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Do you or anyone close to you have any of the subtle or overt symptoms of estrogen dominance listed above? That means, do you have too much estrogen and estrogenic toxins in your body in relation to the amount of progesterone? Yes, progesterone production does decline with age, but if the estrogens, from natural and xenoestrogenic sources are running amuck, regardless of your age, or the presence or absence of a uterus/ovaries, then the balancing, cancer preventing, bone density promoting qualities of progesterone must be added to the body to protect your health. This is an important point that many practitioners are forgetting. We naturally make progesterone in greater amounts in our child bearing years. But stress, a deficiency of key nutrients, and/or deficiencies in the essential fats, render us unable to make even a basic amount of progesterone. However, the body makes estrogen easily and from several sources.
So most women and many men are actually relatively deficient in the progesterone hormone. Yes, men make estrogen too, and need to educate themselves about this as well. These are some of the symptoms that may diminish or disappear with the transdermal application (i.e. applied to the skin to be absorbed into the body) of natural progesterone cream from diosgenin from either soybeans or wild yams could and often do help. Natural Progesterone, which is NOT the same as the artificially created Progestins found in prescription birth control pills and hormone replacement therapies, will very effectively and harmoniously rebalance your body, bringing nature's hormonal balance back into line.
Many women are advised by their doctors to take artificial hormones in the form of birth control pills and other Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). These prescriptions have been made for many years but are not the best choice for the health of the many women taking them. The reasons for these misconceptions are many, and really confusing. There are a great many untruths that are still being taken as fact by many people in and out of the medical community. They are harmful and filled with half-truths and some outright falsehoods. But the stakes are very high for all of us, so I encourage you to read and order tapes/videos from Dr. Lee's web site at www.johnleemd.com. Learn for yourself if you want to keep your breasts, uterus, ovaries, prostate, gallbladder, hair on you head, trim waistline, thyroid functioning, bone density, and strong functioning immune system.
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1. As a woman ages, her body loses its ability to make enough estrogen. This is untrue. 2. After a hysterectomy, a woman completely loses her ability to make estrogen. Progesterone becomes unimportant. Both are untrue. 3. The only purposes of progesterone are to preserve and protect an embryo in the endometrial lining, supporting pregnancy, and to oppose estrogen in preventing uterine cancer. Other than that, low or non-existent progesterone levels are not a problem. This is untrue. 4. All hormones, whether created in a pharmaceutical laboratory, or by a living animal or by a human are equally effective. Bio-identical hormones are not necessary, as the synthetic ones work just as well. This is untrue. 5. Blood tests accurately test for the presence or deficiency of steroidal hormones. This is untrue. (Note the recommendations below by Christiane Northrup, M.D.)[2] [1] 6. Only women need to be looking at the balance of estrogen to progesterone for their health. Men's bodies are not in need of Progesterone supplementation to offset the many environmental "Estrogens," called Xenoestrogens, in their lives. This is untrue. 7. Estrogen is the hormonal key for bone density health. This is untrue. 8. All menopausal women need estrogen. Natural estrogen is ok; it's the prescription estrogens that are the only bad ones. This is untrue. There is an abundance of valid, scientific evidence that artificial hormones like progestins are profoundly inferior in function and health promotion to the human body's own Progesterone. Progestins do not equal progesterone, and should not be interchangeably used nor assumed equally safe! The new research and the halting of current research in the press of late, points to this obvious truth. The truth has many facets, including diet and exercise and much newly confirmed information from research trials halted due to high incidences of serious illness and death in the study participants! Unfortunately the billions of dollars of financial interest by the drug companies and the old teachings from the medical schools are impeding progress in changing the patterns. Most physicians out there are still behind on the facts. And the mediocrity inherent in the concept of Medical Malpractice, absolutely does not support responsive changes in the doctor's practice patterns. The measure of Malpractice is measured by moving outside of the practice norms of other doctors. So everyone is just sitting is the past, afraid to move forward. The fear of the Hippocratic Oath's calling of: "ABOVE ALL DO NO HARM" is outweighed by the fear of a medical malpractice judgment! So breaking out of the obsolete theories of the past is hindered by the financial losses of the future. In the meantime, we are getting sick and for sure... ...Harm is being done!
