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Dr. John Lee states that a sign of estrogen dominance is weight gain caused by both water retention and fat deposition at hips and thighs. This is an interesting point, because I have found that many women wonder why they are gaining weight even though they are exercising and on a strict diet. One of my neighbors thought she had gained weight because she had given up smoking. At the same time, however, her doctor had put her on estrogen therapy for her menopausal problems, informing her (albeit incorrectly) that this hormone would be good for bone growth and make her feel a lot better. After, talking to her I couldn’t help but think that her accumulation of a middle-age spread could very well stem from the dual effect of her synthetic estrogen (prescribed alone) and the rapid drop in progesterone level that accompanies menopause.
Another case is highlighted in The Menopause Industry, by Sandra Coney. This women, prescribed Premarin for her joint problems and pelvic inflammation, began to put on weight “at an alarming rate” and was then switched to different forms of estrogen, including Estraderm patches and implants. The unfortunate result was a thirty-five-pound weight gain, fluid retention, and breast discomfort.
In contrast, botanical progesterone is a natural diuretic. It burns fat (often caused by high doses of synthetic estrogen already in the body) for energy and lowers cholesterol levels-once again helping to avoid another unwanted side effect of synthetic HRT.
Dr. John Lee proposes further reasons why estrogen should not be given without Natural Progesterone, and why we may begin to feel more and more uncomfortable if we take estrogen alone for any length of time. He says that estrogen:
- Allows influx of water and sodium into [the] cells, thus affecting aldosterone production leading to water retention and hypertension".
- Causes intracellular hypoxia [oxygen deficiency], opposes the action of the thyroid.
- Promotes histamine release
- Promotes blood clotting thus increasing the risk of stroke and embolism
- Thickens bile...promoting gall bladder disease
- Causes copper retention and zinc loss
It is any wonder that so many women feel miserable when using synthetic estrogens? And is it any wonder that Dr. Lee says, “Something is wrong with the estrogen theory”? Prescribed alone, estrogen can lead to breast or uterine cancer even five years prior to menopause. Other consequences of estrogen dominance, he says, include “heightened activity of the hypothalamus [and] hyperactivity of adjacent limbic nuclei leading to mood swings, fatigue, feelings of being cold, and inappropriate responses to other stressors.
Just before menstruation, as Dr. Lee says, too much estrogen in the body often causes edema, or swelling and bloating. Dr. Ray Peat agrees: “Under the influence of estrogen, your body retains extra water.” This, he says, is one reason we often crave extra salt.
Some authorities recommend cutting down on salt the week before one’s period in an effort to reduce bloating and breast tenderness. However, Dr. Peat points out the often overlooked fact that sodium “is essential for [maintaining] adequate blood volume, and that it is almost always unphysiological and irrational to restrict sodium intake.” He explains that “reduced blood volume tends to reduce the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to all tissues, leading to many problems.” (For more on the wise use of sodium, refer to Jacques de Langre’s book Seasalt’s Hidden Powers.)
Dr. Lee’s instructions for use of the cream are quoted in the popular book Alternative Medicine.
“Using this progesterone transdermally,” he says, “from day fifteen of the monthly cycle to day twenty-five will usually cause breast cysts to disappear.”
On the other hand, noted breast surgeon and author Susan M. Love, M.D., states that most studies of caffeine and benign breast disease have been either inconclusive, unscientific, or contradictory and that the popular preception of a connection may or may not be a reality. She points out that individual physiological differences could account for caffeine’s affecting one person but not another.
Several years ago, Dr. Linda Force had surgery on her breast to remove a fibrocyst. Following the surgery her breast swelled to twice the normal size and was very painful. The surgeon had not removed all of the cyst because it would have created too much deformity. Dr. Force says, “As time went on, I controlled the problem by watching my diet and avoiding caffeinated beverages. But when I was thirty-five and developed PMS, the breast discomfort intensified. This is when I went to Dr. William Douglass, who dispenses rectal progesterone therapy over a three-month period. For those months only, I was fine. After that, my discomfort was not as bad as it had been previously, and I learned to tolerate it. But every month when my period would start, by breasts would swell and become very sore.”
