Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 So it's the new premier herb as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy. It doesn't contain any hormones of its own, and it has all the building blocks of nutrition for the glands to build their own hormones.
It's also super-loaded with over 60 micronutrients. Maca is 40 percent potassium, and 10 percent calcium. It's high in iron, phosphorus, magnesium, silica and zinc. Maca contains vitamins A, B, C, D, E, B12, B1, 2 and 3. It contains 18 amino acids and 20 fatty acids. So it's perhaps the strongest root on earth, with no stimulants. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You won't have any hormone problems.
Lucille: Right.
Mike: But now we know that's hogwash, right?
Lucille: Well, first of all, here's my question, I guess, back to conventional medicine -- which I adore and love, and there's a lot of reasons why I want conventional medicine to continue to evolve and get better and better at what they do -- but from this perspective: What are we replacing? Where did those hormones go? Which orifice did they fall out of? I was more interested in restoring the function rather than replacing it. Okay? |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Indeed, research shows that many women who develop lupus do so a few months after giving birth to a child—a time when hormone levels undergo swift and dramatic changes.
Yet the precise ways in which sex hormones influence autoimmune disease remain largely unknown. What researchers do know is that sex hormone balance is a crucial factor in the optimum regulation of immune and inflammatory responses and that hormones such as estrogen that women produce modulate the activity of proteins in our bodies, leading in ways we do not yet fully understand to a more reactive autoimmune response. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| To me the analogy of hormone replacement therapy -- when your body is symptomatic through normal hormonal transitions -- it's telling you something. For me it would be like you being really irritated because this building was on fire. And it wasn't the heat, it was just the fire alarm going off. hormone replacement therapy, to me, is like going over and clipping that wire to the fire alarm. It's like, "Oh, I am so relieved." The problem is you have a mechanism going on. You have an estrogen-dominant -- most likely -- situation going on, and that's harmful. Why? Because -- what's on the rise? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's all the same hormone in the milk -- genetically engineered milk does not contain genetically engineered hormones. It works on the brain to stimulate the cow to make milk containing more hormones. But it's the same hormones you would get in an organic glass of milk, and those hormones are dangerous. The good old wholesome milk hormones are dangerous. The ones that we thought were so wholesome are so dangerous, and shouldn't be in your body.
Continue with part five. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 This problem occurred with the early studies investigating the potential of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to cause cancer. Many such studies were tainted because it is virtually impossible to enlist women for study who have not taken some form of exogenous hormones?the birth-control pill, the morning-after pill, or HRT—at some point in their lives. Consequently, none of the studies has a clean control group of true "nontakers," with which to compare results. Women who take hormones now are compared with women who have taken hormones in the past. Both situations carry a cancer risk. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So whether you're drinking organic milk, or milk from cows treated with that hormone, the milk that results is going to be exactly the same. Exactly the same hormones -- the genetically engineered cows will give you milk with more hormones, but you won't be drinking genetically engineered hormones. You'll just be drinking more of those naturally occurring hormones.
Mike Adams: So it's just a concentration difference.
Robert Cohen: It's just a difference of number of those hormones. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Nevertheless, for the overweight woman or man with a preexisting condition of estrogen dominance, eating too much soy can compound an underlying hormone imbalance. Also, nutritional researchers have identified that in some cases soy products act as a potent antithyroid agent, suppressing thyroid function and causing or worsening hypothyroidism. Because soy products have the potential to be counterproductive to efforts to eliminate estrogen dominance, we recommend eliminating all soy products and other phytoestrogens from your diet. |
| Certain supplements can nourish depleted adrenal glands while encouraging adrenal cortex secretions, which help to maintain optimal hormone balance.
In addition to the supplements described in Chapter 5, I designed an Adrenal Boost formula to increase overall energy and decrease fatigue. It is helpful for people who are under stress because it supports the glands that are responsible for energy flow. Anyone whose adrenal system is depressed by stress should also take 7-keto DHEA. |
| How will you know if you are one of the 20 percent who needs extra bio-identical hormone support? Your body will tell you. Typically, this will happen in your late forties and fifties.
