Recently, I interviewed Dr. Sharon Stills, who has spent over two decades helping women move through perimenopause and menopause with clarity and confidence. We talk about why so many women are misled into avoiding estrogen, why it’s never “too late” to find balance, and how adrenal and thyroid health fit into the bigger hormonal picture. If you would prefer to listen to the interview you can access it by Clicking Here [1].
Dr. Eric Osansky:
I am super excited to chat with Dr. Sharon Stills. We are going to be talking about menopause, hormones. Really excited to have this conversation.
Let me dive into her impressive bio here. Dr. Sharon Stills is a licensed naturopathic medical doctor and graduate of the Sonoran University. She has spent over two decades transforming women’s health with a special focus on guiding women through perimenopause and menopause.
Creator of the Pioneering Red Hot Sexy Menopause program and host of the annual Mastering Your Menopause Transition Summit, she combines her expertise in European biological medicine, pro-aging therapies, and bioidentical hormone replacement to help women rediscover vitality with natural methods.
A respected voice in her field, Dr. Stills has lectured internationally at the Paracelsus Academy; contributed to Women’s Health Network; and served on the boards of the Bioregulatory Medicine Institute and UCLA’s Archive of Healing.
In 2025, she is on the verge of opening the Lasting Wellness Center in Scottsdale, AZ alongside her son, Dr. Ben Stills, offering advanced diagnostic and therapeutic care for chronic illness and women’s health. Welcome, Dr. Sharon.
Dr. Sharon Stills:
Very nice to be here.
Dr. Eric:
Very excited to have this conversation. How long have you been focusing on menopause and perimenopause? What led you down this path? I guess your own experience, but I’ll let you dive deeper into your background.
Dr. Sharon:
Actually, it wasn’t my own experience surprisingly enough. I went to naturopathic medical school to be a pediatrician. I wasn’t interested in women’s health and hormones. This is back in the late’ 90s. There wasn’t a lot of education we had on women’s health and hormones in naturopathic medical school, which seems surprising. Or maybe it was that I wasn’t focusing on that. I was focusing on pediatrics.
When I opened up my clinic after I graduated, an interesting thing happened. A patient diagnosed with pancreatic stage IV cancer came to my clinic. Then a woman who had just read Suzanne Somers’ book on taking bioidentical hormones while she has breast cancer came to my clinic. These two patients totally changed the course of my practice, my career, my specialties.
One of my professors said, “Just wake up in the morning, and tell the universe to send you what you can handle, how you can help, and where you can be of service.” I guess the universe had other ideas for me although I still do some pediatrics because who doesn’t love kids?
This woman who came with Suzanne Somers’ book was like, “I want what she is having. I want these hormones.” I was taken aback because I didn’t realize Suzanne Somers was dabbling in alternative medicine. I just knew her as the actress who played the ditsy blonde in Three’s Company. That’s interesting. I love when people don’t like to stay in their lanes. She was into it. I have an open mind. I decided to read the book. I was like, “Oh wow, actually, she is not so ditsy in real life, and this makes a lot of sense to me, what she’s saying and what she’s doing.”
At the time, she was working with Dr. Jonathan Wright, who ended up becoming my mentor and who I studied with and learned hormones from. He is the grandfather of bioidentical hormone replacement in the United States. He wrote the first script for Bi-Est. Everyone who uses Bi-Est is 80/20. That’s because of him. A lot of people don’t know who he is nowadays; they don’t give him credit. They don’t know the beginnings of where this all came from and what he saw and how he came up with 80/20, which is the ratio of estriol to estradiol in a Bi-Est cream.
I started treating her with these hormones. This is all good, but I can make it better because I am a naturopathic physician and have training in European biological medicine. I know the body is a whole terrain, and these hormones need to be in a healthy, happy body. “Sure, I’ll do this for you, as long as we also do your lymph system.”
The microbiome wasn’t popular back then, but it was in my world because in Europe, we knew all about the microbiome and were talking about it way before it was being talked about here in the States.
I treated her. Her husband sent me flowers. He was super happy that he had his wife back. Thus begun the Dr. Stills husband fan club.
