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Health, Mindbody Medicine, Nutrition / By Kate Powe

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📣 Shout-out to all the perimenopausal women on

📣 Shout-out to all the perimenopausal women on HRT

💊💊It confounds me why women are automatically put on both oestrogen AND progesterone at the start of their HRT experience.

📉 The fact is, your progesterone is the first hormone to leave the building as you stop having regular ovulatory cycles.

📈 But at the same time, your oestrogen is peaking out at levels up to 3 x higher than when you were having regular cycles.

⏰ Perimenopause can go on and on … and on … and on (like up to 10 years) … so don’t be fooled into thinking perimenopause and menopause are one and the same, ie, you must have low-to-no hormones.

💡 The early stage of perimenopause is a low progesterone, high oestrogen state. So if you’re introducing body-identical HRT, start simply with progesterone.

⁉️Questions? Ask below 👇🏼

#hrt #perimenopause

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Step 1: locate your b00bs Step 2: put your hands d

Step 1: locate your b00bs
Step 2: put your hands directly in front and press into your chest
Step 3: if they hurt, you’re likely to have too much oestrogen (relative to progesterone).

WHY DOES THAT MATTER?

🙅‍♀️ High oestrogen can be behind a myriad of hormonal symptoms and conditions like heavy or painful periods, frequent periods, clots, mood swings, PCOS, migraines and contribute significantly to endometriosis, adenomyosis, uterine polyps and fibroids.

WHAT CAN I DO?

🥦 Increase cooked sulfurous brassica-family foods like: cabbage, kale, cauliflower, broccolini, brussels sprouts which contain DIM and IC3 to helps to lower and metabolise your oestrogen in the most protective way for your body.

💧Increase daily dietary fibre and (filtered) water to encourage a regular/daily bowel motion. This ensures oestrogen metabolites are removed and don’t recirculate through your body, increasing your oestrogen load further.

💪🏼 Keep active and build muscle. Muscle improves metabolism and helps burn fat and that’s important because we can also generate some oestrogen from our fat cells (this can be somewhat useful in low oestrogen conditions like hypothalamic amenorrhoea or menopause, not so great if we’re crying and flooding every few weeks)

🥂 Drop alcohol, sugar and junk foods. Focus on wholefoods, plenty of plant foods and some good quality protein at every meal (animal is my preference but there are also great vego sources like quinoa and legumes or eggs or a good protein powder)

💊 Consider progesterone-building supplements like zinc, magnesium and B6. Iodine can also help (please don’t self-prescribe iodine unless you know your thyroid is happy and you do not have hyperthyroidism or thyroid antibodies)

👩🏻‍🦳 And if you’re on HRT, discuss changing the dose of your oestrogen patch or gel with your naturopath or GP.

Any other oestrogen issues?? Ask me below👇🏼

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