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Pam had been my patient for twelve years. When she first came in at age thirty-nine, she was twenty-five pounds overweight and experiencing constant headaches, fatigue, and bloating. After following the three-step plan for just a month, her symptoms went away. She lost all the excess weight in four months and, by continuing on the plan, kept those pounds off. |
| Plastics made from polycarbonate resin can leach bisphenol-A (BPA), a potent hormone disruptor. BPA, a chemical found in epoxy resin and polycarbonate plastics, may impair the reproductive organs and have adverse effects on tumors, breast tissue development, and prostate development by reducing sperm count.
BPA can leach into water bottles through normal wear and tear and exposure to heat and cleaning agents. This includes leaving your plastic water bottle in your car during errands, in your backpack during hikes, and running it through your dishwasher or using harsh detergents. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I've got to play devil's advocate for a second because conventional medicine says all you need is hormone replacement therapy. It's the fountain of youth, and you'll be forever young. You won't have any hormone problems.
Lucille: Right.
Mike: But now we know that's hogwash, right?
Lucille: Well, first of all, here's my question, I guess, back to conventional medicine -- which I adore and love, and there's a lot of reasons why I want conventional medicine to continue to evolve and get better and better at what they do -- but from this perspective: What are we replacing? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Our bodies have to get it back up, so in order to try to raise that blood sugar back to normal, it stimulates the release of several hormones: cortisol, which is a stress hormone; adrenaline, the fight-or-flight hormone; glucagons and growth hormone. But you are left with an uncontrollable hunger.
Many people talk about craving and emotional eating. It's something that has happened because of this vicious cycle, and we usually crave another high-glycemic or sugary meal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They also figured out, "We could use our genetically engineered hormone to shoot up these cows with this hormone produced by Monsanto, even though it is banned in just about every industrialized country in the world except for the United States." If you shoot up dairy cows with this hormone, you can force them to give more milk, and you can keep milking them even past their lactation period. You can actually milk a cow not for a year, but for up to a thousand days. Of course, the cow will drop dead after that, but they do not care. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And it wasn't the heat, it was just the fire alarm going off. hormone replacement therapy, to me, is like going over and clipping that wire to the fire alarm. It's like, "Oh, I am so relieved." The problem is you have a mechanism going on. You have an estrogen-dominant -- most likely -- situation going on, and that's harmful. Why? Because -- what's on the rise? Breast cancer's on the rise. Breast cancer continues to be on the rise, not only for women, but for men. Prostate cancer -- estrogen-sensitive tissue.
Mike: Sure.
Lucille: So we need to step back and identify and treat the cause. |
Dan Buettner
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 DHEA is what's for years been called the "junk hormone." In large quantities in our bodies, it converts to both testosterone and estrogen. Most of the studies on almost all of these hormones have been very short-lived, that is six months to a year. So the long-term effects are not well known.
The best source of information on hormones is Marc Blackman at the Washington, D.C., Veterans Affairs Medical Center, or Mitchell Harman at the Kronos Longevity Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. |
Devra Davis
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 Estrogen-like "hormone mimics" can get in the way of our body's ability to tell organs and glands what to do.
Estrogen is not just something the body makes, it's something the body can make more of, when exposed to things in food and the general environment. From studies conducted over the past three decades, we know that personal care products such as lotions, dyes, nail polishes, skin treatments, hair products, oils and creams can contain hormones and substances that act like hormones. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| First of all, all of these women were being treated with one form or another of hormone replacement therapy, whether it be just standard HRT moving into menopause -- the number one treatment option -- or the birth control pill if they had an increase in PMS symptoms or ovarian cysts. And they weren't getting any better, and we were starting to understand the literature that not only said the risk factors were increasing, but these medications were doing more harm than good.
So, number one: We live in an incredibly toxic environment and an increasingly toxic environment. |
| Lucille: Well, being that menopause is a natural process -- and I don't believe that nature has a design flaw -- our adrenal glands are the post-menopausal backup system for hormone production. And by the time a modern-day woman was getting to the crone years, the wisdom years, they were adrenally shot. They're stressed out from our modern-day society being so stressed out -- utilizing that fight or flight, not just for times of sheer danger, but just --
Mike: But chronically. Every day, right?
