Why bioidentical hormones and hormone creams can be dangerous

Website design By BotEap.comWhen we hear the word “hormones,” we often think of “girly” hormones, female “issues,” and moody, emotional women at “certain times of the month.” It’s not exactly a compliment to be called “hormonal”, is it?

Website design By BotEap.comActually, hormones are serious business. They are critical components of our body’s master communication systems, relaying messages from various glands to the appropriate receptor sites on cells to create the desired result. Each hormone has a very specific receptor site on the cell membrane created especially for it. It’s like a small garage made especially for one type of car.

Website design By BotEap.comIt is an incredibly intricate and brilliant design.

Website design By BotEap.comHormones are involved in all physical, mental, and emotional functions, not just female ones. Boys and men would not exist without hormones. (Some say the same goes for boys and men without women, but I’m straying.)

Website design By BotEap.comAnyway, the focus of this little article IS really related to “female” hormones and hormonal imbalances. It is estimated that close to 90% of women in this country experience some type of hormonal imbalance or dysregulation. Wow! You’d think, with so many of us grieving, that medicine would have found some solid solutions by now.

Website design By BotEap.comConventional medical treatment often involves hormone replacement therapy, the administration of birth control pills, the removal of parts of the female reproductive system, or some other way of altering hormone production. For some, this could be the solution.

Website design By BotEap.comSome women choose to forgo these treatment approaches, instead choosing seemingly safer options such as bioidentical hormone replacement or over-the-counter progesterone creams or various self-medication options. Most are still trying to alter or balance hormones (estrogen and progesterone are the big two).

Website design By BotEap.comHere’s a plot twist: What if our hormonal problems weren’t really “hormonal” at all? What if the cause of the hormonal imbalance was actually deeper, or “higher up” so to speak? What if the vast majority of them were actually related to toxicity?

Website design By BotEap.comIn that case, how would artificially adjusting our hormone levels have any real or lasting success? Good. It would not be for an overwhelming number of women. In fact, if you’re not addressing the cause of your hormone dysregulation in the first place, you could be creating even more problems for yourself.

Website design By BotEap.comHere’s a short physiology lesson that will help explain why toxicity should be considered as a possible cause of hormonal problems (and countless other health problems):

Website design By BotEap.comYour endocrine system is the system responsible for secreting various hormones throughout the body. This system is under the control of the pituitary gland, which is under the control of the hypothalamus, both in your brain. Your pituitary also regulates other important endocrine glands, such as the thyroid and adrenal glands. Your hypothalamus/pituitary is like the “Houston Control Center”!

Website design By BotEap.comThere are some toxins that are capable of crossing the “blood-brain barrier” and can wreak havoc on this control center. A common example is mercury. In case you didn’t know, mercury doesn’t have to be in our bodies, let alone our brains! Unfortunately, anyone who has silver dental fillings/amalgams (or if their mother had them while she was in utero), who has been vaccinated, who has had the flu shot, who has worked in a dental office for a long period of time of time, etc you most likely have mercury in your system. Studies show that this mercury has an affinity for the hypothalamus/pituitary area of ​​the brain. When Mercury adjusts the integrity of its “control center”, the output of that control center is altered. that is, hormone production and balance.

Website design By BotEap.comAdditional research has shown that biotoxins from mold or Lyme, for example, cause a decrease in certain hormones that are essentially at the top of the hormone cascade, affecting the production of all other hormones along the way.

Website design By BotEap.comToxins don’t just “swim against the current” and negatively affect the brain. They also affect various tissues and glands throughout the body. For example, mercury can bind to a specific receptor site for selenium in the thyroid. Remember I mentioned that those receptor sites are supposed to be reserved for the specific hormone they were created for in order for the desired result to occur? The garage is made for a single type of car.

Website design By BotEap.comWell, the toxins sneak in and take over the garages, so the intended car (hormone) has nowhere to go. Can you imagine how these freely circulating hormones could alter your lab results?

Website design By BotEap.comWorse yet, your immune system may (accurately) begin to view this new bond that has been created as something foreign and unwelcome, and thus begin to attack your body’s own thyroid tissue. When the immune system does this, it is known as an “autoimmune” condition.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen it comes to “female” hormones, estrogen balance is vitally important, particularly in our modern lifestyle. Various environmental toxins upset our estrogen balance and negatively affect the ratio of “good” to “bad” estrogens. An example is plastics. BPA and phthalates found in plastics mimic estrogen and can lead to estrogen dominance. Does this sound all too common when it comes to breast cancer?

Website design By BotEap.comOther common environmental triggers for estrogen and other hormonal imbalances are: pesticides, steroids, and antibiotics, to name just a few. We are exposed to more toxins now than at any time in our known history.

Website design By BotEap.comEstrogen dominant cancers are growing in number. However, are we adequately addressing the underlying causes of the hormonal imbalance in the first place?

Website design By BotEap.comAlthough I have only scratched the surface here, I believe that any approach to hormonal issues, whether it be a conventional medical approach or a more holistic/natural approach, is woefully incomplete without addressing toxicity. This, of course, is true for any health condition or challenge.

Website design By BotEap.com(I haven’t even addressed chronic toxicity from physical, mental, and emotional sources and other chemical sources, such as nutrition!

Website design By BotEap.comIn addition to addressing toxicity (starting at the cell level), we can also be more precise with tests. For example, leading researchers now know that it is the balance of estrogen in the body that is key to better understanding these hormone-driven cancers, not just isolated hormone levels. For example, one valuable test is an estrogen metabolism test that looks at the ratio of “good to bad” estrogens and what toxins are potentially causing the imbalance.

Website design By BotEap.comOf course, nothing in the body works in isolation. So you can’t just look at estrogen and think you have the complete picture of what’s going on. It is important to know the functional levels of the thyroid, adrenal glands, and pituitary to begin with.

Website design By BotEap.comAre you beginning to see why adding hormones to the mix or applying a hormone cream may not be your best option? When you alter your hormones, either synthetically or “naturally”, you end up creating a cascade of events in the body in response. Also, you may be barking up the wrong tree, in the wrong park, quite possibly in a completely different city!

Website design By BotEap.comI understand that there is a “time and place” for some intervention, especially if it is only meant to be temporary until you actually get to work addressing and correcting the cause. I hear you. However, simply adding hormones, especially without identifying the cause of the imbalance, can essentially be like throwing gasoline on an already burning fire! You know what they say about playing with fire, right?