Understanding the Women Menstrual Cycle and Estrogen Dominance – Dr. Berg

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Today we’re going to talk about estrogen in relationship to the female cycle. Something that’s extremely common yet very misunderstood. So let let’s just break it down. First of all, let’s talk about what a hormone is. Hormones are communications that are created and sent through the blood system.

So they’re created by the gland, sent through the blood, and they connect into a part of the tissue that has receptors for that specific hormone. Right now I’m talking to you through the computer into your speaker into your ear and you’re receiving that information. If I was speaking another language that would be like a different hormone. So the receiver has to understand the language for what it’s being received by. So estrogen has receptors in the liver, in the uterus, in the bone, in the brain, in the in the ovary.

So it can even go from ovary to ovary as well. So basically we have the glands and glands the difference between a gland and an organ is glands make hormones. Organs don’t with the exception of the liver. The liver does make a hormone. So but typically glands make hormones sent through the blood and get received over here to create some effect.

So hormones are communications. The one we’re going to talk about today is estrogen. Every month, one of your ovaries runs the show and sends the hormones into the into the bud blood on a for a 28 day cycle. So, at day 14, you have the spike of estrogen and then it goes down and this is ovulation when you’re the most fertile and then another hormone that the ovary produces called progesterone increases as well. And then at day 28, that’s when you have the menstrual cycle.

And then this thing starts over and over and over again. So based on when you have the problem during the 28 day cycle, we can kind of tell where the uh where your issue is because a lot of women a week before their period start getting like they feel like they’re pregnant and it’s just like all this fluid retention, their belly sticks out. Well, we know that’s progesterone versus estrogen. If the problem is during ovulation, then we know it’s definitely estrogen. If it’s during your cycle, we know it’s estrogen.

So the effects that estrogen create in the cell whether it’s the liver, the uterus or wherever um or the breast tissue can create um affect the breast, the size of the breast, uh that’s why if there’s a problem with estrogen, you can have tenderness in the breast or cysts in the breast, the uterus, uh the menstrual cycle, uh your sex drive, the DNA. So estrogen affects the DNA, the transcription of the of the blueprints. So estrogen can um send a message into the DNA and and tell parts of your body to grow and get bigger. All right? So that’s why it affects the DNA and that’s why it can create tumors.

We’ll get to that in a little bit. Um estrogen affects the shape of your body. It it feminizes the body and that’s why it gives the the lower part, the hips, um a shape. It gives the curve on a female body. That’s why women have a layer of fat, a superficial fat that men don’t have in the lower part of their bodies.

Well, some men do, but most don’t. So, it gives you the shape. And so, if there’s too much estrogen, you’re going to get too much heavy lower part of your body. Um, the bone, it affects the bone, it affects the cognitive, the brain, it affects the electrolytes in the kidneys, the potassium sodium ratio. So you can see it has many many different effects but the function of the ovary is to send hormones into different parts and then one month the one of the ovaries will do do all the work and then the other month the other ovary does the all the um produces the ovulation.

So they alternate back and forth between left and right ovary. So depending on what part of your body you have low back pain on, it could be like the right lower part of the back. The next week it’s like no pain and then it could be the right side. Then we know the right ovary could be producing too much estrogen. So they alternate or even sometimes you’ll get acne on the one side of your face versus the other side.

So again, the ovary produces these hormones that create all sorts of different effects in the body. Now, probably the most common problem with the ovary is the overp production of estrogen. They call it estrogen dominance. It’s too much estrogen. Um, what happens with too much estrogen?

You’re going to get excessively heavy periods, cramping, no periods, irregular periods, irregular cycles, uh long periods, heavy bleeding, every single problem with that period will be disrupted with too much estrogen. And one of the one of the triggers for too much estrogen, we’ll get into the next part, but it could be uh low progesterone. Because if the estrogen causes no periods, there’s nothing to trigger the progesterone release and so therefore the progesterone goes down even more and then the relative ratio of estrogen goes up like a teeter totter. So estrogen and progesterone work like this. So when you don’t have much of this, this kind of goes up in the relative ratios just like salt and potassium.

So if you have too much salt, your potassium is going to go down. Same effect. So estrogen can cause no periods and then there’s no progesterone and then that makes more estrogen. So it’s kind of a an interesting thing. Okay.

Headaches come from too much estrogen. Fluid retention can come from estrogen dominance. Fibroids, endometriosis, which is extra growth of of tissue in the female cavity through here can come from estrogen dominance as well. And um because remember we talked about DNA. DNA it affects the blueprints.

It makes tissue grow. It increases the size of different things. So fibroids definitely come from estrogen dominance. Cysts come from estrogen dominance. And you can have cysts in the ovaries.

You can have it on the breast. Um and that could that comes from estrogen dominance as well. Gall stones. Why? Because estrogen concentrates the cholesterol in the gallbladder there thereby creating stones.

So gall stones are a real common trigger from high levels of estrogen and they usually see them after pregnancy simply because the spike of estrogen during the cycle in the in the pregnancy. Okay. Then we have cancer. Too much estrogen can trigger cancer. And that’s why one of the medications they use as an anti-cancer blocker would be tmoxifen which blocks the receptors for estrogen decreasing the risks.

So cancer is definitely triggered by too much estrogen. And then the thyroid can be diminished with too much estrogen. Why? Because the thyroid also has receptors for I’ll try to draw a little tiny picture here. Receptors for estrogen.

So if there’s too much thyroid estrogen in the body, it can block the receptors in the thyroid and not not let the thyroid hormones get in thereby decreasing the function of the thyroid. So we have a secondary low thyroid called hypothyroid coming from an estrogen dominant situation and that’s why you see a lot of women with thyroid problems after pregnancy after being exposed to a lot of estrogen. So I would, this is my guess, I would say most thyroid cases are this problem right here, not primary. So those are some of the effects that estrogen dominance can create on the body. So the next question is what causes estrogen dominance?

Well, the first thing is our environmental. First of all, we are in an environment that’s so bathed with so much estrogen that I mean it’s everywhere. and the pesticides and insecttoides, herbicides, fungicides, heavy metals, country and western. I’m just a bad joke. And then you have DDT.

Now DDT was banned in 1971. Yet we’re finding it in in our atapost tissue, our fat tissue, and even in kids. Why? Because we’re not able to use it in the US, but we’re able to sell it to third w