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today we’re going to talk about estrogen

in relationship to the female cycle

something that’s extremely common yet

very misunderstood so let’s just break

it down first of all let’s talk about

what a hormone is hormones are

communications that are created and sent

through the blood system so they’re

created by the gland sent to the blood

and they connect into a part of the

tissue that has receptors for that

specific hormone like right now I’m

talking to you through the computer into

your speaker into your ear and you’re

receiving that information if I was

speaking another language that would be

like a different hormone so the receiver

has to understand the language for what

it’s being received by so estrogen has

receptors in the liver and the uterus in

the bone in the brain in there in the

ovary so it can even go from over your

ovary as well so basically we have the

glands and glands the difference between

a gland in Oregon is glands make

hormones organs don’t with the exception

of the liver the liver does make a

hormone so but typically glands make

hormones sent to the blood and get

received over here to create some effect

so hormones are communications the one

we’re going to talk about today is

estrogen every month one of your ovaries

runs the show and sends the hormones

into the into the bud blood on a four

28-day cycle so at day 14 you have this

spike of estrogen and then it goes down

and this is ovulation when you’re the

most fertile and then another hormone

that the ovary produces called

progesterone increases as well and then

a date 28 that’s when you have the

menstrual cycle and then the sync starts

over and over and over again so based on

when you have the problem during the

28-day cycle we can kind of tell where

the where your issue is because a lot of

women a week before their period start

getting like they feel like they’re

pregnant and they’re just like all this

fluid retention their belly sticks out

well we know that’s progesterone versus

estrogen if the problem is during

ovulation then we know it’s definitely

estrogen if it’s during your cycle we

know it’s estrogen

so the effects that estrogen create in

the cell whether it’s the liver the

uterus or wherever where the breast

tissue can create effective breasts the

size of the breast that’s why if there’s

a problem with estrogen you can have

tenderness in the breasts or cysts in

the breast the uterus the menstrual

cycle your sex drive the DNA so estrogen

affects the DNA the transcription of the

of the blueprints so estrogen can send

the message into the DNA and intel parts

of your body to grow and get bigger all

right so that’s why it affects the DNA

and that’s why I can create tumors we’ll

get to that in a little bit

estrogen affects the shape of your body

it feminized –iz the body and that’s

why it gives that the lower part the

hips a shape it gives the curve on a

female body that’s why women have a

layer of fat a superficial fat that men

don’t have in the lower part of their

bodies well some men do but most don’t

so gives you the shape and so if there’s

too much estrogen you’re going to get

too much heavy lower part of your body

the bone it affects the bone it affects

the cognitive the brain it affects the

electrolytes cuz in the kidneys the

potassium sodium ratio so you can see it

has many many different effects but the

function of the ovary is to send

hormones into different parts and then

one month the one of the ovaries will do

do all the work and then the other month

the other ovary does the alt the

produces the ovulation so they alternate

back and forth between left and right

ovaries so depending on what part of

your body you have a little back pain on

it could be like the right lower part of

the back the next week it’s like no pain

and then it could be the right side then

we know the right ovary could be

producing too much estrogen so what they

alternate or even sometimes you’ll get

acne on the one side of your face versus

the other side so again the ovary

produces these hormones that create all

sorts of different effects in the body

now probably the most common problem

with the ovary is the over production of

estrogen they call it estrogen dominance

it’s too much estrogen what happens with

too much estrogen you’re going to get

excessively heavy periods cramping no

periods irregular periods or irregular

cycles

long periods heavy bleeding every single

problem with that period will be

disrupted with too much estrogen and one

of the one of the triggers for too much

estrogen we’ll get into the next part

but it could be a low progesterone

because if the estrogen causes no

periods there’s nothing to trigger the

progesterone release and so therefore

the pedestrian goes down even more and

then the relative ratio of estrogen goes

up like a teeter-totter

so estrogen and progesterone work like

this so when you don’t have much of this

this kind of goes up in the relative

ratios just like salt and potassium so

if you have too much salt your potassium

is going to go down same effect so

estrogen can cause no periods and then

