Not exact matches
New recommendations
for managing menopausal symptoms in breast cancer survivors August 22, 2017 A large proportion of the world's estimated 9.3 million breast cancer survivors experience menopausal symptoms or clinical manifestations of
estrogen deficiency.
They love to get pregnant and they want to get pregnant again just to experience that moment of bliss, because the body is able to put out sufficient progesterone not only to overcome the progesterone
deficiency that is common in OAT axis imbalance and
estrogen dominance, but the extra progesterone also causes a calming effect
for them, and overcomes their fatigue.
Do some reading on
estrogen dominance and / or progesterone
deficiency and make sure they look into that
for you.
At Parsley we test
for nutrient
deficiencies, toxins like heavy metals, genetics with implications
for pregnancy like MTHFR, and of course hormones, including forgotten hormones like Cortisol DHEA and Insulin which can have a much bigger impact on fertility than
estrogen and progesterone.
There is some evidence of poor iron metabolism and high
estrogen levels as causative factors
for RLS, but with menopause RLS doesn't tend to improve so the details of the hormonal and nutrient
deficiency etiologies are RLS are not yet clear.
BCPs can
for that reason 1) raise
estrogen levels — which either corrects an
estrogen deficiency or helps balance the activity of runaway testosterone — and they can also 2) restore proper balance between
estrogen and progesterone, which is important
for keeping progesterone levels within their proper parameters.
Yet, conventional physicians routinely prescribe
estrogen or other sex hormones without ever testing
for hormone
deficiency.
The good news is,
for most women, an estradiol patch of just 0.025 mg or 0.05 mg will bring back brain function and solve other
estrogen deficiency symptoms, without over-excitation.
Estrogen deficiency is the main cause
for menopause.
Estrogen dominance or estradiol elevation (with or without progesterone
deficiency), or even hyperthyroidism would be more likely hormonal causes
for such symptoms.
Short - term
estrogen use could overcome deleterious effects of
estrogen deficiency for fracture healing
These symptoms are part of premenopause
for a majority of today's women, and are the result of hormone imbalances, most of them caused by an excess of the hormone
estrogen, and a
deficiency of the hormone progesterone.
These books are more practically useful
for later stages of ovarian imbalance: -
estrogen dominance /
deficiency: there are three
estrogens you need to know about, all are best covered in an excellent early chapter of «Natural Health for Women» by Roger Mason; - progesterone deficiency: «Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple» and «Dr. Eckhart's How to Use Progesterone Cream Practical Guide for Avoiding Side Effects & Chemical Estrogen
estrogens you need to know about, all are best covered in an excellent early chapter of «Natural Health
for Women» by Roger Mason; - progesterone
deficiency: «Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple» and «Dr. Eckhart's How to Use Progesterone Cream Practical Guide
for Avoiding Side Effects & Chemical
EstrogensEstrogens».
For example, a relative
deficiency of progesterone (compared to
estrogen) may present with heavy bleeding, poor sleep, anxiety and low sex drive.
There are numerous tests that are shown to be more important markers of an increased risk of coronary artery disease than cholesterol.There are many causes and risk factors
for heart disease, including inflammation, high cholesterol, low testosterone, low thyroid, low
estrogen, hypertension, high lipoprotein A, insulin resistance, diabetes, obesity, high homocystine, nutritional
deficiencies and excessive oxidation, to name a few.
Estrogen can also change the requirements
for thyroid hormone, and this may result in an autoimmune condition, especially in the presence of nutrient
deficiencies.