Dr. Kyrin Dunston | From Sarcasm to Solutions: Overcoming Midlife Metabolic Mayhem With An Approach That Restores Hope

Welcome to The Hormone Prosperity Podcast with Dr. Kyrin Dunston, your guide to moving from hormonal poverty to hormonal prosperity. This episode dives into the often-overlooked struggles of midlife women navigating the turbulent waters of hormonal imbalances and metabolic mayhem—and the surprising connection between sarcasm and hopelessness.

Dr. Kyrin starts by unpacking sarcasm’s deeper meaning (did you know the word literally means “to tear the flesh”?). Sarcasm can be a subtle weapon women use against themselves when they feel powerless or unheard, especially when dealing with frustrating symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, and mood swings. Using this as a lens, Dr. Kyrin addresses a real question from a listener, Jenny, who sarcastically lists her midlife symptoms and wonders whether estrogen cream will fix them. Dr. Kyrin’s answer? No—and here’s why.

This episode challenges the reductionist “symptom-fixed-by-one-thing” approach to health. Dr. Kyrin explains why a holistic, multifactorial approach to hormonal health is the ultimate key to achieving vitality, balance, and freedom. She also shares her personal transformation from morbid obesity and chronic fatigue to thriving hormonal prosperity, offering so much hope for women who feel stuck, broken, or frustrated with conventional medicine.

If you’ve been accepting hormonal poverty as your fate, this episode will inspire you to reclaim your birthright to hormonal prosperity. Stop asking, “What’s wrong with me?” and start asking, “What would hormonal prosperity do?” (WWHPD). Tune in now for actionable tips, candid insights, and an invitation to design the thriving health story you deserve.

 

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How sarcasm can reveal deeper feelings of hopelessness about your health—and why it’s time to shift to self-compassion.
• The all-too-common symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem, from fatigue and brain fog to weight issues.
• Why estrogen cream (or any single-solution approach) won’t fix your health woes—and what you really need to do instead.
• The truth about hormonal poverty versus hormonal prosperity—and why mainstream medicine is failing midlife women.
• How to recondition your perspective and uncover the roots of your symptoms for sustainable healing.
• Why you deserve so much more than symptom management—and how to start your transformation today by understanding your holistic health.

 

Join the Conversation

Have sarcasm and self-deprecation crept into your health story? Were you surprised to learn how they might signal hopelessness? Share your reflections and stories with Dr. Kyrin and the Hormone Prosperity community. Your voice matters, and we’d love to hear your thoughts!

 

Your Call to Action

1. Take the Free Hormonal Poverty Quiz

Could you be in hormonal poverty? Find out in just 90 seconds!

👉 CLICK HERE to take the quiz and assess where you stand.

2. Join the Hormone Bliss Challenge

Want step-by-step guidance from Dr. Kyrin? The Hormone Bliss Challenge will walk you through actionable steps to rebalance your body, reclaim your sleep, and say hello to vitality.

👉 CLICK HERE to join today.

 

Help Other Women Get Their Bliss Back

Enjoyed this episode? Please share it with a friend who’s also struggling with hormonal imbalance or midlife metabolic mayhem. Together, we can help more women reclaim their vitality and health. Don’t forget to leave us a review or rating—your support helps build this empowering community!

 

Quotes to Inspire You

• “Sarcasm is one of the most hostile forms of violence—it’s using words to cut someone. And when you turn it on yourself, it’s a sign that you’ve lost hope.”
• “Mainstream medicine thrives on the reductionist model—but your body doesn’t work like that. It’s time to reject quick fixes and focus on multifactorial solutions for true healing.”
• “You have a birthright. Hormonal prosperity is waiting for you. It's time to reclaim it.”

Tune into this empowering episode and begin the new chapter in your midlife health story today!

