21-07-2014, 18:08
(06-07-2014, 18:44)surferjoe2007 Wrote: Sounds like very high estrogen without much progesterone. You can get your hormones tested and hopefully get some progesterone prescribed. Otherwise your body can fix the imbalance itself primarily with whole grains, tiny sprinklings of kelp, and either a light tan or a 2000 IU vitamin D supplement. In case there's some missing nutrient I don't realize some great foods with a variety of nutrients include spinach, broccoli, parsley and coriander leaf. About a pound (about half a kilo) a day is a good amount for them. Likewise you eat lots and lots of whole grains as your primary food. 40-120 mg vitex (not more) might help too but it is slow. Fenugreek or shatavari might help balance you out a little too. For those you get a strong extract and/or use a lot, more like food amounts than herb amounts. You can soak fenugreek seeds overnight and eat them. But if you can't get a progesterone prescription I think good nutrition is your best bet. Plus if you're low in those vitamins there's a whole slew of other issues you could end up facing in the future.
Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. I eat a very healthy (most of the time!) Vegan diet, lots of fruit, vegetables, potatoes, legumes, beans,pulses,seeds etc. I also juice every morning.I do think I still have too many treats though, I've heard sugar isn't a good thing to consume with oestrogen dominance. So I can cut down on that for general health anyway.
I hope this isn't a silly question but what counts as healthy whole grains please? And what are some examples of ways to incorporate them please? Could I use kelp tablets crushed or taken orally? I'm not sure where to get 'fresh' kelp around here. I was initially going to take kelp as I have fibrocystic breasts and read a lot of women found this to get better with kelp because of the iodine but then I stopped as read it could interfere with thyroid? I've just had mine tested and it seems fine so I may try again.
Do you know if progesterone cream would be a good route for me to take? I would try vitex but I'm on a delicate ratio of herbs from my herbalist I can't interfere with at the moment. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.