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When women experience any symptoms - whether they are physical or emotional - their hormonal systems should be the first thing considered, not the last. That's the conclusion I've come to after over 40 years' experience working with women's health issues in every stage of their lives. Whether in childhood, extreme old age, or anywhere in between, women's bodily states, emotional states and hormonal systems are intimately connected.
When seeking help from their health professionals, however, the state of their hormones is very likely to be considered last, rather than first. That's because health professionals have been educated to think of women's hormonal systems as if they were some kind of peripheral add-on. In other words, women's bodies have been assumed to be just like men's, with a baby factory attached, which at menopause, has been thought to fall away, rendering their bodies, at last, just like a man's. In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth.
Why did this inaccurate state of affairs come about? The answer lies in how research has been conducted. The Western scientific paradigm aims to discover how things work by reducing a set of variables to the fewest possible (which is why it's called "reductionist"). In other words, experiments are controlled to find out how one thing affects another. Because women's bodies constantly change due to monthly cycling, pregnancies, menopausal transitions, etc., scientists found it difficult to control experiments. The result is, that until the mid- 1990', research was conducted on men and then applied to women. It took political action on the part of women pressuring their Congress people and Senators to demand equal treatment in research to begin to shift that sad state of affairs.
Women's bodies just do not work like controlled scientific experiments. They work holistically, meaning that any one thing affects every thing. This idea is easy to grasp when you think what might happen if you placed a small amount of, say, arsenic on your tongue. You know immediately that your whole body will be affected, not just your tongue.
Women's hormonal systems are at the very center of managing and orchestrating all such events in their incredible variety. Hormones are how the body/mind is kept in balance. They are able to do this because they are chemical messengers made in glands that carry a message to target cells in another part of the body. This message-carrying function is why women's hormonal systems are the core of managing every physical or emotional change that takes place, and why women's hormones need to be considered first, whether their health challenge is a physical one or an emotional one.
That physical and emotional states are so intimately connected has to do with the fact that hormones affect absolutely everything physical and emotional - weight, mood, fertility, memory, energy levels, immunity, ambition, detoxification, repair work and metabolic rate to name just a few. Considering this truth, it seems incredible, then, that both women and the health practitioners who care for them typically don't know how to take care of the one thing that makes women female - their female hormonal system. The current approach both women and practitioners have been conditioned to take - if hormones are considered at all - has been to provide hormones for a woman's body, rather than to support her body so she can make her own hormones. But when a woman's body can make her own hormones, it maintains its own hormone balance while remaining free of the side effects of synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the problems of finding and maintaining the right levels! that go with synthetic or bioidentical hormone replacement.
The Female Hormone Journey, Lifetime Care of Your Hormones is designed to educate women themselves and the practitioners who care for them about how to support the female body so it can make its own hormones and self regulate them. It describes in everyday language all the various conditions rooted in hormone balance. These can occur at any stage of life, from pre-puberty through and including all the post-menopausal years (when women's hormone state is still central to their health and well being) and how they can be addressed.Also available is a variety of free articles on physical and emotional health improvement
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