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Dear Carol,

Progesterone deficiency

Estrogen intensifies addiction while progesterone tempers it

Dr. Jerilynn C. Prior, author and Professor of Endocrinology at the University of British Columbia presented the idea of ‘estrogen addiction’ and its treatment with progesterone at the Women’s Health Congress in Washington, DC, in March 2010. Dr Prior explains, “Integrating what we know about hot flushes has led to the hypothesis that the brain exposed to prolonged high estrogen levels reacts like the brain of an addict without a fix when estrogen levels drop. The best animal model of hot flushes is the heroin-addicted mouse.”

In her book ‘The Estrogen Errors: Why Progesterone Is Better for Women’s Health‘, Dr. Prior teams up with Susan Baxter, a medical writer, to explain the controversy over medicine prescribing estrogen for perimenopausal women in the United States, and to detail why progesterone is actually a far more effective, and a far less risk-ridden, approach. Citing long-standing and emerging research, patient vignettes, and personal experience, endocrinologist Jerilynn Prior and writer Susan Baxter tell us how false beliefs on estrogen became entrenched in U.S. medicine and culture, and why business and politics have played a role in this erroneous thinking.

Research undertaken by neuroscientist Jill B. Becker of the University of Michigan shows that estrogen plays a major role in a person’s vulnerability to addiction. Effects of estrogen alone include mood swings, improved verbal abilities, decrease in spatial abilities and enhances sensory and motor functions. Becker writes, “These new findings suggest that when it comes to drug use, women should be extremely cautious, especially younger women who may be experiencing major hormonal swings.”

In female mammals, estrogen does not act alone, however. Its hormonal partner, progesterone, appears to oppose estrogen’s ability to promote addictive tendencies. In 2006 Becker’s team reported that giving both estrogen and progesterone to female rats lacking ovaries does not accelerate obsessive cocaine use in the rodents, suggesting that progesterone may be an antidote to estrogen’s pleasure-seeking influence. Rats who received estrogen supplements became addicted to cocaine more quickly than animals deprived of the hormone.

Another study looked at women’s menstrual cycles: the subjects derived far more pleasure from stimulants in the estrogen-dominated part of their cycles than in later weeks when estrogen and progesterone were more balanced. And yet another study found that women had a much easier time quitting smoking if they started in the progesterone-heavy part of the cycle, lending credence to the idea that estrogen intensifies addiction while progesterone tempers it.

The following text is from Labrix:

“Estrogen dominance, a state where there is a greater influence of estrogen than progesterone on the body is alarmingly common in women of all ages. In peri-menopausal women, their progesterone levels fall many years before the decline in estrogen levels creating a state of relative estrogen dominance. One of the many actions that progesterone has on the body is to calm electrical activity in the brain. The primary mechanism for this is through the metabolite allopregnenolone which activates the same GABA-A receptor as Valium, Xanax and alcohol. Without the relaxing effect of progesterone, many women find themselves with new-found anxiety or insomnia and may self medicate with one of the above mentioned substances. Furthermore, estradiol exacerbates the situation by enhancing the excitatory neurotransmitters dopamine, and histamine. The combination of increased excitation and diminished inhibition of electrical stimulation is often enough to push many women over the edge and into addiction. Although women in the peri-menopausal years is often where we see this phenomenon, please remember that there are many younger women and even adolescents with inadequate progesterone levels that may predispose them to reach for an exogenous source to relax them, or shut down some of their overactive neurotransmitter activity.

What to do when you’re hooked?

References

Prior JC. Hot flush pathophysiology predicts prevention and treatment – a model of estrogen addiction with progesterone-facilitated withdrawal. J Women’s Health 19, 629. 2010.

Leonetti HB, Longo S, Anasti JN. Transdermal progesterone cream for vasomotor symptoms and postmenopausal bone loss. Obstet Gynecol. 1999 Aug;94(2):225-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10432132

Baxter S, Prior JC. The Estrogen Errors: Why Progesterone is Better For Women’s Health. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2009.

Ming Hu and Jill B. Becker. Effects of Sex and Estrogen on Behavioral Sensitization to Cocaine in Rats J. Neurosci., Jan 2003; 23: 693 – 699. http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/693

Grady D. A 60-year-old woman trying to discontinue hormone replacement therapy. JAMA 2002; 287:2130-2137.

Mosca L, Collins P, Herrington DM, Mendelsohn ME, Pasternak RC, Robertson RM, Schenck-Gustafsson K, Smith SC Jr, Taubert KA, Wenger NK; American Heart Association. Hormone replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2001 Jul 24;104(4):499-503. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11468217

Carroll M.E., Lynch W.J., Roth M.E., Morgan A.D., Cosgrove K.P. Sex and estrogen influence drug abuse. (2004) Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 25 (5), pp. 273-279.

Anthes, E, She’s Hooked. Scientific American 2010 http://www.reuniting.info/download/pdf/Shes-Hooked.pdf

In light, love & laughter,

Catherine P. Rollins
Founder / CEO
Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com

“Supporting Women in their Choice of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)”

Dear Sarah,

Heavy, irregular periods are pretty typical of low progesterone levels. Our body needs to see a spike in progesterone towards the end of our period so that withdrawal of progesterone triggers a ‘healthy’ sloughing of the uterine lining. If you don’t naturally have adequate levels to create this ‘spike’, then the lining tends to build up, causing heavy, irregular and clotty periods. Get your progesterone levels back into line with your estrogen levels, and you won’t know yourself!

