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Premenstrual Tension and Effects of Oestrogen dominance

Premenstrul Tension - For many women it happens every moth like a recurring bad dream – a list of symptoms that make life very uncomfortable.

The most common symptoms of premenstrual tension (PMT) include: - Abdominal cramping, mood swings, crying spells, irritability, tension, anxiety, fatigue, water retention, headaches, acne breakout, bloating, depression, lower back pain, nausea, breast tenderness and cravings for sugar or chocolate.

An imbalance in the oestrogen-to-progesterone ratio is believed to be a root cause of PMT. Harsh chemicals and drugs can interfere with the liver’s ability to filter excess oestrogen.

We are digesting more and more oestrogen in our food (because of the steroids given to animals) and in our water as the effects of oestrogen in the birth pill and HRT cannot be filtered out of our water supply.

Unique combinations of nutrients, vitamins and herbs that support hormone balance, reproductive and glandular systems can make improvements to symptoms therefore making the body’s natural changes just part of daily life.

Reflexology is one of the Therapies that is most effective in treating many of the hormonal imbalances that cause women’s disorders.

We can rebalance hormone levels, release tension and reduce stress.

Hormonal balance is essential for correcting oestrogen dominance, - the dominant factor for many female *hormonal imbalances.

*Saliva testing is available.

It activates and realigns systems of the body and works well with: -

Stress management,

Diet improvement,

Vitamin and mineral supplements to help fine-tune the body.

Releasing toxins and environmental pollution from the body.

All this can help to put you back in control of your body in a healthy way.

For more information please contact Joy …

Premenstrual Syndrome /Tension

This is usually associated with hormonal imbalance

Key symptoms:

Emotional

Irritable, and/or tearful

Clumsy

Stress

A unique combination of nutrients, vitamins and herbs support hormone balance, reproductive and glandular systems and can improve PMT symptoms making the body’s natural changes just part of daily life.

For more information contact me for a range of products that can help

Anxiety and stress can be experienced within any part of the mind/body complex, depending upon our own innate physical and emotional constitution. One common problem is the weakening of the immune defence system, resulting in fatigue, and susceptibility to every passing infection and allergy. Stress and anxiety can also trigger skin problems, or exacerbate an existing condition such as acne and eczema. It can also play havoc with the endocrine and reproductive systems, manifesting perhaps as severe PMS, low fertility in men and women, thyroid dysfunction, maturity onset, diabetes and a whole host of other complaints.

For more information of stress see SER and cellular healing page.

The physiological effects of Oestrogen and Progesterone:

Oestrogen dominance is the main factor for many female hormonal imbalances. It is the unopposed oestrogen that triggers the symptoms of PMS. For women in the peri-menopausal phase this is often the reason for them to start experiencing PMS as they are not ovulating every month and therefore their cycle is oestrogen dominant. It is helpful to have a temperature chart for each day of your cycle to check whether you are ovulating.

By taking your temperature first thing in the morning, before drinking, you will know if you are ovulating by the temperature fluctuation. If you are not ovulating you do not produce progesterone. Women will always produce oestrogen even if they have had their ovaries removed because oestrogen also comes from the adrenal glands and adipose tissue. During the menopause Mother nature, lowers oestrogen levels and ceases progesterone production, so women will still be oestrogen dominant.

Oestrogen Effects: Progesterone Effects:

Stimulates endometrium Maintains endometrium

Breast stimulation Protects against breast fibrocysts

Increases body fat Help’s burn fat for energy

Salt and water retention Natural diuretic

Depression and headaches Natural anti-depressant

Interferes with thyroid hormone Helps normalise thyroid action

Increases blood clotting Normalises blood clotting

Decreases libido Restores libido

Impairs blood sugar control Restores blood sugar control

Loss of zinc, retention of copper Normalises zinc & copper levels

Reduces oxygen level in all cells Restores proper cell oxygen levels

Increases risk of endometrial Prevents endometrial cancer

cancer

Increases risk of breast cancer Helps to prevent breast cancer

Slightly restrains bone loss Stimulates bone building

Reduces vascular tone Necessary for survival of embryo

*Adapted with permission from Natural progesterone by Dr J Lee MD

For further trial information by Dr Lee - see below on the HRT page.

There has been a lot of news reports and news items about HRT

Should women take it or not? Does it have benefits or not?

Women are getting very confused

I have had my own conclusions for many years now. I came across a report The question is –where do we go from here? Dr Lee’s viewpoint is that we should go back to basics and find out where our mistake is.

In his practice he noticed symptoms that did not seem right when patients were taking HRT. He came to the conclusion with his own trials that when we are on the menopause we need to balance oestrogen with progesterone. The hormone supplements need to be natural products and not synthetic. In Dr. Lee’s opinion - It is the synthetic products that seem to be the cause of the disorders and symptoms.

He has written several books on the subject that are well worth a read. (“What your doctor may not tell you about the menopause”,

“What your doctor may not tell you about pre-menopause” & “What your doctor may not tell you about breast cancer”).

*His views on recent reports are as follows …

The recent Lancet publication of the Million Women Study (MWS) removes any lingering doubt that there’s something wrong with conventional HRT. Why would supplemental oestrogen and a little progesterone (other than real progesterone) increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer by 30%? Other studies found that these same HRT hormones increase one’s risk of heart disease and blood clots (strokes) and do nothing for preventing Alzheimer’s disease.

