Why Estrogen Dominance After Menopause? – Dr. Berg

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hey guys Dr Burke here in this video we’re going to talk about why estrogen dominance after menopause this is one of those burning questions that people have I mean think about it the ovaries go into retirement they stop working after age 52 so that would mean that your estrogen should go down right why do a lot of women have estrogen dominance and are at risk for cancer and have all sorts of issues after menopause let’s let’s show you why first let’s cover the symptoms of estrogen dominance anxiet irritability agitation uh breast tenderness weepy depression craving for chocolate joint pain acne cystic acne um weight in the hips the thighs and the lower pooch in the stomach low libido fibroids cancer endometriosis it takes estrogen to make cancer grow in the breast and the uterus okay now let’s talk about facts related to estrogen to put this together um estrogen does drop after menopause okay so that’s that’s really what happens but progesterone drops even more giving the relative ratio of higher amounts of estrogen to Progesterone progesterone is a hormone that opposes estrogen it counters it so if you drop progesterone too far down with no unopposed estrogen it can appear to be higher and more damaging okay now adrenal glands are the backup to the ovaries so during Menopause the adrenal glands will make the same hormones that the ovaries do okay that’s another little fact and the adrenal glands are on top of the kidney progesterone feeds cortisol progesterone converts into cortisol if the body needs more cortisol that’s the stress hormone from the adrenal it will get some of the cortisone from progesterone so here we have this situation where we have the adrenals are weak okay low cortisol your body is going to rob that little bit of progesterone that you have what do you think is going to happen to estrogen then it’s already high it’s going to appear to be higher because it’s going to be unopposed by the progesterone so we’re going to take that last little drop of progesterone we had and drop it even more to convert it to cortisol so really it’s the adrenals the weak adrenals behind this whole problem okay and it’s forcing other parts of the body to be depleted because the adrenal considers the stress uh countering stress the adrenals like the most important thing so it will rob from this and take from this just to keep the adrenals strong okay so um basically increased need for cortisol depletes progesterone Okay so you got that so far now let me show you some additional facts okay so what do we know we know that progesterone converts to cortisol if there’s a low adrenal and there’s you need more cortisol the body will make more from sucking more progesterone thereby increasing the relative ratio of high estrogen okay don’t worry it gets worse okay so more facts your own fat makes estrogen so the more fat you have the more estrogen you’re going to have because fat makes estrogen and it takes it robs it from the hips and it doesn’t Rob the fat it just it basically generates it from the fat okay and also estrogen uh makes fat so it’s kind of like a never ending uh nightmare now um they used to use something called estrogen replacement therapy and they don’t use it anymore because they found it causes cancer uh and they switch it to hormone replacement therapy which they add a little bit of progesterone so this was just estradi and then they added progesterone and and then an estrogen together and then they they found that that has some side effects with cancer and so they added proa which is a synthetic progesterone okay so then some women take that and then they decided to um use prro which is uh estrogen and synthetic progesterone together but the problem this is all synthetic and that’s what a lot of women do for hot flashes vaginal dryness night sweats but they have to realize that um there’s some other natural things that you can do and I’m going to put a link down below if you have low estrogen because that’s a whole other thing that we want to talk about later we’re talking about estrogen dominance okay so now the estrogen is really three hormones you have estradiol estrone and esterol and I’m going to explain uh these two right here so estrone is the type of estrogen that occurs after menopause and it’s made from androgens or testosterone so basically it’s a little complex but basically you can make estrogen from if you have too much androgens so there’s a condition called polycystic ovarian syndrome that a lot of people have um and that’s a situation where you’re taking you have too much Androgen now how could how would a woman have too much Androgen well guess what causes Androgen to spike insulin so again it’s a little complex but if you have a insulin problem um and I’ll put some links below if you want to check that out insulin resistance um you can get PCOS or polycystic ovarian syndrome from that men when men have uh too much antigen whatever it can convert to estrogen and that’s what causes the uh the breast tissue in a male body the prostate enlargement the low libido okay that’s this right here because there’s an enzyme that converts Androgen to estrogen and it’s called aromatase and ratas basically is always seen in people with with breast cancer or even prostate cancer it’s higher and that’s because uh the source of that cancer is fed by estrogen made from this darn enzyme here and it’s converting the Androgen to more estrogen so you can see there’s a lot of different places that estrogen is being produced uh not just from the ovary but from progesterone from the environment from um uh from synthetic medication from your own Androgen that’s being converted so um so and estrone can cause erectile dysfunction a lot of problems in men um you know like men have prostate issues right um what happens is that their T their estrogen increases as they get older and their testosterone goes down so this whole idea that what’s causing the prostate is high levels of DHT which is a powerful form of testosterone is is not true because they use DHT to fix prostate enlargement um it’s really the estrogen that’s messing up enlarging the prostate so um estrone is a known carcinogen it causes cancer and it converts to estradiol okay all right so now estriol what’s that estriol is is the last the third type of estrogen and that’s like a waste product of estradi okay so it’s basically there to help buffer estradi because if estral is too high you’ll really get cancer and so it’s there to balance and buffer it because estral is considered anti-cancer so it’s it protects you against the um bad estrogen so to speak okay then we have the hormones and animal products that you eat if you don’t need organic or hormone free then you’re getting those estrogens same thing with dairy um xenoestrogens that would be like in the environment you have pesticides insecticides herbicides all that stuff mimics estrogen okay and I just want to make a note I do not believe that it’s the estrogen that your body makes that causes the cancer I believe it’s from other sources so I don’t think it’s it’s that your body is just making too much there’s something environmentally that’s increasing and that’s really what’s causing the cancer that’s just my opinion by the way the last thing I want to talk about is um gml genetically modified foods right now uh the big ones are soy corn and beets okay all the beet sugar in US is uh basically genetically modified and the soy and the corn try to buy food that doesn’t have that in there and plus guess what they feed the animals corn corn and soy so you’re getting a lot of GMO okay now this is something that’s not labeled in the grocery stores and the problem is that when they make something GMO it’s it’s modified in a way that it resists an herbicide okay a weed killer so the