At your stage of life when progesterone would normally dominate only the last 2 weeks of your menstrual cycle, then that’s the ‘template’ you would adopt (as per Mother Nature). You would apply cream AFTER the day you believe you have ovulated – not before – because that might actually interfere with ovulation (FSH). So if your cycle is 35 days, then 2 weeks prior would be around day 20-21, again depending on when you estimate you will ovulate (fertility detectors very helpful here!). If you’re not ovulating at present, still adopt this approach to ‘facilitate’ a natural cycle kicking in with a little help from progesterone supplementation.

I have to agree with your logic here, Sarah. Your current usage recommendations would not, in any way, help ‘support’ YOUR individual cycle. And you are right – when you should be perhaps increasing your progesterone towards the end of your cycle, you’re being told to stop using cream. That doesn’t make sense. You’d use cream right up until Day 33 – 2 days before your period is due.

And do keep in mind that you probably have a build-up of the uterine lining due to estrogen dominance. Therefore you may need to use 100mg> of progesterone per day towards the end of your cycle, split into 2 x 50mg doses, to successfully ‘oppose’ estrogens’ action on the uterus. High doses of progesterone (100mg per day>) in those early months when you are progesterone deficient will help get your progesterone levels back to where they should be, and are usually well tolerated. You’d ease back your dose as your symptoms improve. High doses are NOT recommended long term.

Can I say a cookie-cutter approach to BHRT, which is what your ‘specialist’ is prescribing, is never recommended. When to individualise progesterone dosage is so easy to do, why wouldn’t you? Determine the client’s needs, and prescribe accordingly.

Clearly some doctors ‘deal out’ bioidentical HRT in the same fashion as they do/did synthetic HRT – one size fits all. Well, that’s just not going to cut it for women like yourself, Sarah, who are intelligent enough to do a little research of their own, and follow their intuition with the knowledge they have gained.

In light, love & laughter,

Catherine P. Rollins
Founder & CEO
www.natural-progesterone-advisory-network.com

“Supporting Women in their Choice of Bioidentical HRT”

Ask Gary Null, alternative medicine guru and entrepreneur. He took his own supplement, Ultimate Power Meal, for a month and became extremely ill; one batch of Power Meal apparently contained 1,000 times more vitamin D than it should. That is, it contained 2,000,000 IU of vitamin D3 per serving instead of 2,000 IU per serving. Mr. Null became sicker and sicker as he gulped it down.

LA Times: Supplements guru sues over his own product
New York Post: Putting the ‘die’ in diet

After suing his own supplier for permanent physical damage, Mr. Null then reported it took 3 months to get the extra vitamin D out of his system and that he is now alive and well:

New York Post: ‘Death’ is now Null and void

If Mr. Null took it for the full month that he claims, and if his Power Meal contained 2,000,000 IU per dose, Mr. Null consumed 60,000,000 IU in one month. Could he really be fine now with no lasting injuries?

In an attempt to answer that question, I went back to the 1930s and 40s.

Massive doses in the 1930s

The earliest references I could find to enormous doses of vitamin D were in the 1930s. In 1935, Drs. Dreyer and Reed, of the University of Illinois School of Medicine, published their observations on 700 patients treated with “massive” doses of vitamin D for up to two years.

Dreyer I, Reed CI. The treatment of arthritis with massive doses of vitamin D. Archives of Physical Therapy. 1935;16:537-43

First, the authors report that vitamin D had remarkable treatment effects on all kinds of arthritis, especially rheumatoid arthritis. They report on 67 arthritic patients so treated, with 75% of the patients responding most dramatically.

The dose used? Drs. Dreyer and Reed started all patients on 200,000 IU per day! They started some patients on 200,000 IU/day of D2 and others on 200,000 IU/day of D3, noticing no difference in efficacy. They used vitamin D preparations made by Mead Johnson, Glaxo, and Abbott.

The authors report that 63 of the 700 patients on this dosage became clinically toxic. That is, about 10% of the patients on these doses became sick (toxic) from the vitamin D. Today, we usually think of vitamin D toxicity as asymptomatic high blood calcium but these were old time doctors; toxic meant sick.

How did they treat the 63 patients who became sick from massive doses of vitamin D? Hospitalize them in the ICU? No, they simply stopped the vitamin D, told them to drink plenty of fluids, waited for the symptoms of toxicity to dissipate, and then restarted them on a lower dose, such as 150,000 IU per day.

The authors do mention that many of the patients had high blood calcium, one in the 20s, but if the patients were not sick, the doctors didn’t care about the calcium. As the authors did not draw serum calcium on all of the 700 patients, we don’t know what percentage of patients on these doses became hypercalcemic.

Symptoms of Toxicity

The authors report that the symptoms of vitamin D toxicity began with persistent nausea, which the doctors instructed their patients to be on the lookout for, as well as increased frequency of urination without increased volume of urine. Weakness and increased thirst were common, and “if the treatment is continued, diarrhea, gripping pain in the gastrointestinal tract, and vomiting.” The authors bragged that they could not report on pathological findings in toxicity, because none of their 700 patients had died and “come to autopsy.”

In 1934, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study on vitamin D overdose:

Reed CI. Symptoms of Viosterol overdosage in human subjects. JAMA. 1934;102:1745-1748.

