Endometriosis
Endometriosis is an overgrowth of the uterine lining and can be very painful for a women. The treatment is often a synthetic progesterone, or progestin called depo provera, estrogen blockers such as Femara, and surgery such as a hysterectomy.
Remember I said overgrowth. Now let us look at the job of estrogen and progesterone. In very basic terms, estrogen causes tissue to grow and progesterone directs the tissue to grow healthy and die healthy.
If we have an overgrowth of the uterine lining it can be due to “estrogen dominance” or a estrogen to progesterone ratio that is out of balance, favoring estrogen.
What causes estrogen dominance? It often times is not too much estrogen, natural estrogen that is. It can be environmental toxic estrogen, known as xenoestrogens that come in the air we breath, plastic bottles we drink out of, and more. It can be that a womens progesterone is too low due to dysfunctioning ovaries, or high cortisol levels. Then there is our liver and gallbladder. These, in America with our Standard American Diet, refined foods, hydrogenated oils, are often in a sluggish state of action. Hormones and metabolites get caught up causing excessive receptor stimulation, thus leading to the estrogen dominant effect.
Tremendous success has been found in dealing with nutrition and bio identical hormones to balance a womans hormonal issues, thus severly reducing symptoms of and even alleviating the condition of endometriosis, with out surgery!