Geoffrey Leigh
MSc.,ND.D.N.Sc.
| Hormone Replacement Therapy The Proven Safe Alternative |
Hormone Replacement Therapy
The Women's
Health Initiative, sponsored by the National Institute of Health,
examined the relationship between traditional synthetic
hormone replacement therapy
and breast cancer, coronary heart disease, bone fractures, endometrial cancer,
strokes and blood clots.
This study was to last 8 years, but was stopped prematurely in July 2002 after only 5 years! Why? Because the women in the study on HRT had health risks that exceeded the benefits! And after just 5 years!
The study found that women on hormone replacement therapy of combined estrogen plus progestin (PREMPRO) had:
• A 41% INCREASE in strokes
• A 29% INCREASE in heart attacks
• A 100% INCREASE in the rate of blood clots
• A 22% INCREASE in total cardiovascular disease
• A 24% INCREASE in breast cancer
• A 100% INCREASE in the rate of Alzheimer's Disease (in women
over 65)
The Women's Health Initiative also concluded
in 2003 that there were NO CLEAR BENEFITS on "Quality
of Life" measures for those
taking
the combined estrogen plus progestin HRT!
The increased incidence of breast cancer can also truthfully be attributed to Oral Contraception.
Further proof that Big Pharma is indeed an evil industry!
The question that will never
be answered is how many women world wide have already succumbed to and suffered
the identified
risks and what other unidentified risks may remain to be
identified?
Once again the pharmaceutical
industry abetted by the medical profession stands indicted of murder. A
therapy, which countless
thousands, ney, millions of women were assured was safe
is now a proven killer. As is too often the case after many years of
patient
acceptance. How many other drugs are potential killers. My guess is thousands.
No wonder the Medical Insurance industry is in a state of collapse.
A Proven Alternative INDICATIONS PMS Dysmenorrhoea Uterine Bleeding Polycystic Ovary Endometriosis Uterine Fibroids Menopause
Hormonal Imbalance is no joke.
The human hormone system is an extremely complex biochemical system.
Countless millions of women seek an alternative treatment for HRT or other hormonal problems every day. Probably most are disappointed, in that they do not achieve complete relief of symptoms.
Why is this so?
Well, that can be explained by saying, that if we have two women with identical symptoms and one responds whilst the other does not, it is due to a hormonal/cytokine Imbalance, which may affect both hormonal systems and immune system. In addition all hormonal disorders consist of at least three subtypes so that there exist no one remedy for all.
Understanding subtypes optimises therapy "Recognition of this genetic and clinical heterogeneity has immediate implications as it provides the opportunity to develop selective therapies for the different variants of disease."
Klimik PA. Clincal and genetic heterogeneity off rheumatoid arthritis.Postep HigMed Dosw.2000;54(6):845-53
You will never hear your doctor say that! Because it is not in the drug manufacturers curriculum.
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In order to make very complex biochemistry relatively simple, suffice to say that all individuals may have one of several Metabolic Subtypes.
These subtypes are often due to variations in the biotransformation of hormones and cytokines.
Such factors may up-regulate or down-regulate prescription drugs, nutritional or herbal supplements, foods and in fact all ingested chemicals.
Cytokines are small secreted proteins which mediate and regulate immunity, inflammation, and hematopoiesis
Fortunately there is an answer. It comes from one of the oldest medicine systems in the world.
Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) dates back at least to 3.000BC, and in stark contrast to mainstream medicine considers the mental, spiritual and physical aspects of the person before making a diagnosis.
TCM, an ancient clinical medicine "Chinese medicine is a coherent and independent system of thought and practice that has been developed over two millennia.
Based on ancient texts, it is the result of a continuous process of critical thinking, as well an intensive clinical observation and testing."
Professors of Gynaecology in mainland China have developed a simple questionnaire for four distinct female subtypes, which when completed and analysed gives an accurate picture of the balances and more importantly the imbalances in your endocrine (hormone) and immune system.
TCM patterns determine treatment . "Chinese medicine is always based primarily on the patient's personal pattern discrimination. In fact you could say that professional Chinese medicine doesn't treat disease, it treats the patterns."
Flaws. B. The worst in TCM.2000;(5) Nov..
This then points to medically proven safe and effective supplements to correct subtype imbalance.
