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How to Fix Hormone Imbalance For Women's Health?
By Dr. Raj Banerjee

There is a directly proportional relationship between hormone imbalance and women's health. As long as hormones are in adequate levels, cells, tissues, organs and systems will function properly and the body will be able to combat stress, fight disease and recovery better. There are several natural methods to help attain optimum health by balancing hormones. Here's how.

Herbal Treatment

Chaste tree berry or vitex agnus castus, monk's pepper or hemp tree is considered by many as the most important herb in treating PMS or premenstrual syndrome. It is known for its positive effects on alleviating symptoms such as breast pain, painful menses and irregular menses. The herb primarily acts on the pituitary gland and hypothalamus in the brain. The fruit of the plant specifically has contents with dopamine-like activity that inhibits the release of prolactin thereby increasing progesterone production during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. Estrogen dominance can be avoided and treated.

Wild yams contain diosgenin which manufactures natural progesterone efficiently. The hormone is actually plant-derived but has exactly the same chemical properties as the ones naturally produced by the body. Estrogen dominance during the luteal phase is suggested to be the leading cause of PMS symptoms so taking adequate amounts of the herb can correct the problem.

Evening primrose oil or oenothera biennis comes from the seeds of the plant and is known for its essential fatty acid content. The important oils in the herb are gamma-linoleic acid or GLA and linoleic acid. The conversion of linoleic acid to GLA is generally impaired in most women exhibiting PMS symptoms. Evening primrose oil can improve levels of GLA to improve PMS.

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Other herbs that are known to alleviate menopausal syndrome include Dong Quai or Angelica sinensis which helps with cramps, weakness and irregular menses, licorice or Glycyrrhiza glabra which helps increase progesterone levels, Black Cohosh or Cimicifuga racemosa which exhibits estrogen-like activity, Kava Kava or Piper methysticum which relieves anxiety and stress and Valerian or Valeriana officinalis which helps improve sleep and rest.

Try alternate methods that relieve stress and boost hormone production such as aromatherapy, massage, therapeutic touch, acupuncture, acupressure, hypnotherapy and mental imagery. Stay away from alcohol and tobacco since these can aggravate PMS symptoms. Eat more nutritious foods rich in vitamins and minerals especially iron to alleviate bleeding problems. Exercise regularly by doing mild to moderate cardiovascular activity at least three times per week. Sleep well each night and rest for at least 7 to 8 hours.

Menstrual Problems

There are three common menstrual disorders namely dysmenorrhea which is excess menstruation, menorrhea which is less menstruation and amenorrhea which is absent menstruation. Scanty menstruation may be caused by vitamin B, vitamin C or potassium deficiency. In some cases hyperacidity and flatulence may also cause the problem so women need to eat healthy and high-fiber diets to ease discomfort and pain. Primary amenorrhea can be related to genetic links while secondary amenorrhea is basically caused by stress or illness. Hydrotherapy, steam baths, acupressure and massage can alleviate the symptoms.

As for PMS, patients can try deep breathing exercises 2 to 3 times each day. To fix hormone imbalance for women's health, individuals need to consume more raw fruits and vegetables, fruit juices and soups. Supplementation especially iron and calcium are also recommended. Women may also want to try naturopathic treatments which are proven to be safe, natural and reliable.

Discover what your doctor may not be telling you about fixing weight problems, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and how it's related to hormone imbalance. And also about a new diet that is different than any of the current popular diets like The Atkins Diet, Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig Diet and many others.


Report Author:

Dr. Raj Banerjee specializes in designing natural treatment programs for a wide range of health issues. Since 2000 he has successfully applied clinical nutrition protocols based on lab assessments for patients with hormone imbalances, food cravings, fatigue, depression, digestive distress and many other health complaints.

Dr. Banerjee maintains an active phone consultation practice designing nutritional programs and providing counseling to improve patients' health through diet and lifestyle modifications.

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The Benefits of Fish Oil For Women!
By Janet Eisenbise

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When considering ways to improve health, fish oil for women may be especially beneficial. Because it provides Omega 3 fatty acids which are essential to cellular health, it plays an essential role in building brain tissue, carrying nutrients throughout the body, fighting inflammation and improving cardiac functioning.

Good health for women is often farther reaching than the good functioning of the individual woman herself. We play many roles as women: breadwinner, caregiver, wife and mother among others. We often are making decisions that affect the health of husbands, children and sometimes elderly family members.

