How To Balance Your Basic Hormones-Roger Mason

 Medical doctors, including endocrinologists, generally know almost nothing about your hormones. This includes gynecologists, naturopaths, holistic, and life extension doctors. 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, endocrinolologists are almost as incompetent as general practitioners, even though this is supposed to be their specialty. Ex-pensive life extension clinics aren't well versed in this, although they claim to be experts in the area. Men have 12 basic hormones and women 15. You can easily and inexpensively test and balance all of them (except for growth hormone which costs about $3,000 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 of them.  
 
Testosterone- yes, women need this as much as men, even though they only have one tenth the a-mount. 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. All men over 60 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 in their blood, and women about 150 mcg (micrograms) if they are deficient. You can buy testosterone inexpensively and legally on the Internet for your own use. Read New Ways to Use Testosterone in our library as well as You Don't Need a Prescription. Sublingual and DMSO are best. Men want about 100 level on ZRT  and women about 40. 
 
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 (12.5 mg). If your level is excessive, only diet and lifestyle will lower it. The published re-search on the benefits of DHEA supplementation is overwhelming. This is a very important and basic hormone to balance. Never use this unless you prove to be low. Men want about 6 on ZRT and women about 3. 
 
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. Men over 40 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 met-abolism, and to help prevent senility and Alzheimer's. After three months you could get a blood test from your doctor as the current saliva kits are just not reliable. This is not necessary though. In a few years we should have reliable saliva pregnenolone kits. 
 
Melatonin- falls from the time we are eighteen until it almost disappears in our seventies. Melatonin has powerful anti-cancer, life extension, anti-oxidant, 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 half tabs (1.5 mg) if they are low normal or worse. People do not over secrete this, al-though a very few people over 50 still have youthful levels. We do not sell the saliva test kits as ZRT will not do pregnenolone or melatonin. 
 
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 $85 for panel 2 thyroid to test your free T3 and free T4, not your T3 uptake. You must be midrange! Your doctor or endocrinologist has no idea what they are do-ing here. If low normal or worse, try 50 mcg of generic Synthroid (T4) if your L-thyroxine is low, and 12.5 mcg of generic Cytomel (T3) if your triiodothyronine is low. Increase these doses if you don't get midrange levels. Do not accept mere “in range” levels. (Add high and low range and divide by 2 to get midrange.) 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. You can buy these legally and inexpensively from Mexican online websites. Google such terms as Levoxyl and Cynomel. Read the You Don't Need an Rx article. Do not use Armour® pig thyroid as it has both T3 and T4 combined. 
 
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  need to inject this, as there is no proof sublingual GH works. 1 mg equals 3 IU. Use 1 IU (0.33 mg) daily. This will run about $3,000 a year! It is almost impossible to get Chinese Jintropin or Hypertropin on the Internet now due to customs illegally seizing shipments. Don't even think about GH until all your other hormones are done.  GH is as overrated as it is expensive. Don't confuse expense with effectiveness. Just because morons in Hollywood use this doesn't mean you should. 
 
Progesterone- is important for both men and women. Women should read my Natural Health for Women, 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 use it two weeks every cycle. Postmenopausal women can use this any two weeks of the month. Men can use 1/8th teaspoon five days a week directly on their scrotum. You don't need to test this, and saliva won't test progesterone because it is fat soluble and needs a blood serum (not plasma) test. 
 
Insulin- test insulin resistance (not actual insulin) inexpensively with a one draw GTT (glucose tol-erance test). You drink a cup of glucose, wait two hours, and have your blood sugar measured. Look for 100 or less and not the 120 level the doctor will tell you. 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. Your fasting blood sugar must be 85 or less. If it is you probably are fine. Remember that number- 85 or less. 
 
Cortisol- is the stress hormone. Ideally you want to do a four saliva sample test in a 24 hour period at  9/1/5/9. 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 Cortef® ( cortisol aka hydro-cortisone) tablets. You can use the ZRT kits for this. Testing cortisol is just not important. 
 
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 a saliva test kit. The very few women who have low estradiol levels can use natural transdermal creams or gels, not oral tablets. You want low normal levels like rural Asian women. Low normal is best. 
 
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 Natural Health for Women, and men The Natural Prostate Cure. Very few women are low. Low normal is best. 
 
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 or trans-dermal, never oral estriol. 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 find estriol cream on the Internet with 0.3% or more. High normal is best like rural Asian and vegetarian women. 

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. Diet and lifestyle keep your cholesterol and triglycerides low. Total cholesterol and triglycerides are the best predictors of CHD health. Heart and artery disease is the biggest killer of all. 
 
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.