Including:
Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
The writer researched and developed the first nutritional/herbal supplement in 1981 and gave the first lecture on PMS at a University level (Sydney University Australia) in April 1982
Four Subtypes
Liver QI Stagnation Spleen & Heart Blood Deficiency Spleen & Kidney Yang Deficiency Liver & Kidney Yang Deficiency
Subtype 1.
Differentiation: irritable, short tempered, marked breast tenderness, depression, sleep onset-insomnia, fatigue worse in morning, constipation.
Subtype 2.
Differentiation: Pale chalky complexion, palpitations, and anxiety, vague and forgetful. Light dream disturbed sleep, dizziness, short of breath, easy crying, depression, lethargy, tiredness, worse after eating, anxiety, abdominal and breast swelling, loose stools with menses.
Subtype 3.
Differentiation: Sluggish digestion, fatigue, cold hands and feet, pale complexion, lower back ache or pain, sensation of coldness, low libido. Easy crying, atypical depression, (apathetic), lethargy, tiredness worse after eating, abdominal and breast swelling, loose stools with menses.
Subtype 4.
Differentiation: Anxiety and irritability, breast swelling, restless headache weak aching lower back with restless headache, weak, aching lower back with chronic tendon stiffness. Hot palms and soles, thirsty, night sweats and light sensitivity.
Example of biochemical imbalance for Subtype 1.
High oestrogen to progesterone ratio, high prolactin, high PGE2, high adrenalin and noradrenalin. high AVP, Sympathetic Nervous System dominance, low GABA, low gastrin, low HCl and protein digestion low gastric motility, low bile secretion, low zinc.
All subtypes have imbalances.
Your subtype can quickly be determined by questionnaire. It is important to know that subtype cytokine imbalance may up-regulate or down-regulate all medications, supplements and food nutrients.
Dismenorrhoea
Definition: Painful spasmodic uterine cramps, which may be severe enough to incapacitate, occurring just before and during menstruation. The pain and is not attributable to psychological factors.
Five Subtypes
Subtype 1. Differentiation: Pain is sharp, stabbing and fixed. There will be large clots.
Subtype 2. Differentiation: There will be small clots and the patient may feel cold. Pain may be heavy, dragging or sharp and fixed.
Subtype 3. Differentiation: The pain is dull and better from pressure. the patient is fatigued and pale with a scanty flow. May have a heavy dragging sensation in the abdomen.
Subtype 4. Differentiation: The pain is dull and better from pressure. The patient will have a sensation of a weak lower back or knees. There may be thirst and heat in palms and soles, especially at night.
Subtype 5. Differentiation: PMT with mood swings, depression, irritability, anxiety and breast tenderness. Controlling Prostaglandins & Leukotrienes Helps Dysmenorrhoea 10-30% of patients with painful periods fail to respond to prostaglandin (PG) synthase inhibitors.
You may now appreciate why over the counter preparations or even a prescription medicine, may fail for four out of the five subtypes.
Menorrhagia
Definition: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) may be characterised by excessive bleeding during the menstrual period, by frequent and irregular bleeding, or a combination of both. Dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) is defined as abnormal endometrial
bleeding without structural pathology (i.e. demonstrable pelvic disease, complications of pregnancy, or systemic disease).
Three Subtypes
Subtype 1. Differentiation: Bright red or dark red menstrual flow. Feverishness, thirst, dark urine. Restlessness, anxiety
Subtype 2. Differentiation: Pale menstrual flow, fatigue, pale complexion. shortness of breath, abdominal distension, loose stools, anxiety, palpitations. Tongue pale. Pulse thready and weak.
Subtype 3. Differentiation dark menstrual flow with clots, abdominal pain exacerbated by pressure and alleviated with the passing of menstrual clots. Dysmenorrhea. tongue purple with stasis speckles. Pulse wiry or choppy.
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Three Subtypes
Subtype 1. Differentiation: Overweight, scant menses or amenorrhoea, hirsutism, infertility, fatigue heavy or amenorrhoea, fatigue, heavy head, breast distension, loose stools, frequent sighing.
Subtype 2. Differentiation: Delayed start of first menstruation, scant menses or amenorrhoea, infertility, obesity, hirsutism, underdeveloped breasts, weak sexual drive, physical; cold and dislike for cold, weak and aching loin and knees, fatigue, likes to sleep, scant white clear vaginal discharge.
Subtype 3. Differentiation: Normal or underweight. Delayed start of first menstruation, scanty menses, or amenorrhoea, or abnormal uterine bleeding, infertility, dizziness, tinnitus, heat in the palms and soles, dry mouth and throat, dry stool.
