It's not something you have a big opinion about, but does this come up with your patients ever? I

mean, you look at people's medical histories and implants are extremely common.

And I've seen a surge of women start to explant too, much more in like the recent years, I would say.

So yeah, I see it all the time.

I'm just not an expert in this field, so I don't have a ton to add to it, but I'm excited to hear from Dr. John.

Yeah.

So long-term, it doesn't change the ability to screen or monitor for cancer.

That's actually my follow-up question where breast density we're going to talk about I think on one of our episodes.

Yes.

We're talking about them in healthy individuals, if they have a utility or not.

Um, my personal opinion is they have pretty little or low utility in healthy individuals.

Um, there's a few instances that I'll put them on people, um, because you'll, you'll have these, like, weird labs come back.

You don't need to, so I have a different clientele that, like, money is usually not a limiting factor.

Um, but majority of the time I don't recommend them for, for individuals, just because we can become really obsessive about chasing the numbers, and you don't want a flat blood sugar line going throughout the day.

Like, there's not a benefit of that.

Mm-hmm

Are you talking sexual health and libido?

Absolutely.

I think some people are more apt to actually talk about it and initiate.

Some other people, you have to initiate the conversation and they have a lot to say about it.

And I really like the lumpy term because you also will see that, yeah, it declines as you age, but you can have a woman, let's just say she ended a relationship in her 50s, started a new relationship, and wow, libido is suddenly there in this new relationship, right? And so it's I think that there's so many dynamics, but the older we get, a lot of people who are in monogamous long-term relationships will also just be in a relationship longer as well.

And so I like the lumpy because it is.

It's like depending on how old you are, yeah, it's going to decline.

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How did you stay true to what you wanted to stay true to?

Well, I was still well in my journey in school, so, um- I got to naturopathic medicine because I had GI issues growing up, and like didn't feel well.

And I went to see the conventional gastroenterologist, primary care, you know, did like the whole like normal workup, and like still didn't feel well.

And so I was really disheartened by the medical system, and, um, and that's where I started to seek alternative treatments.

Like, I went to see an acupuncturist or a chiropractor, and then I went to see a naturopathic doctor.

And when I saw that doctor, it was the first time that a doctor had had the time to really sit with me, listen to me, speak to me, and so I really fell in love with her bedside manner and her ability to communicate.

My background has always been in nutrition and exercise science, and so I've always been like lifestyle forward focused.

Hmm.