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"These interventions include surgery to remove the ovaries or reduce their blood supply, and chemotherapy or radiation therapy to the pelvis to treat cancer. 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." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Some might argue that the first step would be to deal with the fourfold increase in the risk of ovarian cancer—perhaps by removing your ovaries. Others might point out that heart disease is a more likely cause of death for you?particularly after age 50. Taking out the ovaries and thus inducing menopause might only increase your risk. Another person might suggest removing your ovaries and starting estrogen replacement, which might shield against heart disease—though someone else would no doubt point out that that will increase your risk of breast cancer." - H. Gilbert Welch M.D. M.P.H., Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here's Why (Get the book.)

"REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM The reproductive glands include the ovaries in the female, and the testes in the male. The ovaries produce ova, or eggs, during the reproductive part of a female's life, and the hormones estrogen and progesterone, which promote the production of feminizing cells in the female body. The testes produce sperm for the fertilization of the female's egg, and the hormone testosterone, which promotes the production of masculinizing cells in the male body. <-?^ Even with an appreciation of how wonderfully our bodies are designed to produce health, why is disease on the increase?" - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Menopause occurs when the ovaries stop producing eggs each month, hormone levels — especially estrogen - drop, and menstruation ends. It can happen all at once, if ovaries are surgically removed, or more gradually, over several years. When does it OCCUr? For half of all women, menopause takes place by age 50. It may happen earlier or later depending on your genes. What are the symptoms? Before menstruation ends, you may have irregular periods that are very light or very heavy." - The Editors of FC&A, Unleash the Inner Healing Power of Foods (Get the book.)

"He found that extracts of kidneys and spleens produced the same effects as extracts of ovaries. Then he had a new thought: perhaps what the rats were exhibiting was not a specific response to a specific agent but a nonspecific response to the trauma of having a noxious (and probably impure) agent injected into their bodies. He began to wonder if other kinds of trauma would result in the same outcome—and experimented by making life very unpleasant for many rats." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Collip, who was looking for evidence of the existence of a new female sex hormone he had reason to believe might exist: I was to go out to the slaughterhouse with a large bucket and bring it back to him as rapidly as possible, filled with the ovaries of freshly slaughtered cows. . . . [Collip] made various extracts of this material and, as I was the youngest member of the academic staff, I was assigned the tedious task of injecting these into female rats and looking for any kind of change produced that could not be ascribed to one of the known hormones of the ovary." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"These hormones are secreted into the blood by the endocrine glands that produce them—the thyroid, pancreas, and adrenal glands, as well as the ovaries and testes—in response to signals from the brain. Chemicals like PCBs, plastic additives such as BPA, and common pesticides are among the numerous chemicals that, upon entering our bloodstreams through daily exposure, can mimic estrogen by occupying our cells' estrogen receptors." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, we would see a marked reduction in cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, rectum, uterus, and ovaries. Medicine could relinquish its primary focus on pills and procedures. Prevention, not desperate intervention, would become the order of the day. Even I am not optimist enough to believe that this could happen overnight—that the entire population of the United States would switch to a plant-based diet the moment its benefits are widely known. But we can get there." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "You gain protection from a host of other ailments that have been linked to dietary factors, including impotence and cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, rectum, uterus, and ovaries. And if you are eating for good health in this way, here's a side benefit you might not have expected: for the rest of your life, you will never again have to count calories or worry about your weight. An increasing number of doctors are aware that diet plays a crucial role in health, and that nutritional changes such as those I recommend can have dramatic effects on the development and progression of disease." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"During the pelvic exam, the practitioner will attempt to determine if there is an adequate estrogen effect on the cervix and vagina, check for the size of the ovaries, assure the normalcy of the uterus and vagina, and observe for the presence or absence of secondary sex characteristics (such as breasts and pubic hair). The thyroid gland will also be checked, and laboratory tests will be chosen selectively to document the suspected diagnosis." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Evidence of endometriosis other than on the ovaries cannot be seen on the ultrasound. Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect endometriomas, cost prevents widespread use. A blood test called a CA-125 can have positive results in endometriosis. The problem is that a high CA-125 cannot completely differentiate endometriosis from uterine fibroids, cancerous growths, and normal tissue. High levels of CA-125 have been found in stages III and IV of endometriosis, which are the diagnoses for more advanced endometriosis." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The doctors removed her ovaries, some of her lymph nodes, and portions of her small and large intestine, but the ovarian malignancy was extremely advanced. Her doctor advised against chemotherapy and radiation. "I hate to say this, but her ovarian cancer was so far advanced he probably thought Grandma, who was 77, was going to die soon," said Jordan Rubin. It was at this point that Rubin put together what is now called RM-10, in an attempt to help heal his grandmother." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The Wilsons described female aging as a disease caused by the failure of postmenopausal women's ovaries to produce estrogen. They hypothesized that this medical condition could be treated with estrogen, the same way that diabetes, caused by the failure of the pancreas to produce adequate insulin, is treated with insulin. It's easy to be angry about the harm done to so many women as a result of Dr. Wilson's work. Yet his harsh rhetoric becomes understandable—even evokes compassion—when seen as his attempt to transform his own personal trauma into a positive contribution to medicine." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Expression studies show that PH3, like PH4, is expressed only in petals and ovaries and appears to be controlled, at least in part, by AN1, PH4, and ANIL Constitutive overexpression of AN1 and PH4 is sufficient to activate PH3 expression in leaves, indicating that PH3 acts downstream of AN1 and PH4 (Verweij et al, submitted for publication). PH2 encodes a protein kinase related to STE20 from yeast (Spelt, Quattrocchio, Koes, unpublished results)." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

