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EXPERIENCING ESTROGEN DOMINANCE
l. What is estrogen dominance?
There
is a delicate balance between the hormones in our body-especially estrogen
and progesterone. A key to hormone balance is the knowledge that when
estrogen becomes the dominant hormone and progesterone is deficient, the
estrogen becomes toxic to the body and produces a syndrome called estrogen
dominance. Natural progesterone (not synthetic progestin) has a
balancing or mitigating effect on estrogen and can be the answer for
thousands of women suffering from this imbalance. There are very, very
few western women truly deficient in estrogen, most are deficient in
progesterone. It is clear that excess estrogen, when unopposed or
unbalanced by progesterone, is not something to be desired. Many of
estrogen's undesirable side effects are effectively prevented by
progesterone.
2. Women starting to take
control of their own health
Women from all ages and every
stage of life are all looking for answers to these health problems that they
intuitively know are hormonal in nature. There is a great thirst for
knowledge now in this area and women know full well they are not being
served properly by the treatments routinely given by the medical
profession. They know something is wrong when 650,000 (or more)
hysterectomies per year are performed in the United States. They know that
females were not created to be victims of a creative mistake. They know
that a hormone that is supposed to cure them should not also promote
cancer. Women are far more knowledgeable, intelligent and intuitive than
the medical profession has given them credit for and a revolution in women'
health is underway. Women of all ages are regaining control of their own
health destinies.
3.
What is going on?
Why in America and other
industrialized countries do women suffer from PMS to osteoporosis and every
discomfort in between. Age seems to no longer have any discretion as girls
younger and younger are developing serious problems. By now the very word
menopause or "change of life" instills dread into every woman approaching
this phase of her life. The very word menopause has taken on a new meaning
of having to experience hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings vaginal
dryness, loss of sexual enjoyment, fatter hips and sagging breasts. Then
of course is the terrifying "O" word, osteoporosis. Why do women in other
cultures make this transition without all of the problems we see here in
America? They seem to sail through each phase of their life without any
particular problems. There was a time here in America when a woman's
mother, grandmother or aunt would quietly let her know what to expect
during each phase of her life and help her through the rough patches with
herbs and homespun, time-tested wisdom. What has happened? The medical
profession took over the role of woman's health shortly prior to Word War
II. Old fashioned herbal remedies and health practices were abandoned in
favor of drugs and chemicals. Natural solutions were overlooked by
conventional medicine because of medical politics and pharmaceutical company
profits. New substances began to be licensed proprietarily as "drugs" and
approved by the Rockefeller-sponsored American Medical Association and Food
& Drug Administration with doctors and specialists trained in their
dispensation and use through Rockefeller-financed institutions. Gigantic
tax-exempt foundations were set up solely for the purpose of creating more
drugs and chemicals. The end result was that all medical schools became
heavily oriented towards drugs and drug research, for it was through the
increased sale of drugs that the donors realized a profit on the donations.
It was to be a new chapter in America! Chemicals now replaced the natural.
Synthetic hormones, drugs, chemicals and surgery -that is what was started
and has continued to this present time. This present deterioration in
women's hormonal health is not natural and has been created by our culture,
lifestyles and environment.
What causes estrogen
dominance?
l.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) featuring
synthetic estrogens and progestins.
2.
Premenopause (results in lack of ovulation,
thus lack of progesterone well before the onset of menopause.)
3.
Exposure to environmental estrogens called
xenoestrogens. These are foreign substances originating outside the body
that have hormone-like and estrogen-like activity in the body, and thus have
a profound negative impact on hormone balance. They cause an overexposure
of estrogen
a. Nearly
all are derived from petroleum of which would not only include the petroleum
products used for transportation and heating, but also millions of products
made from petroleum. To mention a few; plastics, microchips, medicines,
clothing, carpets, foods, soaps, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides,
cosmetics and perfume.
b.
Estrogenic substances given to animals.
4.
Birth control pills
5.
Hysterectomy
6.
Postmenopause (especially in overweight
women).
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