Love My Hormones: For The Men In Your Life
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Monday, July 27, 2009
New Testimonial from Todays Patient Bobbie
First Visit July 2, 2009
47 y/o female here today to be established. Patient says she has symptoms of painful sex, dryness, libido is gone, vaginal tearing. Patient has been having heart palpitations since 2003 and has had a full heart work up and all the tests revealed no heart problems. Patient has had night sweats and she wakes up soaked. Patient has been to see an OB doctor in 2003 for yeast infection and it was diagnosed as lichen sclerosis, then lichen planus. She has not been able to lose weight. Patient is exercising and is still gaining weight around the middle. Not able to sleep. Allergies started to happen around all this time symptoms were occurring.
F/U Visit July 27, 2009
47 y/o female here on day 26 of her first cycle of the creams. Started her menstrual cycle July 3rd and then started using the creams. By day three no heart palpitations and she was having heart palpitations several times a day since 2003. Patient says she has noticed her hair has stopped falling out. Even her husband noticed that there was less hair on the floor in the bathroom and patient even noticed less hair in the brush or comb or that just came out from touching her hair. Patient is noticing her skin texture is improving. Vaginal tearing has improved. Patient says she can have intercourse and not have the pain associated with it like it was. Patient is still waking up at night and not sleeping but she isn't drenched upon wakening. Patient has not had an allergy shot in three weeks and she usually gets them every week but she has noticed that she isn't as symptomatic and usually she cannot go longer than a week between shots because she gets symptoms so bad. She has tried to go every two weeks but then suffers from sinus congestion so bad that it had to be changed back to a week.
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47 y/o female here today to be established. Patient says she has symptoms of painful sex, dryness, libido is gone, vaginal tearing. Patient has been having heart palpitations since 2003 and has had a full heart work up and all the tests revealed no heart problems. Patient has had night sweats and she wakes up soaked. Patient has been to see an OB doctor in 2003 for yeast infection and it was diagnosed as lichen sclerosis, then lichen planus. She has not been able to lose weight. Patient is exercising and is still gaining weight around the middle. Not able to sleep. Allergies started to happen around all this time symptoms were occurring.
F/U Visit July 27, 2009
47 y/o female here on day 26 of her first cycle of the creams. Started her menstrual cycle July 3rd and then started using the creams. By day three no heart palpitations and she was having heart palpitations several times a day since 2003. Patient says she has noticed her hair has stopped falling out. Even her husband noticed that there was less hair on the floor in the bathroom and patient even noticed less hair in the brush or comb or that just came out from touching her hair. Patient is noticing her skin texture is improving. Vaginal tearing has improved. Patient says she can have intercourse and not have the pain associated with it like it was. Patient is still waking up at night and not sleeping but she isn't drenched upon wakening. Patient has not had an allergy shot in three weeks and she usually gets them every week but she has noticed that she isn't as symptomatic and usually she cannot go longer than a week between shots because she gets symptoms so bad. She has tried to go every two weeks but then suffers from sinus congestion so bad that it had to be changed back to a week.
Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Last Interview with TS Wiley tomorrow 7/27 at 9:00 am Central
Call in and ask your questions to TS Wiley, the author of Sex, Lies, and Menopause and the Wiley Protocol! We will be talking to her about your life, your hormones, and anything else you want to cover. Call us at 877-868-6566 or join us on line at www.tntcomedyshow.com or wkan.com and it is the Tomano and Touhy morning show in Kankakee, IL 105.5 fm or 1320 am.
Join Us!!
Friday, July 24, 2009
For The Men In Your Life
“I’d like to make a comment on the Wiley Protocol for Men™. It’s better
than Viagra. My male business has exploded. Plus I have become quite
proficient on tweaking the Wiley Protocol for Women™. It’s amazing.”
Robert Apgar, MD, North Carolina
Hormone replacement for men? T.S. Wiley thinks so and that is why she
developed The Wiley Protocol for Men™ for the men in your life, to restore
lust and love, sleep, muscle mass, and bone health, and help to reduce
depression. The Protocol uses testosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone
(DHEA) in a rhythmic, youthful physiologic dosing for health and antiaging.
