College Station Chiropractor Reveals Hormone Secrets: Estrogen

Estrogen is a hormone that helps regulate the body in many ways. While thought of as a female hormone, men normally have estrogen also, just in much smaller quantities.

Both men and women of any age can have estrogen related health problems. Many of these estrogen related problems can disguise themselves as other problems seemingly unrelated to estrogen.

Estrogen Facts

* Estrogen is a steroid hormone made from cholesterol.
* Estrogen is a powerful hormone that occurs in extremely tiny quantities (picograms).
* Estrogen never works alone, but partners with many other hormones.
* Estrogen is a fat storage hormone.
* Estrogen affects mood, memory, pain perception, cognition, and sleep quality.
* Estrogen is made in the ovaries, testes, fat cells, bones, brain, and blood vessels.
* Healthy adrenal glands are necessary for estrogen production.
* Estrogen can block thyroid function.
* Estrogen can be made by conversion from testosterone

Estrogen Problems in Women
Estrogen Deficiency Symptoms

Hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, mood swings, mental fogginess, poor memory, dry eyes, nose, sinuses, vaginal dryness, dry skin, vaginal and/or bladder infections, incontinence, urethral irritations, urinary frequency, headaches, migraines, decreased sexual response, loss of ambition or drive, depression, lack of stamina, decreased breast size, wrinkling of skin, osteoporosis, loss of subcutaneous fat, increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and more.

Estrogen Excess Symptoms

Heavy menstrual bleeding, clotting, cramping, water retention, bloating, breast tenderness, lumpiness, cystic breasts, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, infertility, enlarged breasts, fibrocystic breasts, weight gain, headaches, migraines, emotional hypersensitivity, depression, irritability, anxiety, anger, agitation, decreased sexual response, thyroid dysfunction (resembling hypothyroidism), cold hands and feet, blood sugar instability, sweet cravings, insomnia, gall bladder dysfunction, and acne, and more.

Common but not normal.

These constellations of symptoms are common to women suffering from estrogen related problems, many think it just a normal way of living.

However because it is rare that estrogen is measured properly by conventional medical doctors, treatment is prescribed to reduce the symptoms only.

Or your think it just age creeping up on you.

These are correctable problems that do not require ongoing treatment, in nearly every woman, in my opinion and experience.

Men's Estrogen Problems

Men can suffer a variety of symptoms caused by elevated estrogen levels, usually combined with reduced levels of testosterone. This condition is also called "loss of androgen dominance", or "andropause".

Difficulty passing urine,enlarged prostate,incontinence, impotence, erectile dysfunction, lack of sex drive, prostate inflammation, lowered libido, depression, headaches/migraines, burning sensation urinating, breast enlargement, mood swings, panic, weeping, inability to lose weight, blood sugar imbalance, hair*loss, fatigue, muscle cramps, hypoglycemia, foggy thinking, feelings of being crazy, anger, irritability, lack of interest in sex, bone loss (osteoporosis), water retention, allergies, age and liver spots, low blood sugar, swollen feet/ankles, dry aging skin, adult acne, insomnia, reduced muscular strength, diabetes, memory loss, reduced energy, and more.

Men usually do not suffer rapid or sudden onset of these problems. There is typically a slow and steady decline in function.

This is usually written off as "just getting old", and the problems are treated as individual symptoms, rather than looking further to see and correct the root cause.

Correcting estrogen problems requires knowing estrogen levels, as well as the levels of the hormones that partner with estrogen in a complicated interplay.

The other sex hormone levels must be determined, as well as thyroid and adrenal hormones.

Hormones are powerful substances used by the body to regulate a vast network of feedback loops that are designed to keep the body and mind alive, healthy, and energetic.

Hormones are not supplements to be taken without understanding this regulatory system. Taking hormones at amounts more than one needs or not at a time it is need will create havoc with the body's regulation. That may take some time to occur, but I've seen folks who have "crashed", being very symptomatic even after years on hormone therapy.


Hormone Confusion
There is a lot of confusion about taking hormones, HRT, and "anti-aging" hormone therapy.

I suggest you keep this in mind: Taking hormones, either synthetic or "bio-identical" can make things worse.

Your body is smarter than any doctor. It will shut down a hormone system, if it is dosed with excessive hormone.


Your body can make its own hormones.

So your body can produce the right amount at the right time.

So you can turn back the clock.