They reported on 300 patients given high doses of vitamin D2 for asthma and hay fever. The author reported that each cc contained 900,000 IU of vitamin D2. The good doctor gave one patient 3 cc per day for five days (that would be a total dose of 13.5 million units) “without the slightest evidence of injury.”

However, in his conclusion, Dr. Reed was much more conservative,

Dr. Rappaport and colleagues at the University of Illinois studied the effects of Viosterol (vitamin D2) on asthma and hay fever in 212 patients, giving placebo to a control group. The authors reported that 82% of the hay fever patients and 96% of the asthma patients “experienced definitive significant relief.” The authors concluded that the “optimum dose” of vitamin D was 60,000 to 300,000 IU per day. 

Rappaprt BZ et al. The treatment of hay fever and asthma with Viosterol of high potency. J. of Allergy. 1934;5:541-553.

Why these doctors did not try 5,000 or 10,000 IU/day, instead of 200,000 IU/day, I could not ascertain.

Death in the 1940s

Things began to change in the 1940s. In 1946, two case reports of fatal vitamin D toxicity in adults (the authors report five previous fatal cases in children) appeared in the medical literature.

Mulligan RM. Metastatic Calcification Associated with Hypervitaminosis D and Haliphagia. Am J Pathol. 1946 Nov;22(6):1293-1305.

Bauer JM and Freyberg RH. Vitamin D intoxication with metastatic calcification. JAMA 1946;130:1208-1215

Another case report of a fatal dose of vitamin D in adults appeared in 1947. This death was from Ertron, vitamin D2, at a dose of 150,000 IU daily for 18 months, and it included a description of foot lesions similar to what Gary Null reported. This paper is free to download and I suggest everyone who is flirting with the idea of using massive doses of vitamin D obtain it and read it. It is chilling to read the detailed autopsy report.

Bevans M, Taylor HK. Lesions Following the Use of Ertron in Rheumatoid Arthritis. Am J Pathol. 1947 May;23(3):367-387.

By 1948, the medical community began condemning the use of such massive doses of vitamin D as evidenced by a paper from Johns Hopkins University.

Howard JE and Meyer RJ. Intoxication with vitamin D. J. Clin. Endocrinology. 1948;8(11);895-910.

The authors reference 12 earlier papers on vitamin D intoxication with calcification of everything from the kidneys to the sclera of the eyes. The first symptoms of vitamin D toxicity in their series of 11 patients were weight loss and fatigue, which occurred before the anorexia (poor appetite) and vomiting. All of their patients suffered from kidney damage and anemia. Virtually all of the patients had a characteristic eye lesion, which are calcium deposits in the sclera and cornea, just beneath the conjunctival basement membrane. 

All patients had high blood calcium, ranging from 12.4 to 15.1 mg per 100 cc. Dosages of vitamin D ranged from the lowest at 150,000 IU/day for 4 months (serum calcium 13.9) to the highest at 500,000 IU/day for 18 months (serum calcium 14.3). They reported on another patient who developed hypercalcemia after she reported taking 300,000 IU of vitamin D2 for only 2 weeks; she also had eye lesions evident on slit lamp exam. Although accurate follow up was not possible due to the fact the patients came from around the country, no patients died but some suffered permanent renal damage from the excessive doses of vitamin D.

The treatment the authors used for vitamin D toxicity was discontinuing the vitamin D, drinking 4,000 cc of fluid per day, and a low calcium diet. Improvement occurred within 2-8 weeks when nausea, vomiting, and lassitude disappeared. Blood calcium fell in all patients by one month but continued to be elevated for as long as a year in one patient.

These reports of toxicity were all the medical profession needed to condemn vitamin D as dangerous, as I learned in medical school in the early 1970s. The dark ages of vitamin D meant that for several generations of doctors, vitamin D was toxic at all but the most meaningless doses. Its use to treat asthma and arthritis became verboten. For fifty years, doctors forgot about vitamin D – other than vitamin D deficient rickets – because of fear of toxicity. During these dark ages, the Food and Nutrition Board periodically reviewed vitamin D and repeatedly distributed toxicity alarms, along with their recommendations that we only take insignificant doses.

Out of the dark ages

Then, at the turn of the century, Professor Reinhold Vieth of the University of Toronto showed us the way out of the dark ages with an objective review of the toxicity literature. The paper below is free to download.

Vieth R. Vitamin D supplementation, 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations, and safety. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999 May;69(5):842-56.

What Vieth’s paper showed was that there is a difference between 5,000 IU per day and 50,000 IU per day, the first being a physiological dose and the second being a pharmacological dose, a drug. However, in 1999 the world was using neither dose properly, in that no doctors were prescribing 5,000 IU per day and no scientists were studying 50,000 IU per day.

After Vieth’s paper, in the first few years of this century, a steady stream of vitamin D papers began flowing out of research labs, with the number of publications increasing every year. For example, scientists published 1,582 new papers on vitamin D in the first six months of 2010. Very few are about toxicity, instead they cover a breathtaking variety of diseases. These papers raise the possibility that many of the diseases that we take as being part of the human condition are not part of the human condition, instead they are simply the result of the toxicity scare: vitamin D deficiency. That is, these diseases are simply different presentations of the same deficiency. In that way, vitamin D deficiency is similar to syphilis.