"All that insulin can overwhelm a woman's ovaries to the point where she stops producing progesterone, the hormone that is required to prepare the uterus for pregnancy and to maintain that pregnancy. What happens is that instead of progesterone, the ovaries begin to turn out excessive amounts of androgens or "masculine hormones." Mind you, we women want a little testosterone in our system to maintain a healthy sex drive, but too much androgen can be, as you might expect, rather unfeminine." - 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.)

"They proliferate in our sperm and ovaries, affecting our reproductive development. Pesticides are found in North American mothers' milk. The AmericanJournal of Epidemiology has established a connection between residential pesticide use and breast cancer. Nobody knows exactly how these chemicals react inside of us because they're often released without any studies. The 1976 Toxic Substances Act stipulates that chemical compounds only need to undergo testing if "evidence for potential harm exists." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Switching off gonadatropin releasing hormone shrinks the testes and ovaries as part of the bird's yearly cycle. What that has to do with humans we have no idea, but I thought you'd like to know. Though some claims have been made for melatonin as an "antiaging" hormone supple- Melatonin may interact with certain medica- ' -a tions, especially benzodiazepines, antidepres- C sants, and central nervous system depressors m like alcohol. Those who suffer from depression 2 are advised not to take melatonin. Don't take and drive. merit, these claims are bogus." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"FCCPU) Catalase 100 baker units MENOPAUSE Menopause occurs as the ovaries stop producing estrogen, causing the reproductive system to gradually stop functioning. Technically, menopause refers to the cessation of menstruation (ovulation), as a natural part of a woman's normal aging process. It is a time in a woman's life when physical and psychological changes occur. The average age at the onset of menopause is fifty years. The most common symptoms or side effects of menopause include hot flashes and night sweats, occurring in approximately 70 percent of all menopausal women." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"But the design of the study doesn't necessarily translate to the conditions of menopause in humans — the rats' ovaries were removed at three months of age, which equates with young, healthy women. The first human reports on this question suggest that estrogen is not an essential ingredient for exercise to protect against cognitive decline." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Each month the ovaries cause a number of follicles to ripen. These follicles are actually cysts, pockets of tissue filled with fluid and hormones (mostly estrogen). Normally, one (or two) of these follicles become dominant and actually produce an egg. The egg pops out of the follicle and goes into the fallopian tube, which in turn triggers a whole bunch of hormonal events such as the secretion of progesterone that in turn will help support a pregnancy if the egg is fertilized." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The cycle begins with signals from the hypothalamus that prompt the pituitary gland to secrete hormones called gonadotropins, which travel to the ovaries and trigger the mass production of estrogen and progesterone. Estrogen peaks at five times its baseline level just before ovulation and then follows an up-and-down pattern for the two weeks leading up to the period, after which it evens out. Progesterone begins a fitful rise after ovulation (to about ten times its lowest level) and peaks just before menstruation." