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"An examination of your uterus reveals significant abnormality. You are told your uterus is precancerous. Your hysterectomy is scheduled; your uterus is removed. This is absolutely and totally unacceptable. Every woman should be furious! The only natural balancer to excessive estrogen in the body is natural progesterone—not more estrogen. This has been clearly detailed in books such as What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause, by Dr. John R. Lee." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Supports the growth and function of the uterus, specifically creating the lining of the uterus to prepare it for pregnancy. • Stimulates cell growth. During these same years, progesterone does the following: • Maintains the uterus and prepares it for pregnancy during the reproductive years. • Promotes the survival of an ovum (egg) once it is fertilized. • Stimulates bone building that can prevent or treat osteoporosis. • Acts as a natural diuretic to prevent bloating. In women and men, progesterone also does the following: • Serves as a natural antidepressant." - 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.)

"It took two generations of observers before it was clear that retroverted uteruses are normal and present in a significant minority of perfectly well women (usually the angle at the juncture of the cervix with the uterus points the uterus towards the front; in 15 per cent of women, however, the juncture angles back towards the spine, so the uterus is retroverted). Many medically similar examples remain in practice today - some in use without the backing of any scientific testing, and some in direct contravention of science. Part One of this monograph bears witness." - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"You are told your uterus is precancerous. Your hysterectomy is scheduled; your uterus is removed. This is absolutely and totally unacceptable. Every woman should be furious! The only natural balancer to excessive estrogen in the body is natural progesterone—not more estrogen. This has been clearly detailed in books such as What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause, by Dr. John R. Lee. Natural progesterone is the only known substance that mitigates virtually all of the problems associated with estrogen dominance, and with virtually no side effects of its own." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"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. Even though you no longer have ovaries, your body fat is still producing estrogen. Estrogen-Dominant Men For men, Question 1 is easy." - 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 December 1975, two articles published in NEJM showed that estrogen therapy increased the risk of cancer of the lining of the uterus (endometrial cancer), up to 14-fold after seven years of treatment. This fear was quashed when, four years later, in 1979, an article published in The Lancet showed that adding another hormone, progestin, for about 10 days each month to estrogen therapy prevented the changes in the lining of the uterus that predisposed to cancer. Several other studies soon confirmed that progestin protected women on estrogen therapy from developing endometrial cancer." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Two procedures in particular stood out: the hysterectomy, in which a surgeon removes a woman's uterus and sometimes her ovaries and cervix, and the prostatectomy, or removal of a man's prostate gland, which sits at the base of the penis and helps produce seminal fluid. Hysterectomies were performed for a variety of reasons: to get rid of fibroid tumors, a noncancerous type of growth on the uterus that can cause bleeding and cramps; to reduce premenstrual symptoms; to cure the pain from another abnormal growth called endometriosis; and sometimes as an expensive form of birth control." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"When a woman's colon falls, it will lie on her uterus, ovaries, and bladder, causing a host of conditions and problems. (See illustrations below.) I believe that many reproductive problems can be reversed with extensive cleansing and moving the colon up to its normal position—then keeping it there. For both women and men, this is an important aspect of properly cleansing the body. If your own colon is not in its nat- Left: Normal colon and uterus. Note normal position of stomach. Right: Prolapsed colon with pressure on uterus. Note that ovum cannot transit fallopian tube due to pressure." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"Estrogen is important for adolescent sexual development, prepares the uterus for receiving a fertilized egg, and affects all the body's cells; its levels decline after menopause. Estrogen slows down bone loss, helps reverse the incidence of heart attacks, and acts as an antiaging factor. Progesterone: A female sex hormone produced in the ovaries that prepares the uterus for a fertilized egg and then stops cell proliferation in the uterus if pregnancy does not occur. When estrogen is high (days 7 to 14 of a woman's cycle), the level of progesterone is at its lowest." - Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac., Alternative Medicine Magazine's Definitive Guide to Sleep Disorders: 7 Smart Ways to Help You Get a Good Night's Rest (Get the book.)

"A baby develops in the mother's uterus from just two cells. When a baby is born, it passes through the birth canal and is introduced to the outside environment. Because the uterus is sterile, a newborn child does not have the 400 species of microbes that typically live in a healthy human. A newborn infant is first introduced to microbes in the birth canal. Very quickly, infants develop a diverse microflora. How does this happen? Which species are most important to an infant's health? Do probiotics play a role in infant immunity as they do in adult immunity?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"The strongest inverse correlation is with breast, colon, and ovarian cancer, followed by tumors of the bladder, uterus, esophagus, rectum, and stomach. To obtain the disease-curbing benefits of sunlight, you need to be outside at least three times a week for a minimum of 15-20 minutes. Avoid using sunscreens and sunglasses; otherwise you won't gain the benefits from sunlight exposure. (See Chapter 4 for details)." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"If a pregnant mother takes antidepressants, then the infant will go through toxicity in the uterus and then undergo withdrawal symptoms after it is born. These drugs also enter into breast milk, causing toxicity and withdrawal symptoms in the nursing infant. Although it seems counterintuitive, antidepressants can cause depression, anxiety, and mania while they are being taken as well as while they are being tapered and stopped. This is true for many withdrawal symptoms: they can occur while an individual is taking the drug and also during withdrawal." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"The twentieth century has witnessed the extirpation of countless tonsils to protect children from pharyngitis and of many a retroverted uterus for backache before prescient judgment and then the appropriate epidemiological studies took hold. There are many medically similar examples that remain in practice today, some in use without the backing of any scientific testing and some in direct contravention of science. Prior chapters bear witness. Illness without disease. Payer's observation that Americans regard themselves as naturally healthy is telling." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (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.)

