What To Do When Your Hormones Need Help

Introduction

As a woman when your hormones are out of balance you can feel anything from mildly uncomfortable symptoms to absolute misery. At Life Factor Research we’ve brought to light the difference between your major hormones, Insulin, Adrenalin and Cortisol, and your minor hormones estrogen, progesterone, thyroid, testosterone, growth hormone, DHEA, and pregnenalone.

The major hormones (insulin, adrenalin and cortisol) literally control life sustaining functions and drive metabolism. The minor hormones, (estrogen, progesterone, etc.) support metabolism, back up your major hormones, and perform many important biological functions.

Because the major hormones play such an enormous role in the moment-to-moment life giving processes of the body, they have the greatest influence on your health. They are the “big guns.” When you focus on balancing and restoring the major hormones, good things happen.

The trend in medicine has been to replace minor hormones, such as estrogen and progesterone, in an attempt to relieve distressing symptoms. Overwhelming evidence has now made it clear that the focus should be on balancing the major hormones rather than first looking at the minor hormones. It pays tremendous dividends to focus on correcting the imbalances in the major hormones first. When the major hormones are in balance there’s a powerful “cascade of healing” that rejuvenates your mind and body, reverses premature aging, and helps balance all other hormones. In essence, your misery is transformed and you’re able to enjoy a healthy, happy, productive life.

In our report “90 Days to a New Life” , you’ll find a detailed 3-Step Plan that explains how to balance your major hormones and start that all important “cascade of healing.”

From this report you’ll be able to determine whether or not hormone replacement is right for you. You may not need hormone replacement, you may need it for a therapeutic period of time, or you may need it indefinitely. One thing for sure, millions of women have needlessly suffered because of lack of knowledge about the most effective methods to balance major and minor hormones.

So let’s shine some light on the subject.

Do My Hormones Need Help?

Are you concerned about taking hormones? You should be. In 2002, hundreds of thousands of women on hormone replacement therapy got a shocking wake up call. A landmark study found that standard HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) had some serious risks. For close to 60 years doctors were handing this stuff out like candy. Overnight their “miracle hormones” now scared the living daylights out of women all over the world. In many cases these hormones helped reduce uncomfortable symptoms. But, after the study’s findings, it was discovered that the risks outweighed the benefits.

Here’s what you probably don’t know. The most common form of HRT was a drug combination known as PremPro. Two drugs, Premarin and Provera, were combined to produce PremPro. Premarin is a form of estrogen extracted from the urine of pregnant horses. Provera is a synthetic form of progesterone known as a progestin. The idea behind the drugs is a good one - help women with the symptoms that result from falling levels of their own estrogen and progesterone. But it backfired. Why?

First, women aren’t horses. Human estrogen and horse estrogen are not the same. Secondly, synthetic progestins are not the same as a woman’s natural progesterone. Thirdly, despite the absolute irrefutable fact that no two women are the same, they gave these rogue hormones to women in a one-size-fits-all dose. Fourthly, every woman has her own unique and vitally important ratio between estrogen and progesterone. In fact, all hormones are connected and ratios between hormones are extremely important.

When you realize women were given the wrong type of hormones, in the wrong doses, for the wrong reasons, you begin to understand why the risks outweighed the benefits.

The Right Hormones in the Right Doses for the Right Reasons

The emerging new focus in hormone replacement is called bio-identical hormones. With Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) you get the exact same hormone that your body produces. It’s just plain common sense.

You could thank Oprah and Suzanne Summers for helping to spread the word, but let me tell you a little secret, bio-identical hormones have been used in Europe for almost five decades. In America we should give credit to pioneering doctors who have been using them for many years.

The second issue is about biochemical individuality. Every woman is different. The goal in hormone replacement should be to administer the correct amount of hormone(s) for each woman’s individual requirements. Unless you know, through laboratory testing, clinical findings, or better yet, a combination of both, you’re driving blindfolded.

The third issue is the interrelationship between hormones. All hormones are connected. An imbalance in one affects them all. Safe and effective hormone replacement starts with the evaluation and testing of your entire hormonal system, not just one or two hormones.

The fourth issue and we believe this is the most important, is whether your hormonal imbalances are lifestyle induced, or a problem with the glands producing the hormones. Hormone imbalances can be completely lifestyle related, part lifestyle/part malfunctioning gland, or a disease in the gland itself. Please note that lifestyle related imbalances can eventually lead to a malfunctioning gland.

It’s our position and core message that the primary cause of hormone imbalance is an equation called “Total Load.” On one side of the equation is your total burden of degenerative stress. On the other side is your ability to resist, handle and process the destructive influence of this degenerative stress. Your top priority major hormones are in charge of controlling this metabolic, physical, mental and emotional stock pile of stress.