I looked at myself and thought, Well, one should tell people. She told people. The next thing I knew, I had a lot of menopausal women in my practice wanting hormones. I was at the time in my early 30s. Menopause was not something I was thinking about, but I had extreme hormone dysfunction. I had the worst premenstrual- Some women get PMS two days before their period. They get a headache, bloating, breast tenderness. I am not downplaying that. Although that is common, it is certainly not normal.
I literally had PMS 2.5 weeks every month. I would get my period. I would bleed and feel like garbage. I would finish my period. I would have five or six days or maybe a week where I felt like a normal human being. Then my PMS would kick in, and I would spend the rest of the month suffering. So bloated. People would ask me when my baby was due. Cravings, breast tenderness, headaches. You name it, I had it.
Here I was suffering. I am helping all these women who are decades older than me. I’m watching them; they’re aging backwards and feeling amazing. They’re having a good time, and I’m thinking, I need to do something for myself because I can’t in good conscience sit here with horrible hormones and not be practicing what I preach.
I tweaked what I was doing for them to a cycling woman. I didn’t need the exact same hormones, but I needed lymph support and liver support and gut support and blood sugar support and all the support. I needed progesterone, DHEA, and so forth.
I balanced my hormones and got rid of my horrific PMS, which was like, bye, it’s nice to see you go. So much so that when I went into menopause myself, I was 48 when I was done. I was a little on the earlier side, but it’s an average.
I never even had a hot flash. I never had any symptoms of menopause because I had what I call pregamed and balanced my hormones a couple of decades prior in my early 30s. I have always loved menopause. It’s been this beautiful time for me.
When did I start? I started a very long time ago doing this. I have close to 25 years now of experience because I really started doing this right out the gate.
Dr. Eric:
All right, that’s awesome. Love what you said about it’s not just you have been taking the bioidentical hormones for a long time, but also supporting the liver, the lymphatics, the gut. You look at the whole body, not just recommending hormones to everybody without addressing root causes.
Dr. Sharon:
I actually termed it on the hormones first. I am hormone-forward. A lot of times, I do in my practice get the hormones handled. I know there is a lot of people who are clean the mold, get rid of the parasites, fix the gut. I find if you don’t have your hormones balanced, you just suffer a lot longer, and it’s harder. Our hormones are integrally involved in-
I remember when I first learned about hormones. Even as a doctor, before I started diving into this, women have hormones, so they can get a period and get pregnant and have a baby. They can have hot flashes when they go through menopause. I never really stopped to think, wow, the hormones are helping regulate the nervous system, the immune system, tight junctions in the gut; they’re supporting bone health, brain health, the cardiovascular system and arterial health. They’re involved in detox and everything.
The way I work in my office is women, men come in with a laundry list of things that they’re complaining about. If they’re in this perimenopausal/menopausal/postmenopausal range, let’s handle your hormones, and let’s see what’s left. A lot of times, the long laundry list is-
As humans, I like to blame and complain. It’s in my heritage. We complain, but then when we feel good, we forget. A patient will come in, and I’ll give them hormones according to what their testing showed. I’ll follow up with them in four weeks because after four weeks, I find there is big change. “How are you doing? “I’m okay.” “Let’s go through. Is your joint pain still there?” “Gosh, no, I forgot. I don’t have any joint pain anymore. My headaches are gone. I’m sleeping well. I have more energy.”
I find in this stage of life, hormones can really handle a lot. I’d rather balance the hormones than play whack-a-mole on seven different things. Once we get the hormones balanced, then we can see what is still left.
I do see joint pain reverse a lot because someone needed estrogen or testosterone or DHEA or cortisol or thyroid. You can also have joint pain because you have bad body mechanics, or you’re eating foods you shouldn’t be eating, or you’re deficient in a nutrient. There are lots of reasons. I’d rather just figure out what are the hormones affecting? Then we can go look.
Yes, I am testing everyone for their microbiome. I am doing extensive viral testing, extensive bloodwork, extensive gut testing. I am looking at everything. They probably taught you this, too. You need to get your patients to feel better, or they’re not coming back. You get a few chances/weeks. As a society, we are not very patient people. We want quick action. Hormones are very lovely.
