How Does the Women’s Strategy Pac Work?
The Women’s Strategy Pac consists of three unique formulations, Eternal-In, and Preserve
and Preserve progesterone natural hormone cream. The whole system works synergistically, proving
the body what is needed to normalize endocrine function, while helping
the body protect against premature aging and associated dysfunction.
What Is the Endocrine (or Hormonal) System?
Until recently, not much has been known about the body’s Endocrine
System. Its activities were thought mysterious and possibly only of
secondary importance. But now we’re realizing just how essential a
healthy Endocrine System is, what it actually does, how it's governed
and how to ensure its balance and operation with the rest of the body.
The Endocrine System is the biochemical system of the body which
controls and regulates the function of our entire metabolism through the
production and direction of all of our hormones. The Endocrine System
and its activities are specifically governed by parts of the brain
(namely the neuroendocrine apparatus of the medial basal hypothalamus,
the pineal gland and the pituitary gland), but it also involves other
areas of the body including the major endocrine hormone-producing
glands: Thyroid, Thymus, Parathyroids, Heart, Gastric and Intestinal
Mucosa, Adrenals, Pancreas (pancreatic islets), the Ovaries, and even
the Heart.
Within the Endocrine System there are literally hundreds of types of
hormones produced, some of which merely stimulate the release of still
larger even more pronounced hormones. Nearly every process in our body
is kept in balance by this incredibly complex, but precise, interaction
of our hormones and their neural balancing function on all body
activities.
Is the Endocrine (or Hormonal) System Involved with Aging?
Yes, it is. The Endocrine System directly controls the process of
aging, including how fast or slow we will age and how healthy we will be
in the process. Through the directions of the Endocrine
System, its hormones actually guide the body in its daily metabolic
feats. Hormones manufactured by the Endocrine System directly govern the
welfare of our whole body, keeping us young, healthy and happy. Hormones
are often the critical “conductors” of our “biochemical orchestra,”
making sure that everybody else within the biochemistry of our bodies
reads from the same “sheet music” and plays their part at the right time
with the rest of the band without anyone missing a beat. Hormones can
help us delay the aging process and keep us generally free from disease.
What Do Some Of These Hormones Specifically Do?
Hormones like GH (Growth Hormone or Somatotrophin) are critical to
all forms of growth, healing and repair in the body. Hormones like TSH
(thyroid stimulating hormone) play a critical role in stimulating the
thyroid to release its respective hormones, T3 and T4, which directly
influence the metabolic rate of all cells of the body, helping us to
metabolize food stores (fat and glycogen)
efficiently, giving us energy and orchestrating the use of other
biological materials throughout the day, as well as keeping us young,
active and alert. ACTH (from the Pituitary Gland) stimulates
the adrenal cortex to synthesize and secrete some of its hormones, like
DHEA (discussed in the next section), Pregnenolone (the memory hormone),
Adrenalin (epinephrine) which increases body metabolism, a small amount
of Estrogen (both the ovaries and the adrenals produce Estrogen), and
Aldosterone which stimulates the kidneys to retain sodium and water.
Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH - from the Pituitary Gland) acts in opposition
to Aldosterone to dispel excess water and sodium. Calcitonin (also
produced by the thyroid) helps to increase blood calcium levels while
promoting the conservation of hard bone matrix, while Parathyroid
Hormone (PTH) acts as a direct antagonist;
together these two hormones help maintain calcium balance within the
bloodstream and keep bones dense and healthy. Normal neuromuscular
excitability, blood clotting, cell membrane permeability and the normal
functioning of certain enzymes, all depend on the maintenance
of normal levels of calcium in the blood. The Thymus, although generally
considered to be a lymphatic organ, secretes two families of
peptide-hormones, thymosin and thymopoietin, which play a critical role
in the development of the immune system’s T-cells.
Pancreatic Hormones such as Glucagon, Insulin, Somatostatin and
Pancreatic polypeptide all aid in regulating body metabolism, glucose
and fat production as well as in the inhibition of Growth
Hormone. The Gastric and Intestinal Mucosa produce Gastrin, Secretin,
Cholecystokinin-pancreozymin (CCK) and others which control digestion
and assimilation of foods. The hormone CCK is most importantly involved
with appetite and eating. Upon its secretion, it immediately travels to
the Hypothalamus within the brain to “shut down” appetite. When its
secretion is delayed or diminished, over-eating is often the result!
Researchers are also finding that previously defined “sex-typed”
hormones manufactured by the Endocrine System are not only necessary for
reproductive possibilities, but serve a myriad of other essential health
sustaining functions as well. Testosterone, for example, allows males to
keep their hair and not go bald as well as develop muscle mass (even
late in life), while Estrogen and Progesterone maintain women’s smooth
and supple skin, protect their hair and eyes as well as many other
functions within the body, including the maintenance of bone density,
thus preventing osteoporosis. Again, when the
Endocrine System is not functioning properly, or has been interfered
with by chemical look-a-likes such as the estrogen-like hormones coming
from canned foods, our health suffers dramatically, and we age much,
much more quickly!
