Estrogen According to Suzanne-BTW I Agree

Does Estrogen Deserve the Bad Rap?

For years, the medical community has been railing against estrogen replacement for women, based on studies that showed an increased risk of breast cancer when women took Premarin, a version of estrogen derived from horse urine. And that’s led many women to avoid replacing this necessary hormone, causing imbalances that lead to hot flashes, sleepless nights, weight gain, and loss of libido — not to mention throwing all your other hormones completely out of whack!)But most of the medical community now agrees that the past research on estrogen replacement and cancer was flawed. If you skip the synthetic version of estrogen and use bioidentical formulations, you can help bring the body back into balance without increasing the risk of cancer. Here’s how to do it:

• Contact a doctor who specializes in antiaging medicine. He’ll be able to run the appropriate blood and urine tests to determine your hormone levels and bring you back into balance.
• Balance out the estrogen with progesterone. You’ll need to take the estrogen with a natural (not synthetic) version of progesterone two weeks out of every month, to help counter the cell proliferation that estrogen can cause — and to get you closer to the hormonal balance you had when you were younger.
• Pay close attention to your estriol levels. Low levels of this essential component of estrogen can contribute to your likelihood of developing cancer. But bioidentical hormones can help boost your levels of estriol.
• Don’t go overboard. Too much estrogen (or any other hormone) can have many of the same ill effects as too little — for instance, too much estrogen can actually cause the same bloating and weight gain that too little causes.