I always say there is no magic bullet to health. I have said that for years. As I started working more and more with hormones, if there was a magic bullet, it could very well be the symphony of properly prescribed hormones. They can really make a huge difference in someone’s life: the way they feel, the way they age, the way they prevent or ward off chronic disease.
Another thing they taught us in medical school: If someone comes in with an autoimmune disease, let’s say, and they have been sick for 10 years, you have that conversation the first appointment. “You have been sick for 10 years, so I won’t get you better in a week. You need to give me some time to reverse.”
With hormones, I have women who come to me in their 80s who have been misled and been told, “Hormones cause cancer. You can’t have them. It’s too late.” All this ridiculousness that floats around out there. They have been suffering for decades.
I finally give them hormones, and often, it’s overnight. We get a phone call the next day. It’s certainly within that two, three, four-week period. I am not saying everything is perfect. We have moved the needle significantly to where they feel like they have their life back again.
Dr. Eric:
That’s awesome. I definitely want to focus more on some of these myths and misconceptions when it comes to hormones. One you just mentioned is you hit menopause five years or seven years, and after that, you’re not going to benefit anymore from hormones. You just mentioned if an 80-year-old woman walks into your practice, you won’t say, “Hey, you’re past the window. I can’t help you with hormones.” You find that’s not true, obviously, if you are recommending hormones still.
Dr. Sharon:
I have women travel to me from literally all over the globe. Part of it is sad that they have to. I just had someone do a second opinion consult the other day who will fly in to see me. She has a laundry list of things bothering her. All these typical hormone things. She was told she can’t take hormones because 20 years ago, she had ovarian cancer.
Women are withheld hormones for that reason, because they’re too old, which is not true. They come to me because I’m like, “That’s not true.” So many doctors are just not taking the time to get properly educated.
I had a patient before you who just went to see her pulmonologist. The pulmonologist started screaming at her for being on hormones, saying, “What do you need hormones for? You’re 68 years old.” Ridiculing her. She was so upset. The pulmonologist should really check PubMed and look at the data and see what the data actually says, or stay in her own lane.
This happens everywhere. Gynecologists’ offices, primary care, oncologists. People are misled about hormones. When I say “people,” it’s mainly women. They suffer. It’s never too late.
Is it optimal to start supporting your hormone decline when it’s happening? Yeah, definitely. You’re losing bone, volume in your brain, immune function, all these things that I say over and over again. If we can catch it right away, yeah, it’s better.
But if we have to wait 10 years for whatever reason, it’s still going to help. We can still slow down the aging process. We can still start to reverse things that have happened. It’s never too late.
I do hot yoga and Bikram says, “It’s never too late.” You could be 90 years old and come to the hot yoga room and start to repair and regenerate your body. It is never too late.
I have RED. R stands for Reinvent your health. It’s never too late to do that. Obviously, I should know this by now because I quote it, but what is it, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cheer? Obviously, it’s better to prevent or treat earlier.
I’m a really good example. I started balancing my hormones and paying attention in my early 30s. I never had a hot flash. Most women have had hot flashes. A lot of women have had hot flashes ruin their life, ruin their sleep. That’s because I prevented it. I am very fortunate. This is what I do for a living.
It’s never too late. To anyone who is listening, if you’re suffering, you do not need to suffer.
Dr. Eric:
Going back to perimenopause. True or false: When you’re in perimenopause, you’re not supposed to take estrogen.
Dr. Sharon:
True and false, it depends on who you are. As a naturopathic physician, I am very individualized, which often makes a lot more work for me but better outcomes for my patients. I don’t have protocols. I don’t have plans.
We have been talking about this. We are opening up this huge clinic. My son and I were like, “We should sit down and make the detox plan.” After 15 minutes, we looked at each other and said, “We can’t do this. Different people need different things. They have different constitutions.”
If I was treating 17 people who have scleroderma, they all have different treatment plans. Sure, there might be some overlap. They might be using DMSO or MSN or whatever. They’re different. You have an autoimmune disease for a different reason than every other person. There are emotional components, toxic components, nutritional components, etc.
When it comes to menopause, perimenopause, it is not a disease. It is a transition. It is a natural thing. When women are postmenopausal, it’s more like, “Yeah, they all need estrogen.” There are always little unicorns, which is why we test.