Fifteen years after the first surgery to remove her fibrocysts, Dr. Force was still suffering from the cysts, which were getting more and more painful as time went by. Her medical doctors were advising her to undergo surgery again if they didn’t clear up. That’s when I provided her with literature about the Transdermal Natural Progesterone Cream. It explained how the decline of progesterone can create estrogen dominance which in turn can cause any number of disorders such as fibrocysts, weight gain, endometriosis, depression, and more. Her first question was “Is it natural?” I assured her that it is botanically derived and that she had nothing to lose.
Being a doctor, she quickly understood the dangers and side effects of unopposed estrogen. The fact is that when estrogen is administered to women with fibrocystic breasts, their condition becomes worse. However, it is easily treated with Natural Progesterone Therapy. She began her treatment immediately, and conscientiously applied the Natural Progesterone Cream to the sites of the lumps in her breast and to her abdomen twice daily, once in the morning and once at night. As the weeks went by, she saw subtle improvements her fibrocysts had disappeared and she was free of the pressure and pain she’d previously had. Her relief at having avoided the prescribed surgery and drugs was evident. And as a true health provider, she soon made this important information about Natural Progesterone cream available to all her patients and staff.
Gail Sheehy asked one doctor if he took the ovaries out as a routine procedure. The doctor nonchalantly told her, “In a postmenopausal woman, the ovaries are of no use anyway.” In dismayed retrospect, Sheehy asks, “Wasn’t this extreme?” This doctor was disregarding the fact that the ovaries continue to manufacture testosterone, which, as Sheehy points out, “strongly influences a woman’s sexual desire and energy.” We might want to think several times before considering a hysterctomy. Every organ has an integral role to play throughout one’s entire life. In her book Sheehy tells us that “between 33 and 46 percent of the women whose ovaries had also been removed complained of reduced sexual responsiveness.” Dr. Howard Judd of UCLA, an expert on the postmenopausal ovary, emphasizes that “the concept that the ovary burns out is not true.” The fact is that after menopause, even though the ovaries no longer produce estrogen, they do manufacture testosterone.
Sheehy relates that most women who have undergone hysterectomies are in the age group of twenty-five to forty-four. When the cervix and uterus are removed, some women feel the effects of menopause within two years of the surgery. However, an oophorectomy (where the ovaries are removed) will generally bring on the state of menopause immediately. So, coerced menopause often befalls women when they are quite young.
Menopause usually begins around the ages or forty-five to fifty; and the last period is experienced in the early fifties. However, ovarian defect can begin at thirty. Undue trauma, or more than normal physical or mental stress, can bring on menopause years sooner. If a woman smokes, has a poor diet, is on medication, or has undergone surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, she will also experience a dramatic loss of progesterone, which accelerates the aging process. And the degree of menopausal symptoms can also vary enormously in accord with each individual’s genetic differences.
I had no way of understanding then the undelying and multiple reasons for my stress and immense weakness, or why my body could not adapt to the demands of taking care of an infant during the night and a two year-old during the day, while cooking for family and friends who had come to join us at this time of celebration.
As the days proceeded, I rapidly lost motor control on my left side. Within two months after the birth, my left side had become paralyzed as the result of a blood clot that had lodged in a blood vessel wall on the right side of my brain. This embolism left me helpless and traumatized for several months. The neurosurgeon, my OB/GYN, and other specialists were completely mystified as to the cause of my condition.
The postnatal paralysis all took place twenty-six-years ago. Now, however, after sifting through much research, I can’t help but speculate that progesterone deficiency was perhaps one of the causes for my stress and that Natural Progesterone might have rescued me from the trauma I had endured. I recall, too, that Dr. Peat writes that during stressful times in a woman’s life, supplementation with the Natural Progesterone is urgently needed to correct imbalances in the endocrine system. Haav these doctors and researchers solved the mystery that was so puzzling to my specialists over two decades ago? Natural Progesterone may help many at-risk women to avoid strokes and other stress-related disorders.
The above information was taken from Raquel Martin's book, The
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