Estrogen. The Natural Way

[Earth Walker]

Over 250 Easy & Delicious Recipes for Menopause.
Reduce the risk of Breast Cancer
Benefit Bones
Lower Cholesterol
Alleviate the Symptoms of Menopause

The Many Faces Of Estrogen

Before sitting down to consume daily doses of dietary
estrogen, women need some questions answered.
If estrogen is estrogen, then what difference does it
make whether it comes from pills or plants? Why is it
that the estrogen in hormone replacement therapy
places women at greater risk for breast cancer, while
the estrogen in soy and flaxseed protects women from
breast cancer?
Contrary to popular belief, estrogen has many forms.
Some appear to increase the risk of breast cancer,
others to reduce it. Some estrogens are produced by
the body, and some are found in animal foods, some in
the environment, and some in plants.
Within the body, estrogen takes three primary forms.
A growing body of research indicates that two forms
promote cancer and one appears to protect against
cancer. When women take conventional pharmaceutical
estrogen replacement therapy, they ingest the two
cancer-implicated forms of estrogen. When women eat
soy and flaxseed, they consume weak plant estrogens
that may actually guard against breast cancer.

This book is by Nina Shandler, and is a Must-have
for all women. :sunny:

[Mairwen]

IMHO (ymmv!), I neither like nor trust any hormone-replacement treatment. I've read too much stuff to the contrary of its supposed "effectiveness". There is a reason your body stops producing certain things ~ and I don't think putting them back into your body (synthetically, "naturally", or however) is a very wise decision.

[Earth Walker]

I don't believe in Premarin, which is made from
mare's urine.
I do think it is good to eat natural plant estrogens,
because they help greatly in reducing and/or
preventing osteosporisis. :D



Only my cat understands me. :bigredgri

[Mairwen]

There's a class action law suit goig on right now on Premarin. My mom's been on it for many years. It causes breast cancer if used over 10 years, come to find out. And she's had two lumps removed ~ and lost a lung to cancer.

[sherry]

I took premarin for 4 weeks and the "side effects" were worse than the hot flashes!

at the Drs office this thin little healthy person tried to tell me that it would pass! WELL I had plenty to tell her
Not only have I been a nurse longer than she had lived but migraines, depression and prozac were not going to be part of my future!!I had gotten to the point very quickly that if anyone spoke I cried if light entered my house I had to go to bed, I never wanted to leave my home or speak to anyone!!

I threw them away went to an herbalist and 6 years later have not had a hot flash in 5 years and no depression

As a nurse I find it very hard to give medication to people that I know is probably harming them and the dr that ordered it is getting a new gift for prescibing it!!


I SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WELDER!!

[Swanspirit]

Merry Merry
Recommend over the counter medications nutritional supplements and HERBS. I was so excited whrn they passed this law, because that makes me legally an herbalist. Now we are resonisible for taking a complete history, and advising regarding side effects, but WHO BETTER to recommend herbs than a nurse with anatomy and physiology and microbiology and pharmacology training and expertise, other than perhaps
a graduate of an accredited herbal school. This does not mean we can indiscriminately "reccommend" but that we are responsible for the care of the person for whom we are making these recommendations.
I feel this is a HUGE step to reempowering the thousands of women healers in the profession and giving them
the braoder scope their training has provided. I know there are many nurses that arent the least interested in herbal medicine, but there are many many who are, the same ones that have been advocating "touch therapy and doing healing on their patients for the over twenty years I have been in practice. I am wondering if this is being in done in Ohio as well ? I worked in Ohio for a year and was a charge Nurse in an adolescent crisis unit, and we had a lot on our hands , but I have fond memories of Ohio.
Love and light
Swannie

[idusty88]

Originally posted by Swanspirit

Recommend over the counter medications nutritional supplements and HERBS. I was so excited whrn they passed this law, because that makes me legally an herbalist. Now we are resonisible for taking a complete history, and advising regarding side effects, but WHO BETTER to recommend herbs than a nurse with anatomy and physiology and microbiology and pharmacology training and expertise, other than perhaps
a graduate of an accredited herbal school. This does not mean we can indiscriminately "reccommend" but that we are responsible for the care of the person for whom we are making these recommendations.
I feel this is a HUGE step to reempowering the thousands of women healers in the profession and giving them
the braoder scope their training has provided.

That is fabulous!!! I wish that was legal everywhere! Do you have any more info on this law? I would like to find out more so that I might see if something like it could possibly be introduced here in Arizona as a referendum.

[Swanspirit]

Merry Merry,
but you could probably call the Maryland Board of Nursing
to get more information on the actual bill that was passed to add it to the Nursing Laws, and it would come under the category of scope of practice. I am so PROUD of the women here who intitiated and carried out the enactment of this law. They have a gone a great way to putting the power of healing back into the hands of women ,and men who have nursing degrees.
Love and Light
Swannie

I WILL look for it for you :> and when I find it will be happy to post it , I believe that nursing schoolong and testing should be standard throught out the states anyway :>, especially since we all take the same
Boards now :>