Pam Montgomery
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 When atrial naturetic factor (ANF) was discovered in 1983, the heart was officially reclassified as part of the hormonal system. Childre explains, "This hormone regulates blood pressure, body-fluid retention, and electrolyte homeostasis. [It] exerts its effects widely on the blood vessels, the kidneys, the adrenal glands, and many of the regulatory regions of the brain. In addition, studies indicate that ANF inhibits the release of stress hormones, plays a part in hormonal pathways that stimulate the function and growth of our reproductive organs, and may even interact with the immune system. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 One stressor might lead to intense nervous system activation but have little effect on HPA axis hormonal responses or the effect might be a blend of hormonal activity and nervous system activation. The impact of stressful events also depends on other factors such as a person's body type, personality, and heredity as well as the intensity, severity, timing, and duration of the stressful conditions. All factors that are considered to be stressors strongly affect physiological and psychological function. |
Erich Grotewold
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 Interestingly, black tea polyphenols had antiproliferative effects in breast cancer cells with hormonal resistance. The inhibitory effect of black tea polyphenols on hormone-resistant breast cancer cells suppressed the basal receptor tyrosine phosphorylation in HER2/neu-overexpressing MCF-7 cells. We suggest that the use of black tea polyphenols may be beneficial in the chemoprevention of hormone-dependent breast tumors and represent a possible remedy to overcome hormonal resistance of hormone-independent breast tumors (Way et al, 2004b).
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Dr. Timothy Scott
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 But since we do keep them around we should recognize that during the menopause they are living in a state of hormonal imbalance, and we should treat it.23
There you have it, women. You are valuable only until you are about 40 or 50. After that age you suffer from a chemical imbalance (a hormonal imbalance in this case) which does far more than just prevent you from bearing children. Dr. Kistner argued that women who lived to and beyond menopause suffered excessive wrinkles, osteoporosis and humped backs because of these hormonal deficiencies.
And his proof? He had none. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Hormonal shifts in pregnancy, menopause, and aging are associated with fluctuations in the course of autoimmune disease. Think back to Jan Pankey, who started taking birth-control pills and developed full-fledged antiphospholipid antibody syndrome shortly after starting their use. Birth-control pills didn't cause Jan's sudden plunge into autoimmunity, but increased hormonal levels no doubt helped to fill her barrel so that when she met up with those chemically noxious smoke clouds crossing into Montana something in her immune system just snapped. |
Elaine Magee
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 DIET AND PROSTATE CANCER
Breast cancer is by far one of the most studied of all cancers, but it shares a hormonal basis with cancers of the prostate, testes, uterus, cervix, and endometrium, notes Glen Weldon, communications director for the AICR. Scientists continue to debate whether circulating sex hormones encourage the growth of these cancers, or whether the link between diet and these "hormonal cancers" is indirect because these types of cancer are also strongly influenced by body fat.
While less studied, prostate cancer has begun to attract considerable attention in recent years. |
Ron Garner
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 The often used allopathic treatment for female hormonal problems is to prescribe synthetic estrogen hormone replacement therapy, hrt, which further increases estrogen dominance. The answer that Dr. Lee arrived at was to treat typical hormone problems with natural progesterone.
Estrogen Mimics
Other hormone disrupter problems in our society, in addition to synthetic hormones, are xenoestrogens or xenobiotics, which produce estrogen-like activity in the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You want to treat Sleep, hormonal problems, Infections and Nutritional support. If you treat those four areas, our double-blind studies show that 91 percent of patients will improve -- with the majority being pain-free by the end of three months.
Mike: That's astounding to learn, especially with all the advertising and marketing money going into prescription pain medications. Now, you said you call it "media spin." Can you elaborate on that a little more?
Teitelbaum: Well, let's take a look at the numbers. You have $3 billion being spent on just NSAIDs like Motrin and billions more on Vioxx. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 Menstrual irregularities are found here and also in Energetic Integrator 4, as are menopausal problems and hormonal imbalances, which also are tied to Energetic Integrator 5, and conditions relating to the vagina, such as vaginismus. Adrenal insufficiency, CFS, and fibromyalgia are correlated to Energetic Integrator 10 distortions, as are laryngitis, pharyngitis, and other throat-pharyngeal conditions. |
| Because nerve endings assist in the body's production of enzymes and hormones, this Star also may be involved to some degree in hormone regulation, although a lot more research needs to be done. The hormonal system is vastly complex, so it is not well understood by either conventional or bioenergetic researchers.
