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Women's health: Hormonal balance is the key to harmony in a woman's life.

Many believe that such things as PMS, menstrual cycle disorders, perimenopause and menopausal symptoms that cause us to suffer, are a normal or natural part of "being a woman"; in fact, they are warning signals of an underlying imbalance in our body, and our bodies way of telling us "Help, I need attention!".

Many medical researchers believe that the cause of this rise in female hormonal disorders stems from a medical condition known as "Estrogen Dominance".

Some of the Causes of Estrogen Dominance Include:

1. A diet high in estrogenic foods like meat and poultry products that are not organically raised and have high levels of residues of hormones and other drugs. (Note: Many modern day livestock producers use grain that is genetically modified and treated with pesticides to ensure a profitable outcome. This practice, though profitable to the farmer, is detrimental to human health, not to mention what it does over time to the health of the livestock.)

2. Hormones that are given to livestock to increase their milk or egg output cause our bodies to have hormonal imbalances.

3. Exposure to estrogen-mimicking chemicals that are increasingly prevalent both in our food and in our environment. Once in our body, these chemicals act like estrogen.

The result of this estrogen onslaught is that we are left with an excess of estrogen in our bodies, giving us too much estrogen in relation to the level of progesterone. This condition is often referred to as estrogen dominance, and it is this condition that underlies many of the health problems women have to deal with today.

These modern day maladies were not common to women just a generation or two ago, and much research is ongoing today, as the medical community tries to gain a complete understanding as to the cause and cure for hormonal imbalance and how it affects today's female population.

How the Imbalance Happens

What causes the imbalance between the two hormones? One major factor is believed to be estrogens-mimicking chemicals. It is believed that these chemicals upset the natural hormonal balance in our body.

Such things as certain industrial chemicals in our food, water, and air, and heavy metals, herbicides, pesticides, plastics, and many other poisons, mimic estrogen once they enter our body. Our body is fooled into thinking it is real estrogen and acts as if there is an estrogen excess in the system, creating an imbalance. A second factor that leads to hormonal imbalance is liver health. When a woman's liver is not functioning properly, it is unable to eliminate the majority of estrogenic chemicals and natural estrogens from the body as it is meant to do. Then both kinds of estrogen end up being reabsorbed through the intestines back into the bloodstream. The body now has more estrogen than it needs, which causes havoc. In our culture, most men and women age 40 and older probably have some degree of liver dysfunction due to the toxicity in our environment. If the liver's detoxification systems are working properly, then estrogen levels will decline in the ten days before bleeding starts. But if they are not, that means the uterine (and breast) glands continue under estrogen stimulation; this is often further magnified by too little progesterone being produced.

Facts About Estrogen:

Estrogen is one of the female "sex" hormones, and it is produced mainly in our ovaries, but a small portion is also stored in our fat cells.

Estrogen is the hormone that regulates the menstrual cycle.

Estrogen is important for adolescent sexual development.

Estrogen prepares the uterus for receiving the fertilized egg by stimulating the uterine lining to grow.

Estrogen affects all the body's cells.

Estrogen levels decline after menopause. '

Estrogen slows down bone loss, which leads to osteoporosis, and it can help reduce the incidence of heart attacks.

Estrogen also improves skin tone, reduces vaginal dryness, and can act as an ant aging factor.

Hold the Estrogen, Please!

There is a dramatic lack of understanding in mainstream medicine of this progesterone/estrogen imbalance and its significance and dangerous effect on female tissues. Consequently, many women are not getting the help they need. Many of the reproductive problems women experience, including PMS and many menopausal symptoms, are not a deficiency of estrogen, but instead an excess of estrogen relative to the level of progesterone

A perfect example is the way so many physicians immediately put women on estrogen replacement therapy the minute they start complaining about perimenopausal (nearing menopause) symptoms. Many natuopathic physicians believe that hormone testing is essential, before any hormone replacement therapy is begun, and that hormone levels should be monitored as an ongoing part of treatment. For many women, supplementation of progesterone, in a natural form, is the treatment of choice in relieving many of the symptoms that they are suffering from.

There are natural, safe, and healthy alternatives to birth control pills, hysterectomies, and estrogen replacement therapy as a way of making a healthy transition from being a menstruating woman to being a menopausal woman. Taking Premarin, Estraderm, or Estrase (the three estrogens most commonly prescribed) further upsets your estrogen/progesterone imbalance and only invites more problems.