I had a woman the other day who was still making testosterone. She was in her early 70s. “Go, you!” She eats a healthy diet. She exercises. That’s few and far between.
In perimenopause, your hormones are at Disneyland riding the rollercoaster. Some women need estrogen. Some women don’t. My experience is that women either lose their estrogen or progesterone, and they produce testosterone longer. Or they lose their testosterone first and produce progesterone and estrogen. That’s what I see from looking at thousands of tests all day long.
Dr. Eric:
I brought that up because someone on the podcast said that perimenopausal women shouldn’t take estrogen because of those peaks and valleys. They might be in a valley, but then if they’re on estrogen and reach that peak, they might be in an estrogen dominant state.
Dr. Sharon:
Estrogen dominance is so played out. You can be estrogen dominant because you don’t have enough progesterone. I tell women all the time, “You need estrogen. You’re also estrogen dominant.” It’s a relative thing. You can be estrogen dominant in response to your progesterone. Yes, you can be estrogen dominant because you’re not clearing your estrogen or because you’re getting xenoestrogens, which are exogenous from the outside. There is a lot of toxicity. There is a lot of estrogen-like plastics and fertilizers, etc.
You have to understand your body. I have some women in perimenopause who take estrogen one week of the month because that’s when they need it. Some women need it all month long. Some women need a little bit. Some women just need estriol. You can never make a blanket statement like that because then you are not paying attention to your patients.
Dr. Eric:
Makes sense. It’s great to get different perspectives.
Dr. Sharon:
I get very heated about this.
Dr. Eric:
That’s okay. I have another true/false question. I think I know the answer because I have done my research and listened to you on other podcasts in preparation. Still, I like to ask in case other people haven’t heard. True/false: You need healthy adrenals in order to have healthy sex hormones.
Dr. Sharon:
Everyone says you don’t need to take hormones because when you go through perimenopause, your adrenals will take over. Why take hormones because your adrenals will do the job?
Now, your adrenals are probably not going to be healthy by the time you go through perimenopause. You are alive on the earth, and you tell me someone who doesn’t have stress or someone who doesn’t know how to deal with their stress.
Yes, there is a few urban monks out there, living among us. For the most part, by the time we get to menopause, perimenopause, our adrenals are SOS, help me, help me. There is a big misconception that everyone has high cortisol, and high cortisol is ruining your life.
I test cortisol. I test it in the 24 urine. I test it in saliva. I test it all the time. In this age range, most women and men have low cortisol. They don’t have a rhythm. They don’t have a cortisol awakening response. They’re high at night when they should be low. They’re in the basement all day long. Maybe they get their second wind.
Do you need to have healthy adrenals? Yeah, always paying close attention to the adrenals. The adrenals are important for inflammation, sleep/wake cycle, mood regulation, gut regulation, immune regulation. They play a role. To me, they’re important hormones, but they’re side by side.
There are unicorns. Ther are some women whose adrenals are surprisingly okay. You still have to look at their mitochondria, neurotransmitters, and other things.
What I say most often, in the 90th percentile of everyone I look at, is their adrenals need support. They might need to be toned down at night. The morning, the noon levels are super low. It’s like when you’re post-menopausal, the adrenals, even if they’re perfect, won’t put out what the ovaries are putting out. Even if you have good functioning adrenals, maybe you will get to a postmenopausal state of hormone production. That is not going to give you symptom relief, and that is not going to give you the protection and prevention. To me, both of them are equally important. Obviously, I don’t want anyone suffering. You shouldn’t have to deal with symptoms.
The other part of protection and prevention against cancer and dementia and Alzheimer’s and autoimmunity and osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease, the biggest killer of women. Hormones are the biggest thing you can do to hedge your bet to ward off chronic illness. It’s not like fix your adrenals and forget about your hormones. To me, we’re doing both.
Dr. Eric:
You can look at it from this perspective, too. If a woman is postmenopausal, so they have really low estrogen levels and are experiencing those hot flashes and night sweats. That itself is very stressful. It would be very difficult to say to that woman, “Just focus on managing stress and optimizing your adrenals” when those symptoms are causing a lot of stress by themselves.