Sir William Osler said, “Know syphilis in all its manifestations and relations and all other things clinical will be added unto you. Know syphilis and the whole of medicine is opened to you.” He called it the “Great Imitator,” because late stages of syphilis simulate almost every disease known to man.  Smoking is similar, some smokers get emphysema, some lung cancer, some heart disease, some bladder cancer, some pancreatic cancer, and some live to be 100. Increasingly, vitamin D deficiency looks as if it may do the same thing. Some vitamin D deficient people will get asthma, others cancer, others heart disease, others autoimmune illness, and some will live to be 100.

Let’s look at one rare disease, childhood multiple sclerosis, a nightmare for any parent to face. The child will have problems with vision, co-ordination, or balance, with relapses and remissions, that is the disease seems to come and go. Recently, Dr. Ellen Mowry and her colleagues discovered that these relapses, these periods of active autoimmune illness, are associated with low levels of vitamin D. The disease comes and goes as vitamin D levels come and go. Dr. Mowrey speculated that a 15 ng/ml increase in vitamin D levels would cut the relapse rate in half.

Mowry EM et al. Vitamin D status is associated with relapse rate in pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis. Ann Neurol. 2010 May;67(5):618-24.

Dr. Mowry did not raise the fundamental question: would these children have become ill in the first place if they had adequate amounts of vitamin D during their growth and development? The average vitamin D level of these 110 children was 22 ng/ml, so Dr. Morey could not say what an increase to 50 ng/ml would do, nor could she say if low vitamin D levels were what allowed the disease to appear in the first place.

That is, is juvenile multiple sclerosis simply one of many possible presentations of childhood vitamin D deficiency? Some vitamin D deficient children will get multiple sclerosis, some asthma, some diabetes, some rickets, and others autism. That is, is vitamin D deficiency the modern day syphilis? 

Unlike syphilis, vitamin D deficiency is largely an iatrogenic disease, caused by the medical profession’s near hysterical fear of vitamin D toxicity. Physicians simply forgot what Paracelsus said many years ago, “All things are poison and nothing is without poison, the dose alone permits something to be poisonous.”  We went from intemperance in the 1930s to hysteria in the 1950s and we are only now coming to our senses.

We look around at the diseases debilitating our children, the triple A epidemics of autoimmune disorders, asthma, and autism. All are truly epidemic, all are debilitating or worse, and vitamin D is involved in all three. We failed to make sure our children had enough vitamin D throughout their growth and development and now our children suffer, in large part because of the hysteria over vitamin D toxicity.

What dose is toxic? I don’t know but I’d guess for some adults it is around 50,000 IU/day. However, it will vary widely and some people may get asymptomatic side effects on lower doses, such as kidney damage, without getting clinical signs of toxicity. Just because you feel fine, that does not mean your kidneys are fine. 

Getting back to Mr. Gary Null and his ingestion of 60,000,000 IU over one month, could he have survived that dose? Apparently, the answer is yes, although I doubt he took it every day, especially as he got sicker and sicker.   Could he have survived that dose without permanent kidney damage? I doubt it.

John Cannell, MD
Executive Director
The Vitamin D Council

Women in America have been whipped into a state of near-hysteria by the American Cancer Society. So much so that they have an exaggerated idea of the risk they face of contracting cancer of the breast, especially women under 40. A study by Dr. William Black from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center indicated that a high percentage of women think they are merely sitting ducks waiting to be carried away by breast cancer within 10 years. Whereas the women interviewed thought their chance of contracting the Big C was one in 10, the likelihood of their getting cancer of the breast is actually one in 500. Older women, of course, have a higher probability.

So women fearing breast cancer are in a difficult position: detection methods have not increased the survival rate and surgery also has not increased the rate of survival. Breast cancer treatment is big business, but it is an abysmal failure from the standpoint of the patients, as any expert in the field will admit if he is honest.

Click here to full full article.

A non-invasive & safe detection method

Advances in infrared technology combined with data on 300,000 women with mammotherms document that breast thermography is highly sensitive and accurate. Today, this means that more than 95 percent of breast cancers can be identified, and that this is done with 90 percent accuracy.

Finally, it provides a non-invasive and safe detection method, and if introduced at age 25, provides a benchmark that future scans can be compared with for even greater detection accuracy.

In 2003, after the Women’s Health Initiative revealed that Synthetic hormones cause cancer and heart disease, millions of women abandoned the synthetics and switched to bioidenticals. Doctors stopped writing prescriptions for synthetics, resulting in a sudden and massive decline in breast cancer rates. This was omitted from the LA Times article.

The article quotes two “hormone experts”, yet fails to disclose their financial ties to the synthetic drug industry.

The first synthetic hormone invented in 1938, was DES, (Diethylstilbestrol). This drug was used from the 1940s as an FDA-approved estrogen-replacement therapy. In 1972, the first reports of cervical cancer in the daughters of DES treated women was published in the New England Journal, and the drug was banned in 1975 after millions of women had been exposed.

The take home message is that synthetic hormones are dangerous “monster hormones” to be avoided. Intelligent women have switched to bioidenticals, the safe and effective choice …

[Click HERE to read full article]

“I highly recommend this article to you. Dr Jeffrey Dach is a fearless advocate for bioidentical hormones, and the lengths to which he goes to bring us the ‘truth’ behind this “fudging” of facts by the drug companies, and those financially associated, is to be commended. Women can only be taken advantage of (by profit-driven drug companies) while we remain compliant and uneducated on this subject. Get informed, and you can’t help but get bloody angry … ”

– Catherine P. Rollins, Founder & CEO, Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com

“ Please email the nutrients and a reputible liver cleanse I can do to eliminate my estrogen dominence. I am already taking natural progesterone for about 2 months now. Thanks. ”

Catherine responds …

Dear Chris,

There are many natural treatments to minimize estrogen dominance. Dietary changes can reduce estrogen levels in the body. Reducing fat consumption and increasing fiber consumption, as well as starting a plant-based diet (featuring soy and cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cabbage and kale) can lower excessive estrogen levels. Limiting the consumption of caffeine is also beneficial. Similarly, regular exercise can help maintain a healthy weight, reducing the risk of estrogen dominance.

