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Treatment Step One: Stop Taking Supplemental Oestrogins & Progestins
We know many doctors who read this will cry that we are offering dangerous advice in telling you to stop taking your prescribed Oestrogins & Progestins, but the danger is in doctors telling women to take them in the first place, and then hiding the true dangers, and often even their true nature from women in the first place
You can be taking oestrogens in several forms:
1. Xeno-oestrogens: These are commonly prescribed drugs. Calling them oestrogens is incorrect, there are NOT oestrogen, there are analogues of it, called xeno-oestrogens. Pharmcautical oestrogens are ALWAYS xeno-oestrogens no matter what your doctor and pharmaceutical companies try to claim.
2. Phyto-oestrogens: These are made from plant extracts, they have all been chemically changed.
3. Natural Oestrogens: made from Soy or Wild Yam.
There is little or no need to take oestrogen in any form. Your body makes enough of it’s own and it should always be kept in mind that body fat is an oestrogen producing organ. In addition to your own body feeding you oestrogens yur environment is also feeding you small but steady amounts of xeno-oestrogens. If you are in any doubt about just how much your doctor really knows about this class of drug I suggest that you read the books by Dr John Lee, check out your county’s national pharmaceutical formulary, takes notes and then visit you doctor and quiz them, I am very certain that you will be shocked at their ignorance. There are few classes of drugs that are so guaranteed to have such an insidious effect at destroying a woman’s health as pharmaceutical hormones, and none so potentially lethal as the progestins.
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Treatment Step Two: Natural Progesterone Cream
Why use natural progesterone as a cream for the skin ? Quite simply it is the most efficient way of getting progesterone into the body. Taking it in tablet form would mean taking it in very high doses in order to pass through the liver placing a strain on the liver in the process.
Why ‘ natural ‘ progesterone ? The moment you change so much as one little molecule of progesterone you destroy the beneficial effects of progesterone, it stops being progesterone and becomes a progestin, one of the most damaging and lethal substances a woman can have in her body, being a proven factor in causing breast cancer.
Start on day 10 / 12 of your cycle. It might take up to three months to really feel the maximum benefit, but you should have a good indication this is working after the first month. Keep a daily diary to monitor changes.
If you are so irregular in your cycle then you can pick an arbitrary day to start using the cream, but if you then start menstruating while taking the cream stop using it for 7 days and count the first day of your bleed as ‘ day 1 ‘ and wait until day 10 before re-starting the cream.
If you are menopausal you can just start using it. You should have a 6 to 3 day break in each calendar month.
Apply to the face, neck, palms or chest (areas where you blush the most) alternating between areas each day.
Start with a higher dose and work down to a maintenance dose. If you have not been ovulating for a number of years or are aware of having had oestrogen dominant symptoms for a number of years start with 40mg for three months and then work down to a 15 to 25mg dose per day.
** Start at 40 mg – work down to 15 -25mg **
You are the best person to judge the severity of your symptoms, so listen to your body and always strive to ‘ dose down ‘. Doing this will ensure that your oestrogen receptors will remain sensitised because the oestrogen receptors MUST remain sensitised in order for progesterone to do it’s work (as I said earlier, the endocrine system is enormously complex and interdependent).
Your symptoms may briefly get worse just as you start using the cream, however these effects will settle as you push through to your second cycle. This is because you are now re-sensitising receptors. Do not try to hurry the process by increasing dosages, your body will adjust at it’s own speed.
Do not be tempted to think more is better, and do not buy the super dose version of the cream (which contains up 3000mg). Remeber, moderation and slow gentle progress is the key. You will have gone into OD over many years so do not expect to be able to yank your body back quickly, do it gently. Natural progesterone cream is very benign to the body, always remember that it is a soothing hormone.
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Step Three: Dietary Factors
There is no escaping this simple truth; ‘ You are what you eat ‘
Processed foods nearly all contain xeno-oestrogens, often in very small quantities, but these small amounts all add up. There are some foods that contain very considerable quantities of hormones;
1. Soya products – despite the health claims of soya it is not that healthy and is ostrogenic in it’s action.. Anyone with cancer or an inflammatory condition like lupus should NOT consume soy based products.
2. Meat: animals are fed hormones (and anti-biotics) in order to boost body mass. If you doubt this go to your supermarket and compare the size of an organically reared chicken breast with a non-organic product. The food industry in the USA is allowed to use more than three times the levels of hormones compared to the EU.
Processing and cooking of foods does not destroy xeno-oestrogens or oestrogentic effects.
You should keep in mind that oestrogen is now also present in drinking water. Water treatment does not currently remove water borne oestrogens/xeno-oestrogens.
Pesticides often act as xeno-oestrogens in the body, so if you are one of those people who are sensitive to subtle levels of hormones ( and if you are reading this I would argue that you are) then you should gives serious consideration to using organically grown products only.
Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption is also important in order to increase bulk in your bowels. This has two important effects. Firstly it absorbs excess oestrogen, keeping it out of circulation. Secondly because excess oestrogen is shunted into the bowel it is important to keep bowel mobility in order to prevent the body reabsorbing the oestrogen later, fibre will ensure things are kept moving.
Seeds & nuts : these are very good for you in terms of nutrition and will also help with bowel motility.
Dehydration : believe it or not many people are technically dehydrated. We should consume 2.5litres of water per day. If you are dehydrated the first symptoms of dehydration is not thirst but hunger, a fact rarely appreciated.
Dietary Supplements
Oestrogen Dominance puts you at risk of having high triclycerides, and high cholesterol. Taking a good quality supplements will all help to reduce these levels, improving your overall health.
1. Omega 3 (fish oils, flaxseed oil, linseed oils)
2. CoEnzyme Q10
3. Vitamin B 6
4. Vitamen B12
5. Folic Acid
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Step Four: Environmental Factors
A point that I have kept making is that some of us are far more sensitive to subtle levels of hormones than others, this means that what the establishment regard as ‘ safe’ levels of xeno-oeastrogens in the environment could well be entirely meaningless. Environmental xeno-oestrogens come in many surprising forms:
- Petro-Chemical volatiles; including new laid carpets, Drinks bottles, food containers (especially when used in microwaves), chewing the end of your pen, cling film, oil based paints, bisphenol A, phthalates are the principle culprits.
- Pesticides /insecticides such as o,p'-DDT, endosulfan, dieldrin, methoxychlor, kepone, dicofol, toxaphene, chlordane; herbicides such as alachlor, atrazine and nitrofen; fungicides such as benomyl, mancozeb and tributyl tin; nematocides such as aldicarb adn dibromochloropropane.
- Ordinary household products (breakdown products of detergents and associated surfactants, including nonylphenol and octylphenol).
- Industrial chemicals (polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin and benzo(a)pyrene).
- Heavy metals (lead, mercury, and cadmium).
It has always been known, if not always appreciated, that women have a particular stake in environmental health. Not only do they share many of the same diseases as men and children – in which the environment, along with genetic susceptibility, has an important role – but women also have particular environmental diseases related to their gender. No where is this now more evident than in Oestrogen Dominance. Other diseases involve women's role in reproduction and in the bearing and nursing of children.
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A Note On Auto-Immune Disorders (Lupus etc)
A quick mention of auto-immune disorders; Women are disproportionately susceptible to autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma (a disease of the connective tissue) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
The body produces antibodies that fight foreign proteins known as antigens. In lupus, the antibodies mistake the body's own cells as foreign and attack them. The disease may range from mild to severe and is characterized by periods of flare-ups and remissions. Lupus may cause weight loss, fever, fatigue, aching and weakness and may involve different organ systems such as the central nervous system, the heart, lungs, kidneys, muscles and joints.
Exposures to various chemicals such as pharmaceuticals and solvents have been linked to autoimmune diseases. For example, exposure to hydrazine, an industrial chemical, or tartrazine, a food additive, is associated with lupus. And scleroderma has been associated with workplace exposure to vinyl chloride and silica dust. All these chemicals have xeno-oestrogenic effects in the human body, the more oestrogen that is produced the more inflammation within the body is stoked, and the more oestrogen becomes dominant the less progesterone the body makes, further reducing any chance of the body reducing the inflammatory effects of the oestrogen and making the condition (for instance) lupus worse.
Using Natural progesterone Cream when you have an inflammatory auto-immune disorder can help to reduce many of the effects of the various symptoms because progesterone is the body's calming hormone.
Other possible treatment areas: Alkalising, Ozone Therapy and HBOT.
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Books To Read
‘ What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Hormone Balance ‘ By John R. Lee, Virginia Hopkins
Publisher: Warner Books, ISBN: 0446614955
' What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(tm): Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty’. By John Lee. Publisher: Warner Books, ISBN: 0446615390
Hormones For Life
‘Hormone Deception’ By D. Lindsey Berkson, Published by Contemporary Books, ISBN 0658021303.
‘Natural Progesterone: The Multiple Roles of a Remarkable Hormone’ By John Lee, Publisher: Jon Carpenter Publishing. ISBN: 1897766548.
Autoimmune Issues
‘ What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Autoimmune Disorders ‘ By John R. Lee,
Publisher: Warner Books, ISBN: 0446679240.
All these books are currently in print and available from www.amazon.com.
Web Sites To Read
THE International Authority on oestrogen Dominace: http://www.johnleemd.com/
Health Science: http://www.health-science.com/
Alternative Medicine Network : http://www.altmednetwork.net/
Newstarget : a great alternative view on the world, real eye opener www.newstarget.com
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