HORMONE REPLACEMENT – will you or won’t you?(Men and Women)

I’ve posted many times about ways to maintain healthy hormonal health and discussed  BIOIDENTICAL replacement through my Your Holistic Guru Page on FaceBook as well as my website.  If after reading the books on this that I’ve recommended, you still decide replacement is NOT for you…stay calm and focus on maintaining optimal health. As I say all the time, the body is an amazing creation and can do miraculous things!  I always recommend that you start extremely slow if you do choose to use bio-identical replacement and that you don’t choose oral choices.  Transdermal is more effective.  But….again if you choose NOT to use them….make sure you are following the guidelines below:

• Avoid sugar, especially fructose. All forms of sugar are detrimental to health in general and promote cancer. Fructose, however, is clearly one of the most harmful and should be avoided as much as possible.
• Optimize your vitamin D. Vitamin D influences virtually every cell in your body and is one of nature’s most potent cancer fighters. Vitamin D is actually able to enter cancer cells and trigger apoptosis (cell death). If you have cancer, your vitamin D level should be between 70 and 100 ng/ml. Vitamin D works synergistically with every cancer treatment I’m aware of, with no adverse effects.

Remember that if you take oral vitamin D3 supplements, you also need to increase your vitamin K2 intake, as vitamin D increases the need for K2 to function properly.

Get plenty of natural vitamin A. There is evidence that vitamin A also plays a role in helping prevent breast cancer. It’s best to obtain it from vitamin A-rich foods, rather than a supplement. Your best sources are organic egg yolks, raw butter, raw whole milk, and beef or chicken liver.

• Lymphatic breast massage can help enhance your body’s natural ability to eliminate cancerous toxins. This can be applied by a licensed therapists, or you can implement self-lymphatic massage. It is also promotes self-nurturance.
• Avoid charring your meats. Charcoal or flame broiled meat is linked with increased breast cancer risk. Acrylamide—a carcinogen created when starchy foods are baked, roasted or fried—has been found to increase breast cancer risk as well.
• Avoid unfermented soy products. Unfermented soy is high in plant estrogens, or phytoestrogens, also known as isoflavones. In some studies, soy appears to work in concert with human estrogen to increase breast cell proliferation, which increases the chances for mutations and cancerous cells.
• Improve your insulin receptor sensitivity. The best way to do this is by avoiding sugar and grains and making sure you are exercising, especially with Peak Fitness. (recommended by Dr. Mercola big time)
• Maintain a healthy body weight. This will come naturally when you begin eating right for your nutritional type (Dr Mercola is big on this) and exercising. It’s important to lose excess body fat because fat produces estrogen.
• Drink a half to whole quart of organic green vegetable juice daily.   (Yeah!)
• Get plenty of high quality animal-based omega-3 fats, such as krill oil. Omega-3 deficiency is a common underlying factor for cancer.
• Curcumin. This is the active ingredient in turmeric and in high concentrations can be very useful adjunct in the treatment of breast cancer. It shows immense therapeutic potential in preventing breast cancer metastasis. It’s important to know that curcumin is generally not absorbed that well, so I’ve provided several absorption tips here.
• Avoid drinking alcohol, or at least limit your alcoholic drinks to one per day.
• Breastfeed exclusively for up to six months. Research shows breastfeeding can reduce your breast cancer risk.
• Avoid wearing underwire bras. There is a good deal of data that metal underwire bras can heighten your breast cancer risk.
• Avoid electromagnetic fields as much as possible. Even electric blankets can increase your cancer risk.
• Avoid synthetic hormone replacement therapy. Breast cancer is an estrogen-related cancer, and according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer rates for women dropped in tandem with decreased use of hormone replacement therapy. (There are similar risks for younger women who use oral contraceptives. Birth control pills, which are also comprised of synthetic hormones, have been linked to cervical and breast cancers.)

If you are experiencing excessive menopausal symptoms, you may want to consider bioidentical hormone replacement therapy instead, which uses hormones that are molecularly identical to the ones your body produces and do not wreak havoc on your system. This is a much safer alternative.

• Avoid BPA, phthalates and other xenoestrogens. These are estrogen-like compounds that have been linked to increased breast cancer risk
• Make sure you’re not iodine deficient, as there’s compelling evidence linking iodine deficiency with breast cancer. (Dr. Mercola excerpt)

 

 

 

 

HORMONES MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND….AND ROUND…AND ROUND…OR N. O. T.!

Whether your focus right now is on PMS or MENOPAUSE or ANDROPAUSE (for men)….the following info is a “Worth Read”.

