They Lied to You About Menopause

If menopause is caused by low estrogen, wouldn’t taking more estrogen address menopause symptoms? There’s more to it. Uncover the truth and learn how to address your menopause signs and symptoms naturally and effectively!

They lie to you about menopause. If you’re a female, this is going to be a super important presentation. If you’re a man married to a female, this is going to be some very valuable information because the common story with menopause, if you ask any mainstream doctor, is that menopause is caused by a lowered estrogen. And all the symptoms related to lower estrogen can be treated with hormone replacement therapy or estrogen replacement therapy. Now, superficially, it kind of makes sense.

If you’re low on a hormone, just go ahead and take it and you fix the problem. Well, the problem with that is that there’s some slight complications when you take hormone replacement therapy. The side effects include breast cancer, endometrial cancer, clots, increasing your risk for a stroke, gallstones, fluid retention, increased triglycerides, which then could potentially increase risk for cardiovascular problems. So, there’s a lot of side effects and not just side effects from that, it’s all the other medications that you are put on. Typically menopausal females are put on medications for hot flashes, ompic for being overweight, SSRI for depression, NSAIDs for joint pain.

These are medications for bone loss and muscle loss and high blood pressure. And the term for that is polyfarm pharmacy. Poly meaning many, pharmacy meaning drugs. because of this one big lie related to menopause. Having all of these different symptoms come from different sources when they really come from one main root cause that we’re going to get into.

So I’m going to take you through step by step of what happens with menopause. And I have a really good solution. So it is absolutely true that roughly around 52 is when you have menopause. Now, some women are earlier, some women are later, but the average is age 52 where the ovaries go in retirement and they stop releasing eggs. And then from that, you have a dip in several hormones, not just estrogen.

I mean, it can go from 400 down to 20. So, you get this severe drop in estrogen. I want to give you some additional things on this that you probably haven’t heard. It is true that estrogen drops, testosterone drops, but also progesterone sometimes tanks to almost zero, but a lot of people don’t talk about that. We will be talking about that.

But I’m primarily going to be focusing on this estrogen. When the estrogen drops, it signals the thermostat in your brain. There is a thermostat and it’s part of this hypothalamus which is like the master gland that controls everything else. It’s like this micro computer. It has many different little sections that control huge things in the body.

Part of the area that’s in the hypothalamus that’s related to menopause is literally a thermostat. That’s right. And so it’s constantly getting feedback from your core temperature which should be 98. 6. And if it’s going too high or too low, it makes adjustments.

It might heat up, might create a fever, it might create a hot flash or night sweat, or it could be on the other side shivering to try to generate more heat. So, you have this uh thermostat going on. And what’s really interesting about the thermostat is typically in a thermostat you have in your house, let’s say it’s set at 72, there’s a certain amount of fluctuation that can go up or down before it gets triggered. Picture it like a zone from this point to this point. After menopause, when the estrogen drops, that zone shortens significantly.

Which means that if you just have slight variations, tiny variations in that temperature, then it gets triggered and then you have this cascade effect of a hot flash and other symptoms. And there’s several things that can trigger it. Temperature, blood sugar, stress. So, there’s a lot of different triggers that can trip this uh thermostat. It does several other things, too.

It regulates your set point. It’s that weight that your body is comfortable at. Like, it just kind of gravitates to a certain weight and it’s really hard to get below that. And when you go on a diet or you exercise, you lose weight and then you hit that set point and then that’s about it. It’s like stuck.

It doesn’t go below that. That is controlled by this little mechanism in the hypothalamus. The other thing that this controls is appetite. Okay, so that could relate to how frequently you’re hungry, also what you crave. It also regulates body weight to a certain degree.

This is why during menopause, a lot of women start gaining weight. You think about metabolism, but that whole thermostat or regulatory system is in this little part in the hypothalamus. Energy. Okay, your ability to generate energy is also involved with this. Insulin is involved with this and the hypothalamus is also very sensitive to light signals.

Interesting because it’s connected to the circadian rhythms. So when someone goes through menopause, not only do they get hot flashes sometimes, but they start gaining weight in the midsection. They get mood changes, inflammation, their libido crashes. They start to lose bone. Okay?

They start to lose muscle. They get atrophy. They get high blood pressure. The risk for diabetes goes up. The risk for heart attack goes up just from having this change in this part of the hypothalamus.

This doesn’t seem normal. So, I found some interesting things. We already talked about this narrowing of this zone of temperature. So now your thermostat gets triggered more easily, but also pre-diabetes or type two diabetes or even something that comes before that called insulin resistance. They’re more at a double risk of getting a hot flash if they’re going through menopause.

That’s an interesting connection. Another thing that popped out that was very interesting is I was looking at different cultures and I wanted to see if certain cultures have more hot flashes than others. And this popped out. 80 to 91% of AfricanAmerican women that are going through menopause get hot flashes. Now, that was really interesting to me because that stood out as a huge clue.

Uh because if you do a comparison on other cultures, it’s not even close to that. I mean, up to 91%. So, then I started looking at why that could be. And then I found this. People that have low vitamin D levels, they’re vitamin D deficient, have a much higher risk of getting hot flashes.

The color of someone’s skin does influence their ability to get vitamin D. So melanin is a pigment in the skin that acts as a natural sunblock. And so the darker your skin, the less UV you’re going to get to make vitamin D. And especially in America, there’s a direct correlation between skin color and the amount of vitamin D that someone gets. So now let’s dive in a little deeper and start connecting the dots with all the things I just mentioned.

Okay, let’s take a look at estrogen first. During menopause, we get a major decrease in estrogen. Now, what’s the relationship between estrogen and some of these other things I’ve talked about? Number one, estrogen is very important in protecting a cell in the body called the beta cell. That’s in the pancreas.

The beta cell is all about helping you regulate blood sugars and controlling insulin. And diabetes occurs because of damage to that beta cell. So that was very, very interesting. Estrogen helps keep insulin sensitive. So, in other words, if you’re talking about insulin resistance, which by the way is a root cause behind so many different chronic diseases, diabetes, type two, obesity, a fatty liver, high triglycerides, etc.

And estrogen has a huge purpose to help keep insulin sensitive. And when you lose estrogen, now you’re going to lose insulin sensitivity. What’s going to happen to your blood sugar up and down? What is that going to do to your weight