"Lawrence points out that together with the traditional Chinese herbs often used by acupuncturists as complements to the treatment, acupuncture can increase blood flow to the uterus, further increasing the chances of successful implantation. Then, of course, there's the stress connection. A running theme throughout this book is the effect stress can have on many health conditions. Stress hormones wreak havoc with virtually every metabolic process, influencing everything from weight to brain function. And acupuncture really shines when it comes to reducing stress." - 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.)

"Most gynecologists are males—all of them used to be—and every single patient with a uterus is female." Fran then told me a story. After telling her pediatrician that she wanted to breast feed her baby, the doctor asked: "for how long?" "About a year," she replied. "That's okay if you want to be a cow," he countered. What she wanted was to be a woman, she thought, but (to her everlasting regret) she did not respond. That was a long time ago. One would hope that such blatant sexism resides in the past. But a few hours later, she showed me an newspaper article that she had saved from 1997." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Just as every woman with a uterus was seen as a candidate for a hysterectomy, so was every child with a throat a tonsillectomy waiting to happen. Sore throat? Take out the tonsils. No great loss, thought most surgeons. Tonsils don't seem to do anything very important. At the time I lost mine, tonsillectomy was the third most common surgery done in the United States. Today it is understood that these little organs in our throat contribute significantly to the immune response.43 The very notion of "unnecessary" often involves cultural as well as medical judgments." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In this case misoprostol facilitates passage of material from the uterus. Because of the risk of bleeding, infection, or incomplete abortion, all of which are potentially fatal, this drug should not be used unless there are follow-up appointments with a physician. After several recent deaths of several women who used the drug unsupervised, Planned Parenthood has reversed its policy of allowing women to administer misoprostol at home; they now must return to the physician. Are OCPs Safe?" - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (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.)

"Studies of women with hysterectomy and bilateral oopherectomy (removal of uterus and ovaries) initially showed an improvement in memory function with HRT, although these studies were uncontrolled. However, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study showed that estrogen alone in women with hysterectomy was associated with a decline in cognition as measured with the Mini Mental Status Exam. In terms of benefits, HRT does reduce the loss of bone-mineral density that occurs with normal aging and reduces the risk of osteoporotic fracture. There is also minimal evidence that it improves sleep." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Another possible advantage of using estriol relates to its effect on the uterus. Whereas conventional ERT frequently causes uterine hyperplasia (abnormal cellular proliferation of the uterus, a pre-cancerous change), several reports indicate that estriol does not cause this problem.22 However, that observation, too, has been challenged in some studies.23 Doses of 2 to 6 mg per day of estriol will sometimes relieve menopausal symptoms. This hormone is frequently prescribed in Europe and by some natural-medicine doctors in the United States." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Her doctor prescribed synthetic estrogen, Premarin, but not progesterone since she didn't have a uterus. Premarin improved her hot flashes and vaginal dryness, but her headaches persisted and eventually worsened. After about four months her sleep became light and fitful, interrupted by frequent trips to the bathroom to urinate. She still had no energy, and her irritable bowel symptoms grew worse. Media reports about Premarin began to trouble her. It seemed that every day she read something in the newspaper about its possible links to dementia and breast cancer. She was scared to stay on it." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Right: Prolapsed colon with pressure on uterus. Note that ovum cannot transit fallopian tube due to pressure. uterus cannot pass menstrual discharge efficiently. Prolapsus of transverse colon allows stomach to drop—resulting in "fish-hook " stomach. ural position, it cannot cleanse itself completely. If such cleansing is prevented, your body will not detoxify at the cellular level as effectively as possible. Unfortunately for everybody, at present very few people in North America know how to correct a prolapsed colon." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"Inflammation Of The Uterus The cramps a woman feels are usually muscular cramps from the emptying uterus during menstruation. The uterus can become inflamed. Another item of interest comes from Maurice Messegue^ in his book Of Men and Plants, Here he gives a remedy for metritis (inflammation of the uterus). To use it, follow the directions in Chapter 2, page 30." - Rex Adams, Miracle Medicine Foods (Get the book.)

"Hysteroscopic myomectomies are done with an instrument inserted through the vagina, up the cervical canal, and into the uterine cavity, providing a view of the interior of the uterus and an instrument that can slice or cauterize the submucous fibroid. Sometimes, when a woman is past childbearing age, an associated destruction of the uterine lining tissue is performed at the same time. This is called an ablation and further helps to reduce menstrual flow. There are other treatments for fibroids, some of which are gaining more popularity and some of which are still experimental." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "It is possible that douching will cause a vaginal infection of GC, CT, or BV to ascend into the uterus and/or the fallopian tubes.) • Know the sexual history of your partner. • Heterosexual women who have multiple partners and do not use condoms, cervical caps, or diaphragms are at higher risk for PID. • Women with HIV are at even higher risk and need to practice even greater caution." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"But I was willing to do whatever the doctor asked; I just wanted to get better without having to resort to surgery and have my uterus removed. The doctor felt that over many years, damage could have accumulated to a potentially irreversible level. He hoped this not to be the case, and that we should keep an open mind. He said our aim was ultimately a "nature cure." But bearing in mind my previous lifestyle and its influence over many years, it was conceivable that my uterus was not salvageable." - Mary-Ann Shearer, Perfect Health the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"They work by hijacking development in the uterus. These chemicals can disrupt important cell signaling functions in the developing body." (3) A second important study of umbilical cord blood, this one conducted in the U.S. by the Environmental Working Group in 2005, used the Red Cross to collect cord blood from ten babies born in U.S. hospitals. Altogether, 287 mostly industrial chemical contaminants were detected in them, ranging from pesticides to chemicals that had leached from non-stick cooking pans and plastic wrap." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

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