BodyLogicMD Attacks Environmental Hormones

In an article on Enhanced News Online, Estrogen Dominance: When Hormones and the Environment Conspire, a group of expert physicians from BodyLogicMD take the time to outline the significant impact the environment and hormones can have on the development of estrogen dominance. Everything from cosmetics to canned food can add foreign estrogens to your body [...]

Finding the Right Dose of Natural Progesterone

We are all different.  Though we may have the same body parts, they don’t all work at the same rate.  That is why a doctor considers various factors about your personal health when he is deciding what dosage of a medicine to prescribe for you.  The effectiveness of your medicine can be affected by your [...]

Progesterone Cream and Prostate Cancer

More than 10 years ago, Dr. John Lee wrote an article about the effects of estrogen dominance on cancers caused by hormonal imbalances. His studies, while mainly focused on the millions of women suffering from estrogen dominance, turned towards hormone related diseases suffered by men as well.
Hormonal imbalances can cause cancer in the reproductive organs. [...]

How to Heal PMS

The single most common complaint of women who have not yet reached menopause is premenstrual syndrome or PMS.  Although some women have PMS as soon as they begin having periods, the majority of sufferers are women in their premenopausal years, usually starting around their mid-thirties and worsening as they get older and their estrogen levels [...]

Estrogen Dominance Causes Fibroids

Did you know there are over 500,000 hysterectomies performed each year in the United States?  Many of those hysterectomies are performed after a doctor diagnoses a woman with fibroids, the most common growth found in the female genital tract.  Many of those hysterectomies could be avoided if doctors were just more aware that  estrogen dominance [...]

Estrogen Dominance and Atherosclerosis

According to a report published by Better Health Research, scientists at Johns Hopkins University have found a significant link between estrogen and a woman’s risk of developing coronary artery calcium (CAC).
The findings were originally presented to the American Heart Association during their November 2008 Scientific Sessions conference in New Orleans.
Older women, especially those suffering from [...]

The Wild Yam Scam

Wild yam has a long history of use as a medicinal herb and has recently become a hot topic in  natural health circles.  Although wild yam does have some benefits, there is one fallacy about the herb that needs to be cleared up.  Wild yam is not a  substitute for natural progesterone.
One Woman’s Wild Yam [...]