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now you might want to think twice about

getting a hysterectomy of course

check with your doctor before taking on

that recommendation which that sounds

kind of weird but i had to give that

disclaimer but i want to talk about the

serious consequences and side effects

from hysterectomies

first thing you need to know is that 90

of all hysterectomies

are not life-threatening okay because

one of the reasons they do them is

cancer

but that’s less than eight percent

okay

the great majority of hysterectomies are

basically

unnecessary and you should really know

what you’re getting yourself into

it’s the second most common female

surgery behind c-sections

and if someone tells you well you’re

approaching menopause and

you really don’t need your ovaries

because they stop working don’t buy that

the ovaries continue to work beyond

menopause okay they produce significant

amounts of androgens which then can be

turned into

estrogen

and if your doctor disagrees with you

just ask them

then why do i need hormone replacement

therapy after i have a full hysterectomy

well it’s actually because you don’t

have the ovaries to produce

those female hormones anymore

okay consequences the side effects of

hysterectomy well the big one is going

to change your figure in a very negative

way

because when you cut

this band of ligaments that are attached

to the uterus those ligaments are also

attached to the spine

the hips

part of your pelvis

and basically you’re collapsing the

internal part of your torso the core of

the inside of your mid section that

causes the hips to widen that causes the

rib cage to shift

downward it can also give you a

shortened thick midsection appearance

and a protruded belly and many times

when you hopefully see an informed

consent

you don’t really see this side effect

number two lower back pain why because

you just created a lot of instability in

your pelvis not to mention

the potential for a leaky bladder

and a loss of libido which is number

four number five emotional rollercoaster

it can really affect your emotions

because if there’s any fluctuations

of estrogen

or progesterone downward or upward and

that can affect your emotional state of

mind

number six fatigue number seven it can

increase your risk of getting fractures

because

now you’re in a state where you could

potentially get either osteopenia or

osteoporosis because of the loss of

estrogen number eight it can increase

your risk of all-cause mortality

including coronary heart disease

now sometimes they’ll say well you know

you’re going to take your ovaries out

that way it can decrease your risk of

potentially getting ovarian cancer down

the road so you’re going to take out an

organ

to prevent cancer from developing in

that organ which by the way ovarian

cancer

is rare especially if you’re going to

compare the death from overhang cancer

to the increased risk of dying from a

hysterectomy

this is a much greater risk than getting

ovarian cancer and dying from ovarian

cancer number nine an average female who

has a hysterectomy gains 25 pounds

within the first year now instead of

getting hysterectomy why don’t we then

identify the reason for the hysterectomy

okay

let’s take a look at that

all right we have

fibroids okay we have endometriosis

already talked about cancer

excessive bleeding or heavy cycles okay

what could you do

to resolve these

that would be a new concept well number

one black cohosh is pretty effective for

uterine fibroids

number two i would highly recommend you

avoid soy especially the soy protein

isolates in so many different foods and

it can affect estrogen sensitive tissue

like the uterus

like the ovary

the cervix and other tissues even the

thyroid you don’t want to be either

taking extra estrogen or consuming

foods that are estrogenic this is why i

also recommend if you have fibroids or

endometriosis to avoid dairy because

dairy is

originally designed to help grow a calf

so there’s a lot of growth hormones in

there so anything that increases growth

you want to avoid and there’s several

hormones that will do that estrogen will

do it

and insulin will do it as well so that’s

why going on a low-carb diet would be

smart insulin is anabolic it makes

things get bigger but so is estrogen so

you want to avoid soy dairy and carbs

especially the refined carbohydrates of

course you can have vegetables as in the

cruciferous vegetables cruciferous

vegetables are

they help balance the estrogen they’re

not going to increase more estrogen

they’re going to shift from the bad

estrogen to the good estrogen but they

also detoxify the liver of things that

can mimic estrogen as in endocrine

disruptors so there are certain things

in the environment

pesticides insecticides herbicides

fungicides heavy metals plastics

this is an herbicide glyphosate it’s in

all the different gmo foods right

these chemicals in the environment are

endocrine disruptors but they also mimic

estrogen okay

so what we want to do is we want to go

organic we want to really limit the

exposure to chemicals

and at the same time consume cruciferous

vegetables that can help detoxify these

chemicals from your body

also there’s a interesting correlation

between vitamin d deficiency

in fibroids and endometriosis so i would

just recommend getting enough vitamin d

if you have fibroids endometriosis or

even heavy periods because think about

it the uterus is a muscle right

so it needs calcium it needs magnesium

when you

take vitamin d what do you do you

increase the absorption

of calcium and other minerals and what’s

better for a cramp than having more of

these minerals the other thing i wanted

to mention related to glyphosate it

blocks vitamin a and there’s some

research i’ll put it down below

that

shows the connection between low vitamin

a

and developing

fibroids okay and i’m not saying you

should start taking vitamin a of course

you should eat the foods high in vitamin

a like butter

cod oil

egg yolks that would be beneficial

but i’m just pointing it out in case

that might be your situation now one

last point let’s say you already had a

hysterectomy okay

is there anything else you can do

in addition to what i talked about right

here

yes there is a really wonderful product

from standard process i’m not affiliated

with them anymore but standard process

has a product called utrophin

pmg

okay eutrophin pmg

i would take that i would recommend

taking maybe two two of those before you

go to bed

the second thing i would take if you had

your ovaries removed is another product

from standard process called ovutrophin

pmg

okay so overtrophing pmg take one of

those before bed and it’s likely that

you’ll see an improvement in your

symptoms

and that goes beyond what i recommended

right here

now since we’re on the topic of female

hormones there’s a really good video on

estrogen that i would highly recommend

and i put it up right here check it out