Endometriosis
Endometriosis; hormones, cytokines and toxins "Oestrogen dependence and immune modulation and established features of this disease and recently environmental contaminants have been suggested to play role as well."
Rier, S. Environmetal diopxins and endometriosis. Semin Reprod med. 2003;2
Three Subtypes
Subtype 1. Differentiation: hyperirritability, frustrations, depressed, stressed, pent-up feelings of sadness or worry, PMS, painful and tender breasts prior to menstruation, frequent sighing, headaches and constipation.
Subtype 2. Differentiation: In a addition to subtype 1. the patient has ad aversion to cold, easily feels cold,, especially in the lower back. Pale complexion, fatigue, low libido, frequent urination.
Subtype 3. Differentiation: In addition to subtype 1. patient may be dizzy, have tinnitus (noises in head0 heat in the palms and soles, a dry mouth and throat, and dry stools.
Endometriosis Trial
137 patients were chosen for the trial 94 6% total effective rate for treatment of lower abdominal bloating and pain associated with pelvic inflammation. 95.5% total effective rate for treatment of leukorrhea associated with cervical and endometrial inflammation and infection. 90.8% total effective rate for the treatment of vaginitis and thrush.
Zhe Jiang CTM Hospital
Three Subtypes Combination of weight management, normalising Insulin/Glucagon response and reproductive hormone balance together with supplementation of subtype-specific formulae, quickly decreases symptoms.
Uterine Fibroids
Four Subtypes
Subtype 1. Differentiation: HPA (HypothalmicPituitary-Adrenal axis) stage 1, irritable, marked breast tenderness, intermittent cramping pain, insomnia, fatigue worse in morning, constipation.
Subtype 2. Differentiation: poor appetite, loose stools. Abdominal fullness, bloating, tired after eating. Aversion to cold.
Subtype3. Differentiation: Poor appetite, abdominal fullness. Anxious. thirst, dry mouth and throat, but doesn't necessarily drink a lot, dry stool.
Subtype 4. Differentiation: Sharp, stabbing pain, often sever, in a fixed location, worse for pressure. Darkish grey complexion, lassitude, menses dark with clotting.
Menopause
Four Subtypes
Subtype 1. Differentiation: Heat sensation in palms & soles, night sweats, thirst-especially at night, dry mouth & skin. Lower back ache.
Subtype 2. Differentiation: Easily cold with cold extremities. Hot flushes but aversion to cold. Fatigue, low libido & depression. Lower back ache. Oedema in ankles.
Subtype 3. Differentiation. Hot flushes worse with stress. irritable, short tempered, frustrated, depressed, mood swings, anxiety, stressed,. Sleep onset insomnia. Shoulder and neck stiffness.
Subtype 4. Differentiation: Palpitations, anxiety, depression and weepy. Pale tired, especially after eating & exertion. Poor appetite. No lower back ache. Vague, fatigue, forgetful. Light restless sleep.
81% Of Postmenopausal women with flushing are Kidney Yin Deficient
23 postmenopausal women with hot flushes, but otherwise healthy. Diagnosed by nine TCM practitioners, were diagnosed as Kidney yin deficient
Zell B, et al. Diagnosis of symptomatic postmenopausal women by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. Menopause. 2000;7(2):129-34
The discerning reader may now comprehend why it is that hormone related problems are slow to respond to mainstream medicine. Nothing epitomises the irrefutable fact of "Biochemical individuality" more than this.
The alleged "father" of modern medicine acknowledged this when he said:
It seems to me to be necessary for every physician to be skilled in nature and to strive to know, if he wants to perform his duties, what man is in relation to the food and drink he consumes and to all his other occupations, as well as their effects on everyone else. Because if he does not know what effects these things have on man, he cannot know the consequences that result from them.
If he does not pay attention to these things, or paying attention does not understand them, how can he understand the diseases which befall man?
For man is affected by every one of these things
and changed by them in numerous ways. The whole
of his life is subjected to them, whether in health,
convalescence or disease. Nothing else, therefore,
can be more important than to know these things.
(Hippocrates 450 BC.)
Now, that addresses cytokine regulation with
consequent hormonal balance, but is that all there is
to it?
What about your Autonomic Nervous system?
Are you balanced or Sympathetic Dominant or
Parasympathetic Dominant?
Are you a fast or slow oxidizer of your dietary
intake?
Are you ANABOLIC or ANTI-CATABOLIC in how you
handle muscle growth?
