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The Hormone
Health Connection Newsletter is a newsletter that provides featured articles
on Menopause, PMS, and Natural Progesterone, new product reviews, tips for
reducing the pain and dealing with related anxiety of pms and menopause symptoms,
and information on how to promote a healthy, balanced lifestyle. The Hormone
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Featured Article
Are You Stressing Your Hormones? by Dr. Loretta Lanphier, ND, CN, HHP
Creating
health during menopause is every woman’s goal. We are led to believe
estrogen—or lack of it—is the cause of menopause symptoms. In this
article, I want to clarify that this is not the primary hormone
produced by the ovaries. Ovaries also produce androgens, such as DHEA
and testosterone, as well as progesterone. Total well being depends on
adequate levels of these hormones. Organs and body sites
other than just ovaries, produce androgenic hormones. These include
adrenal glands, the skin, muscles, brain, pineal gland, hair follicles,
and body fat. As the hormone production decreases in the ovaries, the
production of androgenic hormones increases from these other sources.
It’s clear, healthy women are well equipped to handle hormone changes,
not requiring hormone replacement. Approximately 15% of women are
symptom free. If you approach menopause in a state of
emotional and nutritional depletion that has affected optional adrenal
function, you will need hormonal, nutritional, emotional, and other
support during the menopause transition until your endocrine balance is
restored. Symptoms of Adrenal Stress
Are
you experiencing menopause symptoms? If so, your underlying problem may
be adrenal stress. The most common symptoms of adrenal stress are:
- Alcohol intolerance
- Alternating diarrhea and constipation
- Apprehension
- Auto-immune diseases
- Auto-immune hepatitis
- Craving for sweets
- Difficulty building muscle
- Difficulty gaining weight
- Dizziness that occurs upon standing
- Dry and thin skin
- Excessive hunger
- Feelings of frustration
- Food and/or inhalant allergies
- Headaches
- Hypoglycemia
- Inability to concentrate
- Indigestion
- Insomnia
- Irritability
- Lightheadedness
- Low blood pressure
- Low body temperature
- Mental depression
- Moments of confusion
- Nervousness
- Osteoporosis
- Palpitations [heart fluttering]
- PMS
- Poor memory
- Poor resistance to infections
- Scanty perspiration
- Tendency towards inflammation
- Unexplained hair loss
- Weakness
Factors in Creating Adrenal Stress
When
your body is stressed at sustained high levels, the over production of
the hormone cortisol, produced by the adrenals, gradually tears your
body down. It destroys healthy muscle and bone; slows down healing and
normal cell replacement; co-opts biochemicals needed to make other
vital hormones; impairs digestion, metabolism and mental function;
interferes with healthy endocrine function; and weakens your immune
system. Common causes of adrenal stress include:
- Anger
- Chronic illness
- Chronic infection
- Chronic inflammation
- Chronic pain
- Chronic-severe allergies
- Depression
- Excessive exercise
- Fear
- Going to sleep late
- Guilt
- Hypoglycemia
- Light-cycle disruption
- Malabsorption
- Maldigestion
- Nutritional deficiencies
- Overwork/ physical or mental strain
- Sleep deprivation
- Surgery
- Temperature extremes
- Toxic exposure
- Trauma/injury
- Worry/anxiety
Restoring Adrenal Health
It's
important to emphasize the role of emotional factors. Guilt, pain from
past hurts, self-destructive habits, unresolved relationship
problems—your past and present emotional experience may serve as an
ever-present stressor. Dealing with these problems directly is much
more beneficial than trying to compensate for the stress they create. Conventional
medicine’s focus on drugs tends to suppress early-stage symptoms rather
than treat their underlying causes. This can have the effect of
delaying treatment until a disease state has developed. You can restore your adrenal health by the following actions:
- Think
positive thoughts. If a problem starts to tug at your thoughts or
emotions, look on the bright side. See everything as a learning
experience not a message that you have messed up or are defective in
any way. Learn to not take on other people’s problems. Find a favorite
affirmation book or calendar to remind you each day of something
positive.
- Making dietary changes to enrich your
nutrition and reduce carbohydrates and stimulants. We recommend the
addition of high-quality nutritional supplements, including essential
fatty acids from fish oil, organic & unrefined coconut oil or
organic, unrefined hemp oil.
- Reducing stress includes meditation, moderate
exercise, and taking more time for you. It's helpful to make a list of
your stressors, especially those that are constant. If needed, make
lifestyle and/or friendship changes to get out of the stress track.
- Getting more rest. Your body needs time to
heal. The body does the most healing between the hours of 10:00 p.m.
and 2:00 a.m. If you are up during these times you are robbing your
body of the natural healing process.
- Accepting nurturing and positive feedback from those around you. Getting a pet can do wonders in this area.
- Making a list of priorities and let the rest go. Don’t try to be Wonder Woman.
- Using herbs, aromatherapy, acupuncture, and massage is helpful.
- Consider natural hormonal support.
Read more about what you can do in my e-Book, Balancing Your Hormones Without Drugs…You Can Feel Good Again.
Loretta Lanphier, ND, CN, HHP
is a Doctor of Naturopath, Clinical Nutritionist and Holistic Health
Practitioner in the Houston, TX area and CEO/President of Oasis
Advanced Wellness. A teacher, educator and author, she counsels Oasis
Advanced Wellness clients on the aspects of getting the body healthy
and keeping the body healthy. As a cancer survivor, she is able to
relate extensively, both as a patient and a practitioner, to clients
suffering from disease. Dr. Lanphier has been privileged to share her
cancer survival story with hundreds of people during seminars and
lectures. Her passionate style of truth and straight-forwardnessin an
easy-to-understand format is very refreshing to even the most
discerning of audiences. Dr. Lanphier is the author of two books and
many articles on health conditions written from a natural/alternative
medicine viewpoint. Dr. Lanphier is dedicated to helping people create
lasting changes in their health and enhancing well-being through whole
body nutritional balancing including physician strength
supplementation. Dr. Lanphier is Editor and contributor to the
worldwide newsletter Alternative Health & Healing.
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