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Sex Hormones and their Impact on Mental Health
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As the prime directive of life is the creation of new life, the ovarian and testicular produced sex hormones, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, are typically seen by the public and by health care professionals as solely important for sexual functioning and reproduction. But reproduction is viewed narrowly, rather than seen as involving every organ system working in optimal unity. Successful reproduction requires that the entire person is optimally healthy, including the cardiovascular, immune, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, genitourinary systems … as well as an optimally functioning neurological system!
Human reproduction necessitates supportive relationships, love and bonding, and critical thinking for survival to enable a substantial longevity, facilitating multiple prodigy to be conceived, born, and raised to their sexual maturity. Sex hormones should be renamed as life hormones, acknowledging their enormous contribution to the healthy functioning of every bodily system, with a keen recognition of their vital involvement in both cognitive and emotional health, which will be detailed in this presentation.
Felice Gersh, MD
Felice Gersh, MD, is a multi-award-winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and integrative medicine. She has degrees from Princeton University and University of Southern California School of Medicine, completed the two-year fellowship in integrative medicine at the University of Arizona School of Medicine, and the four-year residency in OB/GYN at Kiser Hospital, Los Angeles. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, which provides comprehensive health care for women by combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine. She taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine for 12 years as an assistant clinical professor, where she received the highly coveted Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award. She now serves as an affiliate faculty member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, through the University of Arizona School of Medicine, where she lectures and regularly grades the case presentations written by the fellowship students for their final exams. She has had many scientific articles published in prestigious medical journals, and most recently had an article chosen to be featured in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. She is the bestselling author of PCOS SOS, PCOS SOS Fertility Fast Track and Menopause: 50 Things You Need to Know.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Felice Gersh has an employment relationship with Integrative Medical Group of Irvine. She receives a speaking honorarium and consulting fee from Harbor Compounding Pharmacy, Pure Encapsulations, METAGENICS, Ascend Pharmaceuticals, and IBSA Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Gersh receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Dr. Felice Gersh is a member of the California Medical Association and the Orange County Medical Association.
