a woman living with menopausal symptoms, or a young woman with disturbed
sex hormones, bioidentical hormones can help relieve your symptoms by
balancing your hormones while helping you to stay younger looking longer.
As a woman, do you need estrogen and progesterone supplementation on top
of the Perfect 10 Diet? It’s possible. If you’re premenopausal and your periods
are irregular, you may have a disturbance in estrogen or progesterone, or both.
Also, if you’re living with menopausal symptoms, you need supplementation.
You need to balance these important hormones with professional medical help.
You see, during and after menopause, estrogen and progesterone levels decline
precipitously (Fig. 13.3). That’s not good for either health or weight. Hot flashes
and night sweats are some of the other annoying symptoms. Centuries ago, most
people didn’t live past the age of 40 or 50, but now, many women live well into
their 80s or 90s. You don’t have to suffer or live a dull life without your sex
hormones. Even if you’re older, you should have the hormones of a 20-or a 30-
year-old woman in order to stay healthy. Believe me; you can delay aging, and
you don’t have to suffer as you get older thanks to natural hormone replacement.
My menopausal patients complain all the time: “But I don’t care about libido.
I don’t want to have sex anymore.” It’s not about sex. If you have unbalanced
sex hormones at any age, you are more likely to develop diseases. A woman’s
estrogen levels are close to 200, and her progesterone level is around 20 when
she is in her reproductive years.
Believe me; it’s perfectly okay to have your sex drive back in your sixties or
seventies. Why? Because balanced sex hormones tell your heart and cells, “Hey,
I’m young and reproductive, so no heart disease or cancer for me.” What kind of
hormones? Natural, of course, and not synthetic. Unfortunately, many doctors
treat young women with hormonal problems with contraceptive pills.
Contraceptive pills are synthetic. The same goes for menopausal women who are
treated with drugs like Premarin or Prempro, which are also synthetic. Both are
not only poor choices, they are plain dangerous.
“Premarin” stands for pregnant (“pre”) mares (“mar”) urine (“in”), and that’s
exactly where it comes from: horses. Prempro is estrogen’s “premarin,” with
progesterone. Drug manufacturers tell us that these hormones are natural. They
are not. Premarin and prempro are not natural hormones unless your food is hay.
In 2002 a large study conducted by the National Institute of Health showed that
postmenopausal women taking estrogen plus progestin have an increased risk of
heart attack, stroke, breast cancer, and blood clots. Of course, these dangerous
drugs also make you gain weight. Premarin is 50 percent estrone sulfate, 25
percent equilin, and others. That’s not the kind of estrogen you want. Equilin
metabolites damage DNA and can increase the risk of cancer.
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