Hormonal Imbalances & Phytoestrogens

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Hormonal Imbalances & Phytoestrogens

 

Hormonal Imbalances & Phytoestrogens - A Viable

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JoAnn Guest

Oct 09, 2005 20:00 PDT

 

 

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Raw whole foods, fruits, vegetables contain mild

amounts of natural

estrogens which circumvent the rollercoaster imbalance

most women

experience. If phytoestrogens are part of the

lifestyle prior to

menopause, there will not be such a radical drop when

the body begins

to

downshift away from the demands of always preparing

for reproduction.

 

In a study done in Paris in the early 1990s, a

physiologist

significantly lowered estrogen levels in the sample

group simply by

changing from a high fat, high sugar diet to a more

natural diet of

fruits and vegetables. (Vines)

 

Phytoestrogens also appear in a variety of herbs,

including black

cohosh, alfalfa, pomegranate, and licorice.

 

3. Natural Progesterone

 

By now you should know that progesterone drops to zero

at menopause

 

If estrogen levels have been high all along, problems

begin to arise

when the sister hormone progesterone is no longer

around to keep things

in balance.

 

In the past few years, several doctors have found that

natural

progesterone cream can take up the slack both before

menopause, in the

case of the stress-challenged woman, and after

menopause, in the case

of

the less stressed woman who has incorporated natural

phytoestrogen

foods

into her lifestyle.

 

Both can benefit from the regulating influence of

natural estrogen in

small food-bound doses. Physiologic doses.

 

Dr. Lee has organized most of the pertinent

information about the

clinical effects of natural progesterone cream.

Osteoporosis, heart

disease, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, hot

flashes, dryness, skin

shrivelling are routinely avoided completely by the

daily use of this

simple natural lotion.

 

On p 271 of his book, Dr. Lee has a list of products

which contain

natural progesterone in a usable form. The reader is

directed to " What

You Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause " for the

complete story on

progesterone.

 

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that if you

are a woman you

can't afford to skip his book.

 

I realize the information in this chapter may be a bit

overwhelming,

especially if you are hearing it for the first time.

This is not light

reading.

 

But it's worth the effort if you are considering a

major step like

beginning hormone therapy, or birth control pills, to

inform yourself.

This chapter hopes to point you in the direction of

further

investigation.

 

The attached references would be your next step in

verifying what I

have

suggested in these few short pages. If you only choose

one, I would

recommend John Lee's book, as it is the most

comprehensive review of

current literature on the topic of natural hormone

therapy.

 

We are taught to be too trusting of medicine, to a

degree that it

doesn't merit.

 

Almost two hundred prescription drugs come and go

every year. Why would

that be, if they really worked?

What happened to thalidomide, fen-phen, seldane, DES,

rotavirus

vaccine,

and a thousand others?

 

What happened to the people who took them, thinking

they were safe?

 

Misled and misinformed by the forces of big business,

American women

find themselves far afield of a rational outlook on

menopause, in tune

with Nature's intentions.

 

Incessant advertising and mental conditioning has

successfully

programmed the public's hard disk into regarding

menopause as a disease

absolutely requiring treatment, even in the absence of

symptoms.

 

Such a perspective is the creation of the marketplace

and is not even

supported by the most conservative and credible of

medical authorities.

 

" Menopause is a natural rite of passage and should not

be treated as a

disease. "

- Betty Kamen, PhD HRT, p 239

 

" Menopause is not a disease. It is a natural

biological process that

has

gone awry in some women because of less than optimum

environment. "

Lee p 279

 

LIFE IS SUCH A PILL

 

Abstracting ourselves for a moment away from citing 10

medical studies

which prove this point, just use your common sense.

Let's go back to

the

beginning of the chapter.

 

What does natural estrogen do? Prepares for

reproduction.

 

What tissues does it affect? Those tissues that what?

Right. Are

rapidly

dividing: endometrium, cervix, breast, ovaries.

 

Now, what is cancer?

 

Very simply, cancer begins when a cell has lost its

ability to

specialize, but not its ability to multiply, or

proliferate. Or divide

rapidly.

