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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).

Hi Isabelle,
Ok..sounds good. for the headache I did take maca and tumeric, but I felt I need food..especially cause I was really hungry..

When you ease in hops, you may feel depressed. Then maca is too low or hops is too high.

All I can say I cant wait to start hops now, rememeber I was very iffy.. the only thing that I am iffy about is breakouts cause beer made me break out but beer is fermented so that may be the reason too, but a few months back you got skin problem from hops, but anyway hops seems to be the key and I like that if I make a tea I could tackle the anti-androgens, does eating it have anti-androgens too..I know you said the tea is good for just breakouts and/or chin hairs.

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.

Oh..man confused again..ok FG is for progesterone so GR is for what..I know it isnt for estrogen..and if you say progestin or prolactin..what the heck is the dif..that is so confusing to me..I figure the prolactin is for milk..anyway good to know this so I can get swelling

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.

Ok..you know I am going to follow your lead with the main herbs: hops, GR, FG, maca...but adjust to me.

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 dont know if your thinking out loud or asking me...but if I remember correct from what you wrote about DHT that it is important for the brain..so probably is making you worry..is the dose effecting your swelling and such with the titas.

I'll finish the flax seed. It's for four more days or so. Then measure and decide what to do with flax.

maybe continue taking it but slowly reduce the dose and if you continue feeling that worry feeling the try and stop taking for maybe for a couple of days, if improvement then just lower the dose and if your gaining from it, just keep the low dose...hope that makes sense.