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.