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By Dr. John Lee, MD
Doctors have historically recommended, and prescribed, synthetic estrogens and progestins to treat the symptoms of menopause and PMS. This is largely because most of the information that the doctors receive about new treatments are from the pharmaceutical companies. And because a product that can be produced naturally can not be patented the pharmaceutical companies have to create a synthetic version with a slightly modified molecule in order to patent the product.
This however has been shown to be extremely unhealthy for your body. A New England Journal of Medicine article in 1995 involving 121,700 women showed that the chance of developing breast cancer went up to 40 percent in women that used estrogens and progestins (synthetic progesterone) for more than five years. Estrogen dominance is a term coined by Dr. Lee. It describes a condition where a woman can have deficient, normal, or excessive estrogen but has little or no progesterone to balance its effects in the body. Evan a woman with low estrogen levels can have estrogen-dominance symptoms if she doesn’t have any progesterone.
The symptoms and conditions associated with estrogen dominance are: - Acceleration of the aging process
- Allergy symptoms, including asthma, hives, rashes, sinus congestion
- Arthritis
- Autoimmune disorders such as lupus erythematosis and thyroiditis, and possible Sjogren’s disease
- Breast cancer
- Breast cysts
- Breast tenderness
- Candida
- Cervical dysplasia
- Chronic fatigue
- Cold hands and feet as a symptom of thyroid dysfunction
- Copper excess
- Decreased sex drive
- Depression with anxiety or agitation
- Dry eyes
- Early onset of menstruation
- Endometriosis
- Endometrial (uterine) cancer
- Fat gain, especially around the abdomen, hips, and thigh
- Fatigue
- Fibrocystic breasts
- Foggy thinking
- Gallbladder disease
- Hair loss
- High blood pressure
- Headaches
- Hot flashes
- Hypoglycemia
- Increased blood clotting (increasing risk of strokes)
- Infertility
- Irregular menstrual periods
- Irritability
- Insomnia
- Magnesium deficiency
- Memory loss
- Mood swings
- Osteoporosis
- Painful swollen breasts
- PMS
- Polcystic ovaries
- Premenopausal bone loss
- Prostate cancer
- Sluggish metabolism
- Skin: Rosacea, rashes, dermatitis
- Thyroid dysfunction mimicking hypothyroidism
- Uterine cancer
- Uterine fibroids
- Water retention, bloating
- Yeast infection
- Zinc deficiency
The above information was taken from What Your Doctor may not tell you about Premenopause by John R. Lee, M.D.
Men may also use Natural Progesterone to balance testosterone, to alleviate symptoms associated with an enlarged prostate, and to reverse the feminizing effects of too much estrogen.
John R. Lee, M.D. is internationally acknowledged as a pioneer and expert in the study and use of the hormone progesterone, and on the subject of hormone replacement therapy for women. He used transdermal progesterone extensively in his clinical practice for nearly a decade, doing research which showed that it can reverse osteoporosis.
Dr. Lee has had a distinguished medical career, including graduating from Harvard and the University of Minnesota Medical School. He retired from a 30-year family practice in Northern California a few years ago and ever since has been writing and traveling around the world speaking to doctors, scientists and lay people about progesterone. Dr. Lee had taught a very popular course on "Optimal Health," at the College of Marin for 15 years before his untimely death. He is the author of the best-selling book, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Progesterone (Warner Books, 1996), the new What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty (Warner Books, 1999), and editor of the John R. Lee, M.D. Medical Letter .
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