When you pass through puberty and your sex hormones surge, it does not make you sick (unhealthy) – they cause your body to mature into adulthood and be healthy.

But the hormones used in conventional HRT are somehow not right – they are killing women.

*For a complete transcript you can send a SAE plus £1.00

Dr Lee suggests that a *transdermal progesterone cream is more natural for our bodies and ingested naturally through the skin.

*Further information about progesterone cream and saliva testing is available through Omega Therapies.

Dr Lee has adopted three simple rules covering hormone supplements and when the rules are followed, women have a decreased risk of breast cancer, heart attacks or strokes. They are much less likely to get fat or have poor sleep, short - term memory loss, fibrocystic breasts, mood disorders or libido problems.

1) Give hormones only to those who are truly deficient in them

Common sense don’t you think. We don’t give insulin, thyroid, or cotisol to someone unless we have good evidence they need it.

Yet conventional physicians routinely prescribe estrogen or other sex hormones without ever testing for hormone deficiency. It is just assumed that women after menopause are estrogen deficient.

25 years ago Dr Lee did his own review on hormone levels before and after menopause and all authorities agreed that over two-thirds (66%) of women up to 80 continue to make all the estrogen they need. Since then the evidence has only grown stronger.

Even with ovaries removed, women still make oestrogen. Women with plenty of body fat can make more estrogen after menopause than skinny women.

Some breast cancer specialists are so worried, that they are giving patients drugs to block estrogen, while their colleagues are continuing to prescribe it for a presumed hormone deficiency.

How do you know if you are estrogen deficient? Vaginal dryness and vaginal mucosal atrophy are clear signs.

2) Use bio-identical hormones rather than synthetic hormones.

Synthetic hormones’ molecules differ in molecular configuration from endogenous (made in the blood) hormones.

From studies of petrochemical xeon-hormones, we learn that substitute synthetic hormones differ in their activity at the receptor level. In some cases they will activate the receptor in a manner similar to the natural hormone, but in other cases the synthetic hormone will have no effect or will block the receptor completely.

Synthetic hormones can be patented. Patented drugs are more profitable than non-patented drugs and sex hormone prescription sales make more money for pharmaceutical companies than any other prescription drug.

Women’s Health is sacrificed for commercial profit.

3) Use only in dosages that provide normal physiologic tissue levels.

Everyone would agree, I think, that dosages of hormone supplements should restore normal physiologic levels. The question is – how do you define normal physiologic levels?

Hormones do not work just by floating around in circulating blood: they work by slipping out of blood capillaries to enter cells that have the proper receptors in them. Protein-bound hormones are unable to leave blood vessels and bond with intracellular receptors. Serum tests do not help you measure the “free” bio-available form of the hormone. The answer is saliva testing.

Simply compare saliva tests of healthy people with saliva tests of women with breast cancer.

If physicians did that they would find that cancer victims estrogen dosages are 8-10 times greater than found in normal healthy people. They would also note that progesterone levels are not raised by giving supplements of synthetic progestagen such as medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA).

Further, saliva levels (not serum levels) of progesterone will clearly demonstrate excellent absorption of progesterone from transdermal creams.

Transdermal progesterone cream is natural a natural progesterone.

Transdermal progesterone enters the blood stream fully bioavailable (without protein bound). The progesterone increase is readily apparent in saliva testing, whereas serum will show little or no change.

Saliva testing helps to determine optimal dosages of supplemented steroid hormones; something that serum testing cannot do.

Other factors

Hormone imbalance is not the only cause of breast cancer, strokes, and heart attacks. Other risk factors are of importance including: -

Poor diet (excess sugar and refined starches, trans-fatty acids, lack of needed nutrients such as omega-3 full range of essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals etc.,)

Environmental xenoestrogens and hormones not removed by water treatment plants.

Insulin resistance

Stress

Lifestyle problems (poor sleep, melatonin deficiency, alcohol, cadmium (cigarette smoking) and birth control pills during early teens

Men share these risks equally with women.

Hormone imbalance and exposure of these risk factors in men leads to earlier heart attacks, lower sperm counts and a higher prostate cancer risk.

Conclusion

Conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) composed of either estrone or estradiol, with or without progestagens (excluding progesterone) carries an unacceptable risk of breast cancer, heart attacks, and strokes. A more rational HRT using bio-identical hormones in dosages based on true needs as determined by saliva testing is proposed.

In addition to proper hormone balancing, other important risk factors are described, all of which are potentially correctable.

Combining hormone balancing with correction of other environmental and life style factors is our best hope for reducing the present risks of breast cancer, strokes and heart attacks.

A much broader discussion of all these factors can be found in his book “ What your doctor may not tell you about breast cancer”

For a complete transcript you can send a SAE plus £1.00

*Further information about progesterone cream and saliva testing is available through Omega Therapies.

No synthetic hormone provides the same total physiologic activity as the natural hormone it is intended to replace and all synthetic hormones will provoke undesirable side effects not found with the human hormone. i.e. human insulin is preferable to pig insulin.

Sex hormones identical to human (bi-identical) hormones have been available for over 50 years.

Pharmaceutical companies, however, prefer synthetic hormones.