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Women’s health and pregnancy from Endobiogenic perspective
Dr. Hedayat is invited to speak at the conference in Lithuania dedicated to women and motherhood in the end of April. We would like to share a part of his interview with our FSH friends and patients. Our team is blessed working with so many wonderful women so we hope Dr. Hedayat’s thoughts will inspire you to take better care of yourselves and your loved ones.
Women’s health and pregnancy from Endobiogenic perspective
How does pregnancy affect women’s hormonal system?
Pregnancy amplifies and increases many of the hormones that are naturally present outside pregnancy, like cortisol, estrogens, thyroid hormones and growth hormones. As a result of this great rise of hormones, and when they are balanced and working in a coordinated fashion, many women experience the pregnancy glow in their eyes and in their skin. It’s a special feeling they don’t have other times of their life. I’ve noticed that many feel more spiritual, connected with their baby. In addition, many inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, like lupus, asthma or psoriasis, actually get better or completely resolve during pregnancy.
The challenge for the woman is when these hormones don’t rise together in a harmonious way. This can adversely affect their mood and health. The other challenge is after pregnancy. If the hormones stay too high, that cause one set of problems (like women who develops thyroid disease after the pregnancy). The other type is when the hormones drop too suddenly after birth. This can be related to post-partum depression. Other examples are hair loss and trouble losing pregnancy weight.
Do all pregnant women have the same hormonal changes?
Yes, because hormonal changes are genetically programmed. But they don’t experience those changes in the same way.
Each person has a unique set of genetics and also epigenetic influences. Epigenetics have to do with how your genes have been affected not only by your physical environment, but by the emotional environment of your ancestors. For example, many studies have shown, that two generations after the Holocaust, the grandchildren of the Jewish Holocaust survivors have a higher rate of anxiety and depression than other people their age whose grandparents were not in a Holocaust. Or, for example, people from Scandinavia whose parents lived through a famine three generations ago, are more likely to have the same famine genes turned on and gain weight too easily three generations later. These are epigenetic changes that affect the way people feel, function and think. And this can affect how you feel during the pregnancy.
How do you explain why two pregnant women feel very different?
While two women are pregnant, each woman’s hormonal changes are unique to them: the specific patterns of how much their estrogen, cortisol, or thyroid hormones are functioning, is particular to each of them. So each woman’s pregnancy experience is her own and they shouldn’t be compared to anyone else. She should ask herself how I can have the best pregnancy experience that I am meant to have.
What should women do in order to maintain a good health?
Because woman spend such a large part of their life having menstrual cycles, and because menstrual cycles are such a big fluctuation in hormones every single month, woman should not accept difficult menstrual cycles as a fact of life that they have to live with it. The answer to a painful menstrual cycle is not a pain medication or birth control. Those hormonal disbalances that women experience, such as water weight, tender breasts, heavy periods and mood swings should be seen as a medical imbalance – not a disease – but an imbalance that can make you susceptible to other hormonal problems and disorders later in life such as hypothyroidism, lupus, Crohn’s disease, anxiety, depression, migraine, etc. Because woman tend to be more in touch or aware of hormonal fluctuations, they can actually have a greater opportunity to address those issues while they are younger and before those type of disorders, as I mentioned, come about.
As far as hormone balancing goes, and, because hormones are such a complex system in the body and they all affect each other, more complicated hormone balancing needs to be done by an expert who has a training in hormone balancing like Endobiogeny.
However, in the meantime, the most general thing is to ensure a good liver function. Avoid excessive or frequent alcohol consumption, smoking, or eating too much fatty and fried foods. Exercise and do periodic liver cleanses by taking something gentle like a tea of milk thistle, sage, or artichoke leaf.
The other thing is to maintain good pelvic circulation. When the woman’s feet are colder than her hands, she feels heaviness in her pelvis, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, or constipation – it means that the pelvis is congested. In that case you want to make sure you improve circulation in the pelvic area. So, again, having a simple tea of yarrow, lady’s mantle, or witch-hazel, are very safe and effective ways to ensure good health. In fact, yarrow is good for the liver, for the pelvis, and has progesterone like activity that balances other sex hormones, so, it’s a great plant for women to consider.
I think if a woman from time to time drinks herbal tea, she doesn’t need medical supervision. But there are certain plants even drank as a tea that are not recommended during pregnancy. So outside the pregnancy, the plants I mentioned are good to use; during the pregnancy, anything that a woman takes should be in consultation with a doctor who is knowledgeable in using plants during pregnancy.
What about mental and emotional health?
Every person should be allowed and able to express emotions they are experiencing.