 

A tumor is a group of cells multiplying rapidly out of

control, but

unable to perform any life function.

 

So therefore, which tissues do you think have the

greatest tendency to

become cancerous?

 

Right - those which normally will tend to divide

rapidly, like

endometrial and breast tissue.

 

So estrogen and cancer have a lot in common from the

get-go.

 

Is it really that much of a surprise that dozens of

controlled medical

studies and research reviews have proven practically

beyond dissent

that

HRT, which is estrogen gone wild, can cause cancer?

 

So would it be too impertinent of me to pose the

obvious: why is HRT

still out there?

 

Let's see, it doesn't do what it's supposed to do -

 

control menopause symptoms, it has no effect on

osteoporosis and it's

been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be a

frequent " spark " for

cancer.

 

The above-cited Boston Nurses Questionnaire Study

involving over

121,000

participants found that taking estrogen therapy alone

for at least ten

years raised breast cancer risk by 40%.

If they took progestins as well (synthetic

progesterone) that figure

went to 100%! (Australian Doctor, 29 Aug 97, p3)

 

A meta-analysis is when researchers compare several

studies and come up

with a conclusion. In 1991 a meta-analysis of 16

separate studies was

written up in Journal of the American Medical

Association..

 

Their findings:

 

" After 15 years of estrogen use, we found a 30%

increase in the risk of

breast cancer.. "

- Steinberg p1985 JAMA 1991

 

Different studies, different numbers. How about this

one, in Sweden,

from the New England Journal of Medicine, with over

23,000 women in the

sample group:

 

" Overall we noted a 10% increase in the relative risk

of breast cancer

for 23,334 women for whom estrogens were prescribed

for menopause. this

risk to increase with increased duration of treatment

to an excess risk

of 70% in women with more than nine years of use. "

- Bergkvist, p293 NEJM 3 Aug 89

 

Fairly credible sample size.

 

There are many other studies, but you can see where

this is going.

These

are the top medical journals in the U.S. Doctors know

that HRT causes

breast cancer.

 

Why is this happening? Just keep thinking about that

$1 billion per

year, and things will eventually come into focus.

That's a thousand

million per year.

 

NATURAL NON-TOXIC SOLUTIONS

 

Here are three holistic methods for reducing the

incidence of menopause

annoyances:

 

- clean diet

- plant-sourced estrogens - Phytoestrogens

- natural progesterone cream

 

1. Diet

Eat non-acidifying foods: raw fruits and vegetables,

whole grains, good

stuff. Acidfying foods, fast foods, processed foods,

white sugar, hard

fats - the usual culprits in most other disease

patterns - once again

make their appearance.

 

As explained above, " estrogen dominance " is promoted

by a lifetime diet

of these common foods.

 

Stress and nutritional deficiency deplete the

adrenals, which deplete

progesterone, which promotes estrogen imbalance, which

causes symptoms

of menopause.

 

Normally estrogen should just cycle through the body

once and then be

broken down in the liver. High fat content in the diet

prevents such

breakdown and allows estrogen to go around a second

time, promoting all

the above-mentioned imbalances. (McDougall, p87)

 

 

The foregoing information also applies for most birth

control pills.

Most are synthetic " steroid hormones " which

artificially prevent

ovulation.

 

The lie is, the Pill will " regulate periods. "

 

The truth is the menstrual flow is artificial,

occurring only because

the Pill was withheld for one week per month.

 

Normal menstruation is the result of the " cyclic

dynamic " between

natural estrogen and natural progesterone.

 

With contraceptives, the flow is just a result of a

clumsy,

sledgehammer

approach to " managing " one small aspect of an

imponderably complex

" bio-system " .

 

Long term, such a course is foolish, as it has the

same pattern of side

effects as listed above:

 

coronary artery disease, breast cancer, endometrial

cancer, strokes,

high blood pressure, liver dysfunction, respiratory

allergies,

digestive

disorders, depression, blood clots, osteoporosis, and

weight gain.

(Sellman, p78)

 

This is sexual freedom?

 

Sounds more like slavery to me.

 

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