Menopause Sucks

A lot has been on the news lately about hormone replacement
therapy, and natural alternatives.

If you have not read Dr. Lee's books on What Your Doctor May Not
Tell You About Premenopause and What Your Doctor May Not Tell You
About Menopause, I would highly recommend them. These books are
classics and should be in everyone's natural medicine library.

Natural progesterone is very useful to balance excess estrogen.
Natural progesterone is also different from estrogen in that your
body can use it as a precursor or starting material to make other
hormones such as adrenal hormones. It can even convert it into
estrogen or testosterone if your body needs it.

Some of the reasons that estrogen is frequently in excess in many
women are:

1. Overproduction of estrogen. Ovarian cysts or tumors can lead to
excess estrogen production. Stress also increases production, but
probably the most common cause is obesity. All body fat has an
enzyme which converts adrenal steroids to estrogen, so the more fat
you have, the more estrogen is present.

2. Inability to breakdown estrogen. Excess estrogen is generally
removed by the liver. Diseases of the liver like cirrhosis or
decreased enzyme activity can lead to increased estrogen levels.
Vitamin B6 and magnesium are necessary for the liver to neutralize
estrogen. Increased sugar intake will also excrete magnesium and
interfere with its ability to breakdown estrogen.

3. Exposure to pesticides in foods. Most of us eat foods that have
pesticides on them. These and many other unnatural chemicals share
a common structure with estrogen and serve as "false" estrogens
which further stimulates the body's estrogen receptors.

4. Estrogen supplementation. Clearly any additional estrogen given
by prescription will increase the level unless it is properly
balanced with natural progesterone.

5. Decreased production of progesterone. Progesterone is necessary
to counterbalance estrogen. If women do not ovulate during their
cycle they will not produce any progesterone that cycle. This
happens commonly and worsens the already disturbed
progesterone/estrogen balance.

For More Detailed Information on Natural Progesterone: You can
purchase What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause by Dr.
John Lee. It is a paperback book that sells for $13. The newer
version that was published in 1999, What Your Doctor May Not Tell
You About Pre Menopause, has a blue cover.

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