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eBook Category: Health/Fitness/General Nonfiction
eBook Description: The Phytogenic Hormone Solution is a must-read for women suffering from hormone-related PMS, infertility, irregular cycles, fatigue, weight gain, and symptoms of perimenopause and menopause such as insomnia, headaches, and hot flashes. While conventional hormone replacement therapy can mitigate some of these problems, it is associated with several serious health risks. Phytogenic hormones, extracted from plants and compounded in the lab to become bioidentical to human hormones, can be more effective than their synthetic counterparts and are free of the many side effects associated with conventional HRT. The Phytogenic Hormone Solution explains: the differences between synthetic hormones and compounded phytogenic hormones; symptoms and solutions for imbalances of estrogen, progesterone, DHEA, testosterone, and thyroid and adrenal hormones; treatment for breast conditions, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, and uterine fibroids; additional alternative health remedies
With a thorough resource directory of products and pharmacies, plus laboratories that perform hormone analyses for consumers and professionals, The Phytogenic Hormone Solution provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date information about this increasingly popular approach to women's health.

eBook Publisher: Random House, Inc./Villard, Published: 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2003

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Microsoft Reader ISBN: 0679647325
Adobe Reader ISBN: 9780679647324
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"This thorough, well-written, scientifically accurate book fills a huge void in today's world of women's health. For those interested in natural alternatives to synthetic drugs that support female health, this book is essential reading."--Arthur H. Brownstein, M.D., M.P.H., assistant clinical professor of medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii

"A valuable resource and one that is certain to become the definitive guide for women of all ages who desire to take control of their lives."--Kathryn Keith, M.D., board certified in family practice and holistic medicine

What are phytogenic hormones?

Let's get the technical data covered and out of the way so we can move on to the issues that concern you the most, your hormonal balance--how to recognize an imbalance, what hormones are responsible, and how to restore your own delicate, ever-changing balance.

The term phytogenic literally means of plant origin. Hormones, chemical messengers originating in an organ or gland, disperse into the bloodstream to other parts of the body and stimulate chemical reactions to increase functional activity and secretion of the specific hormones. Hormones interact with one another and are responsible for creating and maintaining balance within each of us. The hormonal system performs the most delicate balancing act of all the systems in our bodies. To maintain our stability, we are dependent upon our hormonal balance, which affects us in many aspects of our being human?physically, mentally, emotionally, and even our spiritual sense of well-being, independent of specific belief systems. (Many women have plunged into an existential crisis resulting from hormonal imbalances.) As you will see in the next two parts of the book, when our hormones are out of balance, we do not function well, nor do we as easily retain optimal health. Imbalanced hormones can alter the normal functioning of other systems, eliciting a multitude of challenging symptoms and potentially evolving into disease.

Phytogenic hormones are created from diosgenin, a large steroid molecule that exists in plants such as the Mexican wild yam and soybeans. This molecule, extracted in a laboratory, can be compounded into each specific hormone?estrone, estradiol, estriol, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone)?to become hormones that are biochemically identical to the hormones our bodies make.

Because these compounded phytogenic hormones are identical to our own, hence the term bioidentical, or human isomolecular, they are recognized by our endocrine system and accepted alongside our own hormones. Once our natural hormone levels have declined, these hormones maintain the essential hormonal balance we require to feel vital, to function at our optimal levels, and to support our general health and well-being.

Phytohormones are plants that in their natural form of existence have hormonal effects. Many of the available over-the-counter (OTC) natural products designed to assist with the symptoms of PMS, perimenopause, and menopause do not contain any actual hormones. You will see the word phytohormone on the label, and the ingredients list will include specific herbs. Or, for example, Promensil by Reach 4 Life states that it contains ?40 milligrams of plant estrogen??this means that plants having 40 mg of estrogenic qualities have been used in the formula. Plant estrogen or progesterone has not been extracted and then converted into actual human, bioidentical estrogen or progesterone. These are quite different from the phytogenic hormones that have been compounded into specific amounts of each hormone, which then become bioidentical to human hormones and thereby bioavailable for your endocrine system to utilize.

natural hormones demystified

The term natural is applied to all hormones derived from plant extracts, which are thus phytogenic by nature. They are considered natural not because of their natural source but because they are identical to naturally occurring human hormone functioning and because of the way they interact in the human endocrine system. Many products claim to be natural. Actual phytogenic hormones will specify the hormone by name, as in, for example, USP...