In perimenopause estrogen levels are in fact often elevated, and the ratio between estrogen and progesterone is disrupted. There is a widespread mistaken belief that estrogen deficiency is the cause of many of the typical symptoms related to perimenopause and menopause mood and anxiety symptoms, irritability, breast swelling and tenderness, bloating, hot flashes and night sweats, headaches, bone loss, etc. medicine and culture, and how and why business and politics have played a role in this erroneous thinking.” They describe how “false beliefs about estrogen became entrenched in U.S.
The idealization of estrogen and neglect of progesterone has contributed to significant suffering for perimenopausal and post menopausal women. Instead, it is predicated upon our love affair with estrogen, as emblematic of all that is “alluring, sexy and accommodating about womanliness”. Prior and Baxter describe a common fundamental misunderstanding of the physiology of estrogen and progesterone over the course of a woman’s reproductive life cycle, which has resulted in a treatment strategy for menopausal women which is not based upon scientific evidence. CeMCOR has a very useful and accessible website which I recommend to all my readers. Statins today are prescribed in much the same way.Ī ground breaking and disturbing book about this topic is The Estrogen Errors, by Jerilynn Prior, MD, a Canadian professor of Metabolism and Endocrinology, and Founder and Scientific Director of the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research ( CeMCOR) and Susan Baxter, PHD, a journalist who specializes in medical controversies. I was relieved to get her blessing, as there is so much natural and deserved suspicion about treatment with hormones, after the disastrous impact of widespread synthetic HRT prescription on women’s health, resulting in an increased incidence of breast cancer, cardiovascular events and dementia. By contrast, she believes that bio-identical hormone treatment can be extremely useful, and does not adversely impact the intestinal flora. She is convinced that the widespread use of synthetic hormones, such as oral contraceptives, have very adversely impacted gut health, contributing to many psychiatric, neurological and auto-immune conditions. I discussed this topic with Dr Natasha Campbell McBride, the originator of the GAPS Healing Protocol, and one of my mentors, who is no fan of synthetic hormone treatment. Bio-identical progesterone merits further study and research, so that doctors in this country will become aware of its benefits.
Hormone therapy is another one of those issues, like saturated fat, about which there are many politically motivated and culturally sustained misconceptions, with significant consequences for women’s health. The enforced leisure of this quiet snow bound day affords the time and space to pull together my thoughts about bio-identical progesterone (Prometrium), an important topic that I have wanted to write about for some time.īio-identical progesterone has made a huge positive difference in my life, in the life of one of my patients, as well as in the life of a friend. There is a statewide ban on driving and subway service has been suspended for the day. I am fortunate to still have power, unlike 650,000 households in the Northeast.
It will be a monumental task to dig out of this one. The rule going forward is to expect the unexpected. The heavy snow reached well above my knees as I waded through the garden to the street.īlizzard Nemo is another instance of extreme weather that has become our “ New Normal“. I have never seen so much snow in Boston. This morning when I opened the door to go out with the dogs, the snow had drifted up four feet high during the night, creating a white wall that needed to be broken through in order to step outside.
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