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Marriage and hormone problems don’t mix that well. If there isn’t a strong faith in the marriage hormone problems can add gasoline to the mix and even light the match to cause explosive relationship issues. It is great to be married but having to walk around on egg-shells is no way to live. So let’s do more hormone investigations.
An unbeatable fact is that hormones go through changes throughout life. Also, if there is a problem it won’t improve over time like a fine wine or tequila.
We covered how nutritional deficiencies can throw off your hormone balance. The next biggest problem is MAN-made. There we go again … thinking. Yes, thinking we can out do God and the natural way, by altering nature and thinking we can make it better. We call these … drugs.
Here are 4 ways the Mad-Scientist is messing with you.
1. The Pill -
If I had to venture a guess this is a source of the majority of the problems. mostly because so, so, so many women take these. Did you know? The original researcher spent 10 years in England studying the effects of “the pill” on women and when she published her results they were surprising. She said it is too dangerous, at any dose, for women to use. Well as you may have guessed the drug companies didn’t like that, so they erased her book from every library and book store. Only rare private copies exist.
As a bonus, “the pill” also creates a significant loss of vitamins and minerals, one of which is folic acid. How ironic is that?
If that isn’t bad enough, the main way it messes with you is by the very action it is made for, to shut down ovulation. To stop pregnancy, it shuts down progesterone production. This starts a hormone imbalance. Having no progesterone to balance estrogen production is a huge cancer risk and ding, ding, ding a big shift in hormones and women feel that. Often supplements and herbs work very well if the woman is young enough. Things like Chaste tree, Ovex-P, magnesium, Cataplex E, Catalyn, and Hypothalmex all have their place in helping.
2. Clomid
Our next concoction is a doosy. I have some ethical problems with this one. This drug is for fertility. It forces the ovary to keep shooting out eggs like a roman candle. Eventually burning up the ovary and it’s hormone making ability
Now since I’ve run hormone tests on these women, I can say with confidence they have very messed up hormone profiles. Every one I’ve seen had a progesterone as flat as an EKG of a dead guy. Beeep——————-
Back to problem #1, no progesterone = heavy duty imbalance. There really isn’t much hope for herbs and supplements in this case. To get relief you’ll likely need a natural hormone replacement.
When there is a problem with getting pregnant there is obviously something wrong. Question of the day. Should we force life just because we can? Leave a comment on our site so others can participate.
3. Old age hormone drugs
This fascinates me to no end. Women have all these things working against them as they go through life and in the later years when the imbalances kick into high gear they want relief, now. The solutions are a catch-22.
The medical community has got caught with their pants down, twice. They started with ERT estrogen replacement therapy and researchers discovered that it caused cancer … whoops. Can’t have people dying of cancer, so lets add fake progesterone. Kind of like giving your kid a fake carrot for dinner and expecting him to grow up strong and get good grades. Now they called it HRT, hormone replacement therapy. Fake estrogen combined with fake progesterone.
Whoops in 2002, a huge nurses study found out that HRT cause heart attacks and strokes, dang. So they changed the names of the drugs again and women still show up, amazing.
As a side note, when millions of women temporarily stopped taking HRT in 2002, in 2003 the rates of breast cancer droppedfor the first time, hmmm. I think if presented with a choice of breast cancer or hot flashes which would you choose?
Help for this kind of lifetime of imbalances is tough. It depends a lot on the nutritional status of the person and I think seeing a natural health practioner is necessary. Supplements and herbs are very helpful, but other changes may be necessary.
4. Pesticides
My arch-nemesis. This one is a huge problems because it is so pervasive and so well accepted. We as a society are such dumb sheep. “Let’s poison our food so we can grow lots of nutrient poor food.” That sounds like a fabulous idea for a strong healthy woman. I’ll get off my soap box fora moment. “Eat organic” O.K. I’m done now.
Pesticides mimic estrogen. This is one more way to create a massive hormone imbalance. Consider this, the average American eats only processed food or if they do slip in some veggies or fruit, they are coated with chemical pesticides, that many don’t wash off.
Fix it
Your liver is the primary way your body tries to get rid of this stuff before it gives you cancer or hormones so wacky you want to get a divorce for no obvious reason, except your unhappy. Things like organic cruciferous veggies are great. People generally don’t eat kale or Brussels sprouts so you can take Standard Processes Cruciferous Complete and LivCo. If you know this sounds like you then I’d add Livaplex.
Remember it takes time to get better. Expect 3 months to a year.
We have 3 more issues next time.
Spirally weight gain
Adrenal fatigue
Thyroid insufficiency
Health comes from within,
Dr. Altman
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