Transcript
Hi, I’m Delaney Gabriel. I’m a holistic anti-aging practitioner with my primary office in Santa Barbara. I also have offices in Sacramento which I established in 1984 and in Carmel which I established in the year 2000.
So, I’m coming to you today as an introduction to the work that I do in holistic health and anti-aging. My family, my daughter, Camila, and my granddaughters, Maggie and Catie, have encouraged me to do this video series as a way of helping me reach my health goal which is to let people across the country and around the world know their options that they have.
When it comes to health, hormones and my specialization in lab tests, my clients really think that this is my true specialization and where I shine. People who come to me typically come into my practice after they say they’ve been everywhere and have tried everything, and maybe they haven’t, but that’s how they feel. A lot of people tell me that I’m their last hope which puts a lot of pressure on me as you might imagine.
So, what I do in helping people who have been everywhere and tried everything is that I do lab tests that go beyond, way beyond, what is typically done within medicine and by medical doctors. Some of which even exceeds the lab testing that my fellows at the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine do.
Even with those, even if we did the same work, what people like about the work that I do is that I’m really good with managing hormones, managing care, giving people the time and dedication that they need to achieve their health goals. Some people just want to be better. They just want to be free of symptoms. Other people want to edge up to optimum health. The cool thing about what I do is I help you reach your health goals. Whether you want to be the best that you can be, or you just want to be free of pain, or feel better, it’s not always what I want for you — it’s what you want for yourself. So, in my work, I’m trained in homeopathy, herbology, iridology, and many diverse forms of medicine.
I’ve studied endocrinology in detail with world renowned physician Thierry Hertoghe, who is a fourth-generation endocrinologist from Brussels. He’s been a mentor of mine through my American Academy of Anti-aging Medicine since 2000. I go way back with him. John Lee was a mentor of mine. Those of you who heard the presentation that I just did as an introduction will get more details on that.
I want to talk a bit more about the reason I do this work with hormones. It’s not because of hot flashes, insomnia, and the main reasons that drive women in to see their doctors and get on hormones. It’s for quality-of-life issues. As an anti-aging practitioner specializing in bioidentical hormones, if it was just the hot flashes, the night sweats, and so forth, that women go through for two or three years, I would have lost interest in this whole field after a couple of years because those are things that pass.
My concern is about the quality-of-life issue that people have that will affect them over the aging process. It doesn’t just affect the people who are suffering. It affects their loved ones, their families, their neighbors, their communities, and everyone. It’s more broad reaching than that and there’s a direct correlation to how you feel and how you function in life, whether you’re staying at home hanging and hanging out behind the scenes, or whether you’re out there active in pursuing your dreams. And on the subject of confidence, what bothers me about that is that so many women get out of the game, the game of life, how they pursued their careers – they quit before they get fired. That’s because they start noticing memory loss. They’re not sleeping well. They’re not functioning well. They become embarrassed and humiliated. They get a sense that the chairman of the board knows something is wrong and so they’ve taken an escape plan before it’s really pronounced, and they lose their dignity.
That bothers me. I have a personal issue with that. So, I’m focusing on my top three priorities. First is Osteoporosis. That has a strong link to hormones. In my opinion, if your hormones are not optimized, and that includes vitamin D which is also a hormone, you cannot possibly have healthy bone and new bone growth, which you can have every 120 days if your hormones are optimized. Osteoporosis is a very big deal that affects every single person.
My second thing is cardiovascular disease. When do women have heart attacks? If you look at the fatalities and the cardiovascular events, you’re going to find that it’s women around 56-58 years old. If you follow lab test results, like I do, you’re going to find that in those same age groups women are having the decline of their primary Estrogen hormone named Estradiol because Estradiol is protective to the cardiovascular system.
I’ll just do a little disclaimer here, that my belief in my philosophy and my religion about the work that I do really has to do with the work that I’ve done for all these 33 years and my findings in hormones and the relativity between hormone levels and health hormone levels in quality of life. That’s where I make my determination. That’s more to that than what I’m told, even by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine or by new research that comes out. The bottom line of all research, really, is that it requires more research. So, it’s this cycle that people go through, and researchers go through, and scientists go through, to just keep that ball in motion. What I look for are bottom line results, in a few thousand people that I’ve worked with and treated over the years and finding out really what the issue is, so I can find out the cause. Because we don’t have a cure for anything whether it’s Cancer, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, anything. We don’t have the right cure if we don’t have the right cause. And not just the right cause, but the many factors that are a part of the causes of these diseases, and health conditions, and symptoms, and so forth.
So the next thing on my list that I focus on is Neurological health. My concern about that started back in the ‘60s when I went through a horrible family situation with my grandmother. She and my father didn’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of things, and they hadn’t for years. So, with that kind of discord, and then my grandmother needing care, and my father not being interested in supporting her, she ended up in a nursing home. It was there that I first saw that women, from having Osteoporosis, fall and break something and then their lives, and quality of lives were shortened. At the same time, I saw the people in there who were really struggling with their memory. I see that happening today in my clients even in their ‘40s, and their ‘50s, and their ‘60s, so it’s because of that that through my practice I have looked at the cause.
I looked at the blood tests, and then I went to treatment. So, what I do in looking at blood tests and assessing them is to look for optimum levels, not just the normal pass or fail that is used in medicine, and I look to complete broad spectrum lab tests to get a full assessment. For example, I have the metabolism of your primary hormones, not all your hormones but, the primary ones. I want you to know that there is no Estrogen named Estrogen. The word Estrogen represents about 58 different kinds of Estrogens in the body, so it’s just the nomenclature that’s off. I don’t believe doctors fully mean to mislead you when they say I’m going to check your estrogen levels and, typically, when you’re told “I’m going to check your estrogen levels,” it means they’re going to measure your FSH Follicle Stimulation Hormone, which doesn’t really tell me what your Estrogens are at all. It may imply but that doesn’t give me the report card with the numbers on it that I’m looking for. So, there’s no Estrogen named Estrogen.
There are three primary Estrogens in the body, and men have estrogens as well as women do. A lot of men these days are being diagnosed with breast cancer. Why would that be? I know for a fact that one of the primary causes has to do with all the environmental chemicals–the Glyphosate all the RoundUp in your food. People need to know about how microwaves destroy the nutrition in the food, keeping you from getting the quality that you need.
So I have some very strong views on that and they’re based on care and concern, not about what somebody’s going to think about what I have to say but what I would say to my family and for people I care about. I want you to consider your diet when it comes to these hormones because they can cause good hormones to become bad ones.
All hormones are made or can be made from Cholesterol, which really is a hormone, which are also steroids. So, hormones and steroids are synonymous – just like a hysterectomy and a castration, but castration doesn’t sound so good, so we say hysterectomy. Then we got some really bad publicity about steroids, and so people don’t want to think of Pregnenolone and DHEA as steroids, so they think of it as a hormone, and it sounds nicer.
In the next video, I’m going to start to run through each of these to tell you the importance on having these at optimal levels in your body for your entire life and how can you be better with a better quality of life with your hormones optimized.
