Re: Soy Milk

1. Re Estrogen Dominance: In the past 40 years, we have seen a dramatic rise in female-related illnesses never seen before in history. Today, we see the age of puberty (menarche) dropping precipitously to as low as 10 years of age, endometriosis afflicting 10% of all perimenopausal women; Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), rising and afflicting close to 30% of perimenopausal women, uterine fibroids affecting close to 25 % of women from age 35 to 50, and breast cancer afflicting close to 10% of all women. Being a woman in the 21st century is certainly a high risk profession. Navigating through this hazardous profession is not easy. Imagine having endometriosis, PMS and fibrocystic breasts when you were young, progressing to uterine fibroids, hysterectomy, misguided hormone replacement and ultimately breast cancer as your menopause approaches. The very thought of this journey can send chills up through anyone's spine. Fortunately, scientific evidence is mounting that hormone disruption is the key cause of all these seemingly separate but related diseases.

For too long, we have ignored the importance of hormone balance. For too long, physicians have been misguided on the real truth on hormonal balance. Now, we know that the common thread in many female hormone diseases such as those mentioned above is a little known condition known as estrogen dominance. The underlying problem is a relative excess of estrogen and an absolute deficiency in progesterone. In the west, the prevalence of estrogen dominance syndrome approaches 50 percent in women over 35 years old.

For a more detail discussion on this and my complete paper, the link is here:

http://drlam.com/A3R_brief_in_doc_format/Estrogen_Dominance.cfm


2. On sensitive body: Each one of us in uniquely and constitutionally different. Our body reacts differently to different conditions. The same condition can cause different reacts with different people. Some are more sensitive. For example, the normal dose of an over the counter anti-histamine may put them to sleep for twice as long as what it would normally do to the general population. We don't know why they are sensitive. Clearly it has a lot to do with receptor site issues, but we are still decades away from a thorough understanding. What we do know clinically is that this group of people, those who are sensitive, reacts to food, nutrients, and medication quite differently. sometimes they exhibit severe negative reactions, or they would have paradoxical effects ( effects not intended ). Sensitive people have to be treated with extra care because of unpredictable outcomes that don't follow the textbook, so to say.



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