Hormones should exist in harmony with each other. Nature has designed estrogens
and progesterone to be partners in a delicate balancing act.
Our modern lifestyle, with its stressful demands, irregular eating habits,
junk food cuisine, frequent use of pharmaceutical drugs, and environmental toxic exposure,
has shifted the hormonal balance way over to the estrogen excess side. When estrogen is
out of balance with progesterone, a condition called estrogen dominance occurs
& the
symptoms of PMS, perimenopause & menopause escalate.
The modern menopausal woman is more likely to experience high levels of estrogen and
low levels of progesterone, creating that all too familiar estrogen-dominant profile.
In fact, the World Health Organization has reported that an “overweight postmenopausal
woman has more estrogen circulating through her body than a skinny pre menopausal woman”.
The mindset that “female problems” are caused by estrogen deficiency started several
decades ago in the 1950’s when estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) was first conceived
by the pharmaceutical industry.
We now know this is not the problem and that there are several studies published in
scientific literature disputing the estrogen deficiency myth.
Women and many doctors are UNAWARE of the ENORMOUS part played by the hormone, progesterone,
in their bodies. The answer is not synthetic Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT),
Birth Control Pills (BCP), or antidepressants which all come with serious and
sometimes fatal side effects.
Women today are struggling to make informed and healthy choices for their bodies, and yet,
they face challenges at every corner:
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Natural progesterone is not talked about in the medical community. It is considered
an “alternative therapy”, and is not taught in medical school.
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Pharmaceutical companies are not interested in products which are natural and cannot
be patented. They are much more driven to promote the use of the artificial hormone
replacement therapies in which they have a financial interest.
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Doctors who do practice natural hormone replacement therapy are few and far between
and typically have very long waiting lists.
