Vital to every woman’s health is estrogen and progesterone. When the balance of these two hormones is not in sync, many women are faced with health complications. The natural estrogen and progesterone produced by the body varies from puberty through child bearing years and levels fluctuate month to month and year to year. The amount of natural estrogen and progesterone produced is affected by stress, nutrition and exercise.
This article notes that many chemically manufactured items in today’s food supply mimic estrogen. These man-made chemicals, called xenoestrogens invade food supplies from pesticides and animal growth hormones. Many girls are physically and sexually developed at younger and younger ages due to xenoestrogens signaling puberty.
Natural estrogen and progesterone must be in balance, especially as a woman enters child bearing years. A dominance of natural estrogen over progesterone can manifest into problems affecting a women’s entire body. Physical issues include irregular menstrual flow and cramping, bloating, depression and irritability, and neurological issues such as migraine headaches, insomnia and epilepsy. This imbalance can also manifest in miscarriages, infertility, incontinence, endometriosis, hot flashes, night sweats and vaginal dryness, hypoglycemia, chronic fatigue syndrome and yeast infections. Even more serious problems are heart palpitations and other cardiovascular disorders, and even early, pre-menopause bone loss and osteoporosis.
For the majority of women, these physical manifestations don’t occur until menopause. During menopause, a woman’s body significantly reduces natural estrogen production while the production of progesterone virtually ceases. The reduction of these two hormones leads to many of the symptoms listed previously.
According to the article, natural progesterone is effective in treating all of the problems caused by natural estrogen and progesterone imbalance, including osteoporosis. Natural progesterone increases bone mass, thereby reversing osteoporosis.
The article states that a hormone replacement treatment that includes estrogen may not solve the symptoms and problems associated with the natural estrogen and progesterone imbalance. For many women progesterone is required to reduce the problems associated with menopause. While a natural estrogen replacement is available in Premarin, this natural estrogen comes from horses, which is not natural to humans.
The article suggests that women consult with their doctor on the correct natural estrogen and natural progesterone combination that will create a hormonal balance in their system. According to this article, many women are in greater need of progesterone than estrogen, especially to combat osteoporosis by increasing bone mass.
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