Conventional treatment has a high success rate
using estrogen therapy or new drugs which just came to market.
Your article says that estrogen dominance can block the liver from converting T4 to T3, but it seems that my conversion is now worse when I am no longer
using estrogen therapy.
Many women who gain weight when
using estrogen therapy often suffer from estrogen dominance which further lowers critical testosterone levels.
Not exact matches
However, other research has suggested that the
estrogen - like effects of isoflavones may reduce the effectiveness of endocrine
therapies used to treat breast cancer.
Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore., concluded there is definitely a link between breast cancer and the
use of menopausal hormone
therapy, particularly
estrogen - progestin treatment combinations.
Since being approved in the U.S. in the early 1940s,
estrogen and progestin
therapy has been widely
used to ease menopausal symptoms as well as prevent many chronic diseases, such as osteoporosis and heart disease.
The drop in hormone
use dates back to July 2002, when the Women's Health Initiative, a 15 - year study tracking the health of more than 160,000 women, abruptly ended its long - term study of
estrogen - progestin hormone replacement
therapy because women taking the drugs faced an elevated risk of invasive breast cancer and heart disease.
«This study provides a foundation for future studies to evaluate the value of psycho - social interventions, such as cognitive
therapies, to lessen the effect of major life events, as well as the
use of
estrogen therapy during perimenopausal and menopausal stressful times.»
Hunt and colleagues exposed some newborn mice to BPA and some newborn mice to a synthetic
estrogen used in birth control pills and hormone
therapy.
Because most breast cancers are hormone receptor - positive (i.e., they
use estrogen or progesterone to grow and spread), survivors often rely on hormone
therapy, such as AIs, to keep the disease from returning.
It was
used in this study for the first time to study factors that cause
estrogen receptor positive breast cancer to recur during tamoxifen
therapy.
While long - term
use of traditional hormone replacement
therapies, which include
estrogen and progestin, are no longer recommended due to the heart and health risks, there are other options.
Research has shown that bioidentical
estrogen is important for both safety and improved effectiveness, which is why we only
use bioidentical hormones in
estrogen replacement
therapy.
Some women who can not
use estrogen may benefit from progesterone or testosterone replacement
therapy.
In a group of women 65 to 80 years of age who had never
used hormone replacement
therapy of any kind, blood levels of estradiol (one of the human
estrogens) were measured.
From L.A. Times Staff and Wire Reports June 6, 1995 Contrary to much current medical thinking, long - term
use of hormone replacement
therapy may significantly increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, even when progestins are added to
estrogen, according to a new study.
For the same reasons of safety and efficacy, we only
use bioidentical hormones for
estrogen replacement
therapy.
Although there are a variety of options for raising your
estrogen levels and getting you back to feeling normal, at TCT, we focus on
estrogen replacement
therapy using a topical medication — a gel or cream.
Because when you consider your exposure over the course of a lifetime, it really adds up; the average American woman
uses up to 16,800 tampons in her lifetime — or as many as 24,360 if she's on
estrogen replacement
therapy.
This monster hormone drug was
used from the 1940s until the late 1980s, as an FDA - approved
estrogen - replacement
therapy.
Vaginal
estrogen therapy may also be
used in women who have breast, cervical or ovarian cancer, and medical consultation must be sought for proper advice on its risks and benefits.
Hormone replacement
therapy (HRT) is a medical treatment that is
used by menopausal women to relieve menopausal symptoms caused by lower
estrogen and progesterone in the body.
How and Where
Estrogens Are Made and
Used in the Body
Estrogen and Cell Division How
Estrogen Affects a Woman's Body The
Estrogen Dominance Syndrome The Myth of
Estrogen in Hormone Replacement
Therapy What Are Normal
Estrogen Levels?
All our
estrogen replacement
therapy uses bioidentical hormones.
Premarin (the synthetic form of
estrogen, formulated from the urine of pregnant horses) and Provera (the synthetic form of progesterone,
used for oral contraception, which is counterintuitive as natural progesterone is required for conception) are the most commonly
used elements in hormone replacement
therapy (HRT).
One of the options for treating the symptoms of menopause is hormone replacement
therapy (HRT)
using chemicals that mimic
estrogens.
Premarin, an
estrogen - only drug commonly
used in the past 40 years, is the mainstay of
estrogen replacement
therapy.