ENERGETIC STAR 4: TRIPLE CAVITY
Although the physical body and its biochemistry are powered directly by the breakdown of hydrogen bonds in sugars, the body-field relies on Source energy (also called zero-point energy), which is collected in your body's cavities. |
| However, Peter admits that the female field is more difficult to influence bioenergetically because it is made more complicated by the menstrual cycle and the complex hormonal cascade of events, at both the physical and bioenergetic levels, that females experience every month. The Energetic Star 12 Infoceutical can have a regulating effect, at the bioenergetic level, on irregular or dysfunctional menstrual cycles but is not intended as a correction for those kinds of problems. |
| However, Peter's research shows that Source energy has a bioenergetic influence on enzyme and hormone molecules, and the Energetic Star 3 and 4 Infoceuticals are designed to have indirect bioenergetic effects on our hormonal system, providing energy to the most basic mechanisms that contribute to proper hormone production and regulation. Specifically, the Energetic Star 4 Infoceutical is designed to influence the dynamics of the three cavities and their integration and to reestablish their integrity as repositories of Source energy and dynamos for the body's use of this energy. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 We made it clear that his sleeping problems were only a sign that all of his vital body functions—his circulatory, digestive, nervous, and hormonal systems—were beginning to fail. It had been so long since those systems were supported with proper nutrition and rest that they could no longer maintain the success story internal balance necessary to good health. Jerry initially resisted our suggestions but finally agreed, realizing that another sleeping pill was not the answer. He agreed to begin an exercise program (exercise will be discussed at length in chapter 9, on page 204). |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 New terminology and descriptions, such as the metabolic syndrome and impaired glucose tolerance, are now used to describe the complex hormonal fluxes that are largely a result of the ingestion of too many refined carbohydrates. However, what research has failed to demonstrate consistently is that the symptoms of hypoglycemia actually correlate to low blood sugar levels. What our research with the CGMS has shown is that the symptoms of hypoglycemia can occur simply as a result of rapidly falling blood sugar levels, and not solely as a result of the blood sugar level ever dropping below normal. |
Ron Garner
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| Birth control pills, because they contain steroid hormones and upset the normal hormonal balance of the body, can encourage yeast growth. Excessive and continued stress over-stimulates the adrenal glands, causing them to release steroid hormones, which can depress the immune system. Diets that are high in processed foods and sugar change the pH in our intestinal tract, making it difficult for friendly flora to survive, while providing a good environment for Candida to multiply. Fluoride and chlorine in drinking water upset the balance of bowel flora as well. |
| When salt is processed or even heated by boiling, natural iodine, which is required for many hormonal and metabolic functions in the body, is destroyed.
Technically, sea salt is a complex, balanced mixture of essential minerals the body needs and craves in almost the exact proportions.56 Chemical analysis of natural sea salt shows an almost identical composition to that of the salty "mini-ocean" of a fetus' amniotic fluid. As an illustration of how natural and critical sea salt is for health and life, recall the experiment conducted by Dr. Alexis Carrel, as described in chapter 14. Dr. |
| I strongly recommend that anyone who may suspect they have a hormonal imbalance problem seek further assistance on hormone balancing and saliva testing. One possible information source is www.helpforhormones.com.
LISTENING TO YOUR BODY
The section on Symptoms versus Causes in chapter 6 talked about how your body communicates with you. Our main problem is that we have not been taught to listen, understand, and respond in a supportive way to the signals the body gives when its needs are not being met. The body always wants to return to a state of health. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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| In addition, the sleep-deprived men who had the biggest hormonal changes also said they felt the most hungry and craved carbohydrate-rich foods, including cakes, candy, ice cream, pasta, and bread. Those who had the smallest changes reported being the least hungry.
Getting a Good Night's Sleep
Over the course of a year, over one half of the U.S. population will have difficulty falling asleep. About 33 percent of the population experiences insomnia on a regular basis. Many use over-the-counter sedative medications to combat insomnia, while others seek stronger drugs. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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| NES discourages any attempt to try to bioenergetically target individual hormones because the hormonal network of the physical body is just too complex. Instead, we can have a better effect by addressing the wider bioenergetic Driver and Integrator systems, which regulate the fields of the hormone-producing organs and glands themselves. When these organs and glands are fully powered, via the Drivers, and information flow is unrestricted through the Integrators, then problems can be addressed holistically rather than by using a reductionist approach. |
Ron Garner
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| ENDOCRINE SYSTEM
The endocrine, or hormonal system, helps to regulate a variety of metabolic functions in the body such as: controlling the rate of chemical reactions in cells, transporting substances through cell membranes, regulating the rate of cell growth, and initiating secretions of various glands or cells. Hormones are chemical substances secreted into the body fluids by glands, and which initiate a physiological effect on other cells of the body. Hormones can be viewed as chemical messengers that work to maintain functional balance in the body. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| After that age you suffer from a chemical imbalance (a hormonal imbalance in this case) which does far more than just prevent you from bearing children. Dr. Kistner argued that women who lived to and beyond menopause suffered excessive wrinkles, osteoporosis and humped backs because of these hormonal deficiencies.