there’s no progesterone and then that

makes more estrogen so it’s kind of a an

interesting thing okay headaches come

from too much estrogen fluid retention

can come from estrogen dominance

fibroids endometriosis which is extra

growth of tissue in the female cavity

through here can come from estrogen

dominance as well and because remember

we talked about DNA DNA it’s affects the

blueprints it makes tissue grow it

increases the size of different things

so fibroids definitely come from

estrogen dominance cysts come from

estrogen dominance and you can have

cysts on the ovaries you can have on the

breast and that could that comes from

estrogen dominance as well gall stones

why because estrogen concentrates the

cholesterol in the gall bladder they’re

thereby creating stones so gall stones

are real common trigger from high levels

of estrogen and they usually see them

after pregnant

see simply because the spike of estrogen

during the cycle in the pregnancy okay

then we have cancer too much estrogen

can trigger cancer and that’s why one of

the medications they use as an

anti-cancer blocker would be tamoxifen

which blocks the receptors for estrogen

decreasing the risks so cancer is

definitely triggered by too much

estrogen and then the thyroid can be

diminished with too much estrogen why

because the thyroid also has receptors

for I’ll try to draw a little tiny

picture here receptors for estrogen so

if there’s too much thyroid surgery in

the body it can block the receptors in

the thyroid and now not let the thyroid

hormones get in there thereby decreasing

the function of the thyroid so we have a

secondary low thyroid called hypothyroid

coming from an estrogen dominant

situation and that’s why you see a lot

of women with thyroid problems after

pregnancy after being exposed to a lot

of estrogen so I would this is my guess

I would say most thyroid cases are this

problem right here not primary so those

are some of the effects that estrogen

dominance can create on the body so the

next question is what causes estrogen

dominance well the first thing is our

environmental first of all we are in

environment that’s so bathed with so

much estrogen that I mean it’s

everywhere it’s and the pesticides

insecticides herbicides fungicides heavy

metals country-and-western

I’m just a bad joke and then you have D

DT now DDT was banned in 1971 yet we

finding it in in our adipose tissue or

fat tissue even in kids why because

we’re not able to use it in the US but

we’re able to sell it at third world

countries will we buy our fruits and

vegetables in the winter so it comes

right back and goes right into our body

DDT mimics estrogen so environmentally

they call it endocrine disrupters which

are really chemicals in the environment

that mimic estrogen and our cell

can receive or pickup the tissues can

receive these chemicals and they connect

like estrogen and that’s why a lot of

the books on toxicology the study of

poisons show the relationship between

these chemicals pesticides and things

and hormone disruption so we have that

number one HRT hormone replacement here

used to be called estrogen replacement

therapy but they found estrogen causes

cancer so what they did is they add a

little bit of progesterone to buffer it

which did decrease the cancer risk by

some amount and then they call it

hormone replacement therapy but these

estrogens that are synthetic which are

by made from horse urine pregnant horses

are a lot different than our bodies our

bodies as humans were not designed to be

exposed to horse estrogens so it does

create a lot of problems for females

when they have to take HRT and then

birth control pills estrogen the next

one is soy specifically soy protein

isolates 95 percent of soy protein

isolates are genetically modified but

they’re putting the this type of protein

is kind of a new protein and and the

breakfast cereals and the baby food in

the protein bars and the diet shakes a

lot of these diets use the soy protein

lysis because it’s a cheap type of

protein dr. McDougall MD has found that

soy protein isolates can influence

fibroids and tumors in the liver okay

progesterone decreases we talked about

that in the last section really when you

start losing your period around

premenopause or perimenopause i’m sorry

you can then have a problem with

decreased progesterone and relative

increase estrogen because they work on a

reciprocal basis so that can also be one

of the problems that we’re dealing with

and so we also have liver problems now

the liver is where you actually detoxify

estrogen too much of it so if that

livers healthy you can get rid of a lot

of extra estrogen but if you’re starting

at constipation and

Galba problems and liver toxicity

because your diets really crappy you’re

not going to be able to break down this

excess estrogen and that can be another

culprit to estrogen dominance so these

are some of the common causes of

estrogen dominance so I want to make one

point about menopause I have a lot of

clients that tell me well I’m running

out of estrogen because I’m going

through menopause so therefore I need to

take Astra j’en in the thoughts that if