Dr. Sharon:
Exactly. When we have hot flashes, that is our brain saying, “There is low estrogen.” There are women who say, “I just have a real good mindset, so I don’t care about my hot flashes. I just say they’re power surges, and I’m a wise woman now.” You could be a wise woman without hot flashes. Symptoms are signs from your body, “Hello? There is something going on here. I need you to pay attention.” That’s why we have symptoms. It’s our body’s way of talking to us.
There are a lot of things you can eat your way out of, you can move your body out of, you can sleep your way out of, you can meditate your way out of to improve your health. When it comes to your hormone tank being empty, you can’t do it. You have to fill the tank with hormones. All those other things, they might nudge you a little. I see this. I have a lot of clinical experience. I have been doing this for 25 years.
There is that other myth, “I am going to have a natural menopause, so I won’t take hormones. But I will take Vitamin E and flaxseed and maca and black cohosh.” We have decided herbs are okay, but bioidentical hormones are not, even though that is the root cause, and that’s what we’re missing. We are not deficient in maca. We are deficient in estrogen, progesterone, DHEA, pregnenolone, or whatever.
I see a lot of these women. Maybe they’re feeling a little better. Then they come see me, and I put them on hormones. I hear the same thing all the time. “I wasted five years of my life. I feel so good now. I was suffering. I don’t know why I did that.” Sometimes, we get in our own way. We get on our little soapboxes.
I’m super natural. I practice what I preach. I really walk my walk. I have to. I was very sick as a kid. If I don’t live what I preach, I wouldn’t be doing the things I’d be doing. I’d be lying on the couch.
We talk a lot about root cause medicine. The root cause of menopause is hormones. I always kid around that the ovaries are like, “That looks nice. We are going to hang a hammock and walk to the beach. We’re retiring. See ya. We’re done.” That is the root cause. The ovaries are not putting out your hormones anymore. We didn’t used to live more than half our lives postmenopausal. It wasn’t that big a deal for our ancestors. We can live.
I plan to live until 130. We are biochemically designed to live to 120, I think. Maybe it’s upped a little. I added on 10 years when I started doing ProLon and fasting and inducing autophagy. I get another 10 years for this.
If you look at women who are on hormones and are in their 80s, versus if you look at women who aren’t, it’s drastic. Women who aren’t on hormones are old. Women who are on hormones are going on motorcycle rides or going sailing. They’re living life. They’re sharp; they’re strong. They’re having sex. They’re sleeping. They’re excited. They’re passionate. We really need to change the whole conversation, the whole psyche of society of what it means to age.
Dr. Eric:
A lot of what you said makes sense. I think some of it also is fear. Some of it is certainly, “I want to do everything naturally and don’t want to take hormones.” But then there is also another myth that taking progesterone is safe, but taking estrogen increases the risk of cancer.
Dr. Sharon:
That’s not true.
Dr. Eric:
Especially bioidentical estrogen. If you’re dosing properly. Again, you’re the expert. Let’s talk about that. That is a fear of a lot of people. “I don’t want to take estrogen because it can cause cancer.”
Dr. Sharon:
In the early 2000s, which is the study that freaked everyone out and ripped hormones away from these generations of women who were on hormones because they said it increased your risk of cancer. It was a really poorly designed study. It was even worse poorly interpreted. It’s now been debunked.
Even from that study, the women in the estrogen-only arm had less breast cancer. They were taking synthetic estrogen, which I would never recommend. Even the women who are taking Premarin, pregnant horse urine, which has DNA damaging estrogens in it that don’t belong in a human body, they even had a reduction in cancer.
Where this came from, it was the women who were taking estrogen and progestins, which is the synthetic type of progesterone. I never recommend, even with that, you still shouldn’t take horse estrogen. Still not a good idea to put that in your body.
When we’re talking about bioidentical, we’re talking about naturally compounded, identical to what your body produces. When it gets to the cellular receptor site, the cell’s like, “Oh, I recognize this. I know what this is. This is estrogen.”
To say that estrogen causes cancer is such a lazy medicine. There are different kinds of estrogens. Estrone, which is E1, is inflammatory because it hits the alpha receptors, and it does cause growth. Yes, estrone uncontrolled, unbalanced, imbalanced, not protected with progesterone, without DHEA, without testosterone, without proper thyroid hormone and cortisol, yes, that can be a factor. Cancer is never a one cause thing. It’s multi-factorial, why we grow a tumor in our terrain.