1. Salivary testing for steroidal hormones is necessary to accurately measure them. Most of us, women and men, of all ages, are making sufficient estrogen for our bodies. Some are not, but most are. We should never assume a deficiency of estrogen, because the most likely reality is a deficiency of Progesterone instead. 2. The vast majority of women continue to make plenty of estrogen after a natural menopause or a hysterectomy; it is progesterone that is deficient! We make estrogen in our body fat. Both estrogen and progesterone can be made in the adrenal cortex. However, since stress limits the production of both progesterone and estrogen in the adrenal glands, many of us fail to make the needed progesterone to balance our biological need for progesterone. However we do make estrogen from high glycemic food intake and in our body fat, so we are often not deficient in our natural estrogen synthesis. Therefore, a heavier woman will make more estrogen, than a thin woman. They also have a higher tendency toward a dramatic progesterone deficiency. The ability to make estrogen only diminishes, but does not stop in menopause/post-menopause, regardless of the reason for the menopausal onset. 3. When supplemental hormones are indicated, by saliva testing, human hormones must be replaced with bio-identical hormones, and the balance of Progesterone and estrogen must be observed and honored. Hormonal replacement should be the same BIO-IDENTICAL hormone that their body makes. The term Progesterone refers to the natural, bio-identical progesterone hormone like that which the human body makes. Progestins are patented chemically altered variants of the real thing. Hormones that are not identical will not function in all the ways that the natural hormones do, and are damaging to our health. 4. Progesterone is the "forgotten hormone" made in the ovaries for the 14 days after ovulation at about 20 mg. per day for most women, it is tremendously important to our health, including weight balancing, blood-sugar balancing, bone density, circulatory/heart health, muscle tone, skin and hair health, emotional and mental health, fat metabolism (gall-bladder health), thyroid functioning, and other health concerns. It also supports the endometrial lining and therefore maintains pregnancy and opposes estrogen to prevent all cancers which form in the presence of estrogen receptor cells&uterus, ovaries, breast, prostate, and the colon. 5. Environmental or Xenoestrogens are real and they do negatively affect us! Many, if not 80-90%, of us, men included, are biologically filled with estrogens and false damaging estrogenic chemicals. Women make estrogen in abundance, long after they lose their monthly production of progesterone, long after the hysterectomy or natural menopause. We also ingest or consume them in many only somewhat controllable ways. They are in various forms, in absolutely devastating forms, called Xenoestrogens, listed above. I encourage you to read about Xenoestrogens in "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer" Chapter 18, pp 291-314 or in "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause" ch. 5, pp 50-60 by John R. Lee, MD. Also go to his web site at www.johnleemd.com. This is a well researched issue that requires some action on our part, including the reduction of the Xenoestrogens, listed above, intake and the support of the estrogen/progesterone balance by supplementing with additional progesterone. 6. Because the very high probability that the reader has enough estrogen and not enough progesterone to balance, and because of the profound health risks associated with an overabundance of estrogen and deficiency of its opposing hormone, progesterone, I urge you to avoid taking any form, including natural compounded estrogens, until you have been accurately tested for a deficiency of estrogen using salivary testing. To read more about saliva versus serum tests, read the references to this text. The hormones we are testing for are hydrophobic, fat based chemical compounds that very quickly move from the blood plasma to be bound by the proteins in the blood cells, and are no longer usable to the body as hormones We don't fully understand the impact of the Xenoestrogens, but we do know that they are harmful and long-lived in some forms, like DDT and other endocrine disrupter forms. Their damage goes on for many years. 7. Trans-dermal absorption (i.e. through the skin) is more effective and less stressful to the liver, than oral hormones. Though, it is really important to use pure, creams made without the xenoestrogenic chemicals sometimes put into creams, as you liver will not be filtering the Xenoestrogens for you, as it would from oral progesterone intake. 8. Hormones are fat-based substances and will become rancid in an open air tub or tube or if exposed to light, air, and heat. Dose-metered pumps are longer lasting and retain the quality of the cream better 9. Estrogen can help with bone cell retention by sustaining the osteoclasts, but can not stimulate new bone cells to grow. Progesterone does that, by stimulating the osteoblasts. So their balance is crucial for solid, healthy bones. 11. The other corticosteroid hormones, including glucocorticoids like cortisol as well as the mineral corticoids are affected by the balance of estrogen and progesterone in men's and women's bodies. The endocrine system is highly interrelated.