Women are twice as likely as men to develop gallstones, probably largely due to un-identified
estrogen dominance and the excessive
estrogen used in hormone replacement
therapy (HRT).
In conclusion, while all types of hormone replacement
therapies are safe and effective and confer significant benefits in the long - term when initiated in young postmenopausal women, in specific clinical settings the choice of the transdermal route of administration of
estrogens and the
use of natural progesterone might offer significant benefits and added safety.»
Analysis of several studies on the effect of combined progestin -
estrogen therapy indicates that progestins do appear to improve bone density, but their
use is accompanied by a long list of unacceptable potential side effects.
Menopausal hormone
therapy is a treatment that is
used for women to help relieve annoying symptoms of menopause and to prevent other biological changes, like bone loss due to the reduction * of
estrogen and progesterone.
Studies now warn us that females with these concerns should not
use estrogen and progestin
therapy.
What hormone replacement
therapy does is alleviate a variety of these symptoms by
using two major hormones:
estrogen and progesterone.
You're body is
used to all these endogenous artificial testosterone, you know, your testosterone to
estrogen ratio is getting messed up and so you do have to
use what's called post cycle
therapy when you're on pro-hormones and we won't get into the post cycle
therapy as much on this podcast «cause I know we're kinda pushing for time but the problem is that if you don't cycle pro hormones, it can be tough on your liver, it can be tough on your own endogenous production so it's something that you do wan na make sure that you do, that you understand how to cycle properly and I have to be careful of course, giving out recommendations like that on this show just because so many people who are listening to this are competing in event like triathlons and marathons and thing of that nature where they're gonna be drug tested and stuff like this would be a big no - no anyways, you know, or they're going after more natural means and let's face it, prohormones can be kinda damaging to your body and the reason for that is because a lot of these side effects: acne and hair loss, breast tissue enlargement, or you know, what we affectionately call bitch tits in dudes, prostate swelling, you know, a lot of these hormonal imbalances that get created from dumping exogenous sources of hormones into your body and creating like a hormone milieu that can be a real real issue from a health standpoint.
You know, as far as tips on post cycle
therapy, to restore endogenous hormones, my main tips are cleanse your liver first of all, «cause it'll be super beat up from trying to metabolize all these
estrogens that are getting converted so you're gonna have to
use you know, stuff like acetylcysteine is a good liver cleanse.
Some breast cancer
therapies use drugs to shut down your body's production of
estrogen and other hormones that can make certain types of breast cancer grow faster.
A lot of these stuff I recommend for women, for
estrogen dominance, you know those are the same type of cleanses that you're gonna have to look into
using for something like pro hormone
therapy.
Gallbladder Disease and Hormones Women are twice as likely as men to develop gallstones, probably largely due to unidentified
estrogen dominance and the excessive
estrogen used in hormone replacement
therapy (HRT).
But hormone
therapy is no longer recommended for long - term
use because of the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, and other health problems associated with the combination of
estrogen and progestin.
Consistent with the elevation in risk for endogenous testosterone levels, women
using estrogen and testosterone
therapies have a significantly increased risk of invasive breast cancer.
Treatments These vary depending on the source of the problem, but may include switching prescription medication, taking
estrogen or testosterone, taking a drug that increases dopamine levels, or trying products such as Eros
Therapy, an FDA - approved prescription - only device that
uses gentle suction to increase blood flow to the clitoris and vulva.
In male dogs, testosterone injections are
used to treat urinary incontinence but are generally less effective than
estrogen therapy in female dogs.
The
use of
estrogen hormone
therapy in sizable amounts in dogs is not without serious risk.
Black cohosh is frequently
used as an alternative to hormone replacement
therapy, and some studies suggest that the herb acts as phytoestrogen, binding to
estrogen receptors and influencing the release of pituitary hormones.
In addition to natural human sources, the synthetic
estrogen (EE2) found in birth control pills and animal hormones
used in hormone replacement
therapies are excreted by humans.
Treatments These vary depending on the source of the problem, but may include switching prescription medication, taking
estrogen or testosterone, taking a drug that increases dopamine levels, or trying products such as Eros
Therapy, an FDA - approved prescription - only device that
uses gentle suction to increase blood flow to the clitoris and vulva.