Hormonal Imbalances & Phytoestrogens

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Hormonal Imbalances & Phytoestrogens - A Viable Solution

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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