Excessive Estrogen Symptoms And CausesExcessive estrogen can be caused by both diet and environmental factors. More often in our Western industrialized culture of processed foods and environmental chemicals, it is caused by a combination of the two.
Your body needs to maintain a balance of estrogen and progesterone. Both are important to your health. This balance is well maintained in cultures that eat whole foods and limit environmental toxins. Even menopause can occur with minimal difficulty. Oh, yes. Let me tell you about two of my Aunties as examples for you... One grows her own food in her backyard. She has for as long as I can remember. She had no problems with the 'change of life'. And the other Auntie shops for her food. Costco gets her money. This Auntie has been told she has osteoporosis, decreased bone density and high cholesterol. Why does the diet play such an important role? Two reasons... First, whole foods contain naturally occurring phytoestrogens and phyto-progesterones. These act to help balance the hormones. It's how we managed for centuries to stay healthy before, during and after menopause. Even before science discovered these phyto-nutrients. The second reason diets are important is because some of the ingredients in processed foods act as xenoestrogens. That is they are chemicals that resemble estrogen enough to be able to take estrogens place at the cellular level. Thus leaving the real estrogen with no where to go. (BHA is such an ingredient.) This results in a hormonal imbalance. Excessive estrogen is very common. Even though the estrogen may be at normal levels according to blood work, there could be a problem. If progesterone is not also at normal, the effect is the same as excessive estrogen. This condition is referred to as estrogen dominance. Symptoms include...
The list includes symptoms I had in my 20's. My metabolism was so low that I often went to bed right after work. I was also drinking about 2 pots of coffee a day. No kidding. It wasn't until I went away from processed foods and more to whole foods that I got relief. Healthy eating of whole foods, organic foods are needed for hormonal balance. It may be simple, but Nature had it all worked out for us. Dr. John R. Lee and Virgina Hopkins have researched and written about menopause and premenopause. Dr. Lee's books explain how your hormones work, what actually is occuring as we approach menopause and how to control or minimize unwanted symptoms. In fact, thanks to Dr. Lee's approach, I experienced little difficulty with menopause. That is, after I read his book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause.
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