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— Hormone Heresy: Oestrogen's Deadly Truth — EFFECTS OF OESTROGEN commonly atrophy once menopause arrives increase in intercellular sodium, which DOMINANCE and a woman's ovaries are no longer mak- _ predispose a woman to high blood-pressure 1. When oestrogen is not balanced by ing oestrogen. Doctors who commonly use or hypertension, frequently occur with progesterone, it can produce weight gain, progesterone with their patients have dis- oestrogen dominance. These can also be headaches, bad temper, chronic fatigue and covered that giving a woman natural prog- _ side-effects of taking synthetic progestogen loss of interest in sex—all of which are part _csterone will also cause fibroids to atrophy. [progestins]. A natural progesterone cream of the clinically recognised premenstrual 5. In ocstrogen-dominant menstruating usually clears it up. syndrome. women where progesterone is not peaking 8. The risk of stroke and heart discase is 2. Not only has it been well-established and falling in a normal way each month, increased dramatically when a woman is that oestrogen dominance encourages the the ordered shedding of the womb lining _oestrogen-dominant. development of breast cancer thanks to doesn't take place. Menstruation becomes (Source: Leslie Kenton, Passage to oestrogen's proliferative actions, it also irregular. This condition can usually be Power, Random House, UK, 1995) stimulates breast tissue and can, in time, corrected by making lifestyle changes and trigger fibrocystic breast disease—a con- using a natural progesterone product. It is ANTI-AGEING BENEFITS OF dition which wanes when natural proges- easy to diagnose by having a doctor mea- NATURAL PROGESTERONE terone is introduced to balance the oe- — sure the level of progesterone in the blood 1. Progesterone is a primary precursor in strogen. at certain times of the month. the biosynthesis of the adrenal corticos- 3. By definition, excess ocstrogen 6. Endometrial cancer (cancer of the teroids. Without adequate progesterone, implies a progesterone deficiency. This, in womb) develops only where there is synthesis of the cortisones is impaired and turn, leads to a decrease in the rate of new oestrogen dominance or unopposed oestro- the body turns to alternate pathways. bone formation in a woman's body by the gen. This, too, can be prevented by the use These alternate pathways have masculine- osteoblasts—the cells responsible for doing of natural progesterone. The use of the producing side-effects such as long facial this job. Although most doctors are not yet synthetic progestins may also help prevent hairs and thinning of scalp hair. Further aware of it, this is the prime cause of osteo- it, which is why a growing number of doc- impaired corticosteroid production results porosis. tors no longer give oestrogen without com- in a decrease in the ability to handle stress, 4. Ocstrogen dominance increases the bining it with a progesterone drug during _c.g., surgery, trauma or emotional stress. risk of fibroids. One of the interesting facts HRT. However, all synthetic progestins 2. Many peri- or post-menopausal about fibroids—often remarked on by doc- _ have side-effects. women with clinical signs of hypothy- tors—is that, regardless of the size, fibroids 7. Waterlogging of the cells and an roidism, such as fatigue, lack of energy, increase in intercellular sodium, which predispose a woman to high blood-pressure or hypertension, frequently occur with oestrogen dominance. These can also be side-effects of taking synthetic progestogen [progestins]. A natural progesterone cream usually clears it up. 8. The risk of stroke and heart disease is increased dramatically when a woman is oestrogen-dominant. (Source: Leslie Kenton, Passage to Power, Random House, UK, 1995) 76 « NEXUS JUNE-JULY 1996