Re: Estrogen-like doesn't mean estrogenic

I don't claim to know anything about all this, and I haven't read studies. What I do know is that about 6 months ago my liver was pretty congested--I'd been doing a lot of colon cleansing and I had a lot of mucus in my throat (which I always know is that first sign that my liver is overworked). At the same time, I was trying to lose weight. I tracked my calories everyday (1400 per day) and was consistently exercising for an hour 5 days per week. I mean, I was doing great! But I wasn't losing a pound.

I remembered reading about the liver, metabolism and estrogen on a website that I bought tinctures from. Rebecca Wong, who runs SensibleHealth.com, has done research into this stuff. Here's a quote from her website:

Womens' weight problems


Estrogens and the liver have important roles in weight problem
or obesity which is common among women with PCOS or other woman's
problems. Metabolism is mostly carried out in the liver. Sluggish
metabolism due to sluggish liver and too much estrogens are
contributing factors to weight gain. When the liver fails to
eliminate estrogens efficiently, the excessive estrogens stimulate
fat cell production, usually around the lower abdominal area and
upper thigh where estrogens are more concentrated. Estrogens also
bind to sodium which retains water and leads to weight gain.

Many women were pleasantly surprised to find their weight
reduced unexpectedly by taking Chinese Bitters,
Coptis and doing daily morning exercise. Daily morning
exercise helps to activate the liver. When the liver becomes more
efficient and bile flows better following use of Chinese
Bitters and Coptis, weight problems are often
significantly improved because so much of your metabolism is
carried out in the liver. By stimulating bile flow, Coptis
helps the liver to eliminate estrogens more efficiently because the
liver depends on bile flow to carry estrogens out.


Sure, she is selling tinctures so perhaps her information is self-serving. I have to say though that I already had her tinctures at home (which worked great for me in conjunction with liver flushes) and so I started taking them. Sure enough, my weight dropped off.

That caused me to consider that the whole 'calorie counting' dogma the weight loss industry preaches is a bunch of bull. It's a lot more complicated than that.

Anyway, I'll let all of you figure it out. Somehow estrogen and weight loss were connected in my body, that's for sure.