Episode 193: Why My Doctor Won't Prescribe Hormones with Ricky Brandon

Do you want your doctor to prescribe hormones? Why you don’t want your doctor to prescribe your hormones is a bigger question? You need a specialist to prescribe hormones. Someone who will optimize your hormones for you as an individual. Ricky Brandon from Hormone Balance Centers share his experience about hormones therapy and why it’s important to optimize them not minimize them. 

Do not miss these highlights:

05:15 Ricky’s experience with a midwife who had double the experience of the doctor.

12:14 How Ricky and his wife cope with her postpartum depression.

14:09 How Dr. Jones helped Ricky’s wife recover.

18:09 How having low testosterone affected Ricky’s life

19:37 Ricky’s mission of creating a clinic,  an environment where they attracted doctors who want to make a difference

21:22 Insurance is a business, it’s limiting people’s belief of what’s possible.

28:48 It is unfortunate how doctors get hung up on this protocol insurance – Our healthcare system is a business.

33:27 The Hippocratic Oath

37:37 Natural hormone versus synthetic or bioidentical hormone.

39:30 Hormones control other hormones in the body. Right hormone balance will extend your life and the quality of your life .

50:13 Calling them patients versus calling them a client.

51:33 Why women need testosterone.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care  by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

Ricky Brandon is a health and wellness advocate. He and his wife Candy started Hormone Balance Centers because they could not find the high level of care they desired for their own family. After years of searching, thousands of hours in training, research, and trial, and error, he has finally landed on the process and system that mixes traditional medicine with alternative medicine and helps people feel great again and live younger and longer with natural hormone replacement therapy.

Website: https://www.hormonebalancecenters.com

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/Hormone-Balance-Centers-103144779026810

Transcript of Episode 193

Debra Muth 0:02
Welcome to Let’s Talk Wellness. Now, I’m your host, Dr. Deb. This is where we talk about everything wellness, and learn to defy aging, and live our lives on our own terms. Welcome back to Let’s Talk wellness. Now, I’m your host, Dr. Deb and I have with me today, Ricky Brandon. Ricky is a Health and Wellness Advocate. He and his wife, Cindy started hormone balance centers because they could not find the level of care they desired for their own family. And after years of searching 1000s of hours in training, research, trial and error, he has finally landed on a process and a system that mixes traditional medicine with alternative medicine, and helps people feel great again and live longer with natural hormone therapy. So I want to talk to Ricky today because you guys know that I am an advocate for bio identical hormones. And I have been for a very, very long time. I’ve been in this industry 25 years, I’ve used and prescribed bioidentical hormones for that entire time. My love started out in fertility work. And so understanding hormones has been such a gift for me. And helping women look and feel their best has made such a huge difference in my life and the lives of so many people that I work with. And I’m so blessed to have this background and this knowledge. So being able to talk to Ricky today about what they’ve found in the bio identical hormone world. And coming from an advocate perspective, I think is amazing. Because, you know, this is the biggest thing is we have to learn to advocate for ourselves for our own health and well being. And for all of the things that we want in our lives and all of the things that we want our life to be, whether it’s health, whether it’s work life balance, whether it’s finances, whatever that is, that’s where we want that to be. So I’m going to bring Ricky on we’re going to have this conversation without any further ado, let’s get started chatting with him. Have you seen 20 Plus medical doctors only to be told your symptoms are in your head, or you need an antidepressant? We understand your frustrations? Are you tired of feeling sick and tired? Tired of not getting the answers you need to regain your health, tired of not feeling listened to by your doctor at Serenity Health Care Center, we understand and we will help you find the cause of your symptoms. Together we will create a path to health. We specialize in combining the best of conventional and natural medicine to get you back to doing what you love. We have worked with the most complex chronic diseases such as chronic Lyme COVID, long haulers, autoimmune disease, mold, toxicity, and hormonal imbalances. But if you’re not sick, that’s fantastic. We will work with you to maintain your health so that you can prevent illness. give our office a call to see how we can help you regain your health and vitality at 262-522-8640. Or check us out at our website at Serenity health care. center.com. Welcome back to Let’s Talk wellness. Now I’m so glad to have my guest here with me today. And as you guys know, we talked briefly before we brought him on. We’re going to talk all things hormones, which is one of my favorite topics. So welcome to the show.

Ricky Brandon 3:57
Awesome. I’m so excited to be here. And I can’t wait. I can’t wait to have this conversation with you because I love it.

Debra Muth 4:03
I do too. I love it. And I love what you guys are doing and what your mission stands for and why you’re doing the things that you’re doing. So, Ricky, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started and your journey.

Ricky Brandon 4:19
Yeah, so by by trade actually long time ago, I’ll call it my past life, not a literal past life. But the other life I lived I was in the entertainment industry. And I worked for magicians in Las Vegas and it was exciting and all of that. And then I met my wife and we got married and we had our first kid. And while we were having our first kid his name’s Carter, he’s now 16 We we were on the fence of what to do right I kind of dabbled in hormone on not hormones but in natural medicine and herbs and I had lots of friends in the herbal and industry. And, and I had heard that midwives give great care, this is a little different story than the one you’ve read, I’m giving you a little more because I feel prompted to. So I’m gonna do that so. And so we’re about to have our first kid and my wife was worried because she had had back surgery in a snowboarding accident. And she was, she was told that when she had back surgery that she would never carry a child fault, or that she would be on bed rest and all of this stuff. She was also told that her back would have to be fused within five years. And it never was, she just, she just did everything she was supposed to do and took good care of herself. And she never had to have a fuse. Now it’s been 20 something years since then. And she’s still going strong. And we’ve had four kids. But this this first story, right? We’re going to the doctor, the regular doctor, and I’m not anti doctor, so please, nobody get that idea. As I tell these stories doctors save lives. And they’ve saved one of my child’s lives. And so, but we’re going to I heard you get great prenatal care from a midwife. So our plan was go to the midwife for prenatal care, and deliver in the hospital with a doctor, because my wife was scared to have her first baby because of her back. And as we’re going along, I am asking questions, right? Both of us are asking questions. And we go to the doctor, we ask a question. And he would say something like that. Don’t worry about it. That’s my job. And we go away with all this doubt and anxiety, right? Then we’d go to the midwife a couple days later, and I’d ask the same question. And she would take 40 minutes, and teach us. And all of a sudden, our anxiety and fear would go away. Yeah. And the longer we went on, I’m like, Man, the doctor just kind of dismisses us. And the midwife empowers us. And as we got closer, I said to my wife, you know, we asked the midwife Do you think? Do you think she could deliver her baby at home? Do you think we could do that? And she says, Well, yeah. And what about her back? She goes, No problem. And then then we asked how many babies she had delivered. And we asked the doctor, how many babies he had delivered. And the midwife had like, double, double the experience of the doctor. Wow. And then we’re talking to her and she goes, she says that it was awesome. She goes, Look, kids, and she has an older lady, she goes, Look, kids, I, if I lose a baby, I don’t work anymore. If the doctor loses a baby, he has a an insurance claim. And maybe some discomfort going to court or something like that. She goes, I care about you. I’m not anti Doctor, I’m going to be the first one to call a doctor, if we’re in trouble. She goes, but if everything’s going fine, your body was made to deliver babies. And she taught me all of this stuff about about why doctors induce and about how they, what the what the water sack does and why it’s there. And, and all of this stuff. So I found myself the reason the entertainment part is important. All these girls, the showgirls who I worked around, some of them were having their first