Estriol, which is E3, is the beta receptors. It’s very anti-inflammatory. I use it to treat active cancer. 2-methoxyestradiol, which is an estrogen metabolite from estradiol, very anti-cancer, anti-angiogenic. They would love to make a pharmaceutical out of it if they can figure it out because they can make lots of money. That’s what the pharmacy companies do.
There are different kinds of estrogens. If you understand estrogen as an umbrella, just like if a husband and wife have eight kids, they’re not all the same. They all have different personalities. It’s the same with estrogen. Yes, some are more inflammatory, like 4 hydroxy estrone, which is a metabolite that is known to cause DNA damage. There are some, like testosterone which is anti-cancer; DHEA is anti-cancer; progesterone. It’s the symphony.
What I find is women who end up with cancer from a hormonal perspective, it’s because they’re not on hormones, and their hormones aren’t balanced or are depleted. My experience is totally the opposite.
Dr. Eric:
When it comes to testing, a lot of practitioners these days do dried urine testing. Let’s talk about how you test the hormones.
Dr. Sharon:
How I test is with a 24-hour wet urine, which is a collection of all your urine over 24 hours.
The reason why dried urine testing was created was because they decided it would be easier to market. They didn’t think women could do hard things like pee in a bucket for 24 hours. They came up with this “Let’s have them dry it. Let’s not have them collect. Let’s have them do four samples.” You need to get the whole 24-hour gestalt of what is going on because there are ebbs and flows. There is a circadian rhythm happening. A lot of mistakes are made when collecting dry urine. It doesn’t give you the whole story.
When we compare them side by side, we see that the test results are very inaccurate. Women bring them to me, and I won’t prescribe off of them or give them the time of day because I want accurate information. Dried urine has good PR. They made their mark.
A lot of doctors who really understand hormones are in the clinic all day. We’re not out there on Instagram, influencing. We’re seeing patients. We’re in the clinic. We’re in the trenches. We don’t have time to fight against what the ethos is saying in society. It’s sad that this happened.
I have been doing 24-hour wet urine testing since I was in medical school in the ‘90s. Dried urine testing wasn’t even a thing then.
It really is the gold standard. A lot of people who do blood never look at the metabolites, never see the breakdown. Estriol, which is E3, has a very short half-life. You can’t really see it in the blood. It’s not easily measured in serum.
The word on the street is estriol doesn’t matter. That’s crazy. Word that estriol is dangerous, and you don’t need it, which is totally absurd.
Everyone talks about estradiol as the strongest, the only one that matters. Estradiol, estradiol, estradiol. When you get 24-hour urine testing, you see estriol in healthy women, postmenopausal, premenopausal, perimenopausal. A lot of them will produce more estriol than estradiol. That’s really the ratio we want to be in.
If you can only see what you’re looking at, if you don’t know where to look, you don’t always get to see the truth.
Dr. Eric:
Is that testosterone, too? 24-hour urine?
Dr. Sharon:
Yes. I check all the estrogens, all the metabolites, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA. I test glucocorticoids. You have cortisol and cortisone storage form and metabolites. That’s helpful, but it doesn’t show you the circadian rhythm.
I always make patients do a 24-hour saliva test because I can see in a 24-hour wet urine, “Oh yeah, you’re not producing a lot,” or “You’re overproducing,” but it doesn’t tell me when.
When it comes to adrenal health, the when is really important. We want to have that nice ski slope. We want to have that nice circadian rhythm. We are also looking at free thyroid hormones. We look at melatonin, oxytocin, growth hormone, nitric oxide levels. We look at a full symphony. Doesn’t mean that I don’t go to the blood to check SHBG and DHT and a gazillion other levels to look at overall health. Parathyroid hormone, vitamin D. There are certain things you need to go to the blood for.
Dr. Eric:
Regular thyroid, too? Do you look at regular thyroid in the blood, like TSH, free T3, free T4?
Dr. Sharon:
Yeah, the 24-hour urine just shows free T3 and free T4, but it doesn’t show the antibodies or TSH or reverse T3. Reverse T3 really helps guide what I’m going to prescribe, if they’re going to be T3 only or a compound.
