Finding Balance: A Physician Assistant’s Root-Cause Approach to Aging & Longevity

Elizabeth Vogstrom, PA-C
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Elizabeth Vogstrom spent the first chapter of her career in traditional medicine and then her own body stopped cooperating. Three pregnancies in three years triggered postpartum anxiety and insomnia that no medication could touch. That experience sent her on a path that became her life’s work: root-cause medicine focused on hormones, longevity, and how people actually feel from the inside out.

In this episode, Elizabeth walks us through what a Physician Assistant specializing in integrative hormone health actually does, the science behind it, what it demands of the person practicing it, and why it’s taken this long for the rest of the world to catch up.

In this episode:

✦  What a Physician Assistant specializing in integrative hormone health actually does and how Elizabeth’s career path led her there
✦  Why perimenopause is the hardest phase to navigate and what’s really happening to the body during that window
✦  The role of estradiol in protecting the brain, bones, and heart and why its decline is about far more than hot flashes
✦  How bio-identical hormones, DNA genetic testing, and root-cause medicine work together to treat the whole person
✦  The postpartum health crisis Elizabeth experienced personally and how it shaped her entire clinical approach
✦ Why testosterone matters for mood, focus, and anxiety in both men and women and where insurance falls short
✦ Why the menopause conversation is finally getting mainstream attention, and what still needs to change
✦ What this field demands of the people who practice it and what Elizabeth would tell her younger self

MBTI vibe: INFJ / ISFJ / ENFJ / INTJ
Deep empathy • Patience with complexity • Intrinsic motivation • Lifelong learning mindset • Ability to hold difficult conversations

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Need to Know Facts*

* Bureau of Labor Statistics