Getting the Right Hormone Balance

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Hormones: The Natural Approach

David Wolfe at The Longevity Now Conference Costa Mesa, California

We've got a lot to cover this morning. What we're going to get into today

is about how to naturally keep your hormones in the right range. This is a

really interesting area of research. What we know right now is not where

we're going to end up; it's just the best of what we've got right now.

If you have to go to bioidentical hormones or progesterone cream for a

short period of time, great – if it works and it helps you and it's good. But

not all of us want to be on bioidentical hormones every day for the rest of

our lives. If we can do it naturally, then we are going to do it naturally. And

that's what we're going to talk about here. This is such a pressing issue.

I'm learning more about this all the time. There is very little out there on

this subject, so I want you to pay really close attention. We are going to go through a five-step

process and learn how to activate this in your own life.

The key to it is that you cannot do any of this consistently; it actually has to be done randomly and

sporadically. Otherwise you create resistance, like insulin resistance. If you do insulin all the time, for

example at exactly 9:00 a.m. every day, what happens is you create resistance. That is also true with

hormones and our hormone approach.

Hormones are the master switches of metabolism.

Hormones tell the cells what to do. If you are a thirteen-year-old girl and you have estradiol pouring

on, that's a great thing. That's amazing. But if you're sixty years old and estradiol is turning on, you've

got to be careful – because that could trigger the growth of certain cells in your breast. And they may

not be healthy cells, if you know what I mean.

What do I mean? It triggers breast cancer. We know what

the triggers are. We know what triggers breast cancer and

prostate cancer. I'm going to get into this – and I'll say it

over and over again as we develop this conversation.

So let's get into the role of hormones in cellular health. We

are going to talk about the array of the major sex

hormones. What we are finding out now is that the sex

hormones are our health hormones. Hormones are the

master switches of metabolism. They tell our cells what to

do. They are chemical messengers, like neurotransmitters.

They also regulate your weight. This is a big issue, because

a lot of people do all the right diets, and everything is

going well, but they are estrogen-dominant so they're

battling that last 25 pounds, saying, "This thing ain't

moving, no matter what!" Does that sound familiar? Hormones: The Natural Approach by David Wolfe October 2011

Hormones are anti-aging, and we know that now. There are thirty years of research on this. Dr.

Jonathan Wright out of Harvard has a facility in Tacoma, Washington. He really innovated the whole

field of bioidentical hormones. Dr. Wright has proven that bioidentical hormones are anti-cancer –

and they “de-age” you. However, it's like the old alchemical riddle: once you are on them, you are on

them for good because if you stop taking them, all the magic goes away. We have all heard this idea

in literature, in movies, and in television. Haven't we? You get on it and it's good; but once you get

off it, it's bad. That's an alchemical idea – like quicksilver. There's a medicine made out of quicksilver

that keeps you eternally young, but you have to stay on it forever. If you study alchemy you come

across this stuff.

Our body fat composition and energy levels are

very closely associated with our different

hormones. If they are out of balance, for example

– I'm going to say this over and over again – if

your estrone (which is an estrogen) is elevated,

your estriol is down. In a man and a woman. So if

your estrone is high and your estriol is low; and

your estradiol is high and your progesterone is

low; and your testosterone is moderate or high

and you are over the age of 50 – I can guarantee

you, you're in trouble. Because these are triggers.

For a man, testosterone actually has to be high

enough to counterbalance all of those estrogens. On top of that, we have to be able to “hold” the

testosterone. For a woman, you have to be able to “hold” the progesterone. If you can't hold the

progesterone, it will back-flip and become a bad estrogen. That's called aromatization. This is very

important. If you are doing progesterone cream, there are ways to do it so that you can “hold” it, and

so it's able to balance out the other hormones.

Again, where we are at in our understanding of this is very rudimentary. I'm learning stuff about this

all the time. This is the best we've got right now. I've talked about this with the best hormone

doctors in the world, and they all say, "This is where we're at."

I know we are going to see great innovations in the future. I have seen where it's going, and I'm going

to tell you. If we want to get real about where this is going to end up a hundred years from now, or a

thousand years from now – if we make it that far – we will come to the understanding that the

healthiest time of our life is not when we're twenty-five; it's when we're five. The healthiest time of

your life is when you're five, six, seven years old –

when you have juvenile hormones.

So it's not just getting your sex hormones

normalized. Eventually, what we want to do is to

figure out the whole chemistry of juvenile

hormones, flooding those back into the body and

getting off the sex hormones – so that as you age,

you become more like a five-year-old. We will

become like the beings in this universe who have

figured out how to live thousands of years. And I

know scientists and doctors are already on this. Hormones: The Natural Approach by David Wolfe October 2011

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