And his proof? He had none. There is no standard against which humans can be compared unless we simply look at other healthy humans. But if we do that, we find all of us experience chemical changes throughout life. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 By taking melatonin, however, keep in mind that you are meddling with your own body's hormonal status, which can have risks. For instance, taking melatonin may affect growth or reproductive function. Other side effects include abdominal cramps, confusion, depression, drowsiness, nausea, and vomiting. I don't see that melatonin involves any major risks, so if you want to try it on your next flight across the Atlantic, feel free to do so.
Diet and Behavior
There are several nonmedication treatments that have been shown to improve insomnia. |
| Nonbisphosphonates
Nonbisphosphonate medications for the treatment of osteoporosis mimic various hormonal systems involved in the regulation of bone formation, including estrogen, calcitonin, and parathyroid hormones. As I will show you, they don't work any better than bisphosphonates in preventing the fractures that matter, and they have their own problems in terms of side effects.
RALOXIFENE
Raloxifene (Evista), a drug that acts at the estrogen receptor, has been touted as having the beneficial effects of estrogen for osteoporosis without the increased risk of uterine and ovarian cancer. |
| The condensed version of the pill's development starts with Gregory Pincus, an early-twentieth-century American physician, biologist, and researcher who studied hormonal biology and steroidal hormones. At a meeting in 1953, feminist and birth-control activists Margaret Sanger and Katherine McCormick encouraged the scientist to create an oral contraceptive that would give women more freedom over their reproductive and sexual choices. The idea struck him as a good one, so Pincus sought out the pharmaceutical company Searle, thinking they would share his enthusiasm and fund his research. |
| How They Work
The female reproductive cycle is a complex monthly choreography of hormonal and physical changes whose purpose is to maximize a woman's capacity to conceive a child during the years when she is most likely to successfully bear that child and raise it to adulthood. If no conception takes place, the cycle repeats itself about every twenty-eight days.
The goal of nature and the body, conception, is not the goal of many young women in college or out there starting their careers. That is where the pill comes in. |
| On the other hand, they do not disrupt a woman's natural hormonal cycle to prevent fertilization. Cervical caps can be left in for several days. Both diaphragms and cervical caps are fitted by a doctor.
Hormone Replacement Therapy
At about the age of fifty, women go through menopause, which is associated with the cessation of ovulation and menstrual cycling, and a decline in estrogen and progesterone levels. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Androgenicity of progestins in hormonal contraceptives and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care 2007 May; 30(5):1062-68.
Isley WL. Hepatotoxicity of thiazolidinediones. Expert Opin Drug Saf2003 Nov; 2(6):581-86.
Joshi SR. Metformin: Old wine in new bottle—evolving technology and therapy in diabetes. / Assoc Physicians India 2005 Nov; 53:963-72.
Kahn SE et al. Glycemic durability of rosiglitazone, metformin, or glyburide monotherapy. N Engl J Med 2006 Dec 7; 355(23):2427-43.
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Dr Ron Roberts
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 Attacks of asthma have been found to be more common during puberty, times of emotional stress, menstruation, pregnancy and menopause, all of which point to emotional or hormonal factors playing a part. Asthma is also more likely to occur if the person is fatigued or is undertaking strenuous physical activity.
What Happens During an Attack
How does being allergic cause asthma? Why do some people get asthma from changes in temperature or humidity—surely people aren't allergic to weather? There are many aspects of asthma that may seem quite puzzling. |
| Finally, when asthmatics realise they are having an attack they may panic, thus setting off more spasms through emotional and hormonal triggers. It is difficult to distinguish between the types of asthma attack in practice, so it is wise for people with asthma to know what causes their particular attacks, so they may minimise them.
Allergic Asthma
Allergies are the result of the body reacting to a substance as if it was a dangerous disease particle and trying to attack it with the white blood cells. |
| Studies have revealed that because of differing hormonal levels, Siberian ginseng is more effective for women and the Chinese/Asian ginseng for men. Ginseng is available in many forms including capsules, powders, herbal teas and even chewing gum!
LIQUORICE
Hippocrates extolled the virtues of liquorice as an aid for asthma, throat and chest problems. The herb was known elsewhere in the world: the American Indians used liquorice as tea, as a cough remedy and as a soothing elixir for the throat. |
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