Andropause is defined as an age-related decline in serum testosterone
levels in older men to below the normal range in young men. Often
referred to as the male “menopause” it is associated with a syndrome that
may include decreased muscle strength and/or endurance, decreased
pubic and increased underarm hair, reduced physical function, diminished
libido, fatigue, depressed mood, decreased generalized well-being, hot
flashes, osteoporosis/osteopenia, and anemia.
A multi-year study showed that mean total testosterone levels
decreased by 30 percent in men between the ages of 25 and 75
and mean free-testosterone levels decreased by as much as 50
percent. Men may not live as long if they have low testosterone,
regardless of their age, according to a new study from
Germany.
The study looked at death from any cause in nearly 2,000 men
aged 20 to 79 years with an average follow up time of seven
years. At the beginning of the study, 5 percent of these men
had low blood testosterone levels, defined as the lower end of
the normal range for young adult men.
The men with low testosterone were older, more obese, and had a greater prevalence of
diabetes and high blood pressure, compared with men who had higher testosterone levels. Men
with low testosterone levels had more than a 2.5 times greater risk of dying during the next 10
years compared to men with higher testosterone. This difference was not explained by age,
smoking, alcohol intake, level of physical activity, or increased waist circumference (a risk factor
for diabetes and heart disease).
Why must aging men with low testosterone, and men with prostate cancer, simply have to
accept the loss of libido, energy, risk-taking, sleep and muscle mass to fight depression and the
inevitability of man breasts and snoring that comes with changes in the hormone balance?
A growing body of research says that low testosterone levels can be associated with an
increased risk of prostate cancer. A standard treatment option for prostate cancer is androgen
deprivation therapy (ADT), in which drugs or castration is used to reduce the testosterone
levels in the prostate (and the rest of the body). Unfortunately virtually all patients treated with
ADT progress to metastatic disease. Men with prostate cancer who are being treated with ADT
increase their risk of developing bone- and heart-related side effects compared to patients who
do not take these medications, according to a new study. ADT can cause a variety of side
effects including skeletal and cardiovascular complications, sexual dysfunction, periodontal
disease, and mood disorders.
Studies of men with a history of prostate disease suggest that it may be low testosterone that
indicates an increase in disease activity. Further, supplementing with testosterone may not only
be safe but inhibit tumor cell growth.
The Wiley Protocol for Men rhythm is based on four-day sun cycles and magnetism. By
contrast, the Wiley Protocol for Women™ is controlled by moon rhythms and light. Testosterone
and DHEA (a precursor of testosterone and other sex hormones) are used with the rhythm of
the sun cycles; DHEA is only applied in the morning when men’s androgens normally peak.
Dose elevations occur every four days rather than every three days to allow DHEA to create
more receptors for testosterone. Wiley is tracking the men who have had prostate cancer who
are using the Wiley Protocol to provide data on this issue.
We know that biomimetic rhythmic, cyclical hormone replacement can restore quality of life.
Wiley’s Protocol for Men is the wave of the future, and as men become aware of this option,
they will have a choice about aging.
Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com
than Viagra. My male business has exploded. Plus I have become quite
proficient on tweaking the Wiley Protocol for Women™. It’s amazing.”
Robert Apgar, MD, North Carolina
Hormone replacement for men? T.S. Wiley thinks so and that is why she
developed The Wiley Protocol for Men™ for the men in your life, to restore
lust and love, sleep, muscle mass, and bone health, and help to reduce
depression. The Protocol uses testosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone
(DHEA) in a rhythmic, youthful physiologic dosing for health and antiaging.
Andropause is defined as an age-related decline in serum testosterone
levels in older men to below the normal range in young men. Often
referred to as the male “menopause” it is associated with a syndrome that
may include decreased muscle strength and/or endurance, decreased
pubic and increased underarm hair, reduced physical function, diminished
libido, fatigue, depressed mood, decreased generalized well-being, hot
flashes, osteoporosis/osteopenia, and anemia.
