The Hopkins Health Watch - Issue 6
A well-designed new study of women using progesterone cream has added greatly to the mounting evidence that natural hormones work as advertised.
Nearly every day we receive e-mails from women who ask what to tell their doctor when he or she demands studies proving that natural hormones are safe and effective. Granted, using natural hormones as recommended by Dr. Lee mimics closely what the body would do naturally, and granted there are hundreds of physicians happily using natural hormones safely and effectively, but it’s always good to have studies to point to.
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The consumer group Public Citizen has petitioned the FDA to ban oral contraceptives that contain the synthetic hormone desogestrel.
Studies suggest that these birth control pills nearly double the risk of potentially fatal blood clots compared with other such pills, without providing improved protection against pregnancy.
Approximately 7.5 million prescriptions for desogestrel-containing oral contraceptives were filled in the United States in 2006.
Pills containing desogestrel may cause 30 cases of blood clots for every 100,000 users a year; other birth control pills only cause 15 cases per 100,000 users. At 7.5 million prescriptions, that means over 1,000 women are unnecessarily being placed at risk each year.
Manufacturers of desogestrel-containing pills have stated that the increased risk of blood clots is listed on the label. However, this warning is in "barely perceptible 4-point type," according to Public Citizen.
Public Citizen February 6, 2007
USA Today February 6, 2007
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This interesting guide lists a number of birth control techniques that can be used instead of pills or patches. The article recommends practicing two or more natural birth control methods at the same time, and lists such methods as:
Withdrawal: The man withdraws his penis from the woman's vagina before he ejaculates. This doesn't always work; even before ejaculation, the penis releases small amounts of semen that can contain sperm, so this is only 60 to 80 percent successful at preventing pregnancy.
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Older generation birth-control pills may have significantly increased breast cancer risk among women with a family history of the disease.
In a study of 426 families, investigators found that oral contraceptive use tripled breast cancer risk among women with sisters or mothers who had the disease.
The risk was confined to women who used "the pill" prior to 1975.
Since then, birth control pills have evolved to include lower doses of estrogen and progestin, which may make them safer in terms of breast cancer, researchers suggest, although this will likely not be definitively known for years to come.
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Endometriosis is caused by the imbalance between too much oestrogen and a deficiency of progesterone.  This unopposed oestrogen results in many symptoms of oestrogen dominance including endometriosis.  Oestrogen switches on the BCL 2 gene which causes the cells to multiply uncontrollably, and if this message is not switched off by Progesterone (Progesterone switches off the BCL2 gene and switches on the P53 gene which gives the cells the right message and matures them), then these cells continue to multiply and go berserk .... hence endometriosis.
As oestrogen is the problem, it should be avoided.  Progesterone in quite high doses over a period of months will help to clear this condition.  It is THE most important factor.  it is the only antagonist to oestrogen, and is the only thing that will stop that message to the cells. If the endometriosis has become too thick on the endometrium, then a scrape will help clear those cells and taking progesterone will stop further cells forming.

This condition of oestrogen dominance comes about for a number of reasons

1.  the Xeno-oestrogens in the environment …. Mostly petrochemicals found in insecticides,  plastics, mineral oil- based creams, household products, oetrogen drugs such as the PILL and HRT, car fumes etc.-  in fact we now live in a “Sea of oestrogens”
 
2.   You may have been on The Pill or HRT
 
3.   As soon as you start an ovulatory cycles (when you stop ovulating, now around the average age of 34),  you produce NO progesterone in the cycle to balance the


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