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Estrogen Dominance and Progesterone Deficiency – An Undeniable Imbalance

You give 110% of yourself all the time. Whether it’s at work or at home, you want to make sure everyone is taken care of. Sometimes, however, you feel like the world is working against you – you’re an outsider in your own realm. The overwhelming symptoms of excess estrogen not only make you physically uncomfortable but can also take an emotional toll. Isn’t it time someone took care of you?

An Undeniable Imbalance

As strange as it may sound, you can experience both estrogen dominance and progesterone deficiency at the same time. These two conditions can work in tandem to make you feel utterly miserable. Many people assume that estrogen dominance is when there…

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 Estrogen dominance & Progesterone deficiency

Estrogen dominance occurs when we have too much estrogen in the body and is relative to the other sex hormones, such as having too little progesterone to balance it out. Estrogen dominance can affect a woman’s body in many ways, including abnormal menstruation (heavy/painful periods), PMS, headaches, decreased sex drive, bloating, mood swings, fatigue, anxiety & depression, breast tenderness, endometriosis, fibroids, and hormonal weight gain.

 Estrogen Dominance Part 1: When One Hormone Gets the Upper Hand

Estrogen and progesterone are an iconic duo, much like Bonnie & Clyde or peanut butter & jelly. As with all duos, it’s the balance between the two that creates magic, or in the case of PB & J, the magic of flavor. But what happens when yin is no longer in harmony with yang?

 Estrogen Dominance Part 2: Achieving Hormone Balance

Changes to your diet can have the most profound impact on your estrogen dominant symptoms. The words food as medicine have never rung truer.

 Estrogen Dominance: What is it and what do we do about it?

Even when you’re menopausal and no longer making any estrogen from the ovaries, or your ovaries have been removed, you can become estrogen dominant because women can still get estrogen from fat cells, from non-organic meat and dairy products and from using mineral oil products. Also, since we are no longer ovulating in menopause we make NO progesterone.

Articles of Interest

Estrogen Dominance – Is It Real?

The history of HRT contains a tragic example of the effects of unopposed estrogen. For many years after its creation, the synthetic estrogen drug Premarin was prescribed to women without any accompanying progesterone. The result was an epidemic of uterine cancer. This eventually led to Premarin being prescribed in tandem with a synthetic progesterone called Provera to protect the uterine lining. Much more recently these two were bundled together and marketed as a new combination drug called Prempro. For decades now the combination of Premarin with Provera has been the most widely prescribed synthetic HRT in the world.

Are you Estrogen Dominant? Here's What to Do Next

Estrogen – it’s not a dirty word. Estrogen plays an important role through the course of our reproductive lives and beyond. It regulates our menstrual cycle, strengthens our bones, controls our cholesterol, and much more. When our estrogen levels go “out of tune” we experience PMS or menopausal symptoms.

Are Your Estrogen Levels Off? Here's How To Tell + Exactly What To Do About It

My patients have a love-hate relationship with estrogen. Some vilify it, and some (normally post-menopausal women) revere it. Yet like any hormone, estrogen isn’t good or bad; it all comes down to balance.

Estrogen Dominance

Estrogen Dominance is a condition that occurs when the ratio between estrogen and progesterone is imbalanced. Normally, these two hormones perform a delicate dance together, with estrogen being the “builder” or “initiator” and progesterone being the “balancer” or “protector.”

Estrogen Dominance: Causes and Solutions

Are you struggling with infertility, PMS, mood swings, weight gain, or low libido? If so, you could be dealing with a hormone imbalance such as estrogen dominance. Having high estrogen levels — known as estrogen dominance — is not only linked to a set of frustrating and uncomfortable symptoms, it also puts you at risk for a whole host of chronic issues.

Estrogen – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Estrogen is an essential hormone that has over 400 actions on a woman’s body. It’s what defines a woman. It’s been in your body since you were born and increases greatly at the time of puberty. It’s easy to take it for granted when everything is working automatically. When a young woman’s menstrual periods become irregular, painful or accompanied by severe mood swings, anxiety, depression or acne, that’s an indication of a system that’s gone awry. Birth control or Depo-Provera are a bad, ugly way to treat these problems

How to Reverse Estrogen Dominance Naturally – Detox, Food, & Supplements

Estrogen dominance is at an all time high across the globe. Though there are many theories as to why, it’s likely a complex combination of factors including everything from the food that we eat, to the increase in xenoestrogens in our products, and even glyphosate – the ubiquitous Monsanto herbicide that’s recently come under fire.

Signs of Estrogen Dominance — and How to Fix It

There’s no set number that indicates estrogen dominance. It’s the amount of estrogen you have relative to your other sex hormones (progesterone in women and testosterone in men).

What is Estrogen Dominance as a Hormonal Imbalance in Women?

You might have heard of the term before used loosely in magazines and conversations. That’s hardly surprising – Estrogen Dominance is one of the most common hormonal imbalances women experience today.

What Is Estrogen Dominance—and How Can You Rebalance Your Hormones?

A recent survey suggests nearly half of women in the U.S. have dealt with hormonal imbalances, and women's health experts suggest that one specific imbalance—estrogen dominance—may be to blame for a number of the health and well-being woes many women are facing today.

Resources

10 Signs That You Have Estrogen Dominance

Estrogen dominance happens when you have too much of bad estrogen, or when you have toxic estrogen metabolites from poor metabolism or even when you have too much estrogen in comparison to progesterone. When it comes to hormones, it is all about balance.

13 Signs Your Body Is Producing Too Much Estrogen

If your estrogen levels are high compared to your other hormones, that’s often called estrogen dominance — because that one hormone is dominating the others. In particular, it’s high relative to the hormone progesterone, the other hormone that helps orchestrate your menstrual cycle.