Let me tell you a story. I was having a consultation with one woman. She was a mother, daughter and a wife. I listened to her and later said:
“I understand why you feel frustrated at times: your husband works long hours, he has to travel outside the country, and you have a lot of responsibilities with the children, and your mother is in another town… I think it’s really important to talk about your feelings with your husband more.”
At the end of the visit she stepped out from the consultation room in the lobby, and, in front of everybody there, she looked at her husband and said:
“Dr. Hedayat said it’s all your fault that I am sick!”
This is not what I mean saying expressing your emotions.
A lot of times what happens, people hold their feelings in and then blame other people, blame themselves, or they just shout at whomever is around. Expressing emotions is saying “when you don’t thank me for making dinner, I don’t feel appreciated. It is important for me to feel appreciated in our marriage.” This is a good example of effective, non-violent communication. If you want to have a long and healthy life, it’s important to talk about feelings, and, what you need to be satisfied in life.
In my opinion, women who want to help their family and their children, they really need to help themselves first. When a woman has enough sleep, enough to eat, personal time to talk with friends, exercise, read a book, get a cup of coffee or take a walk in the woods, she feels recharged. She finds that energy and balance within herself to be a better mother a better wife and to be the center and the warmth of the home. And sometimes it’s only a question of 15 or 30 minutes of person time. It’s really not a lot of time to feel recharged.
How you can summarize who is a healthy and happy mother?
A healthy and happy mother is a mother who feels fulfilled and satisfied in her role as a mother but also finds satisfaction and ability to express her creativity in other areas of her life.
Ask dr. Hedayat!
We often hear questions about Dr. Hedayat’s Endobiogenic consultations, treatments and lifestyle modifications. We wanted to share some commonly asked questions so everyone has the opportunity to engage and understand Dr. Hedayat’s practices.
Why can’t the Doctor use recent blood work that I just had done for my first consultation?
As I mentioned in the last post, the jewel in the crown of Endobiogeny is the Biology of Functions. It is a specially constructed group of formulas that reveal hidden relationships in your body. The numbers that go into the formulas are your blood work. While this amazing system uses common blood tests, it’s special nature needs specialized blood tests. At this time, most doctors do not routinely order these specialized tests. If you show up with your old labs, I can only analyze 30 results out of a total of 400. The other issue is that the blood work is a snapshot of how your body is functioning. Bringing old labs is like showing your middle school class photo for a job interview! Why settle for less?
Ask dr. Hedayat!
We often hear questions about Dr. Hedayat’s Endobiogenic consultations, treatments and lifestyle modifications. We wanted to share some commonly asked questions so everyone has the opportunity to engage and understand Dr. Hedayat’s practices.
“Why does the first consultation need to be 2 hours? I am in financial distress but am having no luck with western medicine and was referred to Dr. Hedayat.”
If you weren’t healed with a 15-minute evaluation of your 15 years of disease, you need to try something different. The Endobiogeny experience at Full Spectrum Health is that something different. The Endobiogeny approach involves three levels of evaluation: your health history, a physical exam (when we are in person) and blood analysis.
The history helps me know WHO you are and HOW you came to have the health issues you have. As the great Greek physician Hippocrates says, “It’s more important to know the person who has the disease than the disease a person has.” The history is a time for you to unfold the story of your health, not just your health history. It’s very important to understand this. The more you share, the more personalized and precise and simpler your treatment will be.
The second level of analysis is the physical exam. The physical exam reveals a lot of information about how you react to stress, how you think, your state of digestion, detoxification, hormones and more.
Finally, special a blood work analysis is done using a program called the Biology of Functions. The Biology of functions is the crown jewel of Endobiogeny and offers a technical and objective look into how your body and mind function.
The end of the two hour consultation is the analysis—when I put it all together to come up with a deep understanding of who you are, why you suffer from what you suffer from and how to move forward with healing. So, you see, there is a lot to do in those 2 hours! To take less time than that – is a disservice to your humanity.
Ask dr. Hedayat!
We often hear questions about Dr. Hedayat’s Endobiogenic consultations, treatments and lifestyle modifications. We wanted to share some commonly asked questions so everyone has the opportunity to engage and understand Dr. Hedayat’s practices.
“Does the Doctor only see patients who are very sick? Or will he take on a patient who just wants to live a healthy lifestyle?”
My favorite people to work with are people! I see all types of people for various reasons. Here are a few of the more common reasons:
- Children and adults with chronic health problems
- Maintaining optimal health
- Preventing diseases that run in the family like dementia, cancer and heart disease
- Support for special phases of life: adolescent depression, complicated pregnancies, menopause, and more particular episodes of life – pregnancy, nursing, stressful periods (wedding, separation, loss, stress at work, big changes in life, etc.)
