Natural Hormone Balancing

Dr. John Lee has been shaking up traditional Western medicine with his controversial ideas about hormone replacement therapy (HRT), claiming that estrogen "dominance", as he puts it, is dangerous for women's health. He says that menopausal women need more progesterone, a little-known and less understood hormone, in order to be healthy whether they are going through menopause or not.

First of all, let's begin with some basics on hormones and the human body. This may come as a huge shock to most people, but both women and men produce naturally occurring estrogen and testosterone hormones. Obviously, the balance of these two hormones differ between men and women, but the real difference lies in the fact that the hormone progesterone occurs only in women.

Dr. Lee has come to the conclusion that menopause is not caused by an estrogen deficiency, and that women do not need additional estrogen, but rather additional progesterone, in order to balance their hormones. He goes on to say that a topical cream(one that is applied to the skin), made from wild yams can provide the progesterone. In its naturally occurring form, progesterone will not cause the side effects that synthesized progesterone (called progestins) can cause.

According to Dr. Lee the negative effects of an over abundance of estrogen, include; depression, anxiety, headaches, fibrocystic breast cell stimulation, interference with thyroid hormone function, poor sleep patterns, decreased libido, impairment of blood sugar control, causes endometrial cancer, triggers autoimmune diseases, and the list goes on.

Whereas, his list of naturally occurring progesterone's effects include; protection against breast fibrocysts, acts as a natural diuretic, a natural anti-depressant, prevention of cyclical migraines, promotes normal sleep pattern, facilitates thyroid hormone function, helps normalize blood sugar levels, normalizes blood clotting, helps restore normal libido, prevents endometrial cancer, decreases risk of prostate cancer in men, prevention of autoimmune diseases, and this list goes on.