#175 Hormone Optimization and Anti Aging Medicine with Dr Amy Killen

Siim Land (0:00)

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Amy Killen (0:46)

I think that there's tons of studies and work being done in stem cells right now.

It's one of those things that I think we'll continue to hear more and more about because there's so many different applications from, you know, you can grow, they're growing organoids and little organs in the lab now, which is a whole different thing than what I do. But, you know, they're using stem cells, the idea that you have these cells that are actually capable of replicating and making more of themselves in a way that most cells are not. Using those cells to help repair our bodies, it makes total sense. And I think we'll definitely be seeing more and more of that.

Siim Land (1:20)

It is Body Mind Empowerment.

Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land and our guest today is Dr. Amy Killen. Dr. Amy is both certified in emergency medicine with over 10 years of patient care. She's been practicing anti-aging and regenerative medicine for more than five years. Dr. Amy, welcome to the show.

Amy Killen (1:50)

Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Siim Land (1:52)

Yeah. It was great to meet you in person at the London Health Optimization Summit.

But we didn't have a lot of time to talk, so I was figured I'm going to have to have you on my podcast so we can go into more detail about all these different topics that you cover. And you do cover quite a lot of different topics. So how did you get into this field in the first place? And how did you bring them all together?

Amy Killen (2:13)

So I was actually an emergency medicine doctor for about 10 years. And then towards the end of that, I started sort of seeing that I had patients coming in over and over again with chronic medical problems that I wasn't really able to do anything for. And at the same time, I had a lot of stuff going on with my own life where I was just under a lot of stress, not taking care of myself. So I started learning about kind of integrative medicine and longevity medicine and eventually ended up putting emergency medicine and focusing entirely on this new field.

And as I was doing this integrative medicine, I had a lot of patients that would come to me and ask me for help improving either their skin or their sexual function. And so over time, I was like, well, I got to learn about these things. And so I started learning about those things. And now that's kind of my focus. I focus on primarily on skin and sexual health and using integrative therapies as well as regenerative therapies and other things to kind of take care of those systems.

Siim Land (3:08)

Yeah, so true in the sense that a lot of people are very, you know, with the new science and new technology, we have like a lot of people have access to these kinds of medical care, especially related to anti aging and longevity. So on. But I would like to cover them, like all of them, but that would be like too long of a podcast. So we're going to have to do like the basics and fundamentals of each and every one of them.

So maybe let's start off with like the hormones. There is a lot of talk about how hormones either like they make you fat, they make you moody and so on. So how do you go about optimizing your hormones then?

Amy Killen (3:49)

So I do by identical hormones, which is basically replacing your hormones with the hormone with other hormones that are the exact same molecules as the ones that you already have. So whether that's estrogen or progesterone, testosterone, etc.