A multi-year study showed that mean total testosterone levels
decreased by 30 percent in men between the ages of 25 and 75
and mean free-testosterone levels decreased by as much as 50
percent. Men may not live as long if they have low testosterone,
regardless of their age, according to a new study from
Germany.
The study looked at death from any cause in nearly 2,000 men
aged 20 to 79 years with an average follow up time of seven
years. At the beginning of the study, 5 percent of these men
had low blood testosterone levels, defined as the lower end of
the normal range for young adult men.
The men with low testosterone were older, more obese, and had a greater prevalence of
diabetes and high blood pressure, compared with men who had higher testosterone levels. Men
with low testosterone levels had more than a 2.5 times greater risk of dying during the next 10
years compared to men with higher testosterone. This difference was not explained by age,
smoking, alcohol intake, level of physical activity, or increased waist circumference (a risk factor
for diabetes and heart disease).
Why must aging men with low testosterone, and men with prostate cancer, simply have to
accept the loss of libido, energy, risk-taking, sleep and muscle mass to fight depression and the
inevitability of man breasts and snoring that comes with changes in the hormone balance?
A growing body of research says that low testosterone levels can be associated with an
increased risk of prostate cancer. A standard treatment option for prostate cancer is androgen
deprivation therapy (ADT), in which drugs or castration is used to reduce the testosterone
levels in the prostate (and the rest of the body). Unfortunately virtually all patients treated with
ADT progress to metastatic disease. Men with prostate cancer who are being treated with ADT
increase their risk of developing bone- and heart-related side effects compared to patients who
do not take these medications, according to a new study. ADT can cause a variety of side
effects including skeletal and cardiovascular complications, sexual dysfunction, periodontal
disease, and mood disorders.
Studies of men with a history of prostate disease suggest that it may be low testosterone that
indicates an increase in disease activity. Further, supplementing with testosterone may not only
be safe but inhibit tumor cell growth.
The Wiley Protocol for Men rhythm is based on four-day sun cycles and magnetism. By
contrast, the Wiley Protocol for Women™ is controlled by moon rhythms and light. Testosterone
and DHEA (a precursor of testosterone and other sex hormones) are used with the rhythm of
the sun cycles; DHEA is only applied in the morning when men’s androgens normally peak.
Dose elevations occur every four days rather than every three days to allow DHEA to create
more receptors for testosterone. Wiley is tracking the men who have had prostate cancer who
are using the Wiley Protocol to provide data on this issue.
We know that biomimetic rhythmic, cyclical hormone replacement can restore quality of life.
Wiley’s Protocol for Men is the wave of the future, and as men become aware of this option,
they will have a choice about aging.
Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Are you treating the Symptom or the Problem?
You know when you have something wrong with your car, it NEVER is acting up when you take your car into the shop. And if you take it to a mechanic, who is a trained professional to repair cars (using an algorithm system) usually they won't be able to diagnose the problem if it's not happening at the time you bring the car in. BUT, if you bring it to a person who just knows how to fix cars, that person can FIX the problem because he understands what you are telling him is wrong with the car, even though it isn't "doing it" at the time you bring the car in. Well, the same thing goes on in medical school training. Doctors are trained in an algorithm system. They are educated first about the human body and then they are trained to "treat" the human body by algorithms. So, if you have a symptom then it will lead the doctor to go down "this" path. If you have a different symptom you go down "that" path. BUT, if you have a doctor that understands the WHOLE SYSTEM you don't need to follow an algorithm pathway system because often that pathway system DOESN'T WORK! Sure, it takes care of the SYMPTOM, but often does not FIX THE PROBLEM. And guess what happens, THE SYMPTOM RETURNS!
So make sure you have a person who "fixes cars" not a person who is a "mechanic" when you seek medical care.
WHAT IS A WILEY PROTOCOL COMPOUNDING PHARMACY?