Let me begin by first saying that NO hormone replacement is better than taking good care of your overall health.  If you eat right, keep moving and don’t try to carry  the weight of the world on your shoulders….learn how to let go of stress as much as possible….most often, you won’t experience many or any of these problems.  BUT if you do….Hormone Replacement Therapy may be something you may want to consider…starting off very, very slow while paying very close attention.  Unfortunately, not a lot of us are willing to do that.  They want to swallow or rub on the magic cream or pill but you have to know your body and be willing to pay closer attention to find your “sweet spot” or proper dosage.

WHAT is menopause?  Mini-definition – cessation of menstrual cycle.  It typically first becomes erratic and when it stops, our hormones can get a little “off” for a time.  The stage leading up to this is Perimenopause .This is when the ups and downs can begin.  Mood swings, irritability, sleep issues, memory disturbances, aching…the roller coaster ride can be tough!   Perimenopause can begin these days as early 30’s and can last 5-10 years.  STOP THE MADNESS!  This simply does not have to be!!!

A change of diet is my first recommendation.  Stop eating inflammatory foods like white flours, breads, etc and sugar.  Eat only whole foods, not junk foods. The more organic you can eat the better.  Stop eating meats with hormones and antibiotics in them adding to your individual “mix”.  Stop drinking sodas (especially DIET) and drink more water. These things alone work wonders.  Next, consider stopping dairy products and if you watch too much TV….start moving more…..exercise your brain more.  GET BACK into the GAME OF LIFE.  These changes alone are usually enough.

When that is NOT enough….have some blood work done or saliva testing completed on your hormones.  See where or what you are deficient in and begin to work with a health practitioner or Doctor that understands that one SIZE truly does not fit all.  One that recognizes the human body is created magnificently and one that can re-design and come back to life given the right ingredients.

The complaint I hear most from women is, “I just don’t feel right anymore, I’m not me anymore.”  Their periods are usually erratic at this stage of the game. Estrogen may or may not be too low…progesterone typically is. Again…everyone is different.

Many times, adding some progesterone (real not synthetic) is all the help some need.  It is the primary building block for all other steroid hormones.  Many times women are estrogen dominant due to their low progesterone levels and progesterone can often be the needed re-balance.  Sometimes the imbalance between estrogen and progesterone may cause or promote medical conditions such as fat gain, water retention, decreased sex drive, fatigue, depression, fibrocystic breasts, hair loss, headaches, insomnia, osteoporosis, breast cancer and uterine cancer.

I offer ProgesterAll crème by Dr. John Lee.  It’s fragrance free and it contains 20 milligrams of USP Natural Progesterone. It has a unique liposome-mediated delivery system that will ensure rapid absorption into your skin so that they can be stored in the underlying fatty tissues for transmission to your bloodstream.  Quick, efficient! All progesterone crèmes are NOT created equal.  ProgesterAll is a natural balancing crème with the right ingredients.  Check it out!  $24.95 plus tax and shipping and I will be here to answer your questions as you move along for the first month.  Email me and I will send you the PayPal information you need to get started!

 Once you have found your specific “game plan” you will achieve freedom…you WILL function again and you will do it with amazing flare.  WHOHOOOOOOO…bring it on….You will conquer and begin to not only enjoy life again but to embrace it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

P. M. S. Post Menustral Syndrome….H E L P!

P.M.S. —Where was all this amazing knowledge when I suffered horribly from PMS?  Wow, I sure could have used some help. Just to realize a couple things…1)YES..it was real and 2)NO, I was not crazy– would have been an amazing start.  Symptoms ranging from confusion to poor judgment and decision making, horrible mood swings, body aches, bloating, anger and verbal abuse (me-to others), alternating between lethargy and energy swings, alienation, guilt for being so darn mean, cravings for sweets to name just a few miserable ones. I was a mess for about a week a month for several years.  I did notice even before I knew what I know now that when my diet was cleaner and I exercised more often, the symptoms were less and more manageable.  I have never been one to go to a Dr. to talk about anything emotional but I did reach out to a couple docs looking for help with severe PMS back then.  No one seemed to believe it was real.  WHAT A CRAZY LIE or misconception back then!    We now know that PMS can be improved and/or alleviated with natural progesterone. Estrogen is the dominate sex hormone during the first week after menstruation.  With ovulation, progesterone levels rise to assume dominance during the two weeks preceding menstruation. Progesterone blocks many of estrogens potential side effects.  A surplus of estrogen or a deficiency of progesterone during these two weeks allows an abnormal month long exposure to estrogen dominance setting the stage for symptoms of estrogen side effects. Very often, the simple correction of the progesterone deficiency will restore normal biofeedback and pituitary function.  I would certainly have tried this knowing what I know now and I suggest you consider it if you are suffering with severe PMS.  First, clean up your diet, make sure you get regular exercise and consider natural progesterall crème.    Excerpts from Dr. John Lee’s “What Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About Menopause”