Hormone Health Hub: Expert Insights on Testing, Balance & Better Living — healthy ageing

A Recipe for Beating (and Preventing) Breast Cancer The latest research on natural progesterone and breast cancer clearly indicates how important it is for women to maintain healthy, normal levels of progesterone that are in proper balance with oestrogen. Doing so could not only increase many women’s chances of recovering from breast cancer — as the latest research indicates — but could also help them to avoid getting breast cancer in the first place. As Dr. John Lee and Dr. David Zava point out in their book, hormonal imbalances have reached epidemic proportions in most developed countries over the last...

A large team of scientists working on multiple continents published a research study that came to startling conclusions about breast cancer and natural progesterone. The team determined that unlike synthetic progestins, which increase breast cancer risks, natural progesterone has the potential to slow the growth of many breast cancer tumours or even shrink them. While this finding is stunning, it is not new. It is one of several conclusions about progesterone that Dr. John R. Lee, M.D. and Dr. David Zava, Ph.D. made more than a decade ago when they co-wrote the book, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You...

In our current medical paradigm, screening for cancer is considered a preventive measure by virtue of providing an earlier diagnosis. Getting an early jump on a disease process like cancer makes treatment exponentially easier and outcomes generally better. Under the current guidelines, that early jump on prostate cancer starts at age 55 for men at low to moderate risk and 40–45 for men at high risk. It takes years for cancer to grow to a detectable point after the tumour’s initial induction from a normal cell to a cancerous one. There’s been a lot of research done to determine what...

Testosterone replacement therapy can be useful and it has the potential to drastically improve quality of life of those who need it when it is used correctly. However, many men who begin topical testosterone are given too much of the hormone. Explanations for this erroneous tendency are rooted in incorrect dosing principles that have been established on false assumptions, misconceptions, invalid conclusions and aggressive marketing instead of physiology and science. Why are testosterone replacement standards and prescribing processes so frequently misguided? Testosterone Overdose Begins With Incorrect Dosing Principles For topical application, a physiologic daily dose of any sex steroid (in...

I remember the uncertain winter of my entrance into perimenopause so well. It began in my late 40s, with hot flashes that came on like heat waves every half hour. In the dead of winter, I found myself flinging open windows to let in the freezing air; I soon found out that having hot flashes in winter was nothing like having them in summer, when the added heat and humidity made them feel more like mini-meltdowns. How to Cool Down Without Melting Down Perimenopause is a hormonally challenged transition during which the ovaries gradually begin to make less oestrogen and...