Hormone Health, The Environment And HRT – A Frank Discussion

Hormones are Nature’s molecular messengers. We literally cannot survive as a species without them. I care for my patients with menstrual and menopausal abnormalities with nonhormonal oxygen therapies. I do so because I get far superior long-term clinical results with this approach.

- Professor Majid Ali

To save the human species from extinction, Nature created a rather simple design: It prepares the uterus for pregnancy each month during the entire reproductive life of the women. Oestrogen peaks during the first half of each menstrual cycle to prepare the soil of the uterus for conception. If conception occurs, oestrogen peaks further, and oestrogen overload is balanced with a progesterone peak to protect the beginning of life for the baby from an unbalanced oestrogen overdrive. As the fertilised egg develops into an embryo and beyond, there is an outpouring of oestrogens from the placenta that also increase its output of progesterone, again to keep the oestrogens under control.

Times have changed. There are simply enough of us on the planet now. Women do not need to stay pregnant all the time. The way we live our lives has changed rapidly, but evolution does not work that fast. The result: A fundamental chemical conflict between the needs of 21st century women and their hormonal clocks. When an oestrogen peak goes unbalanced by progesterone, endometriosis – the growth outside the uterus of misplaced cells that normally line the uterine cavity (a disabling disorder that may lead to infertility) – may occur along with other menopausal disorders such as: severe menstrual syndrome, too much flow, scant flow with clots, anovulatory state, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and what may be designated as ‘pseudomenopause’ — a state of presumed menopause in which menstruation resumes with robust non-hormonal integrative management plans and remains regular for years to come.

THE ROLE OF HORMONE RECEPTORS