Hormone Replacement Therapy: Where Medicine Gets It Wrong – Menopause Myths and What’s Really Going On With Our Bodies
“Female problems?”
This is the diagnosis doctors throughout the 20th century gave to women with unexplainable chronic symptoms. While this has changed somewhat, we’re not as far beyond history as we like to believe. The new versions of “female problems” are: “It’s your hormones” and “It’s menopause.” At its best, blaming chronic symptoms on a woman’s body is intellectually and medically lazy.
At its worst, it’s classic gaslighting, especially when it wasn’t always normal for women to experience disruptive health challenges in advanced age.
HISTORY TELLS A DIFFERENT STORY
Have you ever spoken to someone connected to women from previous generations? Before the 1950s, women used to look forward to menopause as an opportunity to redefine themselves and their relationship to their bodies.
For the last 70 years, however, a wave of chronic illness has been ravaging women worldwide. Men, too, but women typically suffer more due to increased immune activity devoted to the reproductive system each cycle. Night sweats, fatigue, panic attacks, thinning hair, joint pain, mucus production, and even hot flashes were not commonplace for women a century ago.
The symptoms we associate with menopause may not even be related to age. In her article in Gyno B Magazine, an experienced OBGYN doctor states that “Many common symptoms of menopause, including sleep changes, weight gain, vaginal dryness, pain during intercourse or even some chest symptoms, can also signal serious medical conditions.” THE
HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY THEORY
When women reach the stage of their lives when their bodies are transitioning out of fertility and into the next season, hormones do adjust. Reproductive hormones like progesterone, estrogen, estrone, estradiol, and testosterone shift to create a new balance.
These hormones deviate from their normal range due to weakened adrenal glands. The adrenal glands are the master glands of the endocrine system and are responsible for many bodily processes, such as hair growth, sleep cycles, exercise, and even daily functions like urination and driving.
The hormone replacement therapy theory says that virtually ALL symptoms experienced during the later third of a woman’s life are hormone-related. Especially estrogen, according to the initial 1960s marketing campaigns about hormone replacement therapy. There are many great articles on the history of hormone replacement therapy if you want to do some of your own research.
So, using this theory, modern medicine has devised treatment plans to replace hormones where levels are not ideal to remedy any and all symptoms—a silver bullet for every health problem. But what is the reason for hormone levels being unbalanced? Is it all about age, or is something else happening in the body?
THE BIGGER PICTURE
In his first book, Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic Illness and How to Finally Heal, respected author Anthony William describes various groups of the Epstein-Barr Virus that present significant symptoms on multiple timelines.
For example, Group 2 of the Eptein-Barr Virus (a virus virtually all of us have in one or multiple forms) tends to stay relatively dormant in the body until someone reaches age 50 or so when a woman is traditionally entering their menopausal phase.
So, symptoms like chronic fatigue, vaginal dryness, brain fog, muscle and joint aches, mystery pain, migraines, insomnia, and more, may be blamed on menopause when they are all symptoms of the Epstein-Barr virus. Unfortunately, hormone replacement therapy cannot halt the Epstein-Barr virus in its tracks, so the underlying cause will not go away. However, hormone replacement therapy may appear to help because reproductive hormones have a steroid-like effect on the body, suppressing the immune system, which temporarily relieves some symptoms.
Without the hormone replacement therapy, though, or after the body no longer responds to the treatment, symptoms are almost sure to return. In truth, weakened adrenal glands, in tandem with viral pathogens like the Epstein-Barr and shingles viruses, are the culprits behind nearly all symptoms connected with menopause.
ALTERNATIVE PATHS EXIST
If you’re experiencing menopause symptoms, know that your body is not faulty. There is nothing wrong with your hormones and absolutely nothing wrong with you reaching the later stages of your life. You have options beyond using hormone replacement therapy as a fix-all for symptoms that have nothing to do with hormones.
If your adrenal glands are the likely source of your struggles, seek to restore them with rest, eating every two hours, reducing your intake of dietary fats, avoiding adrenaline rushes in any form, and abstaining from substances that spike adrenaline, like coffee, matcha tea, black and green tea, chocolate, caffeine in any form (and especially energy drinks), alcohol, and recreational drugs. Avoid extreme hot or cold temperatures as well.
If you need to focus on removing heavy metals, check out the Heavy Metal Detox cleanses in Anthony William’s Brain Saver book. These cleanses have helped millions resolve conditions like chronic anxiety, depression, brain fog, and more. If you’re dealing with a viral pathogen, core immune supplements like zinc, vitamin C, vitamin B12, licorice root, cat’s claw, L-lysine, and lemon balm will help you overcome those bodily invaders.
Seek support from an experienced holistic practitioner who can help guide you through the proper protocols to regain your health so that you can void the hamster wheel of hormone replacement therapy. THE
INCONVENIENT TRUTH ABOUT HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY
Have you heard about the Women’s Health Initiative study that followed over 160,000 women and concluded that hormone replacement therapy increased the likelihood of serious illnesses like breast and other cancers, heart attacks, strokes, bone fractures, and more?
Thankfully, updated hormone replacement therapy treatments exist, but they are still widely untested in the long term. These days, women as young as 18 are receiving hormone replacement therapy treatments, and birth control prescriptions for everything from acne to chronic fatigue have become so normal nobody questions it.
It takes some courage to step outside of the well-beaten path of modern medicine as an answer to women’s health concerns. Still, if we can complement the miracles of modern medicine with holistic tools that address our whole bodies, we can achieve the health we are designed to enjoy.
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