on hormone therapy stopping it abruptly in a 6-month period. As a skeptic, I wonder if it was another way the steamrolling train of industry was able to demonize an older, more natural form of treatment, to make way for newer synthetic and thereby patentable (and profitable) medications/treatments. Anyways, hope you enjoy our discussion and it gives good food for thought!

    Thanks for listening.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @Renegadepsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

    Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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    29 m
  • 7.5 Menopausal Psychosis and Hormone Therapy: Impact of Transitional Periods in Schizophrenia, Bipolar
    Feb 13 2024

    In this segment, Dr. Wood and I reveal what we know about the exacerbation of psychotic symptoms in female patients with known schizophrenia or bipolar disorder during hormonal transitional periods, including menopause, postpartum, and monthly menstrual cycles. It adds to the common sense evidence of the importance of considering the role of estrogen and progesterone (among others) in pre-existing psychiatric illness, and as a primary cause of things like first-episode of psychosis during menopause. We review several studies and discuss the protective role estrogen may play in helping to explain why men have the onset of bipolar and schizophrenia on average 5 years earlier than women. Jenny and I strongly question what we were taught as a somewhat 'magical' second peak of mental illness that also exists in females approaching the menopausal transition, and agree there is likely a better organic cause of exacerbating an underlying predisposition to mental illness, as opposed to suddenly developing it out of the blue. We also talk about how the use of hormones may potentially allow women approaching the age of menopause decrease the amount of antipsychotic and other medication use, and more directly address the cause of the exacerbated mental state. ENJOY!

    Thanks for listening.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @Renegadepsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

    Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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    26 m
  • 7.6 Menopausal Psychosis and Hormone Therapy: Closing Thoughts and Song
    Feb 16 2024

    Here, we each present our closing thoughts on the use of female reproductive hormones during menopause and the phenomenon of menopausal psychosis and/or exacerbation of psychiatric symptoms during female hormonal transitional periods. Thanks so much to Drs. Wood and Grider for being a part of this, and please stick around after the disclaimer to hear one of my favorite local artists, Jared Foos, who just released his first solo album, titled "Who Loves you Baby," with his hit song, "Leave." If you or anyone you know is looking to have their music platformed, please send it my way and I'll see if I can work it into the closing thoughts of another series!

    Thanks for listening.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @Renegadepsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

    Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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    21 m
  • 7.7 Menopausal Psychosis and Hormone Therapy: EXTRA: Failed Treatment Options, the Content of Psychosis, and Human Consciousness
    Feb 20 2024

    I surprised myself on this one with a vicious rant about Makena, a synthetic intramuscular drug FDA approved in 2003 for preterm labor that was recently recalled in 2023. I get pretty elevated in my 8-minute rant introducing this segment and talking about the implications of the Makena catastrophe. Other than that, we talk about other failed treatment options for menopausal or postpartum symptoms, as well as the content of psychosis in patients, and how that content has changed historically based on societal values, norms, and fears of new technologies. Hope you enjoy! Follow RenegadePsych if you're not already.

    Thanks for listening.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @Renegadepsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

    Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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    35 m
  • 8.0 Problems in U.S. Healthcare: TEASER
    Feb 23 2024

    This is the teaser for the upcoming series on inherent problems in U.S. healthcare, where we'll talk about the absurd costs of our healthcare, the trend towards Corporatization of healthcare, and some other major pitfalls of the American medical system. My guest on this series is Dr. Taylor Beckman, a 3rd-year internal medicine resident at The University of Louisville, whose starting his cardiology fellowship at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in July. This series is a little more conversational and laid back. Feedback is welcome!

    Thanks for listening.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @Renegadepsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

    Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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    15 m
  • 8.1 Problems: RANT + Guest Intro
    Feb 27 2024
    This episode starts out with a typical monologue intro rant about some of the Inherent Problems in U.S. Healthcare. Then, we transition into learning more about our guest, Dr. Taylor Beckman, DO, who will finish his residency training in June and start on a cardiology fellowship in July. We talk about the issues with the horrifically high (and only getting higher) costs of healthcare in the United States, especially in comparison to other first-world countries and health systems, as well as in comparison to our past selves. We discuss several individual cases of healthcare expenditures for patients and how there is no set standard for what hospitals in America are allowed to charge for their services, and how the complicated intricacies of hidden hospital fees and insurance coverage are bankrupting Americans. Spending so much on healthcare as a country restricts spending in other areas (I certainly AM NOT recommending we spend any more money on defense) and ultimately, makes it difficult for so many individuals and families to save money and accumulate assets and generational wealth. This is leading to a progressively widening wealth gap in America, where the richer get richer, and the middle-class is just getting by. Some of the statistics will astound you. Next, we discuss the corporatization of our healthcare system, how changes in the last 20-40 years have led to fewer and fewer providers operating their own private practices as the system continues to funnel them into working for large corporate conglomerates trending towards a monopolization of healthcare. HIPAA was a huge factor in this trend towards corporatization and nearly co-emerged with the advent of the Electronic Health/Medical Record (EHR/EMR), which today is essentially mandated by the system. This forces providers to document NOT based on effectively transmitting the most important information for other clinicians (as it was in the past), but rather to document so that patient's visits get covered and providers claims are accepted, with so much erroneous data that it waters down the medical record. Not to mention, it is damn near impossible to get medical records in a timely fashion, despite these supposedly 'integrated' systems. Lastly, on this topic we discuss how a conscientious and persistent Bronx Urologist, Alex Shteynshlyuger, unveiled the corruption of former CMS employee Matthew Albright and the Electronic Transfer Fees, or ETFs, payment system that allows ANOTHER group of middlemen to siphon profits from prescribers, making it even more difficult to co-exist with these large conglomerates in your own private practice. Lastly, we give several examples of over-treatment in the American system, specifically discussing the overabundance of heart catheterizations, the MAJOR problems in manipulating the research around what's called the beta-amyloid deposition theory of Alzheimer's Dementia and how the new Alzheimers' drugs targeting beta-amyloid removal, Aducanumab and Lecanamab, don't really work AND likely cause more harm than good. Finally, we talk a little bit about the trend of GLP-1 Agonists, including Ozempic, and again try to bring the discussion back towards the center; while they're helpful for weight loss, they are not devoid of side effects and co-utilizing them with preventive measures and limiting prescription lengths may be more beneficial in treatment. In our final section, we discuss potential system-wide solutions, as well as give listeners specific advice on how to fight their high healthcare costs. Thanks for listening.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @Renegadepsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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  • 8.2 Problems: the ABSURD cost of U.S. Healthcare
    Mar 1 2024

    In this segment, we discuss the high cost of healthcare, both from a systems-perspective, as well as specific cases of patients, personal contacts, and our own medical bills. It's kind of crazy that we spend nearly twice as much per person on healthcare as THE NEXT HIGHEST HEALTHCARE SPENDING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. You would expect that means we have significantly BETTER healthcare, but the #1 health indicator, our life expectancy, drags nearly 4 years behind other developed countries. While there is something to be said for the amount of innovative treatments and therapies created within our system, is it worth it if 99/100 fail? Is it worth it if 9/10 fail and subject those 9 persons to poor outcomes? There simply has to be a better way, where we can maintain our stronghold as healthcare innovators, without making our country so much sicker (at a significantly higher cost) than others. ENJOY!

    Thanks for listening.  For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @Renegadepsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

    Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

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    24 m