1. FemCreme® from Pure Essence Labs: This is an excellent
natural progesterone cream in a dose metered, air protected pump,
w/ the recommended 480 mg. of Natural Progesterone /oz. PLUS 400
mg. of Standardized Black Cohosh & other classic Herbs for
Total Balance. FemCreme® is $34.00 for 3 oz. and does not contain
the licorice root, and seems just a bit more natural with an off-white
color, from the Natural Black Cohosh. The
pump is designed to deliver the 20 mg. of progesterone cream needed
daily, by most users. ½ pump 2X per day up to 1 full pump 2X
per day is normal. GLUTEN FREE. FemCreme is recommended for all women who are experiencing Estrogen dominance symptoms, as listed above, or who have been diagnosed as being estrogen dominant. A
natural progesterone cream containing added botanicals used for
centuries to help balance hormones naturally. Conveniently packaged
in a protective, waste-free dose metered pump to take the guesswork
out of measuring. The pump is designed to deliver the 20 mg.
of progesterone cream needed daily, by most users. ½ pump 2X
per day or 1 full pump 2X per day is normal. Phytoprolief®, like FemCreme® is recommended for all women who are experiencing Estrogen dominance symptoms, as listed above, or who have been diagnosed as being estrogen dominant. It contains slightly less Black Cohosh and is a bit thicker in it's consistency. Contains 480 mg.
of natural progesterone per ounce. (Or 20 mg. per full pump) Buy it from me for $30.00 plus shipping & tax on this web site @ Nutrition Made Simple Store or from Arbonne's website at: https://www.arbonne.com/shop_online/locate_consultant.asp Type in my name: Theresa Cook, Richardson, TX. ______________________________________________________________
Buy it from
me for $30.00 plus shipping & tax on this web site @ Nutrition Made Simple Store or from Arbonne's website
at: Prolief®, is recommended for Pregnant and lactating women, and men. They should use the Prolief® (without the herbs). Prolief® offers the benefits of a natural progesterone balancing cream without the added phytoestrogenic herbs. 1Source: Dr. John R. Lee, "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause," 1996, Warner Books, Inc. [2] [1] There are many sources for this list, including the works of Theo Colburn, in "Our Stolen Future", John Lee, MD in his "What your Doctor May Not Tell you About Breast Cancer", pg. 294-295. Copyright © 2001-2002.
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PMS, infertility,
menopausal symptoms, thyroid, auto-immunity,
weight gain around the middle, depression, mood swings, foggy/confused
thinking and many more are indications of a problem, screaming for remedy!
Estrogen in any form is not the answer! Men often struggle with a form
of these issues too!
seeds (freshly ground, BY YOU, never purchased already ground!) plus
the Barlean's lignan rich flax seed oil. Eat your soy beans and high
quality, but organic soy isolate, tofu, edamame, miso, etc. as a part
of your protein intake, and avoid meats which have been fed estrogens
and growth factors.
on the market contain
12.
Men are also very much at risk for estrogen dominance!
(Read John Lee, MDs newest book about men and prostate cancer.)So
do you need to use a natural progesterone cream on your body with
regularity? There is a very good chance that you do. There is
a 100% chance though, that you are well advised to research it
for yourself, intensely. Read Dr. Lee's latest book: What
Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer and read
from his web site at 
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