The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow

By Phuli Cohan, M.D.

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Know Your Symptoms

Symptoms are the key to providing clues to better understand your underlying imbalances.

Most medications work in the short term but eventually most people end up increasing their doses or adding more medications. Most prescription drugs act as a Band-Aid to mask symptoms; they rarely treat the true, underlying problem.

Menopause is not easy, but it can be easier to bear than peri-menopause. In perimenopause, some nights you sleep and other nights you just don't. You often wake feeling sweaty and troubled. You can feel irritable and impatient and downright nasty. Hairs start to sprout on your chin, wrinkles multiply and deepen, pubic hairs gray, and extra fat appears around your knees or waist. Sex can begin to feel like a chore and orgasms seem elusive or just not worth the effort. You feel too hot, or too sweaty, or too tired.

The Chinese Perspective

The Chinese emphasize the kidney yin as being most deficient during menopause, and kidney yin energy is supported to adrenal function. These small glands overlying your kidneys are a powerhouse, designed to support your hormones as you age. You keep your adrenal glands working optimally by leading a balanced life by getting proper rest, avoiding overeating and undereating, eating foods that are easy to digest and not over stimulating, getting proper exercise, and avoiding excess worry, anger, fear, grief, and even joy.

Supporting your adrenal glands and the other glands they balance is the key to putting your hormones back into balance. Your symptoms and lab tests will help you determine which hormones are low and what you can do about it. When you are feeling more balanced, it will be easier to look at your lifestyle, which may be at the root of how you got out of balance in the first place.

Symptoms

The most common and important symptoms of menopause:

• Poor sleep
• Low energy
• Mood Problems

Other symptoms include looking older than you should, low sex drive, headaches, unreliable bowels, anxiety, palpitations, and body aches.

Once a hormone or multiple hormones are brought back into balance, these symptoms generally improve.

After you understand what hormones cause what symptoms, you can partner with your doctor to measure and support your hormones naturally. You will treat the root cause of your symptoms, and not only will your symptoms improve, but you will also improve your long-term health.

Recommended Tests

In most cases, actual hormone levels don't matter as much as how you feel, but knowing hormone levels can be helpful for a few reasons:

• If you are uncertain which hormone is causing a certain symptom
• To ensure your hormone dose is adequate and that you are absorbing enough hormone from a hormone cream or lotion
• To ensure that your hormone dose is not too high
• To see if your hormones are breaking down (metabolizing) safely in your body

Types of Tests

• Blood Tests
• Urine tests
• Saliva tests

How to Find the Right Doctor and Support Team

Many people feel that their doctor doesn’t really understand them. Sometimes it is necessary to spend some extra money on your health and not rely completely on your insurance.

Compounding Pharmacists

A compounding pharmacist is a pharmacist trained to prepare medications in all forms: oral (by mouth), transdermal (via the skin), sublingual (under the tongue), or by injection.

Compounding is not a new concept. In the past all pharmacists regularly compounded medications.

Compounding pharmacists can provide medications and hormone preparations that are free of the problems associated with standard medical prescriptions. That is, they create individualized prescriptions in any dose, measuring out precise doses on request.

They can make any cream or lotion from any base and make a hormone preparation as strong or weak as you need. They can put vitamins and antioxidants into tablets, or they can simply help you with dosing or with questions about using natural hormones.

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