When it comes to motherhood, we need to be aware that the nutrition that we are getting directly affects our babies before and after birth. Fish oil for baby is especially important because the EPA and to a greater extent, the DHA is essential to brain and eye development.

Good prenatal care includes vitamins, and mothers are informed of the importance of getting enough folic acid for her baby's health. Not enough mothers are informed that fish oil during pregnancy and after delivery is also vital. This will soon change, thanks to the compelling research being published which points to the benefits of taking fish oil.

Omega 3 and pregnancy benefits include better cognitive function for the baby, and also better brain functioning for the mother. We know that brains depleted of DHA frequently have mood difficulties including depression, as well as memory problems. The fetus will take the DHA and other nutrients from the mother's body. If there is a shortage, the mother will be deprived before the baby! You may avoid baby blues or post partum depression by having an adequate supply of DHA from fish oil supplements.
Mothers who breast feed may already know that bottle fed formulas do not contain all the nutritional benefits of breast milk. In particular, formulas are lacking in DHA. So breast fed babies may have the vision and cognitive jump on bottle fed babies.

They have also discovered that pregnant women who are deficient in Omega 3's are 3.5 times more likely to have a pre-term delivery. While no one can say with certainty whether supplementing your diet will have a direct effect on a full-term delivery, doing so will help ensure your health as well as your baby's.

According to the World Health Organization, DHA consumption in the US and the United Kingdom is well below recommended amounts. Australia and Canada do a little better. Yet this is not even half of the consumption of DHA in Norway and Japan, where fish is eaten regularly.

The recommended intake of DHA is 225 mg per day for healthy adults, while pregnant women and nursing mothers need 300 mg per day. Fish oil for baby is passed along through the placenta and then later through breast milk.

If you understand the importance of omega 3 and pregnancy, you can improve both your own health and that of your baby.

Janet Eisenbise is a writer and researcher of the best health information and practices. She is an experienced therapist and coach with a passion for holistic approaches to living. Visit her website for access to products that will enhance your life by improving your health and well being.

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Janet Eisenbise is an experienced researcher and writer who comes from a professional background of psychotherapy and coaching. Her primary interests are in holistic health. Her writing and her practice express a belief in the power of the individual to heal.


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Neuro Emotional Technique and Women's Health Care Issues!
By Dr. Daniel P. Hillis, D.C

Neuro Emotional technique is a safe, gentle and effective technique pioneered in the field of Chiropractic, and now taught under auspices of the University of Miami school of Medicine.

Emotional reactions can be healthy or unhealthy. Probably the majority of our emotional reaction poses no long-lasting physiological or psychological difficulties.

In many segments of our society, we can be stigmatized upon the expression of our emotional reactions and this can be based upon both real and culturally perceived concerns. The world renowned scientist, Candice Pert, PhD, a member of the NY Acadademy of Sciences, has clearly explained that emotions are physiological and are actually in constant "physical" movement throughout the entire body in the form of biochemicals called neuropeptides. Dr. Robert Wirtman, MD, PhD, of M.I.T. fame, and the world's leading researcher on serotonin explains that we have extraordinary quantities of the mod modulating serotonin neuro transmitter throughout our gastrointestinal tract as well as our brain and other areas of the body. Current Neuro research indeed confirms the pervasiveness of the emotional reaction in and throughout the entire physiology of the human being.

It is a common human experience to have emotional responses associated with significant events in our lives. These responses may change our physiology and may ordinarily after some period of time our altered physiology will return to a "normal" state sometime after the significant event has passed. Sometimes we can experience a neuro-physiological disruption of function at the time of the significant event and hat emotional response can become a "locked-in" conditioned reflex hooking on to some aspect of our physiology. This then represents an inappropriate binding of an emotional response to a physiological state which may hold us back from more flexible and healthier emotional responses as well as fixing us into distorted patters of health that may prevent us from recovering from health issues. These fixed emotional responses hooked to physiologic events are referred to as Neuro Emotional Complexes (NEC's). NEC's have nervous system reflex patterns which can eventually hook negative emotional responses, which we are either aware of or unaware of, to our physiology and manifest as symptoms. The result is sub-optimal health or an imbalance in our natural expression of life.

