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"These symptoms occur as a result of changing hormone levels in the body and the body's attempt to balance those hormone levels. Psychological symptoms are often attributed to menopause, but it is not clear whether these symptoms are caused by the lack of estrogen or are a reaction to the physical symptoms and the sleep disturbances caused by the night sweats. The most common nonphysical symptoms are poor memory, poor concentration, tearfulness, anxiety, and loss of interest in sex. Changes in metabolism (internal chemistry) also occur during menopause, but may not cause symptoms until later." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Recommendations include eating a healthy, well-balanced diet; getting regular exercise (which has been shown to reduce the symptoms of PMS by maintaining more balanced hormone levels and reducing fluid retention); or reducing/manag-ing stress; and getting adequate rest and sleep. Enzymes can maintain digestion and nutrient absorption and balance hormone levels in the body." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "These symptoms occur as a result of changing hormone levels in the body and the body's attempt to balance those hormone levels. Psychological symptoms are often attributed to menopause, but it is not clear whether these symptoms are caused by the lack of estrogen or are a reaction to the physical symptoms and the sleep disturbances caused by the night sweats. The most common nonphysical symptoms are poor memory, poor concentration, tearfulness, anxiety, and loss of interest in sex. Changes in metabolism (internal chemistry) also occur during menopause, but may not cause symptoms until later." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Recent research from Scotland's University of Dundee found that of two groups of asthmatic women whose hormone levels tended to change dramatically before menstruation, those who took the pill could breathe easier than those who didn't. BALDING • Female Hair Loss Remedy ./V prescription drug commc swollen prostate may help with female balding. Hormonal changes linked to pregnancy or menopause can cause hair loss in women. Finasteride, a drug that helps keep testosterone levels high and other male hormone levels low, can also keep balding in check." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"However, a hormone balance assessment may also be beneficial for longer-term health considerations, to be certain that problem causes are being addressed. hormone levels of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone can be easily and accurately checked with a saliva test, which Dr. Lee says is the only sure method of measuring "free testosterone."28 One source for further information and advice on how to do this is www.help forhormones.com. When hormone levels are returned to more normal levels, many of the declining health and physical factors of andropause can be reversed." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Age, disease, and changing sex hormone levels in middle-aged men: Results of the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 73, 1016-1025. 167. Sahmoun, A. E., Case, L. D., Jackson, S. A., and Schwartz, G. G. (2005). Cadmium and prostate cancer: A critical epidemiologic analysis. Cancer Invest. 23, 256-263. 168. Kolonel, L., and Winkelstein, W. Jr. (1977). Cadmium and prostatic carcinoma. Lancet 2, 566-567. 169. Elghany, N. A., Schumacher, M. C, Slattery, M. L., West, D. W., and Lee, J. S. (1990). Occupation, cadmium exposure, and prostate cancer. Epidemiology 1, 107-115." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Armour thyroid can restore thyroid hormone levels quickly and dramatically. I was confident that the Healing Program could help Teia, because it addressed her entire, interwoven web of problems: low thyroid, heavy metal toxification, nutritional deficiencies, impaired detoxification, Candida overgrowth, allergies, chronic bladder infections, and hypoglycemia. It could help her. But would it? That depended mostly on Teia's mom, Lisa. It's easy enough for me to spot problems. It's hard for parents to solve them. It takes all the energy and all the love they've got." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"You're already stressed out; hormone levels are flying around; there's a greater tendency toward anxiety and depression anyway. So the relationship I have with the family is very important then, because I have to talk to them. I may meet with them weekly. It's a lot about reassurance and talking about the effect that this has on a baby and a mom. So there's a real strong psychological component." Most green doctors adopt this multipronged approach and try multiple solutions at once. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Men with diabetes should have their hormone levels checked and contemplate hormone restoration, if indicated. (See chapter 10 for a discussion of testosterone and erectile dysfunction.) THE BOTTOM LINE The take-home message is simple: you can prevent complications associated with diabetes, and you can greatly reduce their impact, if you minimize inflammation, oxidative stress, and glycation-induced damage from long-term blood sugar elevation and dietary glycotoxins. We describe all of those strategies in detail in the second part of this book." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "If you have diabetes, and if your lifestyle is such that you are in a state of chronic or fairly constant stress, stress hormone levels can remain abnormally high, adding to your metabolic dysfunction, raising blood pressure, elevating cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and damaging your immune system. Why Relaxation Techniques Help Regardless of which relaxation technique you choose—meditation, yoga, tai chi, deep breathing, progressive relaxation—they all work in the same basic way." