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Notes
Taken from Dr. John R. Lee’s Tape
“Medical Myths – And The Truth About Progesterone” John R. Lee – Retired
Medical Doctor
Author of: What
your Doctor may not tell you about
Premenopause President of
Progesterone Research Institute Dr. Lee spoke at one
of our previous Neways conventions, so he chose to just update us on
changes that have occurred in scientific literature since he last spoke to
us last. My notes only detail
what the new studies have determined – not what the medical community used
to believe. New studies have
now shown that: ·
Estrogen is a major
cause of breast cancer ·
80% of breast cancers
that occur in women are easily avoided. They are caused by estrogen
dominance. ·
Estrogen dominance is
caused by lack of progesterone.
Signs of estrogen dominance include: ·
Water retention, edema
(swelling, bloating) ·
Fatigue, lack of
energy ·
Breast swelling,
fibrocystic breasts ·
Premenstrual mood
swings, depression ·
Loss of sex drive ·
Heavy or irregular
menses ·
Uterine fibroids ·
Craving for
sweets ·
Weight gain, fat
deposition at hips and thighs ·
Symptoms of low
thyroid such as cold hands and feet ·
Women with breast
cancer can also benefit from progesterone. The concept of breast cancer
originating from one cell and then multiplying on forever and ever isn’t
the way it really happens.
Breast cancers develop and continue to grow because normal cells
get turned into cancer cells continuously over time. This turning into cancer cells is
the result of a gene balance, and this balance of genes is controlled by
the hormones – so even women with breast cancer will benefit from the use
of progesterone. ·
Birth control pills
increase the risk of breast cancer by 8% a year, so that after 5 years of
use, women will have a 40% increase in their chance of having breast
cancer. ·
Birth control pills
increase the risk of stroke by about 300% - that’s 3 times more
strokes. ·
Estrogen triples the
risk of stroke. ·
Progesterone has a
major role in protecting against breast cancer and stroke. ·
Menopause is not a
deficiency of estrogen.
Estrogen levels in women to age 80 are sufficient in over 65% of
women. Only 35% of women need
a little estrogen. The amount they may need is 1/8 to 1/10 of what is
usually prescribed. Normal
doses of estrogen are 8-10 times too high. ·
80% of women passing
through menopause, who had hot flashes, found relief by using progesterone
alone. ·
Postmenopausal women
are estrogen dominant. You
need progesterone to balance the estrogen. ·
Women who work night
shifts do not produce melatonin like women who sleep in a dark room. The lack of producing melatonin
changes the ovary's ability to make progesterone. This increases the risk of breast
cancer by 6 fold. ·
Stress causes more
corotisol, and more corotisol means less activity by progesterone, and
that means there’s an increase in breast cancer. ·
Estrogen has no
benefit for people with Alzheimer’s. ·
Women with
osteoporosis should use progesterone. Progesterone is needed for new
bone formation. Estrogen
slows down bone loss, but progesterone builds new bone. ·
Saliva tests
accurately measure the amount of free hormone. The amount of free hormone in
saliva mirrors the amount of free hormone in the entire blood supply. Hormones measured with blood tests
measure the large amount of hormone that is bound to protein, making it
water-soluble so it can be excreted. ·
The free hormone rides
on red blood cells, and this can’t be measured by conventional blood
tests. Blood tests are
irrelevant because you need to measure the amount of free hormone. ·
Estrogen prescriptions
for HRT are providing 8-10 times more estrogen than the body needs at that
stage of a woman’s life. ·
Unopposed estrogen is
the only cause of uterine cancer.
Natural progesterone works better than any synthetic progestins
ever tried. ·
Six weeks after a
hysterectomy, progesterone production stops. Within 2 years, estrogen
production stops. When doing
a hysterectomy, your doctor ties off the uterine arteries and 80% of the
supply of blood to the ovaries is lost. Therefore, ovaries eventually stop
producing. ·
HTR does not protect
postmenopausal women against heart disease. Progesterone helps keep coronary
arteries open, whereas giving a synthetic projestin (like in birth control
pills) will allow those coronary arteries to go into spasm and thereby
cause heart disease. ·
High blood cholesterol
comes from too much sugar and highly refined starches. That’s the major cause. If you want to reduce your
cholesterol, follow a low sugar diet and don’t eat highly refined
starches. ·
In
normal ranges of cholesterol, except in exceedingly high or very very low,
there is no difference in coronary artery disease, regardless of what the
cholesterol level is.
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There is a metabolite
of progesterone that is produced in your liver named aloe pregnenolone
(I’m not sure if this is spelled correctly). When women have adequate amounts
of progesterone to manufacture this metabolite, they will not have
PMS. If a woman has PMS, by
restoring proper progesterone you will maintain aloe pregnenolone levels,
which are marvelous for preventing PMS ·
In
women who’ve had a baby and have post-pardum depression, they are low in
progesterone and aloe pregnenolone. ·
The very studies used
by medicine to measure a drug’s effects (5 year study) is totally
unreliable because they start treatments earlier, have new tests to find a
disease earlier, and claim to have better five year survival rates because
they started their counts before the study actually began. This is lead-time bias. Progesterone is a
vital factor in both women and men.
It has been neglected far too long. With progesterone (not synthetic
progestins, which don’t work) there’s a major opportunity to save people’s
lives and to make lives of other people so much better than it was
before. Neways’ Endau product
is mentioned in Dr. Lee’s book as being one of the recommended
products. (Neways has had
independent testing done on their Endau product, and it contains the
recommended amount of progesterone.) The Neways’ product specialist told me that there is 16 mg of progesterone in a ¼ tsp. dose. |
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