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"Hormone imbalances (premenstrual syndrome, endometriosis and menopause) seem to influence the gastrointestinal tract. • Inflammation of the gallbladder or gallstones can cause bloating, pains and belching. • Injuries to the spine and abdomen may contribute to indigestion. • Lack of friendly bacteria in the gut adds to indigestion because the bad bacteria is able to overgrow without being put in check by the good bacteria. • Nervous conditions such as anxiety, depression and stress can cause dyspepsia. When we have chronic stress, our blood supply travels to our extremities." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Dr Northrup describes this monthly ebb and flow, or waxing and waning of intuition as being replaced at the time of the menopause by a more constant flow. In hormonal terms, both LH and FSH now remain persistently raised providing, she proposes, a steady nurturing environment for creativity. It is certainly my experience that the menopause frequently heralds the full flourish of a woman's creative potential. There is now a heady mix of wisdom, intuition and assertiveness that acts as an essential balance in a predominantly left-brained Western world." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"The field of cardiology now stands opposed to hormone replacement therapy, the common medical practice to relieve menopause discomfort until recently. This position followed the 2003 publication in the New England Journal of Medicine with startling data from a major women's study. The data showed that the widely prescribed combination of chemicalized estrogen and progestin (the hormonal drug substitutes) medication may increase the risk of coronary artery disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Over the last several decades, millions of healthy women entering menopause were urged to take HRT. Doctors, researchers, and newspaper and magazine articles all told the same story: The scientific evidence is overwhelming that HRT will protect postmenopausal women's health and improve the quality of their lives. Hormone pills became the top-selling drugs for several years running—until it became clear that all the compelling science supporting the use of HRT was nothing but a house of cards." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Changes in metabolism (internal chemistry) also occur during menopause, but may not cause symptoms until later. The bones lose calcium more rapidly, especially in the first two to five years of the period. Other metabolic effects include a possible rise in blood pressure and an increase in fats in the blood. A common remedy offered for some of the symptoms is estrogen replacement therapy." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, numerous researchers have reported over the years that various conditions such as typhoid fever, coma, menopause, pneumonia, chickenpox and even hemorrhage can spark spontaneous remissions of cancer. However, official explanations of how these remissions relate to the disappearance of the cancer are non-existent. Because they are unexplained phenomena, seemingly having no scientific basis, they are not used for further cancer research." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Soy supporters claim it can provide an ideal source of protein, lower cholesterol, protect against cancer and heart disease, alleviate menopause symptoms, and prevent osteoporosis. However, when you look beyond the propaganda, the facts about soy paint a very different picture. In spite of soy's impressive nutritional content, soy products are biologically useless to the body, for reasons explained below. Today, soy is contained in thousands of different food products, which has led to a massive escalation of disease in both developed and underdeveloped countries." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Black cohosh has already earned a reputation for helping with gynecological problems, kidney problems and sore throat, and relieving the symptoms of menopause. (Contraindications: Don't use black cohosh if you also use either of the two chemotherapy drugs, doxorubicin and docetaxel, or if you are pregnant). Herbs and food substances that help heal cancer always have strong blood and tissue-cleansing effects.49 This increases cell oxygenation, which is a prerequisite for removing the need for cancer. In this context, Dr." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Hormone Deficiencies Affecting How You Feel Estrogen Depression worse during or just after the menstrual period or with menopause. Progesterone Anxiety/irritability in the week or two before the menstrual period. Cortisol Anxiety/irritability worse late in the day or worse with stress. Thyroid Depression worse when first waking in the morning or when resting or napping. DHEA Nervous, irritable, anxious, with a low sex drive. Aldosterone Mood is worse if on your feet all day and better when you rest lying flat. Melatonin Nighttime anxiety, depression in the middle of the night." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Progesterone also doesn't need to be measured in menopause, as it is only produced when you are having menstrual cycles. However, once you are on hormone support, blood or urine hormone tests are important to ensure that you are absorbing hormones adequately and that the dose is ideal. • Twenty-four-hour urine tests measure metabolites, which are important to ensure that your body is breaking down your hormones in a safe way. This is especially important for DHEA and estrogen. • Saliva testing when using transdermal hormones is not reliable." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "It appears that using hormones in the first ten years of menopause is key to preventing bone disease, heart disease, probably dementia, and possibly Parkinson's disease. Increased clotting risks have discouraged women from using hormones, particularly beyond age fifty-nine, but these studies used oral estrogen and synthetic progesterone, both known to increase clotting. European studies, including the ESTHER study published in 2006, showed no increased clotting when transdermal estrogen and natural progesterone were used." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Sheila Part 2: menopause Begins Remember Sheila from chapter 8? The woman who learned to take care of her PMS and other perimenopausal symptoms with progesterone? Well, when she turned forty-nine, she came to see me and reported, "Things are definitely different." Though her cycles were happening every twenty-eight days using progesterone, her bleeding lasted only two days. Her sex drive was "fine," and she was actually getting married for the first time at the age of fifty. We discussed the signs and symptoms of low estradiol so that she would know what to watch out for." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Menopause During the menopause transition, there are many shifts and changes, problems with moods and sleep, and variations in body temperatures. With all of these changes going on, a detoxification program can be quite helpful as long as the woman is not weak and depleted. Doing a week or two of one of the programs in this book may help improve energy, moods, sleep, and make the menopause transition easier. You can also tell what symptoms come from congestion and toxicity and what may be hormone changes. When we finish a detox period, our body often works much better." - Elson M. Haas, M.D., The New Detox Diet: The Complete Guide for Lifelong Vitality With Recipes, Menus, and Detox Plans (Get the book.)

"You may have learned that being fat makes you feel safe when your father and mother divorced when you were eight, or when you were afraid of sex when you were fifteen, or when you went away to college and would rather order in pizza than face the cafeteria, or six months after you got married and things weren't going as well as you would've liked, or after your first baby was born and you felt isolated and overwhelmed, or after your children left the house, or during a separation from your spouse, or when menopause made you feel old, or when your parents died." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Premarin (brand name for estrogen) was approved by the FDA in 1942 for the treatment of symptoms associated with menopause, primarily hot flashes, night sweats, and vaginal dryness. Wyeth-Ayerst, the manufacturer of Premarin, still holds the patent for the manufacturing process. Premarin was named for its source: PREgnant MARres' urINe. During pregnancy, mares increase their production of estrogen several hundredfold. Most of this extra estrogen is excreted by the kidneys into the urine." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, because the pharmaceutical industry has created so much marketing hype about a woman's need for estrogen replacement as a fountain-of-youth treatment for menopause, most medical practitioners and healthcare consumers are misinformed and/or confused. The consequence for millions of people is that the very real condition of estrogen dominance is often overlooked or, worse, misdiagnosed and mistreated. For instance, consider the case of a woman I'll call Sylvia. Sylvia, a thirty-six-year-old divorced mother of three, came to my office six months after moving to Florida from Oregon." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Indeed, renowned fitness expert Kathy Smith, author of eight books, including Kathy Smith's Moving Through menopause, noticed that her chocolate habit was hampering her own ability to sail smoothly through menopause. "It became so apparent to me that after I ate rich chocolaty things, I would get very warm, start perspiring, and become crabby and more impatient," she recalls. The symptoms were so intense that she tracked her reactions by keeping a food-symptoms diary and found some compelling data that implicated sugar." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"During times of more stable estrogen levels, such as during pregnancy, or once menopause has been reached, most women will experience a resolution of their headache patterns, especially migraine headaches. Skin, Eye, and Dental Changes. We already talked about how hormone changes can be related to acne. Specifically, acne can be the effect of excess testosterone on the glandular secretions in the skin. Estrogen also has important functions in the skin. It determines the skin collagen, skin thickness, and texture." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "This site offers a menopause guidebook that outlines all of the currently available conventional estrogen and progestogen products as well as a 47-page committee consensus opinion on progestogen usage. (See Appendix C for a list of conventional hormone preparations and some details about dosing.) For purposes of the summary discussion in this chapter, these are the conventional hormone guidelines: 1. Estrogens." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "The subject of phytoestrogens is discussed in more detail later in this chapter and in Chapter 12 in the discussion of menopause. Nutritional Supplements As mentioned earlier, many of the symptoms of enlarged fibroids can be effectively treated using natural therapies. For abnormal bleeding and pelvic pain, refer to Chapters 1 and 13. In this section, I will largely be discussing the traditional naturopathic methods of trying to reduce the size of uterine fibroids or to inhibit their growth." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"BONE HEALTH: A Chinese three-year study of approximately 24,403 women showed a reduced risk of fracture for those women who consumed soy, especially for those women in the early part of menopause. PROSTATE CANCER: In vitro studies have shown that genistein, a soy isoflavone, inhibits prostate cancer cell growth. Most animal studies have shown that soy isoflavones inhibit prostate tumor development. BREAST CANCER: The bulk of the literature suggests that including soy in the diet may have a protective effect for breast cancer, attributed in part to soybean's isoflavone content." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"It's a common sign of menopause, too. The fall in estrogen levels causes a drop in the urethra's ability to resist the flow of urine; the result is small amounts of urine trickling out. But men aren't immune to stress incontinence. It's often an unfortunate complication of prostate surgery. For some people, just hearing the sound of running water can send them running to the toilet— sometimes not fast enough." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Thinning pubic hair in women is a perfectly natural sign of aging, indicating that estrogen levels are dipping, which happens around menopause. Although men may also lose pubic hair as they age, the loss is usually less obvious. At any age and in either sex, scanty pubic hair—as well as loss of underarm hair—can be a sign of hypopituitarism (see Hair Shedding, above)." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "Of course, texture changes may merely be an indicator of the natural hormone changes of pregnancy or menopause. During pregnancy, dry hair may become oilier or shinier, while oily hair can become drier and duller. Previously curly hair may become straighter and straight hair curlier. Hair may even become thicker, but this is due to the slowing down SIGNIFICANT FACT \ww/ Even a single hair is very strong. One reason is that it's made up of the protein keratin, which is highly resistant to wear and tear. Keratin is the same resilient substance found in animal feathers, claws, nails, and hoofs." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Surgery to remove the uterus (hysterectomy) ends menstrual periods, but it does not affect hormone levels as long as the ovaries are intact, and therefore should not cause menopause. Nutritional needs become an important focus for menopausal women. The changes in the body's metabolic capability, hormonal structure, and digestive capabilities, like the aging factor, cannot be stopped, but can be addressed to support the optimal nutritional potential available to keep a woman at peak health." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Vitamin E Years ago, researchers studied the effects of vitamin E in reducing the difficulties of menopause, and most of these studies found vitamin E to be helpful. Vitamin E has also been shown to reduce PMS-related breast tenderness, nervousness, depression, headache, fatigue, and insomnia. Newer research suggests that low vitamin E levels are linked to estrogen dominance. Furthermore, vitamin E deficiency has been found to inhibit estrogen detoxification. / TAKE 400 IU OF VITAMIN E PER DAY." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"In her comparative work on aging in Japan and North America, Margaret Lock found that when older women in Japan stop menstruating, they rarely experience the hot flashes and night sweats that are associated with menopause in North America. In fact, it turned out the Japanese have no word for a hot flash. Lock's view is that these vasomotor differences have their origins in the fact that female aging is not experienced as a sign of diminished status and worth in Japan in the same way as it is in North America." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Approximately one in every four American women will enter an abrupt, artificial menopause as the result of a hysterectomy. If you are a woman who has had a partial hysterectomy—that is, removal of the uterus only—you can still be estrogen dominant because your ovaries will continue to produce some estrogen and even less progesterone. If you are a woman who has had a complete hysterectomy—that is, removal of the entire reproductive tract (the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries), you can still be estrogen dominant." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

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