For the majority of women, they are on birth control pills to prevent birth. Despite it being my wife’s body, one thing I was adamant when we got married was that she never be on birth control pills. It has nothing to do with a religious belief but the reality that I wanted my wife around for the long haul in life. I didn’t want her bombarded with extra estrogen for health reasons.
Don’t get me wrong, estrogen is essential to health but too much is detrimental to life. Just think about it, adding more estrogen into the body is a treatment to prevent the formation of life. If it has enough effect on the body to prevent a new life from forming, what effect does it have on a life that is daily attempting to build, repair, and heal?
Estrogen (as with testosterone) is a steroid hormone, synthesized from cholesterol. Since cholesterol is the basis for all these steroid hormones, in a statin-crazed-cholesterol-is-evil society, are we creating our exponential increase in hormone imbalances in the name of heart health?
Cholesterol is also the basis of Cortisol, which is your prime life saving, stress-induced, survival hormone. The body will favor survival over sex any day. It’s not news that we are a stressed out society, physically, chemically, and emotionally. Again, is the pursuit of bigger and better also a hit to our hormone imbalances?
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Once estrogen is made, it’s released into the bloodstream, where it targets specific tissues and binds to a hormone receptor. The marriage of the hormone and receptor then activates a host of genetic reactions to stimulate cell growth, healing and repair. When you hear steroid hormones, think steroids. These are hormones to build the body up.