Kristann Heinz, MD: All About Hormones | The Healing Grove Podcast

The Healing Grove Podcast

This week I want you to meet one of my favorite people on the planet, Dr. Kristann Heinz.
Dr. Heinz is a medical doctor (MD) board-certified with the American Academy of Family Medicine, the American Board of Integrative-Holistic Medicine and the American Board of Physician Specialties in Integrative Medicine. She is also a registered dietician (RD), a physician acupuncturist and a certified practitioner with the Institute for Functional Medicine. She received her B.S. in Nutrition Science at Simmons College. After graduating, she completed a dietetic internship and two Maternal and Child Health Fellowships. This training allowed her to work as a registered dietician with many community-based family nutrition programs. She went on to receive a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed her family medicine residency at Lehigh Valley Health Network. During this time, she began studying other forms of healing, such as acupuncture, medical group education, homeopathy, herbal medicine and functional medicine. Her research during residency focused on integrating these modalities into a primary care setting for which she was given the Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship. Dr. Heinz currently practices integrative family care and provides medical, nutritional and educational services throughout the United States. Her home office, Red Hill Medical + Wellness, is located in Pennsylvania.
To learn more about Dr. Kristann Heinz and to get on her newsletter, please visit: https://mailchi.mp/88c3bfed6788/hormonal-health-at-red-hill-medical
Find the Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Options of Care chart here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rvkg1uwODqAzwjeYEF4ymhAlwO8eN9tA/view?usp=sharing
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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Kristin introduces Dr. Kristann Heinz (00:00:50)

3. Kristann shares why she became an out-of-the-box family doctor (00:02:54)

4. Why she started her own practice, seeing patients with chronic illness (00:09:26)

5. The reason she took a deep dive into learning more about hormones (00:11:35)

6. How foundational hormones are to overall health (00:14:20)

7. Hormone basics (00:15:28)

8. Common clues that hormones are imbalanced in those who are menstruating (00:18:37)

9. Hormone fluctuation and perimenopause (00:20:54)

10. An overview of the different hormones (00:23:24)

11. Xenoestrogens (00:27:19)

12. Kristann shares her experience with taking progesterone (00:28:09)

13. How xenoestrogens influence hormone imbalances (00:32:45)

14. Why Kristann decided to start using bio-identical hormones (00:34:18)

15. Physical benefits of bioidentical hormones on the body (00:36:21)

16. Some of the history of why most physicians no longer prescribe hormones (00:40:13)

17. What are bioidentical hormones? (00:44:48)

18. Kristann’s preferred method of bioidentical hormones (00:47:22)

19. Should someone on hormonal birth control take bioidentical hormones? (00:55:29)

20. How to find a provider to get bioidentical hormones (00:59:47)