- Children and even in their pre-natal stage to maintain healthy growth and development. I love bringing out the best parts of a child’s personality and giving advice on optimal parenting based on your child’s needs based on their personality
It is a well-known that PREVENTION is the best cure. Let’s get started on your healing journey together, no matter where you are right now.
Personalized Care – The Future Of Medicine
Have you heard this phrase, “personalized medicine?” Everything is better when it’s personalized, right? The question to ask is not whether this customization is good or not (it is), but who exactly the customer is.
The conventional medical model states that you are a collection of cells containing DNA, and that this DNA determines your biologic fate. Thus, control the DNA and your control a person’s health. So, the customer, the “person” in the personalization is your DNA, not you as a person with feelings, thoughts, experiences, and memories interacting with an environment altered by your food, water, air, changes of seasons, stage of life, etc.
Genetic determinism is appealing to some physicians because it seems to hold the promise of the ultimate cure. If you can attribute a disease to a single gene, you can create a highly targeted treatment using gene therapy. Unfortunately gene therapy has had very limited success after decades of trials and billions of dollars in research, and even some tragic deaths and disabilities of test subjects, some of whom were children.
Insurance companies are pushing for pharmaceutical companies to use genetic tests to figure out which drugs are likely to work for a patient. This is really more about saving the insurance company money for expensive drugs, but it’s a good start.
Entrepreneurs like the idea of genetic determinism because they can sell gene kits to anxious medical consumers. While they have profited handsomely from these pseudo-science endeavors, our health has not profited from these tests.
In her 2010 article in Newsweek, science writer Sharon Begley observed, “An estimated two thirds of the early studies linking an aberrant form of a gene to a particular disease turned out to be mistaken.” Back to the Genetic Future, Newsweek, 11/14/2010
According to Begley, family history of disease is a better predictor of disease than genetic tests with respect to diabetes and heart disease. Most of the studies linking a single gene to a single disease did not pan out in predicting actual disease risk. (For example, these studies and this large international study investigating heart disease and genetics.
Endobiogeny is a theory of terrain, the ecosystem of the body. The terrain in endobiogeny is based on your genetic heritage. But what we are interested in is how your genes are being expressed by your hormones due to the demands of your internal and external environment. Genes matter, but so do hormones, lifestyle, thoughts and emotions. Personalized medicine MUST be focused on the person.
Think about it. Little boys don’t grow mustaches or get prostate cancer—because the genes related to these activities are not “turned on” in childhood.
Here’s another consideration: people whose heritage is from one country, say India, but grow up in the US have increased rates of certain cancers and decreased rates of other cancers based on whether or not they live in India or the US. Why is that? It’s speculated that in part, the change in climate, food and lifestyle changes the pattern of genes expressed to reveal new risks for diseases (or reduced risk) that were hidden in prior generations.
In the endobiogenic approach to medicine, it is not unusual to spend one hour or longer on your medical history—including family history. The timeline of your disease(s) is a better indicator of how certain genes were turned on or off, intensified or dampened. This detailed personalized history reveals crucial information about your biologic individuality, which cannot be obtained with laboratory testing, imaging studies or genetic analysis. It’s important to understand the person who has the disease and not the disease that has the person, as Sir William Osler said.
What’s so important about genetics and why should we care? The subject of my next blog…
Body as Ecosystem – The Key To Health And Wellness
In the previous blog post about Endobiogeny, I mentioned that the body is a system. This is not just a philosophical point or a warm fuzzy notion. It is the basis of how everything works in the universe, from the cell to the economy, from bees to transnational organizations.
Systems medicine is the basis of how in endobiogeny, we create a framework of understanding of how and why diseases come about and health can be restored. It’s the basis of the amazing blood analysis system the biology of functions (get a general overview here, healthcare providers here, or read the details here). Let’s take a closer look at this concept.
Consider an ecosystem such as a forest. This forest is like a person. It is composed of many trees, as a person is composed of many organs. Each tree is composed of many branches, which are like layers of tissue that make an organ. On each branch are many leaves, which are like cells that make up a tissue. Each leaf on each branch on each tree in this forest lives for itself, but what it does affects the tree. Similarly, every cell lives for itself, but it also lives for the whole person. Our body, like the forest, constantly strives for that perfect balance between the needs of an individual cell and the needs of the whole body. This state of balance is what we call “wellness.” What happens to the tree (the organ) affects every leaf (the cell), its neighboring trees (other organs) and eventually the forest (the whole body). The opposite is also true, what affects the forest affects the leaf. All are interconnected and interdependent.