What is a Wiley Protocol Registered™ Compounding Pharmacy? T.S. Wiley has licensed the use of her name only to compounding pharmacies that agree to make your hormones the same way, with the same ingredients, from the same place, at the same price and in the same packaging every time, everywhere. A WP Registered Compounding Pharmacy is one that has licensed the use of the specific protocol that T.S. Wiley has scientifically developed. In order to do so the pharmacy must legally agree to make the hormones to the specific high standards set by T. S. Wiley. The following must remain constant: that compound the authentic Wiley Protocol. You may also do an EXTENDED SEARCH to find a pharmacist by name , location, certification, or by product.
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Pharmacies carrying the New Hormone Rhythms
Pharmacists who have attended and sponsored doctors to T.S. Wiley’s intensive two day scientific education seminar: "Two Days Back on Earth', are considered CERTIFIED!Tuesday, July 21, 2009
How Hormones Work In the Body
I spend a huge portion of my day explaining to women how hormones work in the body. So from the top of my head, I'm going to try and explain it to YOU in simple terms. It first makes sense to replace hormones physiologically by mimicking a healthy women's cycle. And that would be young, healthy, cycling, fertile females. Normal ranges of estrogen in this population ranges from 150-550 pg/ml during a 28 day cycle. Estrogen has two peaks, one on Day 12 and another one (although much less of a peak) just under the progesterone peak on Day 21. A menstrual cycle occurs on Days 1-5 with a gradual ascending curve of estradiol to a peak blood level on Day 12 of 350-550 pg/ml. Estrogen then descends to a lower range in the 100-200 pg/ml the rest of the 28 day cycle. This can be mimicked with transdermal creams used in cyclic dosing. If your blood levels are below the normal range, then we start with a standard dose of creams and gradually follow the cyclic pattern until we reach the desired blood ranges of both estrogen and progesterone. When given this way, your body responds in a very healthy way and restores lost energy, sleep deprivation, rids you of hot flashes and night sweats, improves mind function and memory, improves libido, gets rid of daytime fatigue and many other aging symptoms that we begin to experience in late 30's and 40's on into 50's, 60's, and 70's.
The first twelve days of the hormone cycle with just estrogen is creating the scenario for progesterone to work. Progesterone is effective when the receptors are created by estrogen in the first 12 days of the menstrual cycle, otherwise progesterone will fit into alternative receptor sites and cause side effects, such as drowsiness or water retention to occur. So getting blood levels in the desired range of 150-550 pg/ml is the key to this protocol working effectively. Menstrual cycles should occur on Day 29 and that then becomes Day 1. A normal 5 day menses should follow and the cycle is repeated over and over again. It really is an amazing discovery of using bioidentical hormones.
Hormones are our immune protection. Estrogen and Progesterone "control" cells. They don't "cause" cells to do anything. They are chemical messengers in our body that act as signals to turn actions on and turn actions off throughout the body. Without these important messengers, we lose a very important part of our immune system and autoimmune function is then heightened in some people and you will see skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis, lupus, arthritis, etc. Some people will go down other hormone deficiency paths such as heart disease, alzheimers, osteoporosis, cancer, etc.
It doesn't make sense to give hormone replacement in any other way but to mimick what our bodies have always done with this hormones. Cyclic, ascending and descending doses of estrogen days 1-28 and progesterone days 14-28 in ascending and descending dosing. I wouldn't give insulin to a diabetic patient in alternate ways then how the body uses insulin. Why do we give estrogen and progesterone in alternate ways?
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Why should women not take birth control pills/patch/IUD/vaginal ring
I get asked this question in my clinic often so I am going to explain why the birth control pill is not a good idea. Birth control pills are synthetic hormone drugs. They contain either a form of mutated synthetic estrogen, fake progesterone, or androgenic medication. Some contain only medroxyprogesterone acetate (which is synthetic progestin). They are given in many ways, orally, transdermal patch, IUD, vaginal ring, or depo injection. They suppress your own production of ovarian hormones; estrogen and progesterone. Therefore, they prevent you from ovulating. That's why they work and you don't get pregnant. But, there is another way to prevent pregnancy. First, I will tell you why you should not use any of these OCP methods.
