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HORMONAL BALANCE
 

Of the four bio balances, arguably the most significant, particularly for women is the re-establishment of a normal hormonal balance. In fact, members of the Quantum Life Journey family who read only one of the recommended books, will surely wish to consider examining the revolutionary work of the late John R Lee, MD What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause (the breakthrough book on natural progesterone), written in conjunction with Virginia Hopkins. This book, as well as John Lee’s other works, will be of considerable interest to anyone curious about:

• The history of politics and the medical and drug establishment

• Seeking to be well informed about synthetic hormone replacement therapy

• Understanding the bio chemistry and dynamics of one’s own hormones

• How they get out of balance, and

• How to prevent hormone imbalance and how to stay healthy.

Summarizing John Lee’s lifetime work and that of other contributing authors such as Christiane Northrup, MD (Hyperlink: The Wisdom of Menopause) is a daunting undertaking. Perhaps the best approach is simply to reproduce the following excerpt from John Lee’s book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause (see recommended reading list) pages 50-51:

Hormone Balance, Xenobiotics, And Future Generations

Throughout this book I will be referring repeatedly to xenobiotics or xenoestrogens, foreign substances originating outside the body that have hormone-like and estrogen-like activity in the body and thus a profound impact on hormone balance. I will use the term “xenobiotics” as a generic reference to substances with a hormone-like effect on the body and “xenoestrogens” to specifically describe those with an estrogenic effect on the body.

Nearly all xenobiotics are petrochemically based, meaning “derived from petroleum oil”. We live in a pervasively petrochemical world. Our machines run on petroleum fuels, many of our buildings are heated with petroleum oil, and thousands, maybe millions of products, including plastics, microchips, medicines, clothing, foods, soaps, pesticides, and even perfumes, are made from petrochemicals or contain them. While these substances have undeniably improved our quality of life, the price we pay is pervasive petrochemical pollution of the air, water, soil, and our bodies.

The effect of artificially high levels of estrogen in our environment is so significant (John Lee believed that estrogen dominance was the single greatest cause of premature aging and disease among women in the United States) that estrogen is afforded its own Paradigm of Disease-Hormone Dysfunction Diseases THE TEN PARADIGMS OF DISEASE. Further, there is little question that the Conventional Medical Community has failed women the most in the area of hormones. In fact, John Lee remarks in What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause: page 33

Mainstream medicine is firmly entrenched in its belief that menopause connotes the onset of estrogen deficiency disease that requires estrogen treatment. This is not only scientifically inaccurate, but is a parochial, patriarchal and narrow-minded view but acts to retard a deeper and more constructive understanding of the problem.

So what should you do to re-establish normal hormonal balance?

Following the Four Astonishingly Simple Steps will go a long way to help women (and men) re-establish normal hormonal balance. A large percentage of women in their mid-thirties and on up are suffering from the symptoms of estrogen dominance brought about by a sedentary life style, a poor diet, birth control pills, HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and exposure to environmental estrogens. Most of these women can find relief simply through exercise and a good organic diet, (fertilizers and pesticides are estrogens) augmented by appropriate supplements including vitamin and mineral supplements. If this is insufficient, women should consider adding a natural progesterone cream to their daily regimen.

Naturally occurring progesterone (not progestins- a pharmaceutically mutated and hence patentable form of the naturally occurring progesterone) can often assist women in returning to normal hormone levels. Remember, in addition to exposure to the overwhelming proliferation of synthetic and unnatural estrogens, life style choices remain a substantial factor in the production and storage of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and other hormones. The standard American diet, filled with refined flour and sugar, simple carbohydrates and artificial ingredients, combined with lack of exercise clearly promotes metabolic irregularities that can lead to insulin resistance, obesity, digestive problems and cardiovascular disease, which in turn of course affect the healthy flow of hormone production. That is why following all of the Four Astonishingly Simple Steps consistently, is crucial in the re-establishment of normal hormonal balance. Progesterone, for many women, can add a remarkable improvement in the quality of health and can help rebalance the complex hormonal systems, but cannot be considered a panacea for all hormonal irregularities.

In addition to naturally occurring Progesterone cream, women and men should also consider the use of Indole Gard (DIINDOLYMETHANE or DIM®), which has been shown to regulate and promote a more efficient metabolism of estrogen by metabolizing the estrogen into the cancer preventing derivative (2-Hydroxyesteron) rather than the cancer causing estrogen derivative (16-Hydroxyesteron).