Can a better diet help hot flashes and other menopause perimenoopause symptoms?

Menopause Symptoms and the Standard American Diet (SAD).

What I'm going to give you this month are tidbits from the best booklet I ever have read on women's health, perimenopause and menopause. The booklet, "Women, Your Body and Natural Progesterone" is written by Dr. Francisco Contreras, M.D. Francisco is the son of the founder of the world renowned Contreras Clinic in Tijuana, Mexico now know as the Oasis of Hope Hospital.

Stories of miraculous cures primarily of cancer have emanated from this clinic across the border for decades. Although trained as an Oncologist, Dr. Francisco Contreras devotes a great deal of his time to cancer and other prevalent disease prevention. Now this booklet deals with the prevention of an inconvenient, annoying condition known to us as menopause.

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Do you remember our newsletter last year detailing how Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was attempting to stop compounding pharmacists from prescribing natural progesterone (diosgenin) after their profits fell by more than 57% from $2.07 billion in 2003 to $800 million in 2004 (after the WHI study had to be stopped)?

Well, now they have gone after centers like ours making complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC's position backed by the big pharmaceutical companies is that Dr. John Lee, M.D.'s studies were not scientific and did not rise to the standard of FDA and National Institutes of Health studies, and that our claims about natural progesterone are false, unfair, deceptive, misleading advertising in violation of the law..

(Please read what Dr. Helen Pensanti M.D. has to say about this. Read on to how the study was conducted.)

This is an attempt to force women into taking unsafe proven cancer causing synthetic hormones using your tax dollar to harass natural hormone suppliers. We here at the Women's Menopause Health Center refuse to take away your choice of a healthy alternative to Premarin, Prempro and the other dangerous drugs. We are taking a stand against this heavy handed attempt to destroy competition. We are going to fight for your choice of a healthy way to get through menopause comfortably and safely.

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According to Dr. Contreras, PMS and menopause are modern age "diseases." Ancient languages have no word for it.

"Why," asks Dr. Contreras, "would they have to describe natural and normal events as if they were diseases."

Women in rural China and Mexico have never needed doctors to take care of their "life change." Osteoporosis is unknown to them.

What we now know as menopause primarily occurs in affluent societies and is the result of a hormonal imbalance rather than the natural reduction in the production of estrogen as women age. Normal menopause is the equal, or balanced, reduction in the production of estrogens and progesterone. However, the contamination of our food supply with excessive estrogen results in the Standard American Diet (SAD) leading to an imbalance in those hormones.

Dr. Contreras places the blame for the hormonal imbalance squarely on the SAD diet. The plethora of diseases, including PMS; menopause; fibrocystic disease of the breast; ovarian cysts; uterine fibrosis; breast cancer; osteoporosis; ovarian cancer; and, uterine cancer can be traced to the contaminated food supply or SAD diet.

What contaminates the food supply in regards to menopause? The livestock industry routinely uses estrogen to boost milk and meat production; there is an exaggerated amount of artificial estrogens in our environment (soft plastic water bottles leaching off estrogen into the water is one example), and hormone replacement therapy are causing hormonal instability due to estrogen dominance. Estrogen dominance is the reason why so many women suffer from PMS and is the cause of most feminine ailments for women at any age.

Estrogen has specific functions which are good and necessary for a quality life. However, when not properly balanced by progesterone, those functions cause; headaches; depression; fatigue; memory loss; mental sluggishness. Estrogen also strongly stimulates breast tissue growth and increases the risk of breast cancer when unopposed by progesterone.

This discussion will continue on a monthly basis for the next few months. The constraints of a newsletter format prevents a thorough discussion in one brief article. Other areas to discuss, for example, are the effects of excess estrogen on the men in our lives.

What are we to do to mitigate the estrogen bombardment? The first place to start is with our diet. Cut way back on meat consumption. 3-4 ounces of any type of meat twice a week is optimal. And, organic meats which are now more readily available at the neighborhood supermarkets are a must. Think of all the money and time you can save by cooking more casseroles with minimal meat. And, kids love casseroles, too. (Reducing meat in the diet also is a powerful cancer prevention tool.)

Make sure your bottled water is in hard plastic containers. Some estrogen still leaches off, but nowhere near the amount from soft plastic bottles.

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June Menopause Recipe: Non-Beef Crock Pot Stroganoff.

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