Evidence show how the excess of estrogen is connected with breast cancer, a pre-cancerous condition, and benign breast disease.
It’s the reason behind weight gain, varicose veins, and many other frightening conditions.
Learning all about it is crucial for your health as you are going to be able what to do to prevent it.
We are going to start with the symptoms of Estrogen Dominance.
- Breast cancer
- Benign Breast Disease
- Pre-Cancerous Diseases
- Scanty or Excessive Blood Flow During Periods
- Variations or Skipped Cycles
- Cyclic Insomnia
- Breast Tenderness
- Mood Swings and Depression (in tune with your menstrual cycle)
- Infertility
- Dryness or Itchiness of the Honeypot
- Varicose Veins
- Weight Gain
- Edema
Why it occurs?
It’s all about the health of your liver and the healthiness of the chain process.The liver treats the estrogen as poison. It removes it right away. However, the estrogen builds up to very high levels and slows up the work of the liver.
Dr. Ray Peat says that the liver malfunction is caused by too much estrogen and other damages.
Protein deficiency is brought up as a major contributor for slowing up the liver to detox your body.
Your liver REQUIRES more vitamins, minerals, and proteins in your diet to be able to detox and eliminate used hormones out of your system.
The estrogen doesn’t care whether the detox is possible or not. It still recirculates the body causing fat buildup and problems like PMS.
What are the causes?
The reduced hormone production often results with low progesterone levels. It also leaves the estrogen unopposed.Both of them should be present in your body, but in balanced levels.
Many things interfere and cause damages.
One of the biggest influencers here is your diet. Eating unhealthy and processed foods will harm the balance and lead to low progesterone.
For your body to create enough progesterone, your diet needs a couple of nutrients like vitamin A, thyroid hormone (T3), and cholesterol.
The lack of these nutrients leads to low progesterone that causes estrogen dominance.
Another cause is the Chronic Stress.
The stress hormone, cortisol, is crucial and helps a lot when it comes to overcoming fear. All types of stress result in reduced levels of progesterone which leads to decreased production of cortisol.
Aging
You probably learned about this in your biology classes. As we grow, the estrogen level increases. On the other hand, the progesterone and pregnenolone decline.How to Prevent Estrogen Dominance from doing bigger damage?
Support Your MetabolismEat more organic foods and make sure your diet is balanced. Consume what your metabolism needs. Establish a balance between consuming carbs, proteins and healthy fats to stabilize your blood sugar and weight.
Take a Good Care of Your Liver
Ensure a proper detox by increasing your daily protein level to 70 grams.
Offer Support to your Hormone Production
Enrich your diet with foods rich in vitamin A, E, and get more Vitamin D from the sun. Don’t forget the foods rich in T3.
Reduce Stress and Environmental Toxins
Get some good sleep, eliminate the stressful moments and irregular diet from your lifestyle.
I hope this cleared all things up and you’ll manage to lower the effects of estrogen dominance.