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Researchers at the University at Buffalo and Ka-leida Health in Buffalo, New York, measured the serum testosterone and other associated hormone levels of 103 men who had type 2 diabetes. None of the men had previously been diagnosed with low testosterone levels. It was discovered that 33 percent of them had low levels of the hormone. Low levels of testosterone are associated with a number of adverse health conditions, including erectile dysfunction, loss of muscle tone, increased abdominal fat, low bone density, poor mood, and decreased cognitive function." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "We recommend that men with diabetes or prediabetes have their hormone levels checked, because of the relationship between low testosterone, abdominal obesity, and insulin resistance. The overall evidence suggests that synthetic progestogens like medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA) are inferior to natural progesterone. The risk of breast cancer associated with HRT in 54,548 postmenopausal women who had never taken any HRT was studied in the E3N-EPIC (National Education System-European Prospective Investigation into Cancer & Nutrition) study." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"This chronic stress response leads to higher Cortisol levels, lower growth hormone levels, elevated pain-causing substance levels, and blunting of the serotonin system. In other words, your serotonin production is reduced, so it doesn't respond to normal signals to increase or decrease. Many symptoms of fibromyalgia can be attributed to vitamin D deficiency, inadequate omega-3 fats, and dietary acidosis. In fact, vitamin D and diet deficiencies may account for as many as half of the cases labeled as fibromyalgia that I see in my practice." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "The changes include higher Cortisol levels; lower growth hormone levels; and higher renin, angiotensin, and aldosterone levels. Such changes hurt your health. They decrease your bone and muscle mass by withdrawing potassium, magnesium, calcium, and protein from your bones. They increase abdominal fat stores, which lowers available vitamin D and produces more inflammatory substances. These changes raise your blood pressure and increase the loss of potassium and magnesium in your urine. This renders your remaining vitamin D less effective." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"However, when I did a blood work-up on her, all her thyroid hormone levels were within normal limits. I empirically placed her on a dose of thyroid that we gradually built up to about four grains a day, which is quite a high dosage. She's one of the few people I've treated who has needed that high an amount. Within three months her depression of 50 years duration was totally gone. Now, obviously she was bitter and angry that she had been suffering for all that time." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"After a year, the data showed that the comedy watchers had significantly lower stress hormone levels and blood pressure readings. They needed fewer medications. They registered healthier electrocardiograph readings. The most profound finding was that among this group there were only two new heart attacks compared to ten in the control group. At the American College of Cardiology conference in 2005, researchers from the University of Maryland reported that laughter actually makes blood vessels work more efficiently. " - 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.)

"Thus, an energy deficit, weight loss, or increased fiber intake could be the more important factors promoting a reduction in hormone levels, and an independent effect of fat intake cannot be assumed to be the primary factor modulating serum estrogens. Several epidemiological studies have examined the association between vegetable and fruit intake and risk for primary breast cancer. In the past few years, two large observational studies addressed this relationship using combined and pooled data." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "A prospective study of the effect of alcohol consumption and ADH3 genotype on plasma steroid hormone levels and breast cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 9, 1099-1105. 47. Vishvanathan, K., Crum, R. M., Strickland, P. T., You, X., Ruscinski, I., Berndt, S. I., Alberg, A. J., Hoffman, S. C, Comstock, G. W., Bell, D. A., and Helzlsouer, K. J. (2007). Alcohol dehydrogenase polymorphisms, low-to-moderate alcohol consumption and risk of breast cancer. Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 31, 46-76. 48. Key, T. J., Appleby, P. N., Reeves, G. K., et al. (2003)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "Effects of a 2-year randomized soy intervention on sex hormone levels in premenopausal women. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 13, 1736-1744. 14. Marini, H., Minutoli, L., Polito, F., Bitto, A., Altavilla, D., Atteritano, M., Gaudio, A., Mazzaferro, S., Frisina, A., Frisina, N., Lubrano, C, Bonaiuto, M., D'Anna, R., Cannata, M. L., Corrado, F., Adamo, E. B., Wilson, S., and Squadrito, F. (2007). Effects of the phytoestrogen genistein on bone metabolism in osteopenic postmenopausal women: a randomized trial. Ann. Intern. Med. 146, 839-847. 15. Watanabe, S., Yamaguchi, M., Sobue, T." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (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.)