Detoxification is another effective form of estrogen dominance treatment. Minimizing exposure to pesticides, pollutants and plastics reduces estrogen levels. Some ways in which to do this include using organic soaps and toothpastes, natural-based perfumes and avoiding the use of plastics. Properly washing food while preparing meals also helps to eliminate pesticides.

Some keys points to remember about estrogen dominance:

• Fat stores estrogen. The more weight you gain, the more estrogen you will retain.
• Stored fat can convert into estrogen, creating a vicious cycle (estrogen > fat > estrogen > fat).
• Stress produces cortisol which boosts estrogen levels.
• A toxic liver, from excess alcohol or pollution, will not filter estrogen out of our bodies.
• Many of the foods we eat are fed estrogens to make them grow and produce more food.
• Plastic containers, pesticides and cleaning chemicals produce xenoestrogens, chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body.
• Skipping periods, whether by choice through the use of birth control pills or by nature, will prevent the release of progesterone which keeps estrogen levels in balance.

A comprehensive list of estrogen dominance symptoms can be found on our website.

Excretion of estrogen

Excretion of estrogen is accomplished by the liver. And the liver breaks estrogens into two main forms: the “good” form is called 2-hydroxyestrogen, and the “bad” form is called 16a-hydroxyestrogen. Since 16-hydroxy is an unregulated form of estrogen prone to behave like a “super-estrogen”, higher levels create a particularly unhealthy form of estrogen dominance. 16-hydroxy estrogens can result in mutations, abnormal growth (as in cervical dysplasia), and an increased risk of future breast cancer.

Evidence suggests supplementing our diets with extracts of cruciferous vegetables allow for metabolism and clearance of estrogens down safer pathways that will help prevent symptoms and potential damage to DNA of cells. However, to notice any beneficial shifts in estrogen metabolism, you would have to eat at least two pounds per day of raw or lightly cooked cruciferous vegetables to derive the same benefit as specially formulated DIM & I3C supplements.

Vitamin B Deficiency

Increase your intake of vitamins B6, B12, and the entire B complex as deficiencies in these nutrients are associated with high levels of estrogen.

Also helpful for the liver in its job of inactivating estrogen are vitamins C and E and the minerals selenium and magnesium.

Diindolylmethane & I3C

Diindolylmethane, better known as DIM, is a phytonutrient akin to the indole-3-carbinol (I3C) found in cruciferous vegetables, and has unique hormonal benefits. DIM naturally supports balanced estrogen levels.

Many scientists consider indole-3-carbinol (I3C) to be especially valuable in protecting against hormone-dependent cancers — such as certain breast, cervical, and prostate cancers — due to its ability to favorably influence the human body’s balance of estrogens. For example, I3C halts cancer cell growth by interfering with the production of proteins involved in abnormal cellular reproduction, and by promoting the production of tumor-suppressor proteins. Epidemiological, laboratory, animal and translational studies support the efficacy of I3C. Whereas estrogen increases the growth and survival of tumors, I3C causes growth arrest and increased apoptosis and ameliorates the effects of estrogen.

As recent as June 2010 a laboratory and animal study conducted by Cancer Prevention Research discovered a connection between I3C and a molecule called Cdc25A, which is essential for cell division and proliferation. The research showed that I3C causes the destruction of that molecule and thereby blocks the growth of breast cancer cells.

We need to keep an eye on the how our body break downs estrogen into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ estrogen metabolites via our liver. We want to shift the production of estrogen metabolites away from dangerous 16-hydroxy in favor of beneficial 2-hydroxy metabolites. Incorporating DIM & I3C supplements in an absorbable formulation actually encourages healthy estrogen metabolism.

Pathology collection centers these days offer 2 & 16 Hydroxy Estrogen Metabolites (Urine) hormone testing to assist in determining and maintaining a healthy 2/16 ratio.

Calcium D-Glucarate

The removal of excess estrogen can be increased by a natural substance called Calcium D-Glucarate, because it inhibits beta-glucuronidase activity in the body. This means that estrogen bound for excretion stays bound, and the total estrogen load on the body is reduced. In clinical trials, tissues that are sensitive to excess hormones – such as breast, liver, and lung – have been shown to respond favorably to Calcium D-Glucarate. In addition to estrogen and estrogenic compounds, Calcium D-Glucarate helps promote excretion of other hormone metabolites as well as cellular toxins and steroids.

Calcium D-Glucarate is made naturally in small quantities in the body; it is also found in a variety of fruits and vegetables: oranges, broccoli, carrots, spinach, and apples. Taking probiotic supplements can dramatically reduce the number of beta-glucuronidase-producing bacteria in the gut. A diet that reduces red meat to less than 3 ounces a day and emphasizes plenty of vegetables and fruits, whole grains, and fermented foods containing live organisms also promotes a healthy population of friendly bacteria and a significant reduction in E. Coli populations.

