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High FSH & Menopause
Q: My doctor says I am in menopause because my FSH level is high. I'm still having periods, sometimes very heavy ones, and I thought menopause was the point at which your periods stop.
A: Menopause is defined as the point in time when a woman has gone 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period. The average age in the US is 50-51. It used to be thought that a high FSH level was an indicator of menopause, and it is true that menopausal and postmenopausal women have high FSH levels. However, we know from research studies that the FSH level begins to rise at age 30 and increases through the 30s and 40s. Because of this information, the FSH level is now considered to be an unreliable marker of menopause, yet many doctors continue to use this test. You may be in perimenopause, the years during the late 30s and 40s leading up to menopause. Changes in menstrual flow, including heavier periods, are common in women during the perimenopausal years.
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Calcium & Magnesium?
What is the best Calcium & Magnesium?
I recommend and personally use Ionic Fiz from Pure Essence Labs because: Minerals are absorbed into the body when mineral ions are “picked up” by carrier proteins in the small intestine. For this to happen, the ions must be freed from the compounds to which they are bound in foods and supplements. The body does this with the hydrochloric acid (HCL) made in the stomach. As we age, HCL declines, and minerals become more difficult to absorb. Thus, the best supplements are those that are easiest to “ionize.” When you mix new, Ionic Fizz Calcium Plus or Ionic Fizz Magnesium Plus with warm water, you'll notice a fizzing effect. This fizzing is ions being released from their bonds, so that when you drink them, they are already 100% available for absorption. Because of this, even the weakest digestive system can absorb them efficiently. Each serving of Ionic Fizz Calcium Plus provides 300 mg. of ionic magnesium and 250 mg. of ionic calcium, the exact ratio that Dr. Abraham found effective for increasing bone density. They also provide potassium, zinc, manganese, copper and boron, organic silica, and vitamins A, B-6, B-12, C, D, and Folic Acid. These nutrients are added because they support the bone building process. Ionic Fizz Magnesium Plus is the same formula, but without the calcium. Because these minerals are better absorbed than traditional supplements, you need only half as much.
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Mother to Be: The Right Supplements
As an expectant or new mother, you don't want to worry about whether or not your supplements contain ingredients that might harm your fetus, your child, or you. And, as long as your supplements are the right supplements, you won't have to. So, for the ultimate in natal nutrition, step up to Mother to Be, while you're pregnant and to Mother & Child upon deliver. They're the cleanest, purest, most energetic, and most healthful natal multiples ever offered. And, as with all Pure Essence products, they are guaranteed to your complete satisfaction.
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Candex: A Better Way of Candida Treatment
Candex: A Better Way of Candida Treatment
With the advent of digestive enzymes, a new tool against Candida has emerged. Since Candida's cell wall is made largely of cellulose, cellulase enzymes can rupture and break it down.
When this occurs, the yeast dies.Cellulase enzymes do not harm the liver, and are also safe in every other way. Further, because Candida cannot change the structure of its cell wall, it cannot become resistant to these enzymes. Finally, because the enzymes do not stimulate the yeast to release toxins, they do not trigger a die-off reaction. For over four years, Candex has helped countless people who had found other yeast management products ineffective. Now, however, it is even better. You see, while the cell wall of the yeast is comprised largely of cellulose, it also contains mannins, glucans, etc. By adding other enzymes that break down these other fibrous factors, the cell wall is more quickly and more completely digested. .
In addition, Candex nowprovides a wide array of enzymes that digest both complex and simple carbohydrates, which are, of course, candida's preferred foods.
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Insomnia & Hormones
Q: Almost every night I wake up around 2-3 AM. It is hard to get back to sleep, and sometimes I feel so anxious. I've never had problems with sleeping until recently. Any ideas on what is causing this? I'm only 42, and I thought that insomnia was a problem for older people.