In 1998, Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals began a study on their synthetic hormones (Premarin and Prempro) on 16,608 postmenopausal women. I know, you guys are young, so who cares, right? Wrong! This study PROVED that oral synthetic hormones are bad for us!! They had to stop the study 3 years early because women were dying! They found in the 4-5 short years the study did go on (it was supposed to be an 8 year study) that women had an increase in breast cancer by 26%, strokes by 41%, heart attacks by 29%, Alzheimers dementia by 76% and 2 times increase in bloodclots. Well, birth control pills and synthetic progestins are the SAME STUFF! They just have different names.
Birth control pills make women's body look like my peri-menopause women. They aren't ovulating! That means you get the same symptoms as 35-45 year old women. i.e. you're aging faster!! Weight gain around the middle, dry skin, low libido, moodswings, more yeast infections, more UTI's, more joint aches, more irritability, more anxiety, etc. etc. It's a painful irony that when we are young and have everything to lose (our fertility and potential for genetic immortality) many of us eagerly tossed back hormones made out of mutated synthetic estrogens, fake progesterone, and even, sometimes testosterone. And when birth control pills first came onto the market in the 1960's (generation of "free love") doctors who prescribed them had no idea they might impact our future fertility or what those hormones might be doing to us physically by preventing pregnancy. We have figured out NOW how toxic these synthetic hormone "drugs" like PremPro can really be.
So let's understand what is happening. In a normal cycle, estrogen causes the uterus lining to grow and progesterone then occupies the estrogen receptor site for two weeks out of the cycle every month and if conception does not occur, the uterus lining is shed. When two drugs are packaged together what you get is no resemblance to what goes on hormonally in your body. In reality the static, chronic dose of fake progesterone (progestin) in combination with a synthetic estrogen actually blocks the estrogen's effect every day. So any benefits known from estrogen in heart, brain, and breast are lost or diminished. The birth control pill not only increases your risk of cancer, but also causes heart disease. It does have side effects. The hormones made in your body really don't!
Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com
In 1998, Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals began a study on their synthetic hormones (Premarin and Prempro) on 16,608 postmenopausal women. I know, you guys are young, so who cares, right? Wrong! This study PROVED that oral synthetic hormones are bad for us!! They had to stop the study 3 years early because women were dying! They found in the 4-5 short years the study did go on (it was supposed to be an 8 year study) that women had an increase in breast cancer by 26%, strokes by 41%, heart attacks by 29%, Alzheimers dementia by 76% and 2 times increase in bloodclots. Well, birth control pills and synthetic progestins are the SAME STUFF! They just have different names.
Birth control pills make women's body look like my peri-menopause women. They aren't ovulating! That means you get the same symptoms as 35-45 year old women. i.e. you're aging faster!! Weight gain around the middle, dry skin, low libido, moodswings, more yeast infections, more UTI's, more joint aches, more irritability, more anxiety, etc. etc. It's a painful irony that when we are young and have everything to lose (our fertility and potential for genetic immortality) many of us eagerly tossed back hormones made out of mutated synthetic estrogens, fake progesterone, and even, sometimes testosterone. And when birth control pills first came onto the market in the 1960's (generation of "free love") doctors who prescribed them had no idea they might impact our future fertility or what those hormones might be doing to us physically by preventing pregnancy. We have figured out NOW how toxic these synthetic hormone "drugs" like PremPro can really be.
So let's understand what is happening. In a normal cycle, estrogen causes the uterus lining to grow and progesterone then occupies the estrogen receptor site for two weeks out of the cycle every month and if conception does not occur, the uterus lining is shed. When two drugs are packaged together what you get is no resemblance to what goes on hormonally in your body. In reality the static, chronic dose of fake progesterone (progestin) in combination with a synthetic estrogen actually blocks the estrogen's effect every day. So any benefits known from estrogen in heart, brain, and breast are lost or diminished. The birth control pill not only increases your risk of cancer, but also causes heart disease. It does have side effects. The hormones made in your body really don't!
Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Let's Change the Current Standard of Care for Hormone Replacement
Become a fan of Love My Hormones on facebook and add your comments. We as women need to stand together and start making changes in our health care system. The Standard Of Care has to be changed. Big Pharmaceutical Companies should not be able to Kill us with their drugs legally. The Women's Health Initiative Study proved that synthetic, oral, low dose hormones (whether bioidentical or not) are NOT helpful for women's health. They mask the symptoms of hot flashes and make us feel like they did something. Only restoring your hormones to their youthful state when your hormones did cycle in ascending and descending rhythms works! That has been self evident for decades and decades. Keep reading and learning and together we can change how the health care system for peri- and post menopausal women is today.
Love My Hormones: Why Should Women Replace Their Hormones?
Love My Hormones: Why Should Women Replace Their Hormones?
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Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Why Should Women Replace Their Hormones?
I would like every woman to really pay attention to how they feel. Our bodies speak to us every day. If you don't feel very good -- there is a REASON for it. Do you take more than one or two medications for diseases that started in your 30's, 40's, or 50's? How come? Did you have a hysterectomy? Are you having regular periods? Are you sleeping great at night? Are you productive and happy throughout your day? Are you interested in having sex with your significant other? Are you interested in sex period?! Do you have joint aches? Headaches? Back aches? Fatigue? Indigestion? Constipation? Diarrhea? Hot Flashes? Night Sweats? Irritability? Anxiety? ok ok ok have I made my point?!
I am a 43 year old female who KNOWS what it feels like to not have my hormones like I had them in my 20's! And guess what, I felt like CRAP! I had no idea at that time it was because my hormones were falling like a 1000 pound rock down a mountain side! I have spent the last two years studying hormone replacement options. And through the process of studying, searching, and researching the options discovered that there are a lot of BAD options out there for women! I discovered and use myself hormone replacement that is BIOMIMETIC, that means I replicate EXACTLY what my body did in my 20's hormonally. I replace estrogen and progesterone in ascending and descending dosages in 28 day cycles every month. I have a normal 3-5 day period. I don't have ANY OF THE SYMPTOMS listed above. I have NO EXCESS body fat. I have GREAT SKIN. GREAT HAIR. GREAT MOOD. HIGH LIBIDO. NO ANXIETY. NO DEPRESSION. GREAT ENERGY. NO JOINT ACHES. What else can I say? I feel awesome.
Now, it is my passion to spread the message that there is alternatives to the Standard of Care therapy that the medical community wants to hand out to you. That you don't have to take synthetic drugs that DON'T mimic your hormonal cycle. You don't have to succumb to aging that destroys your body from the inside out. You have a limited lifespan. We ALL do. But, that doesn't mean you have to deteriorate slowly and agonizingly while getting there. Read more about what I do. Call and schedule an appt if you live in the Chicagoland area. We can meet face to face and talk about your life and your situation and figure out if hormones is the reason for your symptoms.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Links Between Hormones and Cancer
The market for cancer therapeutics is huge and growing by double-digits annually. This phenomenal growth is fueled especially in the area of biologic drugs. Globally, more than 10 million people are affected by cancer annually, a number that is expected to increase 2.4 percent each year through 2020 up to 14 million. Common cancers include breast, bladder, cervical colon/rectum, esophageal, liver, lung, prostate and stomach cancer.
Among the key trends of current cancer therapies including chemotherapy and biotherapeutics, is hormone therapy. Much research is needed but in a July 9, 2008 www.BreastCancer.org article, we learn some of the details about how estrogen and progesterone play roles in the development of certain breast cancers.
T.S Wiley has long believed that hormone therapy could affect breast cancer, and she touched upon it in her book Sex, Lies, and Menopause.
