71. What Your Hormones Are Trying to Tell You: Biomarkers, Hormone Therapy, and Peptides With Katy Whalen

In this episode, Sam sits down with Katy Whalen, co-founder of Joi + Blokes, to understand which of your symptoms might be related to hormonal imbalances or deficiencies...and, more importantly, what to do about it. They discuss how to advocate for yourself at the doctor's office, what low progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone feel like, what NAD+ actually is, and the very first step she'd take to feel GOOD if she could go back and do it all over again.

Listen to this episode if you just feel kind of...off.

Key moments:

02:01 Katy’s personal health journey

02:39 How they knew something was wrong

05:34 How traditional medicine proposed to resolve her symptoms

08:49 How to advocate for yourself at the doctor’s office

13:03 Thyroid, testosterone, and peptides

16:11 Which biomarkers to keep an eye on (and what’s “normal” vs. “optimal”)

18:14 How deficiencies are treated

19:28 What is hormone therapy and how is it administered?

21:32 What low progesterone feels like