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"As mentioned in the last chapter, a woman's progesterone level begins to decline in her thirties, even while the ovaries are still producing enough estrogen to stimulate the monthly cycle. From early or midthirties through mid- or late forties, a woman who is regularly menstruating is said to be premenopausal. When a woman's periods become irregular—in some cases skipping months at a time and in other cases becoming heavy and flooding—she is said to be peri-menopausal." - 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 this stage of life, the ovaries' production of estrogen is also declining, but progesterone production continues to decline even more significantly. The result is continual estrogen dominance. Even during and after menopause, estrogen dominance is still a concern. The average age of a woman entering natural menopause in the United States is fifty-one years old. Many women make the mistake of thinking that if they are no longer menstruating, they no longer have to worry about the levels of hormones that are circulating in their bodies. This is wrong." - 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.) "Although menopause indicates a drastic shift in your body's hormonal equilibrium, it does not mean that the sex hormones are suddenly absent from your body. The ovaries of a menopausal woman are still quite actively producing 40 to 60 percent of the estrogen produced by a premenopausal woman. Progesterone production, however, continues to decline. The result is that many menopausal and postmenopausal women continue to suffer from estrogen dominance. Approximately one in every four American women will enter an abrupt, artificial menopause as the result of a hysterectomy." - 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.) "Even though you no longer have ovaries, your body fat is still producing estrogen. Estrogen-Dominant Men For men, Question 1 is easy. If you are a man older than forty, your progesterone and testosterone levels have already started to decline. If you feel sluggish, bloated, and/or lethargic, these are symptoms of an underlying hormonal imbalance. Your age and your symptoms indicate that you are in the midst of male menopause, or andropause. Decreased sexual appetite, abdominal weight gain, and an inability to lose weight are three indications that you are most likely 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.)

"Vitex is used in the treatment of amenorrhea, cysts (in the breasts, ovaries, and uterus), depression (related to menopause), dysmenorrhea, endometriosis, fibroids (in the breasts, ovaries, or uterus), infertility, herpes (related to menses), menorrhagia, migraines (related to menstrual cycle), polymenorrhea, premenstrual acne, premenstrual syndrome, and threatened miscarriage. It can also be beneficial after hysterectomy. In order to improve hormonal problems with vitex, the herb should be taken for at least six months." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"The transition in the second half of the twentieth century was towards supplementing the hormones produced by the ovaries rather than removing the ovaries. (Think in terms of Dr. Robert A. Wilson, discussed in Chapter 1.) Nevertheless, for many, treatment of the mind still looked toward organs which were unique to the female sex. Association met in 1922. One of the critics was Abraham Brill who as a member of the relatively new psychoanalytic profession could conceive of help without drugs or surgeries. He criticized "detoxification" (infection removal) as causing mental illness and death." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"To lesser degrees, these gene mutations also increase the risks of cancer of the ovaries, prostate, pancreas, and stomach and the risks of melanoma. These genes play a fundamental role in cancer suppression. There are numerous tumor-suppressing genes, and when they mutate or something impairs their expression, cancer risk goes up. Tumor-suppressing genes actually have overlapping functions that reduce the risk of cancer development, and local/on-demand production of activated vitamin D turns on many of these genes." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Osteoporosis afflicts more women than men, particularly postmenopausal women, since their ovaries are no longer producing estrogen, which helps to maintain bone mass. Osteoporosis is also more common in smokers and drinkers and is associated with chronic obstructive lung disorders, such as emphysema and bronchitis. Additional causative factors include lack of exercise, a calcium-phosphorus imbalance, lactose intolerance, and a diminished ability to absorb calcium through the intestines. Approximately 15 to 20 million Americans suffer from this disorder." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

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