Lara Briden - The Period Revolutionary
Leading the change to better periods and hormones
Estrogen excess contributes to women’s health conditions including fibroids, breast pain, and heavy periods. Natural ways to reduce estrogen including a healthy microbiome and taking the natural supplement calcium-d-glucarate.
Phytoestrogens are a special group of phytonutrients that occur naturally in most plant foods. The two major classes are isoflavones in soy and lignans in seeds, whole grains, legumes, fruits, and vegetables.
They’re called phytoestrogens because they interact with estrogen receptors, but they’re not estrogen. In fact, they bind so weakly to estrogen receptors that they effectively block estradiol and are more accurately characterized as anti-estrogen.
A tendency to allergies or high histamine can contribute to perimenopausal symptoms like night sweats, anxiety, sleep disturbance, fluid retention, breast pain, migraines, and heavy menstrual bleeding.
That’s because histamine increases with estrogen, and estrogen is usually higher than normal during the early years of perimenopause.
Iodine has beneficial anti-estrogenic effects that can relieve breast pain, ovulation pain, and premenstrual mood symptoms. It may also help prevent ovarian cysts by promoting healthy estrogen metabolism, down-regulating estrogen receptors, and stabilizing estrogen-sensitive tissue.
That makes iodine one of the best treatments for estrogen excess or so-called “estrogen dominance”—although I don’t use that term.
Almost all types of hormonal birth control switch off ovarian function and, therefore, switch off the ovarian hormones estradiol, testosterone, and progesterone. Here’s a bit more about each method.