A: Many women experience this problem beginning in their early 40s. It is associated with the hormonal changes of perimenopause when there is often excess estrogen produced, or too much estrogen relative to progesterone in the body. Estrogen acts as a central nervous system stimulant, while progesterone has a relaxing effect on the brain. With excess estrogen, symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety and irritability are common. The use of supplemental progesterone can balance estrogen and may help to promote sleep and calm mood.
For the progesterone cream we recommend please see the link this cream come in airtight dose metered containers that prevent contamination and spoilage:
Femcreme from Pure Essence Labs
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Hormones-What is True
1. As a woman ages, her body loses its ability to make enough estrogen. This is untrue.
The vast majority of women continue to make plenty of estrogen after a natural menopause or a hysterectomy; it is progesterone that is deficient! We make estrogen in our body fat. Both estrogen and progesterone can be made in the adrenal cortex. However, since stress limits the production of both progesterone and estrogen in the adrenal glands, many of us fail to make the needed progesterone to balance our biological need for progesterone. However we do make estrogen from high glycemic food intake and in our body fat, so we are often not deficient in our natural estrogen synthesis. Therefore, a heavier woman will make more estrogen, than a thin woman. They also have a higher tendency toward a dramatic progesterone deficiency. The ability to make estrogen only diminishes, but does not stop in menopause/post-menopause, regardless of the reason for the menopausal onset.
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Menopause & Perimenopause Relief
For menopause & Perimenopause Symptoms-Dr. Northrup recommends:
Exercise Sustain at least 30 minutes of exercise at least five times a week. Diversify your exercise routine to speed up your metabolism; working different muscles will allow you to burn more carbohydrates and body fat, protect your bones and your heart. Yoga and meditation increases progesterone levels that will allow you to feel calmer and more centered in your life. Use 1/4–1/2 teaspoons of 2% natural progesterone cream to reduce the occurrence of hot flashes and migraine headaches. You can pick this up at a natural food store or your doctor can prescribe it. If you have an increased sex drive, find a creative outlet to channel your new energy into. Try traditional Chinese acupuncture and Chinese herbs.
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The Right Kind of Supplements
Since 1981, however, the best supplements have been fortified with energy packed green foods (spirulina, barley grass juice, kelp, etc). These products have drawn rave reviews from people throughout the country, because their green foods provide vast amounts of energy, so that cells can conduct metabolic reactions more efficiently.
Yet, even these products have limitations. While they can support healthy cells, they do little to strengthen those that have been damaged by free radicals, Thus, the team that first developed them (Pat Bailey and Jerry Cochern) never quit working on improvements. Now, they have created the world's first Superior Tonic Multiples, which are light years beyond anything else that has ever been available. Mother to Be and Mother & Child are the only entrants in the entire field of natal nutrition to provide the cellular strengthening power of Superior Tonic Herbs.
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Hormones-What is True
What is TRUE 1. Salivary testing for steroidal hormones is necessary to accurately measure them. Most of us, women and men, of all ages, are making sufficient estrogen for our bodies. Some are not, but most are. We should never assume a deficiency of estrogen, because the most likely reality is a deficiency of Progesterone instead.
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How Can I Control Candida Albicans?
For many years, the mainstays in Candida management have been anti-fungal drugs and herbs . But, these agents have limitations. First, anti-fungal drugs may cause liver damage. Second, anti-fugnals cause yeasts to release even more toxins, which cause "die off reactions" (intensifications of symptoms) that many people cannot tolerate. Third, yeasts can become resistant to them, so that they lose their effect.
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Effects of Natural Progesterone
According to studies by Dr. Lee and other researchers, natural progesterone aids the body in producing its own estrogens and other hormones, and helps build bone (rebuilds bone lost to osteoporosis), burns fat, prevents endometrial and breast cancers, and helps embryos survive pregnancy. And natural progesterone has all these benefits without the side effects such as anxiety, fluid retention, depression, headaches, and weight gain, often experienced by women using synthetic hormones. Estrogen dominance is only one factor that explains many of the symptoms experienced by women 10 to 20 years before menopause. Dr. Lee cites several other factors such as poor nutrition, stress, and environmental factors that can play a significant role in many women.