Can Hormones Really Affect Our Overall Health?
Yes, most certainly! Now, more than ever, it’s time to seriously take
care of and nutritionally rebalance our Endocrine System. Hormonal
balance is now being seen as critically essential to the
maintenance of good health and a strong Immune System. Indeed, Endocrine
System functioning and our health are intimately related... you can’t
speak about the Immune System without
referencing the essential organic hormonal steroids of the Endocrine
System. In fact, researchers recently are discovering that a number of
hormones from within the Endocrine System play a significant role with
“T-cell markers” within the Immune System, such as some of the ones
previously mentioned, and most notably DHEA (or dehydroepiandrosterone).
Hypothalamic Potentiation of Some of the Major Pituitary Hormones and
the Organs They Affect in the Endocrine System
What is DHEA?
DHEA (or dehydroepiandrosterone) is commonly called the “mother”
hormone, since from it a number of other hormones may be manufactured
upon demand, such as estrogen, testosterone, progesterone and
corticosterone to name just a few. Because of DHEA’s biochemical
flexibility, it has become the subject of much recent study, especially
for its almost unbelievable but wonderful
potential to actually slow the aging process. Some are even calling it
the “fountain of youth” anti-aging elixir we’ve all been looking for.
More and more research is being published about DHEA production and the
body’s need for it. For example, recent studies have demonstrated that
DHEA levels in our blood generally peak around 20 years of age. As we
grow older, DHEA levels decrease in both men and women to only about 5%
of our peak levels by the time we’re 80.
Understandably, researchers have seen a strong inverse correlation
between DHEA levels and disease. It appears that the higher the level of
DHEA in the blood, the less an organism may suffer from disease.
Further, published studies have demonstrated that appropriate
supplementation of DHEA could possibly be a factor in decreasing the
risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, even
senility, Alzheimer’s disease and premature death.
Is it Safe and Wise to Supplement with DHEA?
Yes it is! DHEA may play other important roles within the body, such
as in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome, aging, osteoporosis and
bone health, as well as many of the autoimmune disorders including
arthritis, systemic lupus, and Crohn’s disease. In lab tests, DHEA
reduced the fat stores of rats by converting fat calories to heat rather
than storing them as fat, while at the same time helping the body to
produce lean muscle tissue. More and more
scientific support is emerging which calls for early supplementation of DHEA and its nutritional precursors (such as the “Memory” Hormone
Pregnenolone) in order to maintain general hormonal balance throughout
life.
Can Environmental Factors and Pollutants Disturb Hormonal Imbalance?
Yes they can! It’s recently become widely known that the chemical
pollution of excess man-made Estrogens are very real and proliferate in
our environment (as independently documented on CBS, the Discovery
Channel, and other news programs). These chemical pollutants offer a
very real threat to our body’s Endocrine (hormonal) System which affects
various bodily functions, including
sexuality. A case in point, our health and welfare are being threatened
from something that nobody ever thought dangerous: the common tin can!
The modern process of canning foods in tin cans
lined with a thin layer of plastic is not as innocuous as has been first
believed. Ironically, although today’s canned goods are keeping foods
from spoiling, they’re “spoiling” us instead. As
reported, it seems that all canned goods are inadvertently supplying us
with unwanted estrogen-like hormones, apparently coming from a newly
discovered reaction between the tin and the plastic liner over time.
This unwanted cumulative chemical addition is believed to have dire
consequences within our bodies, adding a synthetic steroidal hormone
which directly interferes with the normal function of the critically
important Endocrine System in both males and females.
Can Our Lifestyle (diet, exercise habits, etc.) Cause Hormonal Imbalance
As Well?
Yes again! Not only do these chemical pollutants interfere with our
body’s hormonal balance, but bad or inadequate diet, poor nutritional
habits, erratic eating patterns, lack of exercise, mounting periods of
ill health, and the nutritional wearing-down which often occurs when
growing older, all combine to dull our health and further compromise the
Endocrine System. Although not often understood, the body’s Endocrine
System intricately impresses itself upon the cellular nature of our
complexion, our psychology and mood, our muscle tone (including
appropriate gender-specific
muscle growth and formation), the clearness of our eyes, the health and
shine of our hair, even our body’s ability to heal itself. In fact, much
of that which allows us to be happy and “balanced” in
life we really owe to the wonder of our body’s Endocrine System and its
ability to maintain a precise, yet flexible, balance over time.
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