"When hormone levels are returned to more normal levels, many of the declining health and physical factors of andropause can be reversed."29 Synthetic Hormones Dr. John R. Lee has done a tremendous job of breaking through the myths and dangers of synthetic hormone supplementation.30 Over an approximate period of 25 years, Dr. Lee and other researchers have uncovered a largely western phenomenon of estrogen dominance that is affecting women especially, but also men. In simple terms, estrogen dominance is an excess of estrogen over progesterone." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Lack of nutrients and other environmental stressors can cause persisting changes in glucose, lipid metabolism, blood pressure, enzymes, vascular structure, hormone levels, and cell receptors, which may adversely affect long-term brain function and expedite its aging.20 "Breast is best" Numerous studies have established consistent and convincing associations between breast-feeding and improved cognitive development and performance later in life." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"We attribute most of its gynecological effects to its "estrogen-like" action, yet recent research has shown that black cohosh does not contain phytoestrogens, nor does it change hormone levels such as estradiol, LH, FSH or prolactin.21-23 The primary constituents in black cohosh extract are glycosides, particularly the triterpene glycosides, mainly cimicifugoside and actein, which are assumed to interfere with pituitary gland receptors and the hypothalamus." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"A recent study looked at the hormone levels during weight training versus aerobic activity in well-trained men. Doing squats doubled HGH levels compared with running at high intensity for thirty minutes, and I think this will turn out to have important implications for exercise recommendations. There is even less research into the effect of rhythm, balance, and skill-based activites on the brain. Small studies have shown that yogic breathing reduces stress and anxiety levels, and tai chi reduces the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (judging from heart rate and blood pressure)." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "Exercise also provides protection, lost to the ebb of natural hormone levels, against health problems such as heart disease, breast cancer, and stroke. It's rare for premenopausal women to have heart attacks unless they have a genetic predisposition or complications such as obesity or diabetes. This has always been the rationale behind hormone replacement therapy (HRT): estrogen and progesterone protect women against chronic disease, so these hormones need to be replaced after menopause." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "One recent study found that while hormone levels were the same in women with and without PMS symptoms, their GABA levels were different. Exercise has widespread effects on the GABA system, which puts the brakes on excessive cellular activity as Xanax does. Studies in rats have shown that just one bout of exercise turns on the genes that produce GABA, for instance. Exercise restores the balance between the opposing forces of activity in the brain during a time that is tumultuous for some women." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "After adolescence, hormone levels remain fairly steady in men, but in women, they fluctuate like clockwork. The constant shifting affects every woman differently, and this must be factored in to any discussion of brain health. Exercise is particularly important for women because it tones down the negative consequences of hormonal changes that some experience, and for others, it enhances the positive. Overall, exercise balances the system, on a monthly basis as well as during each stage of life, including pregnancy and menopause." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"In the late nineties, Roy Hertz, then director of endocrinology at the National Cancer Institute and a leading authority on hormonal cancers, warned of the carcinogenic risks of estrogenic additives, which can cause imbalances in natural hormone levels. Pesticides and plastics. Chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are routinely applied to mass-produced fruits and vegetables. In addition, most people routinely use bug sprays, weed killers, and other pesticides in their homes and yards." - 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.) "How does stress impact hormone levels? When the brain perceives some form of danger, it signals the adrenal glands to pump out more adrenaline, often referred to as the "fight-or-flight" hormone. The sudden surge in adrenaline levels signals fat cells to quickly release energy. This energy rush stimulates flight. Once the body is out of danger, the brain continues to signal the adrenal glands that there is a temporary need to keep the adrenaline level elevated." - 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.) "A doctor will have to order either a saliva or a blood serum test to analyze all your hormone levels. Once a doctor has determined which hormones are deficient, he or she can write a prescription for a formulation of BHRT to address your unique needs. Patients come to see me from all over the world because it's not always easy to find a physician who has experience diagnosing hormone imbalances and BHRT as the preferred treatment. BHRT is not yet taught in medical schools, and most physicians remain uneducated about it." - 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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