Lucille: Chronically, every day. And then coffee, caffeine and stimulants to keep us going. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They also figured out, "We could use our genetically engineered hormone to shoot up these cows with this hormone produced by Monsanto, even though it is banned in just about every industrialized country in the world except for the United States." If you shoot up dairy cows with this hormone, you can force them to give more milk, and you can keep milking them even past their lactation period. You can actually milk a cow not for a year, but for up to a thousand days. Of course, the cow will drop dead after that, but they do not care. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Our bodies have to get it back up, so in order to try to raise that blood sugar back to normal, it stimulates the release of several hormones: cortisol, which is a stress hormone; adrenaline, the fight-or-flight hormone; glucagons and growth hormone. But you are left with an uncontrollable hunger.
Many people talk about craving and emotional eating. It's something that has happened because of this vicious cycle, and we usually crave another high-glycemic or sugary meal. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The offending chemical usually cited in this context is bisphenol-A, a hormone mimicker. Many health experts believe that the rise on hormone-related cancers in western societies today is due, in part, to all of the synthetic hormone-like chemicals found in foods, drugs and packaging. Thus, if people are drinking pomegranate juice to help prevent prostate cancer, doesn't it seem contradictory that the juice would be packaged in plastic containers believed to contribute to prostate cancer?
The real answer, in my educated opinion, is found in the heat factor. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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| Therefore, this diet does not allow refined or processed foods.
Caffeine. Studies have shown that drinking two cups of coffee a day can increase estrogen levels. In a clinical trial involving approximately 500 women between the ages of thirty-six and forty-five, women who consumed more than one cup of coffee a day had significantly higher levels of estrogen during the early follicular phase of their menstrual cycle. |
| When a woman begins to menstruate until she is approximately thirty years old, her ratio of estrogen to progesterone is optimal. In this ideal scenario, estrogen does the following for her:
• Develops the sex organs and secondary sex characteristics such as breasts and pubic hair.
• Maintains the menstrual cycle.
• Supports the growth and function of the uterus, specifically creating the lining of the uterus to prepare it for pregnancy.
• Stimulates cell growth. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 However, because it is a naturally occurring hormone present in your body right now, it is likely to be far safer than typical prescription drugs, which are based on synthetic chemicals foreign to the human body. We have a lot of natural hormones available right now as nutritional supplements including Melatonin, DHEA and even injectable human growth hormone (although some would certainly argue the long-term safety and efficacy of some of these as well).
But I believe that it is inherently safer to put natural hormones into the human body rather than synthetic chemicals. |
John Croft
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 These glands tend to control the hormone production and releasing functions of the thyroid by detecting high or low levels of thyroid hormones in the blood and producing hormones themselves that stimulate the thyroid into action. The two main problems associated with thyroid function are hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism. In hypothyroidism the gland is producing too little thyroid hormone and in hyperthyroidism it is producing an excess of thyroid hormone. |
Melody Petersen
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 The foundation also had continued to recommend hormone injections to short children and their parents and describe the drugs in ways the manufacturers could not do without breaking the law. A story published in the foundation's glossy magazine that I picked up at a pediatricians' conference in 2005 was entitled "Me and My Growth hormone." The story began, "I was short. My little sister was taller than me. Kids at school picked on me and called me names." The tale continued with the child getting growth hormone injections and growing so much his pants got too short. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Most fat people are affected by the growth hormone put in meat and dairy products.
Our meat and dairy supply is loaded with growth hormones. These hormones are given to the animals to speed growth in order to increase production and profits. When you consume meat and dairy you are giving yourself massive amounts of growth hormone. This leads to obesity, and is one of the reasons why children today are maturing earlier and earlier.
10. Most fat people see themselves as fat.
Remember Earl Nightingale's discovery he called "The Strangest Secret"? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Adams: I've often heard vitamin D being described as a hormone. Is that a valid description?
Dr. Holick: Well, hormone means it's made in one organ, goes into the blood and has an effect on another organ system. And so if you think about it, since vitamin D is made in the skin and gets into your bloodstream and then goes into the liver and the kidney to get activated, and then goes to the intestines and bones to have its biological effects, by definition vitamin D is a hormone.
Adams: In your research on this, how common is vitamin D deficiency in, say, the American population?
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David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 OBESITY: A 2006 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that women who had eaten a serving of almonds had higher levels of cholecystokinin (a hormone associated with satiety from eating fat-containing foods) in their systems than men did. In practical terms this means that while almonds may leave both women and men with a feeling of "satisfaction," women may stay full longer. There is ongoing research into the effects of the act of "chewing" on satiety hormone release. |
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