How much do you really know about the hormones in your body? The reality is that we don’t know as enough as we should. Chances are good if you have had Polycystic Ovary Syndrome for a while, you’ve heard about oestrogen dominance… But do you know what it is and why it’s important? This article focuses on female sex hormones,…
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I received a message today from a lovely friend about a diagnosis of fibroids, and it got me thinking. If you’re like me, you may have worried from time to time about the future consequences of PCOS, and what this may mean for your body and your health. Now fibroids are a big potential sign of oestrogen dominance, as are…
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…
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…
Many women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome are also oestrogen dominant… This means they either have levels of oestrogen that are too high or ‘normal’ levels of oestrogen that are too high in relation to their progesterone. In a regular cycle, the first half of the cycle involves higher oestrogen levels. Then when you ovulate (mid-cycle), the part of the ovary from…
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…