Oral administration of large doses of Calcium D-Glucarate have been shown to lower serum estrogen levels in rats by 23 percent. Because many breast cancers are estrogen-dependent, Calcium D-Glucarate’s ability to affect estrogen and other hormone levels has led to Phase I clinical trials at several major cancer centers in the United States. Results of these studies are pending.

Published human studies on Calcium D-Glucarate and breast cancer are few but, due to the encouraging results of the animal studies, the National Cancer Institute has initiated a Phase I trial in patients at high risk for breast cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. This trial is examining the use of Calcium D-Glucarate as an alternative to Tamoxifen’s blocking of estrogen receptors. Preliminary results are quite encouraging and due to Calcium D-Glucarate’s excellent safety profile, it may be a more effective option than tamoxifen, which has numerous side effects.

Other human trials are being conducted at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas and AMC Cancer Research Center in Denver, Colorado. No adverse effects have been observed after prolonged feeding to rats or mice at concentrations of 70, 140, or even 350 mmol/kg. Preliminary results of clinical trials in humans have shown Calcium D-Glucarate is without adverse effects.

Calcium D-Glucarate is widely available in health food stores and over the internet.

• Daily intake of 400 to 600 mg of Calcium D-Glucarate split between two doses, morning & night. A single low dose can last for hours. Higher amounts (1,000 to 2,000 mg per day) are typically recommended for individuals with existing cancer. Until human trials have been completed the optimal dosage remains elusive.

Vitex

Vitex is one of the most important herbs for regulating female hormones. The benefits of Vitex stem from its actions upon the pituitary gland – specifically on the production of a hormone called luteinizing hormone (LH).

Vitex Agnus Castus, also called Chaste Berry or simply Vitex, is a timeless herbal remedy for women of any age. Vitex is the small pepper-like fruits of a Mediterranean shrub, and can be used as a powder, powdered extract, tea, or especially as a tincture, for many ailments resulting from hormonal imbalances.

By increasing progesterogenic activity, Vitex can help to balance progesterone and estrogen production by the ovaries throughout the menstrual cycle. This herb helps to regulate irregular periods, tending to shorten a long cycle and lengthen a short one.

Licorice Root

Licorice root inhibits an enzyme that breaks down progesterone, thereby raising progesterone and lowering estrgen levels.

Caution: You need to avoid licorice root if you have high blood pressure, heart rhythm irregularities or kidney disease.

Resveratrol & Anti-Angiogenesis

Resveratrol is a natural compound found in the skin of grapes and in various red wines. Elizabeth T. Eng and colleagues at City of Hope hospital, Los Angeles a few years ago found that a Pinot Noir extract was an effective inhibitor of aromatase. Aromatase is an enzyme that converts the hormone androgen to estrogen. It is expressed at a higher level in breast cancer tissue than in surrounding non-cancerous tissue. That is why many estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer patients are given adjuvant doses of synthetic aromatase inhibitors.

In laymen’s terms, Anti-Angiogenesis is a cancer therapy that consists of intake of drugs or natural foods that deprive cancerous tumors of blood supplies. Ongoing research indicates that agents in a number of natural foods directly contribute to treatment of cancer through Anti-Angiogenesis.

The following four foods have been known as powerful cancer killers thanks to their Anti-Angiogenesis effects for a while:

• Blueberries
• Garlic
• Soy
• Green Tea

The strong four listed above have been joined by new two as recently as February 2010. William Li, head of Angiogenesis Foundation presented their latest findings at a prestigious TED Conference on February 10, 2010. During his presentation, William Li said: “We are rating foods based on their cancer-fighting qualities. What we eat is really our chemotherapy three times a day. We discovered that Mother Nature laced a large number of foods and herbs with anti-angiogenesis features.”

The biggest surprise was the discovery of potent cancer killing mechanisms found in two foods that are joining the big four:

• Dark Chocolate
• Red Wine

Both dark chocolate and red wine showed undisputed ability to starve tumors to death by choking off their blood supplies. Along with parsley and virtually all types of berries, the above mentioned six anti-angiogenesis foods proved to be “as effective or more potent in battling cancer” through anti-angiogenesis as approved drugs. Yet unlike conventional drugs, there are no side effects associated with consumption of natural foods and they are vastly more affordable bringing cancer treatment to people of all walks of life. Further into the research, Angiogenesis Foundation also discovered that natural anti-angiogenesis foods were even more effective when eaten together.

Detoxification & Liver Support

The liver not only breaks down and eliminates toxins in the body, this process contribute to reducing estrogen dominance by assisting in the removal of excess hormones thus promoting hormone balance. This facilitates more effective performance of progesterone and possibly provides scope to reduce you dose if the body is functioning optimally. On the flip side, a woman with a fatty, dysfunctional liver will require far greater dosage of progesterone perhaps with minimal benefits.

Many women fall into the trap of believing that taking Silybum marianum (St Mary’s Thistle) and Taurin supplements are adequate to detox a sluggish liver. The Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com website always advises women to get their hands on a premium formulation that contains the necessary vitamins, herbs and essential nutrients to facilitate pathway 1 and pathway 2 detoxification, assisting with the efficient burning of fat from the liver itself.

Bowel function is the key to good health and is assisted tremendously by the delicate balance of intestinal flora. I highly recommend a premium herbal fiber cleanse to help thoroughly clean out the digestive tract. After all, a healthy digestive tract facilitates the elimination of toxins, parasites and mucous build up.