 

Podcast Episode Transcript:

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (00:00):

Also sarcasm means to tear the flesh. And it's actually one of the most hostile forms of violence that can be rendered without a physical weapon on someone. It's using words to cut someone.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (00:15):

Greetings, friend. Welcome to the Hormone Prosperity Podcast with me, the hormone prosperity coach, Dr. Kyrin. Here's where intelligent women over 40 go to get credible guidance and inspiration on getting out of hormonal poverty and into hormonal prosperity and the joy and vitality that brings. Go from asking disempowering questions like, what's wrong with me? To asking empowering questions like, what would hormonal prosperity do? Hashtag wwhp d, join me as we dive into today's episode and get started on your journey off the couch, into your genes and back into life, because bliss is your birthright and a healthy body filled with hormonal prosperity is the vehicle that gets you there. Welcome. Let's get started.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (01:06):

We're going to talk about many of the myriad symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem that a viewer named Jenny wrote in about and in a somewhat sarcastic tone. So I wanna talk about that too. If you started to be sarcastic and make fun about your symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem caused by hormonal poverty because you feel so helpless that you don't have any other ability to cope with it, rather than make fun of yourself, that's one thing I wanna address because you're not alone. And the other is she's in perimenopause and she's asking if an estrogen cream will help with her symptoms, her urinary symptoms of incontinence, her mood symptoms. She has symptoms in so many different areas, weight gain, low energy, forgetting words and actual people frequent ut eyes hemorrhoids. And after, in her question she actually said hemorrhoids, like LOL and the fun things like forgetting words and actual people.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (02:18):

So I can tell from your question, Jenny, and maybe this is you watching that this has been going on for a while and you're not getting the answers from your medical providers that are supporting and nurturing you and creating the health and vitality that you're seeking and you're feeling pretty hopeless. How do I know this? And this is for all of you watching because you're, you're venting sarcasm at your self. So, so sarcasm means to tear the flesh and it's actually one of the most hostile forms of violence that can be rendered without a physical weapon on someone. It's using words to cut someone. And when you turn it on yourself and you're saying you have these symptoms, not I have these symptoms, I need help, please, but you're actually saying these symptoms with LOL, the fun using it sarcastically of these symptoms of midlife metabolic mayhem, then I know when you start venting that sarcasm at yourself, that you're in a pretty hopeless place.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (03:32):

And maybe that's you watching, you have plenty of other things that you could be doing with your free time rather than searching on YouTube or on podcasts for videos to help you answer your health questions as a woman at midlife then to be doing this right? That means you're in a pretty hopeless, desperate, confused position that you really shouldn't have to be in. And we women have come to accept that we are not going to get the answers to our biggest health concerns from our doctors. So much so that we've stopped advocating for ourselves and stopped demanding our birthright to get appropriate medical care that helps us identify hormonal poverty and get out of hormonal poverty into hormonal prosperity. So I wanted to highlight this person's question because I know she's not alone. And I know just by the fact that you're here watching this video, that you are included in this too.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (04:44):

You're feeling pretty helpless. And so I wanna say, I'm glad you're here because this is where help lives. This is where hope lives. I am you <laugh>. I'm not only a board certified O-B-G-Y-N, but I am where you, I was where you are now. And now I'm on the other side with vitality and hormonal prosperity and getting to live out hashtag wwp d what would hormonal prosperity to do? And I am here to help guide you to the other side so that you can experience what is possible for you and what you deserve in terms of your health. So I love this question because it really highlights the pain that many of you are experiencing, but also gives me the opportunity to highlight the hope that is available to you. So back to the original question, will an estrogen cream help all these myriad symptoms? And the short answer is no way.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (05:51):

Why? Because you're looking at your health from a symptom management perspective. It's not your fault. We doctors have taught you this. We have taught you these lies. We have taught to you to treat your health in a very reductionist fashion that is symptom drug. And then when the symptom goes away, victory symptom, drug, victory, symptom surgery, victory, we have taught you to have this mentality. And it is wrong. It's downright wrong. The truth about how your health works, you have such a beautiful complex system of health, particularly your hormones, which are the communicators in your body, which tell all your cells and systems how to function is that there is no one input for one problem and one solution. It does not work that way in nature. It doesn't work that way in your body, which is a part of nature. It does not work that way with your health.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (06:56):

Now, mainstream medicine has you believe that it works that way because that is the belief system and the foundation of mainstream medicine. It was made to prove that symptom drug or surgery reduction or removal of symptom victory. So we've taught you that it's not your fault, but I wanna shake you awake and say, if that's how you're treating your health, you will never experience the health and vitality and hormonal prosperity that is available to you. And I want you to experience the highest. That's why I went into OB GYN. And so when I saw that mainstream medicine wasn't serving my needs or my health or my patients, I sought other answers and found them to fix my health and get out of being morbidly obese, chronic fatigue, hair loss, no sex drive, depression, anxiety, irritable bowel gastritis, all the things I was suffering with and have helped other women to get out of that as well.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (08:00):