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Menopause Myth #3
Myth: Hot flashes are due to low estrogen levels. Hot flashes are a heat release response by the body with dilation of peripheral blood vessels causing flushing followed by sweating. They occur because the body's thermostat setting is narrowed and minor temperature changes trigger an exaggerated response. While hot flashes are seen in women with low estrogen levels, they can also occur with high estrogen levels (during pregnancy) and with fluctuating estrogen levels. Other hormones also play a role – hot flashes occur with low progesterone, low testosterone (even in men), high FSH (follicle stimulating hormone), surges of LH (luteinizing hormone), increased cortisol, increased stress hormones and low beta-endorphin levels. Even low levels of antioxidants in the body can contribute to hot flashes. Hot flashes occur in up to 85% of postmenopausal women, but significant numbers of perimenopausal women and women with PMS experience hot flashes. Hot flashes that occur at night are called night sweats.
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What Is Candida?
Candida albicans is a single celled yeast that is impossible to keep out of the body. Normally, it does no harm, because it is kept in check by beneficial bacteria (probiotics) like acidophilus . These bacteria, however, can be destroyed by birth control pills, antibiotics, steroids, coritsone drugs, chlorinated water, poor diet and extreme stress . When this occurs, Candida can grow out of control and cause symptoms of candida and yeast infection. Candida causes problems by releasing extremely acidic toxins into the bloodstream. These toxins trigger many discomforts, including localized (primarily vaginal) itching, depression, irritability, dizziness, unclear thinking, difficulty focusing, extreme fatigue, loss of memory, gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, extreme weight gain or loss, etc. More than 100 million Americans are thought to suffer from Candida overgrowth.
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Mother & Child—Recovering While Nursing
At delivery, a woman's body undergoes the most profound change it will ever experience. While pregnancy evolves gradually, the childbirth experience happens in just moments, During the labor leading up to those moments, enormous amounts of Kidney "Essence" are spent.
After delivery, the child is, of course, completely dependent upon the mother for food. Studies show that children who are breastfed for at least two years do better in virtually every aspect of development than those who are not. While the quality of any mothers milk is better than store bought replacements, not all milk is created qual.
In order to have the strongest milk possible, and to regain your own strength as quickly and completely as possible, you must consume foods that restore this Essence. Common table foods simply cannot accomplish this.
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Menopause Myth #1
Myth: Menopausal symptoms don't start until your periods stop. Perimenopausal hormone changes can begin as early as the late 30s or early 40s. Many perimenopausal women begin to experience symptoms like night sweats, hot flashes, insomnia, anxiety, mood swings, headaches, changes in sex drive (libido) and changes in the menstrual cycle long before their periods stop. Many of these symptoms are due to an imbalance of estrogen and progesterone in the body, which occurs as ovulation becomes irregular in the perimenopausal period.
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As an expectant or new mother, you don't want to worry about whether or not your supplements contain ingredients that might harm your fetus, your child, or you. And, as long as your supplements are the right supplements, you won't have to. So, for the ultimate in natal nutrition, step up to Mother to Be, while you're pregnant and to Mother & Child upon deliver. They're the cleanest, purest, most energetic, and most healthful natal multiples ever offered. And, as with all Pure Essence products, they are guaranteed to your complete satisfaction.
Candex: A Better Way of Candida Treatment
foods (spirulina, barley grass juice, kelp, etc). These products have drawn rave reviews from people throughout the country, because their green foods provide vast amounts of energy, so that cells can conduct metabolic reactions more efficiently.
At delivery, a woman's body undergoes the most profound change it will ever experience. While pregnancy evolves gradually, the childbirth experience happens in just moments, During the labor leading up to those moments, enormous amounts of Kidney "Essence" are spent.
