10-11-2011, 03:09 PM
Good morning Susan,
I would ease the new herbs into what you are doing now. If you get more headaches, increase fenugreek or decrease the phyto-estrogens (flax, soy, hops).
When you ease in hops, you may feel depressed. Then maca is too low or hops is too high.
My goat's rue is almost twice as high as fenugreek. That's just for maximum swelling without adding more progesterone than necessary to keep the balance with estrogens.
I normally keep hops the same, at 2,500 mg. Most of the time, fenugreek too, at 2,300 mg. I adjust maca to my mood, and goat's rue for swelling.
The flax experiment is doing something to my brain. I worry a lot. I took 30 g flax seed for 10 days. Maybe it's increasing SHBG already. A little increase in SHBG can bind all the free testosterone. If there is no free testosterone to make DHT or estrogens, I feel neither upbeat nor mellow. Would that make me worry a lot?
I'll finish the flax seed. It's for four more days or so. Then measure and decide what to do with flax.
I would ease the new herbs into what you are doing now. If you get more headaches, increase fenugreek or decrease the phyto-estrogens (flax, soy, hops).
When you ease in hops, you may feel depressed. Then maca is too low or hops is too high.
My goat's rue is almost twice as high as fenugreek. That's just for maximum swelling without adding more progesterone than necessary to keep the balance with estrogens.
I normally keep hops the same, at 2,500 mg. Most of the time, fenugreek too, at 2,300 mg. I adjust maca to my mood, and goat's rue for swelling.
The flax experiment is doing something to my brain. I worry a lot. I took 30 g flax seed for 10 days. Maybe it's increasing SHBG already. A little increase in SHBG can bind all the free testosterone. If there is no free testosterone to make DHT or estrogens, I feel neither upbeat nor mellow. Would that make me worry a lot?
I'll finish the flax seed. It's for four more days or so. Then measure and decide what to do with flax.