Have You Had Your Hormones Checked?

Have you had your hormones checked?

I see women ask other women this all the time, and sadly, it is not the ideal question.

See, hormonal systems are extremely complex, and to have a hormone says nothing about the ability of a body to use a hormone, which is really the issue.  But, well meaning doctors have glomed onto this idea that if the levels are off and you supplement with the indicated hormone, you will create health in a woman affected by all the usual symptoms of a particular hormonal disturbance.  

Sadly, this is false.

See, there are thousands of complex reactions that have to take place for the true impact of our endogenous hormones to have an effect in the body, to add to this, the terrain has to be able to support hormonal balance and communication and the cells have to be able to respond.  The old model, which sadly is actually the current model for most docs (natural and conventional) is that there are receptors and hormones that interact with receptors and the impact of that is balance.

I have to tell you, this model has been proven wrong too many times to count.  Which means, just making hormones reach certain levels is not only faulty science,  but in truth, it is actually bad medicine.

The things you can’t see from a hormonal panel are: 

The state of the cell energy systems

The state of the matrix around the cells (which has to be a particular level of function for any hormonal signals to work)

The state of the liver (which has to be able to conjugate hormones once you have used them and be able to detox what it has conjugated)

So, we test for hormones, then supplemen the low ones in some really wild attempt at bringing balance to the body without regard to how the body systems were functioning which created the disturbance in hormonal levels in the first place.  It is really an act of putting the cart before the horse.  In operating this way, we burden the cells, we burden the matrix, we burden the liver and in most people, these systems were the exact ones which were exhausted, inflamed and toxic which created the hormonal disturbance in the first place.

By operating this way, we guarantee inflammation, we guarantee lower cell function and we guarantee diminished detoxification capacity.  

Now, just to be clear, you cannot go do detox to remedy this, because detoxification capacity is not the same thing as detox, the capacity comes from the cells ability to sustain a high energy state, the matrix aka the area around the cell’s ability to flow and move compounds out of it and the nutrient cofactors needed for detox being present and the liver’s ability to release via bile into the intestine.

So, those casual recommendations to “have your hormones checked” are sadly, not the best way to bring balance back to your body or to secure future health or to enhance your longevity or to improve your resistance to chronic disease.

Instead, the ideal is to work with body systems, to assess what the state of the cell is, how the systems are interacting, how the matrix is performing, how the organs are in terms of strength and nutrient needs and then to restore the balance!

This is what I do with my clients, we restore the balance, instead of clogging the system with hormones and compounds without regard for what is really happening in the body.

This is HEALING

This is compassionate deference to the wisdom of our body and true whole system partnership with our DIVINE creation ...US!!!!

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