So, where should we start to treat? At the level of the cell? The organ? The whole person?
Modern medicine is moving down to the level of the cell (the leaf). Powerful drugs have been developed mainly to block receptors (beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, acid-blockers, etc.). Powerful drugs have powerful side effects and often higher and higher doses are needed to maintain the original effect of the drug. Can you heal a broken heart with a blood pressure medication?
Holistic medicine is moving up to the level of whole body and mind-body interactions (the forest). This is an exciting area of treatment, but it doesn’t address the specific issues of physiologic balance that are real and need to be treated. Can you dissolve a clot in 5 seconds with energy medicine?
Endobiogeny spans the entire ecosystem, from cell (leaf) to whole person (forest)—because you cannot separate one from the other. There is a time and place for every type of intervention. But isn’t it better to be able to help the body balance itself at every level of function without aggression or force?
To understand your disease (or your dis-ease), I seek to understand YOU, a unique person with a unique ecosystem. The endobiogenist approaches your life circumstances, from pregnancy and birth to traumas to travel to understand how the trajectory of your life path has been altered, for better or worse, and how it has affected you physiologically, mentally and emotionally. Studies have shown that adverse childhood events are the single best predictor of lifetime risk of both physical health and mental health issues.
Do you want to partner with a doctor who knows YOU and your dis-ease? Endobiogeny is a truly personalized form of medicine and promises to be the future of medicine…the subject of my next blog.
Endobiogeny – A new approach to medicine
Modern medicine is at a crossroads: medicine without humanity, or “natural” medicine without scientific rigor. Yet there is, if we open our minds, a third way: a fusion of medicine—with its scientific precision and brilliance—with a humanistic approach—with its compassion and wisdom—that puts the care back into healthcare. This approach is called Endobiogeny. (read more here; healthcare providers, read more here)
Endobiogeny is an approach to medicine that seeks the key factors of health and the root causes of disease for each individual based on their unique genetic heritage and life circumstances, referred to as the “terrain”.
Endobiogeny starts with a theory of how the body works and why it works the way that it does. Every cell, tissue, organ, and the whole person are connected to each other to form a dynamic system. This system, constantly changing, constantly seeking perfect balance, is managed by your hormones (read more here). This manager ensures that the amazing collection of cells we call a human being thrives and grows and becomes the unique miracle that each of us is. Nearly every aspect of health and illness involves a hormonal imbalance that starts, influences or maintains it. So, understanding hormones opens ups a lot of understanding into the human condition, from mental to physical health, from digestion to cancer.
Each part of the body affects the whole and the whole affects the parts. That is why in endobiogeny, we find that it’s so important to evaluate every level of a person’s experience, from cell to body, from mind to emotions. (read more in my next blog here)
Finding the root: There are three levels of knowing in Endobiogeny, all in service of getting to know YOU and your story. This is what allows endobiogeny to be such a healing experience:
- A detailed history, from conception to your present state
- A detailed physical, that looks for clues about hormonal, digestive, mental and emotional imbalances on every inch of your body
- A unique method of lab analysis called the Biology of Functions (get a general overview here, healthcare providers here, or read the details here)
Treating the problem: Once we find the root cause of imbalance, it’s time to treat (Read a case analysis of polycystic ovarian disease here). In this case, there are 3 levels of care:
- Treatments: natural plant medicines are preferred because of their unique ability to work dynamically and intelligently with the body; however, all treatments are “on the table” for consideration, from drugs to surgery, from hyperbaric oxygen to osteopathic manipulations to acupuncture. The number one goal is to keep you safe and healthy.
- 2. Diet, Drainage and Detoxification: The stomach is the storehouse of health. Nutrition and the science of metabolism: what we eat and how it is digested and processed plays a key role in health.
- 3. Lifestyle: Body-mind interventions, counseling, and lifestyle changes may be recommended to address the deeper impact of illness.
The hallmark of wisdom is simplicity. How many pills do you take a day? More than three? How many supplements? More than six? Are you eating real food or do you have to buy your food a weekly subscription?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, your treatment is not simple. Ask yourself, “Is my current health plan wise? If not, I suggest you consider a wiser and simpler approach, such as that offered by the Endobiogeny.
Welcome to our new site
We have just launched our new website that will provide you with information about health, the treatment of disease and Endobiogeny.
In the blog, we’ll be using this space to provide tips, tools and information about what we do, and our treatment of the conditions that impact your lives.
We hope that you find it useful, engaging and informative.