Vitamin E and Iron - Both of this help
produce more estrogen - the hormone that increases sex drive in women.
Women with plenty of body fat may
make more estrogen after menopause than skinny women make before menopause.
Some people are just born
with more estrogen - sensitive breasts, which is why man boobs tend to run in the family.
This explains why babies fed soy - based formula have 13,000 to 22,000
times more estrogen compounds in their blood than babies fed milk - based formula.
There's just a lot more of it now because your body is
producing more estrogen, and more blood is flowing to the area around your vagina.
The added calories from too many beers also causes men to gain weight — and fat has a nasty tendency to produce
even more estrogen.
High levels of estrogen also causes more fatty tissue growth, and your fat cells in turn
make more estrogen; so it's a vicious cycle.
From Day 1 to Day 15 (or the middle of your cycle), we
need more estrogen in order to build up our endometrium (uterus lining).
Many women worry that they are already experiencing estrogen dominance, so why add
more estrogen in the form of phytoestrogens such as the flaxseed?
These side effects often have women running
for more estrogen to wake themselves up again, but what they really need to do is use progesterone cream, which is a much more efficient delivery method: if you put 20 mg on your skin, virtually all of that will be in your bloodstream within a matter of minutes.
The more inflammation that's going on there that's gonna take your hormones out of balance because with the more inflamed you are, Cortisol's gonna increase, Insulin maybe out of balance, that may skew your progesterone to estrogen ratio, «cause you'll pull progesterone downstream to anti-inflammatory Cortisol so that can
create more estrogen dominance.
When there are low levels of iodine, there is
more estrogen floating around, which can contribute to estrogenic types of cancer.
At the same time, those who are overweight have a tendency to have more adipose tissue, which leads to
more estrogen secretion for reproductive system function.
The white blood cells try to clean up the mess but, in the process, release a cytokine (chemical) that stimulates the production
of more estrogen from the fibrous cells right in the middle of the fibroid!
One recent study found that women who ate higher quantities of omega - 3 fatty acids combined with a low fat diet
excreted more estrogen in their urine than women who ate high fat diets.
More Estrogen Talking (no man should ever think this, but they do): «I don't want to get muscular and bulky from weight training»
One interesting thing about body fat according to scientists is that the fatter you get the more the body will generate
more estrogen after converting it from the anabolic steroids used.
If you err on the side of constipation, consider calcium - d - glucarate as a supplement (which helps
scoot more estrogen out the digestive tract).
So, what happens in the body of a woman when these hormones are added to the meat and dairy products she eats, thus causing the body to
receive more estrogen than God intended?
Excess insulin in the bloodstream also signals the ovaries to
release more estrogen which can suppress ovulation.
Insulin also increases the production of testosterone, which is then converted into even
more estrogen by fat tissue in the belly.»
In this case, a functional medicine doctor will have a much more thorough approach to estrogen issues, because medical doctors all too often reach for birth control pills to correct problems, which actually stack
on more estrogen.
For example, if a woman
needs more estrogen she should eat more cruciferous veggies and if another needs more progesterone (or has estrogen dominance) she should limit or avoid cruciferous veggies.
Both men and women alike have hormones in varying amounts; with males embodying more testosterone and women
with more estrogen and progesterone.
If postmenopausal women
take more estrogen than they need, they will have vaginal bleeding (assuming the presence of a uterus) and this will show during the days of not using the hormones.
More estrogen means more fat and aromatase — essentially zapping away your valuable testosterone.
Fat is one of the big - gest enemies to testosterone because greater body - fat levels
equals more estrogen.
That extra fat can act as an endocrine producing organ (specifically, it starts
producing more estrogen), which can further depress testosterone levels.
This stimulates the ovary to
make more estrogen and androgens, which stimulates more follicles toward ovulation.
Too much estrogen results in a compounding problem — increased fat tissue acts as an estrogen - producing organ, which means
even more estrogen is released into a man's system, leading to even greater fat production, and so on in a worsening pattern.