A probiotic is an organism which contributes to the health and balance of the intestinal tract. A probiotic is also referred to as the “friendly”, “beneficial”, or “good” bacteria which when ingested acts to maintain a healthy intestinal tract and help fight illness and disease. Probiotic decline as we age, and so if you are working to bring your hormones back into balance, it’s important to add probiotic supplements to your diet.

A handful of Medical References

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2. John R. Lee M.D., David T. Zava Ph.D., Virginia Hopkins, M.A. 2002 What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer, Penguin, Australia
3. Natural Progesterone: What Role in Women’s Health Care? 1998, Jane L. Murray, M.D., Women Health Primary Care, USA
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15. Exp Cell Res. 2009 Mar 4. Red wine triggers cell death and thioredoxin reductase inhibition: effects beyond resveratrol and SIRT1. Wallenborg K, Vlachos P, Eriksson S, Huijbregts L, Arnér ES, Joseph B, Hermanson O.
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In light, love & laughter,

Catherine P. Rollins
Founder / CEO
Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com

“Supporting Women in their Choice of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)”

“ What is natural hormone treatment? I have been suffering 3 mths after my tubal ligation in Sep 09 in exactly the same way as other women on your website – anxiety, painful breasts, heavy periods. I have never been on the pill, never had any problems. I am 39. I had TL done at the same time as a hernia repair so i know 100% it is coz of TL!!!! The only thing docs have given me is Prozac 20mg. It does help – no night sweats or insomnia – but I wouldnt wish this on worst enemy. ”

Catherine responds …

Dear Claire,

A tubal ligation has serious, life-challenging consequences that many of us were perhaps unaware of when making the decision of sterilization. What our doctors may not tell us is that whilst we may be left with intact, fully functional ovaries after the operation, hormone production via our ovaries tends to diminish within 1-3 years of cutting off the blood supply between the ovaries and uterus (tubal ligation or partial hysterectomy).

Women are commonly given misinformation that their ovaries will continue to function as normal after a hysterectomy or a tubal ligation. It is true that for some women their ovaries will continue to function as before, but in most causes one or both ovaries will fail due to the blood supply being affected by the ovaries becoming isolated from their blood supply.

Removal of our ovaries (called oophorectomy or ovariectomy) is the biological equivalent of castration in males. If, after a tubal ligation, our ovaries stop doing the job Mother Nature meant for them to do, we lose our ability to naturally manufacture key steroid hormones. End result is a form of castration.

Women who have had their ovaries removed or rendered nonfunctional due to ovarian isolation are seven times more likely to develop coronary heart disease and much more likely to develop bone problems at an early age than are pre-menopausal women whose ovaries are intact and functioning.

Major hormone disruption akin to early menopause, if left untreated, can turn a woman’s life into a living hell, and your story, Claire, bears this out. Unless you can put back (replace) the hormone(s) you are now deficient in, life isn’t going to be sweet from this point onwards. Furthermore, you face a raft of health concerns that hormone balance keeps in check.

Comments posted to our webpage What is Tubal Ligation vertify that yours is not an isolated case. Post tubal ligation, women often go into early menopause, or experience perimenopausal problems such as hot flushes, sleep disturbances, anxiety attacks and other symptoms commonly associated with hormone imbalance.

Women report hormone disruption 6-7 years after tubal ligation. However, occasionally, women report insidious side-effects virtually the day after surgery.

Diana writes, “Why wasn’t any of this information discussed with me BEFORE the surgery?” Good question. What is being discussed?

Ovarian hormones of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone are involved in the regulation of hundreds of bodily functions. Disruption of our steroid hormones will have serious consequences to our health (i.e., hot flashes, mood swings, headaches, fatigue, sleep disturbances, loss of libido, weight gain, vaginal dryness & atrophy, thinning hair, osteoporosis, cancer, and so on).

Our estrogens (estrone, estradiol, estriol) are made primarily in the ovaries, but also from androstenedione in fat cells, muscle cells, and skin even after menopause. Our ovaries continue to make small amounts of estrogen and testosterone. So we do not necessarily need to supplement estrogen after menopause, not unless we are experiencing hot flashes or vaginal dryness. And when it comes to supplementing estrogen, consider estriol as a ‘safer’ option. The guidelines go like this … if you are having a monthly period, you generally have adequate estrogen in your body.

However, it’s important to point out that our body has no way of manufacturing progesterone once our ovaries stop working. Progesterone is made by the ovaries after ovulation (corpus luteum). Once your ovaries cease production of progesterone, there are limited way to put this hormone back into your body. Vitex can increase progesterogenic activity. Vitex Agnus Castus, also called Chaste Tree or simply Vitex can often bring a woman’s hormones back into balance without the need to supplement progesterone. However, a good outcome hinges on functioning ovaries. This herbal approach, therefore, may not work if ovarian function is seriously compromised.

We know that female cancers of the breast, uterus, and cervix are driven by estrogen. Replacing lost endogenous progesterone with bioidentical progesterone becomes vitally important as a carcino-protective measure to mitigate the actions of estrogen in our body throughout the course of our lifetime’s exposure to estrogen.

In relation to your symptoms, Claire, here’s something to think about:

• Anxiety and painful and/or lumpy breasts points to progesterone deficiency.
• Heavy bleeding points to estrogen excess.

Progesterone deficiency is the most common form of imbalance among women of all ages. Introducing a premium progesterone cream using a dose of 15-30 mg per day that mirrors Mother Nature will help address this deficiency.