When I do a urine, I can say, “Your T3 is looking low.” I can look at their symptoms. “You’re definitely going to need thyroid, but let’s get some stuff in your blood and see if your reverse T3 is too high. Do you not want to get T4 because you are just going to convert it to reverse T3 anyway? If your antibodies are elevated, well now, we probably need to support your thyroid still if it’s been damaged. Now we need to figure out why your immune system is attacking your thyroid.”
Dr. Eric:
Before we wrap up, I want to ask you about castor oil packs. It’s such a hot topic. I listened to another podcast you were on, where you raved about castor oil packs.
Dr. Sharon:
I love castor oil packs. I have been prescribing those for 25 years, too. We do a computerized regulation thermography, which is a machine from Germany, to look at regulation of all your organs and your teeth. It’s one of the only tools available that can diagnose if your lymph system is congested. News flash: most people’s are.
Castor oil is cheap. It’s easy to do. It’s empowering because you can do it yourself. It’s nurturing. It makes you sit down and take care of yourself, which a lot of women have a hard time doing or don’t think they have time to do. It helps drain. It helps detox.
You can do them over your liver, your thyroid, your breasts. I have people mummy up, where they do it from here to your pubic bone, depending on what I see in the thermography.
I’m really old school. I know there are different ways to do castor oil, but castor oil packs were from Edgar Casey, who was in the early 1900s a medical medium. He was a doctor, but he channeled different treatments. Castor oil packs is one of the things that he channeled, and he has a clinic in Virginia Beach. He is no longer with us. Heritage House is his company that sells his remedies. His work is still around. The most popular is castor oil.
I am real old school. If he is the one who brought it to us, we should probably do it the way he says to do it.
I make patients heat the castor oil, get a pack, put hot water bottle or low EMF dry heating pad, lay with it for 45 minutes. Let it drive it in, rather than just rub some castor oil on and call it a day.
The reason why I do that is it’s what I see in my thermography scan. I see patients who, when they take the time to do that, we see flow and clearing and less toxins than if you’re just rubbing some on.
Dr. Eric:
Great. You actually can compare the before and after with the thermography and see those changes.
Dr. Sharon:
I’ll have women say, “I’ve been doing it for two years.” “You lit up like a Christmas tree, so it’s not working.” Then we’ll do it old school and check. Now, things are moving.
Dr. Eric:
All right. That’s pretty cool. I’m glad I asked about that. Thank you. This was great. This was a lot of information packed in a short period of time. Appreciate you sharing your thoughts on hormones and testing for hormones and finishing up with the castor oil packs.
Dr. Sharon, where can people find out more about you?
Dr. Sharon:
We have our new clinic, Lasting Wellness Center, in Scottsdale, which we will have LastingWellnessCenter.com. We are in the middle of building it out.
DrStills.com has been my website for 25 years. That’s always a good place.
If you sign up for my newsletter, that’s the one place. I keep swearing I’m going to become consistent on Instagram. I don’t know, I go in and out because I get busy, and I like to be present in my life. I don’t always want to be holding a camera.
We do communicate to my community through my email list. We have a very big community. We are very good about communicating through email. That’s a good place if you want to know what’s going on.
Very soon, I will be at Lasting Wellness Center. We have a huge clinic, 7,000 square feet. We have all my diagnostics and therapeutics I have collected from Europe over the years. Opening a clinic is like giving birth to a dozen babies. I will be there. I will be busy getting that all. I really wanted to have a place where people could come and heal.
People are very sick. Unfortunately, they’re getting sicker. I wanted them to have a place to come get EBU and hypoxia training and oxygen and hydrogen and all the tools. Sometimes, when we’re really sick, we need to be somewhere and be held and be handled and be nurtured and have therapeutics done, so our body can heal. That’s where I’ll be.
Dr. Eric:
All right, that sounds amazing. One day, I will need to visit when it’s open, take a tour.
Dr. Sharon:
Yes please. Come to our grand opening.
Dr. Eric:
Thanks, Dr. Sharon. Appreciate you taking the time to chat about hormones.
Dr. Sharon:
Thank you. Always a pleasure.