When your mind and body start losing the battle an imbalance in the major hormones occurs which disrupts proper metabolism and causes the minor hormones to become imbalanced. In addition, brain chemistry becomes altered. All in all you feel bad, loose energy, gain weight, and start to unravel emotionally.

Your personal symptoms and health problems will depend on how abusive this load of stress has been on your system, how long you’ve been enduring it, and what your individual genetic strengths and weaknesses are.

Our report “90 Days to a New Life” outlines a 3-Step Plan which, in essence, lowers your Total Load and rewards you with a resurrection of energy, vitality, and emotional stability. The plan pinpoints the cause of the problem and regenerates your mind and body with a precise system of natural medicine, and a delicious, therapeutic, individualized eating plan designed to reverse and reduce Total Load and restore your metabolism.

Doesn’t it make sense that the only way to completely heal and rejuvenate your deficient or imbalanced hormones would be to deal with the primary cause of the problem?

Is Hormone Replacement Right For Me?

Our goal is to help women who are in a transition and are experiencing unwanted symptoms. That could be before, during, or after menopause. Because our top priority is to focus on balancing major hormones we can help women of all ages. That’s the beauty of the “cascade of healing” that occurs when you start with balancing your major hormones insulin, adrenalin and cortisol.

Hormone replacement is a big decision and you’ll want to make an informed choice. Whether you choose to take outside hormone replacement or not, our 90 Day Plan is the only way to balance your major hormones. As I said, this needs to be your top priority. If you don’t do that, your metabolism will never heal, anxiety, depression and mood swings won’t resolve, your other hormones will continue to degenerate, energy levels will be erratic, you’ll continue to gain weight, and you won’t get the anti aging benefits, or the added protection against future conditions and diseases.

Our core message – The best medicine is to remove and reverse the cause of hormonal imbalance.

The only way to fix the problem is to first stop creating it. Unfortunately, modern medicine is not in the business of recognizing lifestyle factors and major hormone imbalances as the true cause of women’s misery.

Isn’t your goal to feel better and look better, eliminate frustrating symptoms, and improve the quality of your life? What if our approach is the most effect method for improving the quality of your life? Are you willing to devote 90 days to find out? We hope so, and the good news is we’ll be with you every step of the way!

We believe that if you choose to take hormone replacement you will get the most satisfying results if you do so in conjunction with our 90 Day Plan. Bio-identical hormone replacement can be very helpful. However, balancing the major hormones must come first! The only way to do that is reverse your personal Total Load. There is NO OTHER WAY!!

If you’re currently taking hormone replacement then the 90 Day Plan will dramatically improve your results, improve your symptoms and improve your quality of life. We recommend you work with your doctor as your hormones dosages must be monitored and may need to be lowered. The effects of the 90 Day Plan are extremely powerful at restoring your entire hormonal system.

Many women prefer not to take any kind of hormone replacement. The 90 Day Plan is perfect for you. Stay focused on reversing your Total Load, balancing your major hormones and using our Core Program supplements and our Rapid Response Formulas. Our formula called ProEsta is especially important.

Here are some guidelines for the safest, most effective way to use hormone replacement.

• Follow our 90 Day Plan and take our Core Program supplements along with any hormone replacement that your doctor has prescribed for you. You’ll experience a dramatic improvement! Have your doctor follow your hormone levels and symptoms closely because our plan can lower your need for the replacement hormones.
• Make sure you have a doctor that understands bio-identical hormones, comprehensive testing, individual dosing requirements, correct forms for delivering the hormones, and hormone ratios. Most doctors don’t.
• For doctors in your area go to:
  http://www.womeninbalance.org/
  http://www.worldhealth.net/pages/directory
• Check out the resources on our website for more detailed information about hormones and hormone replacement. Updates will be posted on a regular basis.
• Consult the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section of our website, and watch for video interviews of selected experts.

If you’re currently on standard hormone replacement and you want to consider bio-identical hormones you must work with a qualified doctor. Any doctor that’s been working with bio-identical hormones for a while should understand how to transition you from one to the other. The same holds true if you have had a hysterectomy and are on hormones permanently.

We know hormone replacement is a big decision. We hope this information will help you make a more informed choice. We know one thing for sure. Give us 90 days and the quality of your life will improve dramatically.

Remember, our 90 Day Plan is not a method of hormonal replacement, it’s a program (which can be used with or without hormone replacement) designed to balance your major and minor hormones and restore your quality of life. It’s something you have to feel to believe!

Welcome to the Life Factor family!

Don Bodenbach & The Life Factor Research Team