How To Balance Your Basic Hormones

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How To Balance Your Basic Hormones

- Roger Mason

Medical doctors, surprisingly, know almost nothing about your hormones. You will never be healthy unless you maintain youthful hormone levels throughout your life. There is overwhelming published, international research on the benefits of natural hormone supplementation, but almost none of this is used in medical practice anywhere in the world. Amazingly enough, endocrinologists are almost as incompetent as general practitioners, even though this is supposed to be what they train for and specialize in. Expensive life extension clinics aren't well versed in this either, although they claim to be experts in this area. We have fourteen (14) basic hormones, and you can basically easily and inexpensively test and balance all of them (except for growth hormone which costs as least $1,200 a year). You are always looking for the youthful levels you had at the age of thirty. My book Zen Macrobiotics for Americans talks about each of these in more detail. Let's go over all thirteen of them.

Testosterone- yes, women need this as much as men, even though they only have one tenth the amount. Use a saliva test kit to test your free testosterone, not your bound or total. At least 90% of American men over 50 are low. Some women can actually have too much (androgenicity). If you are low normal or worse just use transdermal, sublingual, or make your own DMSO solution. NEVER use injections or oral forms. Please read my book Testosterone Is Your Friend. Men need about 3 mg a day and women about 150 mcg if they are deficient. You can buy natural testosterone inexpensively and legally on the Internet for your own use. Read New Way to Use Testosterone in our library.

DHEA- is vital for longevity. Use a saliva kit to test for DHEA or DHEA-S (sulfate). Some men and women can actually over secrete this. If low normal or worse men can take a 25 mg tablet and women a half tablet. If your level is excessive only diet and lifestyle will lower it. The published research on the benefits of DHEA supplementation is overwhelming. This is a very important and basic hormone to balance.

Pregnenolone- this forgotten or “orphan” hormone is the most important brain and cognition hormone we have. Our levels fall after the age of forty and then stabilize. Use a saliva test kit about 9:00 AM fasting. Men can generally take 50 mg and women 25 mg. Use PS 100 mg and acetyl-L-carnitine 500 mg along with this for better brain metabolism, and to help prevent senility and Alzheimer's. After three months get a blood test from your doctor as the saliva kits are not reliable and we dropped them.

Melatonin- falls from the time we are eighteen until it almost disappears in our seventies. Melatonin has powerful anti-cancer, life extension, and many other dramatic properties Test at 3:00 AM with a saliva test kit. You cannot test this with blood outside of a sleep clinic. Men can take 3 mg and women this much, say, four nights a week if they are low normal or worse. People do not over secrete this, although a few people over 50 still have youthful levels.

Thyroid T3 and T4- soon there will be saliva kits for these. The blood spot kits are overpriced. Go to www.healthcheckusa.com and send them $75 for panel 2 thyroid to test your free T3 and free T4, not your TSH or T3 uptake. Your doctor or endocrinologist has no idea what they are doing here. If low normal or worse take 50 mcg of Synthroid (T4) if your L-thyroxine is low, and 12.5 mcg of Cytomel (T3) if your triiodothyronine is low. These are bioidentical hormones with no side effects whatsoever when used properly. Retest after three months to see if this is the right dose. Some people have hyper levels which can only be lowered with diet and lifestyle.

Growth Hormone- falls from the time we are eighteen until it almost disappears in our seventies. There are no saliva tests, and it is difficult to measure with a single blood test. IGF-1 levels do not accurately measure GH. You really have to go by RESULTS here especially if you're over 50. More lean body mass, less body fat, better cholesterol profile, better mood, more energy, and stronger immunity are what you should expect within 6 months. You don't need to inject this, and can use it sublingually in ethanol or DMSO solution. 1 mg equals 3 IU. Use 1 IU (0.33 mg) daily. You can get Chinese Jintropin (true 191 amino acid) for about $125 a month on the Internet legally without a prescription for your own use.

Progesterone- is important for both men and women. Women should read my No More Horse Estrogen! and men The Natural Prostate Cure. Always use a reliable transdermal cream with at least 1,000 mg USP micronized progesterone per two ounce jar. Premenopausal women can test their levels and use it two weeks every cycle. Postmenopausal women can use this without testing any three weeks of the month. Men can use 1/8th teaspoon five days a week directly on their scrotum without testing.

Insulin- test insulin resistance (not actual insulin) inexpensively with a one draw GTT (glucose tolerance test). You drink a cup of glucose, wait two hours, and have your blood sugar measured. Your fasting blood sugar level should be 85 or less, not 100 or less. If you have blood sugar problems you can cure them naturally as long as you have a pancreas. Read my book The Natural Diabetes Cure.

Cortisol- is the stress hormone. Ideally you give four saliva samples in a 24 hour period. Just doing a fasting saliva test about 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM should tell you enough however. If you have high cortisol only diet and lifestyle will lower it. High cortisol levels are pretty epidemic is Western societies due to stress. Low cortisol can be raised by cortisol (hydrocortisone) tablets.

Estradiol- is the strongest and most dangerous of the three basic human estrogens. American women generally have excessive- not deficient- levels. American men over 50 also generally have excessive levels. Only diet and lifestyle will lower estradiol. Measure all three estrogens with saliva test kits. The few women who have low estradiol levels can use natural transdermal creams or gels, not oral tablets.

Estrone- is a powerful and potentially dangerous estrogen. See all the above information on estradiol. Only diet and lifestyle will lower excessive estrone levels. Women should read my No More Horse Estrogen! and men The Natural Prostate Cure.

Estriol- is the forgotten or orphan estrogen even though it comprises over 80% of human estrogen. It is also the “good” or beneficial estrogen. Women who are deficient should use sublingual, transdermal, or make their own DMSO solutions. Men are rarely deficient in estriol. Doctors have no idea what estriol is, and chain pharmacies cannot even special order it. Use a compounding pharmacist or get it on the Internet legally for your own use.

Cholesterol- is, in fact, a hormone. Make sure your total cholesterol is about 150. Most American adults have levels of about 240. Make sure your triglycerides are under 100.

You will never enjoy the best of health or live out your years fully unless you keep your basic hormones at youthful levels. There are never any side effects when using natural hormones in proper ways.