The Neuro Emotional Technique (NET) is a contemporary health care methodology used to assist in healthfully disconnecting unhealthy emotional responses which are inappropriately coupled to our physiology and diminishing our ability to recover form illness. NET practitioners are trained to assist the body's own healing process by identifying and diminishing or eliminating our unresolved NEC's. Someone could have an NEC and not even know it! A hypothetical example might be a young girl forced against her will to get an injection in a doctor's office. This person as an adult now may feel tense in any doctor's office, and may be unable to explain why. Physical and emotional symptoms associated with this NEC (Neuro Emotional Complex) may result in increased pain and dysfunction and inability to resolve a health problem.

With your help an NET practitioner may be able to quickly find the origin of your NEC and, using gentle correction to your nervous system may help to "unlock" the NEC. This is believed to reduce nerve interference patterns and may result in improved well-being with a new chance to process emotions without inappropriately hooking physiologic events. This allows your body to return to a more balanced state.

How does NET work?
It has been long held by many that some of us may "feel" different emotions in different parts of our bodies in different ways. This is sometimes referred to as somatization and may range from perfectly normal to quite dysfunctional registering of emotions. Common examples fairly well known around society would include the emotion of fear associated with our kidneys and anger associated with the liver. The ideology of these associations is interesting and diverse.

In practice, NET practitioners utilize Applied Kinesiological muscle testing procedures, organ neurological reflex patterns and semantic reaction to assist and guide you to recall specific emotions which may be associated with your NEC. Using a deductive process, the trained practitioner engages a specific neuro-emotional pattern, much as a software operator may engage a specific program on the computer hardware.

The NET practitioner can assist you in reducing or eliminating the NEC utilizing specialized physical corrections in a timely basis over the spinal nerves in a specialized method. This intervention may assist in extinguishing an originally emotionally laden conditioned response, thereby diminishing nerve interference patterns to a healthier expression of your body's health.

A note about what NET is:
Before the discovery of neuropeptides, which literally carry emotions throughout our body, issues of the emotions were considered to be the near exclusive domain of the psychological practitioner. Our modern understanding of physiology has lead to the training of chiropractic physicians, family medical doctors, psychiatrists, as well as mental health providers who've achieved the doctoral degree level in their field, to be able to be trained in Neuro Emotional technique.

WHAT NET IS NOT ABOUT!
NET is not a "talk it through" psychotherapy. It is not a substitute at all for appropriate psychological or psychiatric therapy. NET is used by psychotherapists and health care practitioners of all disciplines along with other techniques in order to more quickly enhance their patient's results. NET practitioners are trained to refer to he appropriate specialists, when indicated.
NET is not a spiritual method and does not associate itself with divination or exorcising demons or entities. NET does not predict the future or deal in any way with parapsychology. NET does not make claims as to what has happened in the past, and it does not tell people what their plan of action should be in the future. NET in no way compromises traditional Judeo-Christian concerns whatsoever. It is a well-balanced technique to assist well-trained practitioners in helping good people resolve difficult health issues.

NET seeks to normalize neurological imbalances using a physical correction. NET helps remove "blockades" to the body's natural healing process, facilitating the natural and inherent recuperative capacities of the human being. It is important to recognize that these corrections do not make life's problems go away. However, a person with a more balanced nervous system often deals with life's problems more effectively.

NET embraces a general health model that emphasizes the importance of emotional biochemical/toxic/nutritional needs as well as structural and functional needs for balanced health. We tend to be healthier when all of these factors are more harmoniously balanced.

Although we find emotions may be a very important component of a particular healthcare issues, it is also very important to understand that any problem can include many factors. More complete healing begins as we discover, acknowledge, and deal with all of the appropriate causative factors in an ongoing health problem. Often, the return to health can be a process likened to the peeling away of the layers of an onion, as the various layers of issues of a chronic health problem become identified and may be shed moving you toward a more wholesome healing process.


Report Author:

Dr. Daniel P. Hillis is a chiropractic physician based in Florida with advanced training in the wise application of this technique as it may be integrated with a variety of women's health problems, from hormone balance to fibromyalgia to PMS and back pain.

Dr. Hillis began postdoctoral training in Applied Kinesiology and Sacro Occipital Technique and received training from many of the pioneers whose work eventually led to the formalization of the method called neuro Emotional Technique.

Dr. Hillis completed a certification training course in basic and advanced Neuro Emotional Technique at the University of Miami School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences in May of 2003.

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