Do you suffer from migraines, tender breasts, depression (especially before you get your menstrual bleed), fibroids, endometriosis, painful and/or heavy periods and clotting? You may have what’s called oestrogen dominance. This is when a woman has too much oestrogen relative to her progesterone. As women with PCOS often don’t ovulate or ovulate infrequently, and therefore don’t produce the healthy levels…
Estrogen Dominance
Years ago, I headed off to a healthy homes seminar knowing that toxins lurked in common products, but I was still shocked to find out the shear volume of toxins present in our homes, and exactly what they did and where they were. It’s scary! Even scarier are the negative effects these toxins can have on your hormones and on…
In my experience, and the experience of the patients I see, little seems to be known about PCOS in the mainstream, first contact point health system. Many women are advised to take the oral contraceptive pill (the pill, or OCP) as it causes monthly bleeding (but NOT ovulation, so don’t be fooled into thinking it’s giving you ‘a normal period’),…
Oestrogen dominance and PCOS: These two often go together like salt and pepper. But what does the term oestrogen dominance (or estrogen dominance) mean, and why is it relevant for women with PCOS? Many practitioners think of oestrogen in terms of its status as a single hormone, a unique entity. It’s not quite as simple as this, though… Managing oestrogen…