There are suggested techniques to reduce your estrogen load posted to our website.

Like you, Claire, I had my tubes tied during a hernia operation some months after the birth of my third child (who is now 21!). Understandably, the decision to undergo a tubal ligation during another ‘scheduled’ medical procedure like a hernia operation makes economical sense against the out-of-pocket costs of male sterilization.

Within 2-3 years, I was in the same mess you now find yourself. Sadly, I had no idea that such a disruption to my hormones would be the end result. In hindsight, I ought to have asked my husband to have ‘the snip’ (a vasectomy). Because what I didn’t know then (because my doctor didn’t inform me!) was that a tubal ligation is more major a surgery than vasectomy, and carries greater risks. Postoperative complications are more likely than with vasectomy, and more costly. And in industrialized nations, mortality is 4 per 100,000 tubal ligations, versus 0.1 per 100,000 vasectomies.

Since discovering bioidentical progesterone cream in the late 90s, I haven’t looked back. Progesterone supplementation alone has largely eliminated the very real and very debilitating symptoms I suffered post tubal ligation. So there IS hope on the horizon, Claire. I encourage you to use our website’s knowledgebase to get informed … and get well again.

Alternatively, you might want to consider a tubal ligation reversal. Though I understand it’s not cheap – a reversal can set you back anywhere from $3,000 to $7,500, and success can vary from from 20 percent to 70 percent – it is an option to consider if ovarian function can realistically be restored.

I encourage you to do your own research and make your health care decisions in partnership with a qualified health care professional.

In light, love & laughter,

Catherine P. Rollins
Founder / CEO
Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com

“Supporting Women in their Choice of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)”

Surveys report that over 40 million Americans live in a no-sex or low-sex marriage! For those Americans, lovemaking is increasingly infrequent and, on the rare occasion they do have sex, it just isn’t as much fun as it used to be. Many people blame their dwindling sex drive on age, stress, weight gain, and fatigue. They are resigned to a sex-less life.

The dynamic husband and wife team Genie James, M.M.Sc. and C.W. Randolph, Jr., M.D. are natural hormone health experts who offer, not only hope, but a solution for such couples with their latest book, In the Mood Again: Use the Power of Healthy Hormones to Reboot Your Sex Life – at Any Age.

In the Mood Again shares their unique three-step plan that has helped thousands of women and men safely and naturally regain their sexual spark.

For all men out there – they can throw out their Viagra because this book is for them too! Containing separate chapters and advice for men and women, In the Mood Again tells readers that no matter how old you are or how long it has been since you felt “in the mood,” you can once again enjoy regular, passionate and relationship-enriched sex. Even better, medical research shows that a renewed sex life can become a secret fountain of youth giving you more energy, helping you lose weight, improving your overall health and well being and also contributing to extended longevity.

Genie James and Dr. Randolph have created two natural solutions that can either intersect or stand alone, both approaches beginning and ending with your hormones. The first approach involves replacing the hormones your body is missing with ones just like it used to make. This approach is not accomplished by prescribing previously popular synthetic hormones (such as the brand names Premarin or Prempro) that many recent medical studies have linked to an increased risk of breast, uterine and prostate cancers, heart disease, stroke and dementia. Instead, these experts recommend bioidentical hormone replacement therapies (BHRT), which are plant-derived hormone molecules that are synthesized within a laboratory to have exactly the same molecular structure as the hormones produced by the ovaries or testes. When BHRT is used to restore optimum hormone levels, the human body safely and effectively recognizes and receives them.

For more than a decade, Dr. Randolph has used BHRT to treat thousands of women and men suffering from low libido and/or sexual performance problems. After only 3 months on an individualized prescription of BHRT, 92% of Dr. Randolph’s patients report a complete restoration of sexual desire. 99% of all patients indicate they have more energy and 87% say they have lost 10 pounds or more.

If you aren’t sure BHRT is for you, Genie James and Dr. Randolph offer an alternative holistic approach to boosting lagging hormone levels. This 3 step program combines a hormone-healthy diet with clinically-tested herbal approach to boosting lagging hormone levels and specific lifestyle choices. It is safe, simple, relatively inexpensive and best of all – it can work for life! In the Mood Again offers these simple steps along with a weekly shopping list of foods and supplements, and a checklist of lifestyle choices readers can make every day to help transition to a happier and healthier life.

1. SEXY-HEALTHY EATING: Change your diet to foods that balance estrogen levels and boost testosterone production. While this plan promotes weight less and a healthier body mass composition, it is not a calorie counting program. It is a lifetime approach to eating your way towards better sex.
2. HERBAL MEDICINE: In contrast to bioidentical hormone replacement, herbal medicine takes a more gradual and gentle approach to boosting lagging testosterone levels (the hormone of desire and pleasure) and restoring balance between all sex hormones. It is a centuries-old science using plant-based medicine to increase libido, stamina and pleasure.
3. EXERCISE: Regular exercise positively impacts your hormone levels, increases blood flow to your genitals, whittles away those pounds around your middle, shifts that stress off your shoulders, and gives you the confidence and energy you need to get naked and have a great time. Exercise equals more of the hormones you need to want and enjoy more sex.

Including client stories, reader quizzes, and scientific studies to support their program, In the Mood Again is the definitive guide to helping couples revive their sex life. The side effects of this no-drug, no-porn program? A trimmer body, more positive moods, better health, extended longevity, and happier, closer relationships!