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When women experience any symptoms – whether they are physical or emotional – their hormonal systems should be the first thing considered, not the last. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after over 40 years’ experience working with women’s health issues in every stage of their lives.
Whether in childhood, extreme old age, or anywhere in between, women’s bodily states, emotional states and hormonal systems are intimately connected.
When seeking help from their health professionals, however, the state of their hormones is very likely to be considered last, rather than first. That’s because health professionals have been educated to think of women’s hormonal systems as if they were some kind of peripheral add-on. In other words, women’s bodies have been assumed to be just like men’s, with a baby factory attached, which at menopause, has been thought to fall away, rendering their bodies, at last, just like a man’s. In actuality, nothing could be further from the truth.
Why did this inaccurate state of affairs come about? The answer lies in how research has been conducted. The Western scientific paradigm aims to discover how things work by reducing a set of variables to the fewest possible (which is why it’s called “reductionist”). In other words, experiments are controlled to find out how one thing affects another. Because women’s bodies constantly change due to monthly cycling, pregnancies, menopausal transitions, etc., scientists found it difficult to control experiments. The result is, that until the mid- 1990’, research was conducted on men and then applied to women. It took political action on the part of women pressuring their Congress people and Senators to demand equal treatment in research to begin to shift that sad state of affairs.
Women’s bodies just do not work like controlled scientific experiments. They work holistically, meaning that any one thing affects every thing. This idea is easy to grasp when you think what might happen if you placed a small amount of, say, arsenic on your tongue. You know immediately that your whole body will be affected, not just your tongue.
Women’s hormonal systems are at the very center of managing and orchestrating all their life transitions and events in their incredible variety. Hormones are how the body/mind is kept in balance. They are able to do this because they are chemical messengers made in glands that carry a message to target cells in another part of the body. This message-carrying function is why women’s hormonal systems are the core of managing every physical or emotional change that takes place, and why women’s hormones need to be considered first, whether their health challenge is a physical one or an emotional one.
That physical and emotional states are so intimately connected has to do with the fact that hormones affect absolutely everything physical and emotional – weight, mood, fertility, memory, energy levels, immunity, ambition, detoxification, repair work and metabolic rate to name just a few. Considering this truth, it seems incredible, then, that both women and the health practitioners who care for them typically don’t know how to take care of the one thing that makes women female – their female hormonal system. The current approach both women and practitioners have been conditioned to take – if hormones are considered at all - has been to provide hormones for a woman’s body, rather than to support her body so she can make her own hormones. But when a woman’s body can make her own hormones, it maintains its own hormone balance while remaining free of the side effects of synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the problems of finding and maintaining the right levels that go with synthetic or bioidentical hormone replacement.
The new book, The Female Hormone Journey, Lifetime Care of Your Hormones is designed to educate women themselves and the practitioners who care for them about how to support the female body so it can make its own hormones and self regulate them. It describes in everyday language all the various conditions rooted in hormone balance. These can occur at any stage of life, from pre-puberty through and including all the post-menopausal years (when women’s hormone state is still central to their health and well being) and how they can be addressed.
The book is a jargon-free reference accessible reference guide for every woman. Free of medical-speak, this never-before-presented information is gleaned from listening, not to outside experts or authorities, but to what women's bodies say they need. Refer to your copy frequently, and make sure your mothers/daughters/sisters/ friends have theirs.
A free checklist of the over 200 bodily conditions rooted in the female hormone system and a preview of The Female Hormone Journey are available at www.femalehormonejourney.com. Also available is a variety of free articles on physical and emotional health improvement.
Copyright 2006 by Pamela Levin, R.N. All rights reserved.
Pamela Levin, R.N. is an award-winning nutritional journalist and health practitioner with over 40 years experience with women's health issues. Her articles and four other books have been translated into 10 languages and have sold over 100,00 copies worldwide.
She is a licensed health practitioner offering health improvement services including clinical nutrition, herbology and homeopathic remedies.
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The Female Hormone Journey
Your female body talks to you your entire life in the language of bodily conditions and symptoms. Bloating, weight gain, PMS, cramping, hot flashes, anxiety, depression, infertility, mood changes and fatigue are only some of its more familiar messages.
In The Female Hormone Journey you will learn how to translate these communications into effective action. Whether your current passage is through puberty, your menstrual years, peri-menopause, menopause or post menopause, you will learn to sort through an often confusing maze of conflicting advice from friends, relatives, your doctor and the media, to arrive at what your unique female body needs.
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Women's Hormones and Women's Health
An hour long interview with Pamela Levin,R.N., author of The Female Hormone Journey; Lifetime Care of Your Hormones. Subjects: women's hormones are central to our health our entire lives, the dangers of estrogen dominance, how to empower yourself to take care of your own hormones and more
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The Cycle of Life
How are we made? Is there an underlying, hidden pattern to life? If so what is it and how can we use it to further our growth, improve our relationships, make peace with ourselves, recover from addictions, raise our children, relate to our parents, peers and coworkers? This guidebook introduces the results of paradigm-shattering clinical research that redefines what it means to be human, uncovers the blueprint we share with every thing that exists, and provides essential guidance for creating smooth life transitions at every age and stage. Used by thousands of people around the world to illuminate their inner lives and outer relationships, aid recovery from addictions, teach children, guide parents, understand the stages of creativity and more. A landmark, leading-edge work.
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Cycles of Power
Cycles of Power delivers a roadmap for life that will strike chords deep within. You will see the world and your place in it in a different way. Rich in primal imagery delivered in a warm, person-to-person style, this book is filled with the wisdom of nature delivered through fascinating stories of life-transformation. Through case studies, you will meet people as they discover how they’re made, uncover the roots of their own self-sabotage and learn what you can too: how to transform life crises into smooth, successful life transitions while growing in maturity and wisdom.
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