Are you protein dominant, carbohydrate dominant or
balanced?
METABOLIC TYPING
A Revolution in Health
Management & Diseases Control
Several books have been written and
much research has been published to
offer irrefutable evidence
demonstrating that over thousands
of years of evolutionary history,
people in different parts of the world
developed very distinct nutritional
needs in response to a whole range
of variables, including climate and
geography and whatever plant and
animal life their environment had to
offer.
As a consequence, people today
have widely varying nutrient
requirements, especially with regard
to macronutrients (minerals) and the
proteins, carbohydrates, and fats that
are the fundamental “building
blocks,” that is, the compounds most
essential to life.
For example, many people who
currently inhabit tropical or
equatorial regions have strong
genetic (hereditary) need for diets
high in carbohydrates such as
vegetables, fruits, grains and
legumes. These foods provide the
kind of body fuel that is most
compatible with the unique body
chemistry of people who are
genetically programmed to lead
active lifestyles in warm and humid
regions of the world. Their systems
are simply not designed to process
or utilize large quantities of
animal protein and fat.
Conversely, people from cold,
harsh northern climates are not
genetically equipped to survive on
light vegetarian food. The
inhabitants of Region
encompassing Europe (eastern)
the United Kingdom, Northern
America and Canada and the
arctic circle had a diverse diet of
game rich in monounsaturated
and polyunsaturated fats, wild
salmon ,trout and ocean fish like
herring, sardine halibut and cod
rich in omega-3 oils. They tend to
burn body fuel quickly, so that
they need heavier foods to sustain
themselves. For example the Inuit
(Eskimo) can easily digest and
assimilate quantities of heavy
protein and fat – the very type of
foods that would overwhelm the
digestive tracts of people from, say
the Mediterranean basin.
The bottom line is that a diet
considered healthful in one part of
the world is frequently disastrous for
people elsewhere in the world.
Research concluded almost fifty
years back that certain cultures
(African Bantu et al.) whose diet
was consistently low fat; high
carbohydrate, suffered less heart
disease than western cultures. This
information followed by animal
(rabbit) experiments was
extrapolated to western society
designed to reduce the incidence of
designed to reduce the incidence of,
in particular, heart disease and
obesity and diabetes.
The result some forty odd years
later is an increase in the past
twenty years of 300% in diabetes,
an increase of 34% in obesity and
hardly a dent in heart disease
accompanied by an enormous
increase in most forms of cancer.
The fact is that certain people
especially the Scot’s, Irish, Welsh
and Celtic people do best on fatty
foods especially fatty fish, which is
good fat or more to the point good
oil.
Over the past seventy years or so
several of the world's most notable
nutrition scientists have discovered
in particular the uniqueness of our
bodies biochemistry and how it
handles what we consume as food.
Notable among these scientists are:
Roger J. Williams. Discovered
Pantothenic acid a major B group
anti-stress vitamin and co-discoverer
of Folic Acid. Roger Williams is
also known as the father of
"Biochemical Individuality" and for
the theory that we are each of us
born with an increased need for
certain nutrients, this we call
"genetotrophic need."
George Watson M.D. author of
'Nutrition and Your Mind" proved
conclusively that biochemical
imbalances were at the root of many
psychological disturbances, and that
certain nutrients intensified adverse
emotional states in some people and
alleviated them in other people. His
major contribution to nutritional
science included the fact that there is
a distinct correlation between
people’s psychological and
emotional characteristics and the rate
at which their cells convert nutrients
to energy.
William Donald Kelley with
degrees in biology, chemistry,
biochemistry and dentistry overcame
his own Pancreatic cancer (a most
deadly form) through applied
nutrition and in particular eating to
his specific "metabolic type." Dr.
Kelley is known therefore as the
father of "Metabolic Typing."
The author of the book "Metabolic
Typing Diet” William L. Woolcott
worked with Dr. Kelley for many
years refining and improving the
techniques of the now several
scientific findings, which have been
embraced to enhance metabolic
typing. These include but are not
confined to the Glycemic Index, and
eating according to your blood type.
William Woolcott is recognised as a
world authority on Metabolic Typing.
In contrast to the past two thousand
years of treating the symptoms of
disease metabolic typing builds
health at the origin of all illness
conditions, i.e., the individual cell,
which contains the biochemistry of
life itself. You can improve the
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according to your metabolic type
with the added bonus of practicing
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The questionnaire available to
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