Doctor's once promoted and prescribed estrogen as a part of a woman's mid-life drug treatment plan. It was theorized that she would benefit by looking and feeling younger. Today, we know this is unhealthy at best, and can even be dangerous, as estrogen causes a woman to retain fluids which plump up her skin and in turn, this causes weight gain. This weight gain is caused by excess water retention, which can also be retained in the brain, causing brain fog and irritability. It can also be retained in the breasts, making them swollen, lumpy, and tender. It can also stimulate excessive, potentially dangerous glandular growth in the colon, breast, and uterus. Some of the symptoms of female hormone imbalance are:

??? Acne, Aging Skin, Alopecia [hair loss], Amenorrhea, [Missed Period or No Menstruation] , Anxiety , Thromboembolic phenomena [blood clotting], Breakthrough bleeding, Breast Cyst, Breast tenderness [galactorrhea] ??? Change in menstrual flow, Change in weight (increase or decrease), Changes in appetite, Changes in cervical erosion and cervical secretions, Changes in libido [sex drive], Constipation , Crying Excessively ??? Dandruff, Dark Skin Patches On Neck, Groin, Underarms, Depression , Difficulty Concentrating , Dizziness , Edema [fluid retention], Emotional Instability, Endometriosis , Erratic Menstrual Cycle ??? Erythema [skin redness], Estrogen Reduced, Excess Facial and Body Hair, Excess Hair on Chest, Stomach, , Thumbs, or Toes , Fatigue [Low Energy], Female Anxiety Disorders ??? Female Hormone Imbalance, Female Infertility, Fibrocystic Breast Disease [Breast Cyst], Fibroid Cysts, Fibroid Tumours, Fluid Retention, Food Cravings, Genital Herpes Outbreaks, Hair Loss ??? Headaches And Migraines , Heavy Period Or Frequent Periods , High Blood Pressure, High Blood Sugar, High Cholesterol Level, High Sex Drive, High Testosterone Level, High Triglycerides , Hot Flashes , Infertility, Insomnia Women suffer all kinds of abnormal cell growths from ovarian cysts, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, uterine fibroids, cysts in the breast, acne, a thick uterine lining (that leads to heavy periods) and, in the worst case, breast cancer. One action all women should take towards hormonal balance and better health is detoxify dangerous hormones that build-up in the body from the environment; it stop estrogens from converting into cancer-causing estrogens, and it also makes periods effortless. Too many women are suffering terribly with heavy, long, painful, flooding periods or irregular or no periods at all, along with PMS, hormonal acne and male facial hair growth - all due to imbalanced hormones. All these can easily be normalized with proper care of the liver. The liver is the major organ responsible for hormonal balance. The liver is the largest glandular organ of the body. It weighs about 3 lb (1.36 kg). It is reddish brown in color and is divided into four lobes of unequal size and shape. The liver lies on the right side of the abdominal cavity beneath the diaphragm. Blood is carried to the liver via two large vessels called the hepatic artery and the portal vein. The hepatic artery carries oxygen-rich blood from the aorta (a major vessel in the heart). The portal vein carries blood containing digested food from the small intestine. These blood vessels subdivide in the liver repeatedly, terminating in very small capillaries. Each capillary leads to a lobule. Liver tissue is composed of thousands of lobules, and each lobule is made up of hepatic cells, the basic metabolic cells of the liver. By detoxifying and nourishing the liver with natural remedies, one can promote liver and gallbladder health later on resulting in hormonal balancing and decrease of hormonal imbalance symptoms. Back in 1960 one in twenty women developed breast cancer; today it is one in eight. I believe that every woman took care of her own liver, we could help turn those statistics back. A clean liver makes periods effortless and protects us from hormone havoc. Is a gift to women.

And now I'd like to help you determine your level of balance and health when taking the FREE Women's Health Self-Test by visiting http://www.askdoctoranca.com/self-tests/womens-health-self-test While there, you might want to check out my next FREE Tele-seminar on this topic

From: Dr. Anca Martalog, N.D- survivors' coach of cancer survivors' network http://www.telehealthsecrets.com

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