The article details how estrogen sends signals through the hormone receptors that tell breast cancer cells to grow, and when estrogen attaches to the receptors, they grow and multiply. Once breast cancer is removed, the cells are tested to see if they have hormone receptors, and if either estrogen or progesterone receptors are present, a response to hormonal therapy is very possible. The more estrogen or progesterone receptors present on those cells, the more likely that hormonal therapy will work against the particular cancer. If high levels of both estrogen and progesterone receptors are present, an even greater response to hormonal therapy is likely.
Estrogen and progesterone travel through the bloodstream and find their matching receptor sites on both healthy cells and cancer cells. Receptors are protein molecules that rest on the outside or inside of the cells in your body acting like an on–off switch for cell activities. If the right substance comes along that fits into the receptor, much like a key opening a lock, cell activity is unlocked.
It seems that many breast cancers are hormone-dependent—which means that estrogen and progesterone stimulate their growth by "turning on" hormone receptors in the cancer cells. Without these hormones, the cancer cells are not stimulated to grow, so they wither up and eventually may die.
Study Shows Lack of Sleep More Dangerous to Women
A new study by the University of Warwick and University College London points out that women who get less than the recommended eight hours sleep a night are at higher risk of heart disease and heart-related problems than men with the same sleeping patterns. Researchers found that levels of inflammatory markers vary significantly with sleep duration in women, but not men.
The study was published July 1 in the American Journal Sleep, and stated that it found levels of Interleukin-6 (IL-6), a marker related to coronary heart disease, were significantly lower in women who reported sleeping eight hours as compared with seven.
The second marker, High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), is predictive of future cardiovascular morbidity. Levels of hs-CRP were significantly higher in women who reported sleeping five hours or less.
T.S. Wiley has long been talking about the issues of women and sleep after writing her first book, "Lights Out: Sleep Sugar and Survival." History tells us that the diseases of civilization all hit hard after the Industrial Revolution when electricity gave us inexpensive artificial light. When you add it all up, the national health catastrophe has been about seventy-five years in the making.
Could the loss of sleep be destroying the endocrine clock that controls weight gain? Could how much you sleep really control your appetite? This may shock you. Yes. The prescription for better health is sleep, and it's free.
Wiley tells us there is simply WAY too much light in our society today. People don't sleep enough anymore. The real truth is that the urgent need to sleep is also the cause of Type II diabetes and other diseases of aging.
The answer lies in the circadian rhythmicity and evolution. This rhythm is about a 24-hour cycle in the physiological processes of all living beings (animals, plants, fungi and cyanobacteria.). The term "circadian" was coined by Franz Halberg, and it means "around", and dies, "day", meaning literally "about a day." Chronobiology is the formal study of daily, weekly, seasonal and annual rhythms. Circadian rhythms are can be modulated by external cues such as the sun (dawn and dusk) and temperature.
It seems as if almost every woman who hits her 40's succumbs to the inability to stay asleep through the night. It happens in peri-menopause but the truth is, these women never really sleep well for the rest of their lives.
She also strongly recommends rhythmic, biomimetic bioidentical hormones, and you will start sleeping through the night.
you can try the reasonably priced chewable Melatonin tablets available at Trader Joes and let several of them melt in your mouth about an hour before bedtime. (Take one for every hour after dark before midnight, with seasonal light changes.) And then as a last resort, reset your internal sleeping clock. Take Tylenol PM for three days and take a walk outside barefoot at dawn and at dusk.
You need to make sure your bedroom is dark. That means lights out. No moonlight or lamp post lights through the window, and no computer, clock or television screens.
You should really try to sleep for a minimum of nine hours or more of uninterrupted sleep every night.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Love My Hormones: QUESTIONS REGARDING THE WILEY PROTOCOL ANSWERED HERE
Love My Hormones: QUESTIONS REGARDING THE WILEY PROTOCOL ANSWERED HERE
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Love My Hormones: QUESTIONS REGARDING THE WILEY PROTOCOL ANSWERED HERE
Love My Hormones: QUESTIONS REGARDING THE WILEY PROTOCOL ANSWERED HERE
Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com
Call my office to set up an appointment or email me 815-476-5210 or jones.gretchen@gmail.com
