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FEMALE HORMONES

Women’s bodies are more complex than men’s due to their hormonal system.  It is a well-known fact that men lose weight easily, while women experience much more difficulty in losing weight.   This is due to the following reasons:

• Men have more muscle and therefore use more energy and “burn” fat easier
• Men produce the male hormone testosterone, which is a muscle constructing and fat burner hormone
• Women produce the hormone estrogen, which is a hormone that accumulates fat in the body
• Women tend to have higher emotional stress levels than men and therefore produce higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which is a hormone that accumulates fat in the abdomen and hips

It is due to these factors that women always lose weight slower than men.  One of the reasons, the excess of the hormone estrogen, has to do with a condition that many women, especially overweight ones, suffer from.  The condition is called “estrogen predominance”.

This hormone, estrogen, in reality is a group of various substances that are vital to a woman’s body.  Without estrogen, pregnancy couldn’t exist, nor would they have menstruation, breasts or soft skin.
 
Estrogen is a hormone that a woman’s body balances with another hormone that is produced during ovulation called progesterone.  Progesterone is a hormone that reflects its name very well because it allows “gestation” or becoming pregnant.  Women’s bodies depend on a certain hormonal balance between these two hormones, estrogenand progesterone.

Just about everyone knows that estrogen is produced in the ovaries of a woman.  But few know that the body’s fat also produces estrogen with the help of an enzyme called aromatase.  Fat produces estrogen and that’s why obese men develop breasts and start to have more feminine characteristics, even to the point where their tone of voice changes in pitch.

In his book, “What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause”, Dr. John Lee explains the problem of “estrogen predomination” in women.  It is a condition where the body of an overweight woman keeps producing estrogen from her fat even if her ovaries don’t work anymore.  When the estrogen isn’t being balanced in the body by the progesterone hormone, which is only produced during ovulation, it creates an “estrogen predominance” that doesn’t allow the woman to lose weight.  A “predomination” means that the estrogen dominates the body internally because the progesterone isn’t there to oppose it.  This creates a situation that makes it very difficult for women to lose weight because the excess estrogen accumulates fat and makes you gain weight and, at the same time, doesn’t allow fat loss.

The problem is that the estrogen hormone accumulates fat and makes you gain weight.  This has been a well-known fact for many years; you might have seen in the news, that, some years ago the pig and hen breeders tried to make their animals gain weight by supplementing their diet with estrogen to make them fatter.  This was publicized on the front pages of newspapers around the country as a scandal and as a result, many people decided not to continue consuming chicken meat.  As far as I know, this practice isn’t continued today, but many people are still upset about the attempted manipulation in using estrogen to make the animals gain weight.  They still refuse to consume chicken due to fear that it contains estrogen.

When a woman suffers from an “estrogen predomination” she can experience the following symptoms:

• Accumulation of fat in the hips and abdomen
• Re-occurring yeast infections 
• Autoimmune conditions like: Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis and Fibromyalgia
• Difficulty losing weight or losing weight very slowly
• Difficulty becoming pregnant
• Water retention (edema)
• Lack of energy or constantly tired
• History of breast or uterine cancer
• History of fibroids, adenomas or vaginal polyps
• History of having miscarriages
• Painful menstruation or cramps
• Osteoporosis (loss of bone density)
• Facial hair
• Loss of sexual interest or appetite
• Excessive menstrual bleeding
• Breast tenderness
• Sleeping too lightly or sleeping difficulties

“Estrogen predomination” keeps the metabolism low and makes it very difficult for the woman suffering from this condition to lose weight.

Estrogen is a growth promoting agent for cancerous cells, which is why having “estrogen predominance”, puts a woman at a high risk for breast and uterine cancer.

When a woman starts getting a lot of facial hair, it is generally a result of the “estrogen predominance” that makes the body produce more masculine hormones (androgens) to counteract the estrogen. The body will do its best to try and balance out the “estrogen predominance” by producing more masculine hormones if it can’t produce the progesterone it needs. This increases facial and body hair.  

The solution for women is to use a natural progesterone cream.  This natural hormone is applied to the skin and counteracts the harmful effects of the “estrogen predominance”, successfully balancing the hormonal system.  The natural progesterone has a calming and antidepressant effect.  Also, it helps women have deeper, sounder sleep.

You use the natural progesterone cream for just 21 days out of the month so that your body doesn’t become accustomed to it and stops reacting properly to it.  Women that still have periods should start using it on the first day of their period and use it for 21 days.  On the 21st day stop using it and give yourself a rest and then go back to using it again when your next cycle starts.
 
If a woman no longer has a period (menopause), she uses it for 21 days, but starts on the 1st day of every month until the 21st. The idea is to create a progesterone supplementation cycle as if it were the body itself that would still be producing the progesterone through ovulation.
 
You can get this cream at most natural product stores or you can get it through the Internet.  For women that have experienced a great deal of difficulty in losing weight and especially those that have gained a lot of weight in their hips and abdomen (caused by estrogen), the natural progesterone cream can be an excellent help.

Along with all of these benefits, natural progesterone also has an anti-aging effect on the body.   Women who use natural progesterone have nicer skin.  The only additional comment from women who use it is that it causes an increase of libido (sexual appetite).  Notice that natural progesterone has always been used to help women that suffer from sexual frigidity.  It is a hormone that promotes “gestation” (pregnancy) and therefore increases sexual interest.  Many husbands know about the libido enhancing properties of this hormone and suggest that their partner use the natural progesteronecream regularly every month.

Natural progesterone also has an effect of detaining bone loss or even helping to recover bone that has been lost due to a condition called osteoporosis .  This is something that can be proven 3 months after having begun to use the cream by doing a bone density exam and comparing it to an exam done before using natural progesterone.

I recommended that you buy and read the book by Dr. John Lee on this topic.  Don’t assume that your own doctor knows about this topic, since our doctors depend almost entirely on the scientific information that is provided to them on a continuing basis by the pharmaceutical companies.  For pharmaceutical companies, natural progesterone isn’t good business because of the fact that it is natural and can’t be protected with a patent, so you can’t make much money off of it.  If your doctor isn’t familiar with the subject, he or she will tell you not to use any hormones, whether they are natural or not, and this is understandable since they have been attacked with frivolous and, in many cases, unjust lawsuits for malpractice. In my experience, if the doctor isn’t familiar with the subject, he or she will recommend that you don’t do anything about it so that they can protect themselves from being legally responsible for their uninformed advice.  The standard answer is always “no” or “don’t use” if they are uninformed about the subject. This is an understandable attitude that doctors have, since many of them are being sued unjustly for malpractice. So, if the doctor doesn’t know about the subject of progesterone he or she will surely tell a woman not to use it. 

If you want to know more about this subject, inform and educate yourself so that you can have your own opinions about it. It is your body and thus it is your responsibility to know.

I can tell you that if your weight or obesity problem is concentrated in lower parts of your body (hips and abdomen) and you are feeling various symptoms like those described for “estrogen predominance”, you could experience a miracle in starting to use the natural progesterone cream.  When the “estrogen predominance” is very strong, the use of the natural progesterone cream causes an amazing increase in the metabolism and helps achieve the hormonal balance that your body needs to stay at its optimum state.