The Sex Hormones
If you are menopausal and suffer from weight gain, weight loss resistance, sleeping disorders, anxiety and low moods, an imbalance between two of the sex hormones are most likely the cause.
The first phase of The HOPE Protocol is all about Two of the Sex Hormones, Progesterone, and Estradiol.
After your period, for approximately 14 days your ovaries release estradiol. At about the 14th day, your estradiol peaks and you ovulate.
At the location on the ovary where your egg is released called the follicle two of the sex hormones are released, progesterone and testosterone
Progesterone prepares the uterus for conception.
Testosterone makes you frisky. God set women up. the one time you are less inhibited, you have an egg floating around waiting to be fertilized. That’s why so many teenage girls, say, ‘I swear, I only did it one time.’
When you become menopausal, pre or post, you either are ovulating irregularly or you are not ovulating at all.
If you don’t ovulate, you are no longer producing progesterone or testosterone from your ovaries.
You will make small amounts within your adrenal glands.
Progesterone and Testosterone are your fat burning hormones.
YOU CAN’T BURN FAT IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANY FAT BURNING HORMONES!
It gets worse.
After menopause, you lose 80 to 90% of your progesterone and testosterone.
But you only lose between 40 to 60% of your estradiol.
Because your fat cells make estradiol.
Your fat becomes a hormone-producing gland.
Estradiol is a very strong fat storing hormone.
ESTRADIOL MAKES FAT AND FAT MAKES ESTRADIOL!
Estradiol is what I call the pretty hormone.
It makes pretty hair, pretty skin, and pretty breasts.
Men with high estradiol levels have man boobs, are pretty, and cry during Super Bowl commercials.
Estradiol is an awesome anti-aging hormone.
We want high levels of estradiol to look young as we age.
The problem occurs when estradiol becomes the dominant hormone over progesterone in women and testosterone in men.
When Estradiol is dominant, we call this estrogen dominance.
99.9% of menopausal women are estrogen dominant.
Estrogen Dominance is diagnosed by the ratio of moles between estradiol and progesterone.
What that means is that there should be a minimum of 200 molecules of progesterone to every 1 molecule of estradiol.
If you are at let’s say 100 to 1, You are considered moderately estrogen dominant.
If you are less than 100 to 1.
You will suffer from:
- Weight Gain
- Weight Loss Resistance,
- Sleeping Disorders
- Anxiety
- Low Moods
- Loss of Sex Drives
- Loss of All Drives
The first step you should take is to take a salivary assay to determine what is called your P/E Ratio.
In our medical clinics, we charged over $300 for this same exact test.
You can purchase this test on Amazon for a fraction of that cost.
If you have the symptoms above, order your salivary assay from Amazon.
Your doctor will not order this test.
he has probably never even heard of it.
Saliva is the best test to determine you P/E Ratio.
It measures only FREE levels of Progesterone and Estradiol.
Free means that it can actually be used by your body.
The lab tests will also calculate the P/E ratio, which is no easy feat unless you are really good at calculus.
The first step of The HOPE Protocol
Order your salivary assay for estrogen dominance and once you receive it to schedule a FREE Strategic Coaching Session on how to lose weight and feel great even if you are in menopause.
Remember to continue to the next post at the bottom of this page. In that post, I will explain the next step we took to relieve my wife of estrogen dominance.
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Doc Mac
How Vicky Relieved herself of Estrogen Dominance