they don’t they’re going to end up with

Alzheimer’s Bastia Prosis and get really

old and heart disease in fact there’s

very little research of that I would

love to find some research so the next

time someone tells you that asks for the

research it’s not really there see you

have a backup organ during menopause the

adrenal glands on top of your kidney

produce the same hormones as the ovaries

do not in the same quantity but the same

hormones so what’s supposed to happen

naturally in nature is the ovaries shut

down or they stop working and then all

this work is done on the adrenals what

we’re seeing is this people going into

menopause with burnt out adrenals

everything they’re not able to back up

those ovaries effectively and then they

end up with all these problems with hot

flashes night sweats and vaginal dryness

and a lot of weight gain because now the

adrenals have to work harder and they

get this bigger stomach and belly fat so

really if there’s a problem with

adrenals before menopause it’s

exaggerated after menopause okay so they

go from one problem to a worse problem

and then people take what’s called they

start taking hormones and the problem

there’s side effects to that and even

the bioidentical hormones here’s the

problem I have with taking bio tentacle

hormones remember we talked about the

gland that makes hormones hormones are

the communications the gland is the

thing that makes the hormones and it’s

sent over here to something else instead

of focusing on the hormone where

basically the problem is not really the

hormone it’s the gland very few people

support the thing that makes the hormone

because when you take even by identical

hormones you actually inactivate your

own gland that makes that hormone same

thing with the thyroid and you take in

thyroid medication or

our hormones your Glenn doesn’t have to

produce so it goes to sleep over time

you shrivel it up so that’s why I’m not

crazy about people jumping and start

taking hormones because you’re going to

then shut down your own body’s ability

to make it what you should do is take a

look at how you can support the Klan

okay we’ll get to that in the next

section okay so now what do we do about

this there are four solutions that I

recommend phytoestrogens that that would

be all those vegetables that people

never eat like the cruciferous

vegetables kale broccoli Brussels

sprouts cabbage those foods are anti

Astra genic which means they help

balance your estrogens they’re not going

to decrease the good estrogens they’re

going to balance any bad and they

protect against cancer so and again as

far as the solution this is my

disclaimer I’m not telling you that any

of these will help you with any diseases

will prevent any diseases I’m not

telling you these are going to treat a

disease so check with your doctor with

that that’s my disclaimer okay these are

just things that can help support a

healthy menstrual cycle okay all right

so we got phytoestrogens very few people

have enough of those I highly recommend

start eating those that’s why the kale

shake is so important if you have not

done the calcic go to dr. Byrd calm the

front page and scroll down and download

that eating plan because it’s shows you

how to make the kale shakes every

morning it’s a no-brainer everyone

should be on that Cal shake avoid

estrogens well here’s the thing I’m not

telling you to come off your medication

check with your doctor but start

avoiding estrogens in the in the food

supply you have hormones and all the

butter that cheese the milk the dairy

the beef the chicken the turkey so have

foods that are hormone free all right

because there’s estrogen in those foods

also have more organic vegetables now if

you cannot afford it at least don’t buy

the ones from Chile in Mexico buy

vegetables that are in the country that

way you don’t get the DDT all right

because you don’t know if there’s DDT on

there or not it’s just a big mystery so

we want to avoid estrogens we want to

support the gland so I created something

that I’ve been using in my clinic to

support a healthy ovary and uterus

because it supports both and I don’t

know if you can see it that far but it’s

called ovary support formula and this is

what I recommend for clients just to

help balance things and improve things

overall and then mate and for a

maintenance as well so I recommend three

of these and they are a nutritional

blend that supports not just the ovaries

but the uterus as well and it doesn’t

have estrogen it it has nutrients that

that target the gland itself okay so we

want to support the gland and then we

want to eat foods that support the liver

and that’s why in my book the seven

principles of fat burning I talked the

first eating planet everyone does is

deliver enhancement why because that way

we can support the liver the liver can

then balance any excess of estrogen that

shouldn’t be there so the foods that

support the liver also support estrogen

because there are certain things in the

liver that regulate estrogen or buffer

excessive toxic amounts of estrogen so

those are four very simple things you

should focus on to help your situation

and your cycle