So your question really highlights your whole perspective about how you're looking at your health and you're not alone. This used to be me is perverted yes, perverted. I said it. I had a perverted view as a mainstream ob, GYN, your doctor has a perverted view. It's not their fault. We're taught this and most women have a perverted view. So in order for you to experience the hormonal prosperity that's available to you, you have to recondition your perspective and you have to have an expansion and awakening of how you understand your health that is beyond your basic functioning. That's condition that you've been taught. And that's what I do in the hormonal challenge. You have to really understand how your health works from a high level perspective. So many inputs to many outputs. And you gotta learn how to start reading the symptoms that you have.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (09:02):

So you listed many different symptoms from weight problems, fatigue and weight is huge, right? 50% of us by the age of 50 or overweight or obese, by the time we're 60, it's three out of four of us. Chronic fatigue. So weight and fatigue problems are number one in two symptoms of midlife, metabolic mayhem that women experience. And brain fog would be number three in forgetfulness. So not remembering words or people's names who, you know, we did another video about this you'll wanna check out 'cause we talk a little bit more about that. And all these symptoms are pointing to hormonal poverty. So then you've gotta go from the leaves and branches of the symptoms down the trunk of the tree into the roots in the soil, and then find out what is causing these symptoms. And it's never one thing they're anset up like anset a picnic, never one, always a hundred.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (09:59):

And then so your question about will an estrogen cream help this, your perspective is, your belief is, there's one thing I need to do. There's one. Cause you believe that because you're in perimenopause, that it's an estrogen deficiency because mainstream has taught you, medicine has taught you this and therefore there's one answer. It's only an estrogen problem. Perimenopause, menopause only about estrogen. That's a lie, but you believe it. And estrogen cream, that could be the one solution I use that, that could fix all these things. All that's a lie. And you'll never find the answers that you're seeking if you don't change your reductionist perspective about how your health works and get some real understanding and solutions that are multifactorial. And those of you who are ready to understand this will understand what I'm saying. Those of you who aren't will go, nevermind Dr. Kyrin.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (10:56):

I'm gonna go find the health coach nutritionist or other person who's gonna tell me the one thing, what's the one diet I need to follow? What's the one supplement I need to take? What's the one drug I need to use? Right? You're gonna not be ready to hear this and you're gonna go and that's fine. That's your path. Those of you who are ready to experience what's possible for you, ready to have an expansion, and most of you listening, that's probably you. 'cause You wouldn't have been come to this channel. Join me for the hormone boost challenge because I'm gonna teach you exactly how to dig down in the soil and fix the roots so all your leaves and branches get better. So I love this question and the answer is no. Estrogen is not gonna fix your weight, your fatigue, your memory problems, your frequent UTIs, your hemorrhoids, it's not right.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (11:56):

And even though it might give you some improvement in some aspects of that, you'll never experience the true vitality that's available to you when you experience hormonal prosperity. Just saying you deserve hormonal prosperity. So I hope you can join me for the hormonal challenge because I'll teach you all about how to get out of hormonal poverty, how to identify if you're in it, how to get out of it, and what are the things that you need to do to fix all those symptoms. And it's not a reductionist approach. So great question. Thank you so much for the question. Great topics covered. One, if you're in that hopeless, hopeless place and you're being sarcastic against yourself, it's time for drastic measures. And two, that you've gotta change your perspective, your reductionist thinking to get out of that, to understand the holistic multifactorial view of your health. And if you're struggling with that, I just don't get, what are all the inputs Dr. Kyrin, that I need to be looking at to identify my hormonal poverty and get out of it to hormonal prosperity. I'd love to teach you about how to expand your consciousness around that and your perspective. So consider joining me for the Hormone Bliss Challenge. Thanks so much for the question and for joining me for this video. I'll see you in the next video. Until then, peace, love, and hormones, y'all,

Dr. Kyrin Dunston (13:33):

Thank you so much for joining me on your journey from hormonal poverty into the promised land of hormonal prosperity. Loved today's episode. Share it with someone you care about, love the show. Consider writing a review and help other women find it too. Remember, we're all in this together right now. There are well over 100 million women suffering in hormonal poverty without answers. Please be of service by sharing, rating and reviewing the show. Help us reach at least 1 million of these women this coming year from one previously suffering woman to another. I thank you. See you next week.