Finally I drove four hours to see a specialist who put
me on synthetic estrogen, progesterone and testosterone.
Not exact matches
Looking at the data in this way showed that absolute risk for health problems for women
on a combined formulation of
estrogen plus
synthetic progesterone was lowest for the youngest women, who are most likely to experience menopausal symptoms.
Last summer, a panel of 38 researchers headed by vom Saal published a report in Reproductive Toxicology warning that BPA (much like the
synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol, or DES) is a potential chemical time bomb that may lead to multiple problems, including a higher risk of cancer, especially if exposure occurs in the womb or an infant's early life and
on an unrelenting daily basis.
I'm also using a natural progesterone to balance out my
estrogen dominance and the fact that the Mirena gave my body
synthetic progesterone, so my body isn't producing enough progesterone
on its own.
How do I get off
synthetic estrogen and
on the natural?
Male children exposed during gestation to diethylstilbesterol (DES), a
synthetic estrogen that has effects
on animals similar to those of phytoestrogens from soy, had testes smaller than normal
on maturation.
More than 700
synthetic chemicals mimic
estrogen in a toxic way, and their prevalence in our environment is
on the rise.
On the other hand, pharmaceutical hormones known as Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) have been molecularly altered from natural human hormones so that they can be patented and sold as a
synthetic substance;
synthetic estrogens and progestins are what are commonly prescribed as HRT medications.
Then their physicians tried to convince them that once they had reached menopause they should automatically go
on hormone replacement therapy featuring
synthetic estrogens and progestins, only to find it was increasing their risk of deadly diseases rather than saving them from the aging process.
As more research is being done
on the impact of
synthetic hormones such as Provera,
synthetic progesterone, and Premarin,
synthetic estrogen, it is becoming increasingly evident that they are not viable means of treatment.
Significantly, progestins» appear to inhibit biosynthesis of progesterone, lowering serum levels of the hormone and aggravating conditions linked to inadequate progesterone.5
Synthetic progestins lower the «good» HDL cholesterol and reverse the benefit of
estrogen on heart disease.
Male children exposed to DES, a
synthetic estrogen, had testes smaller than normal
on maturation.
It appears that
synthetic hormones change the permeability of the gut lining and
synthetic estrogen does a number
on the «good» bacteria in our guts.