Women's Hormone Health


Estrogen Dominance

The Problem:

From their mid-30’s and usually throughout the decades of the rest of their lives, almost all women are estrogen dominant. Even when women’s ovaries no longer produce enough estrogen to have regular periods, they are almost always still estrogen dominant.

 

The Solution:

Bioidentical progesterone can reduce or eliminate estrogen dominance to not only help you feel, look and act like yourself again but –even more important – to help protect you from the health risks that occur when estrogen dominance remains untreated. 

 

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Estrogen dominance, the result of a decline in progesterone production that begins in the mid-30s, means that the ratio of estrogen to progesterone in the body is disproportionately high. The hormone estrogen is key to a woman’s physical well-being; however, an overload of estrogen is destructive, causing a cascade of unpleasant symptoms and raising the risk of life-threatening diseases. As Dr. John Lee defined the condition: “If estrogen is dominant and progesterone deficient, estrogen becomes toxic to the body”. Untreated estrogen dominance has been clinically-linked to an increased risk of breast and uterine cancers, osteoporosis, low thyroid and dementia..

Age-related estrogen dominance can be compounded by excess body fat or weight gain because fat cells actually produce even more estrogen, due to enzyme activity within fat cells called ‘aromatization’. (Some doctors who generally prescribe “aromatase inhibitors” to stop the estrogen factory in fat cells, have found natural progesterone to be as safe  (or safer, due to its bioidentical structure) and effective, in keeping estrogen from escalating to unsafe levels. To make matters worse, individuals living in the United States or any other industrialized nation, are frequently exposed to man-made environmental estrogens (e.g. xenoestrogens) via hormone injected meats and poultry, pesticides and fumicides, plastics, fuels, car exhaust and industrial waste.  Fifty-one commonly used chemicals have been identified as hormone disrupters, at least half of which resist the natural process for decay, some persisting for decades, others for centuries.

Age-related estrogen dominance can be compounded by excess body fat or weight gain because fat cells actually produce even more estrogen, due to enzyme activity within fat cells called ‘aromatization’.

Are you suffering from estrogen dominance?  If you are a woman over 30, review the following symptoms and check off those that apply.  If you check two or more symptoms – and your symptoms have persisted for more than three months – odds are you are at risk. Take a few minutes to complete our free hormone imbalance quiz to find out if you are at risk.



How can you safely treat estrogen dominance and get back to “you”? For most women, the first step towards restoring a more youthful balance of hormones is a quality, over-the-counter, bioidentical progesterone cream, that can act to eliminate your condition of estrogen dominance at a cellular level and begin to bring all your hormone levels into better balance. Lifestyle changes like regular exercise, stress-reduction strategies and a hormone-healthy diet are also fundamental to feeling and looking your best – at any age.