MACA AND NEW NATURAL MENOAPUSE TREATMENT

MACA AND MENOPAUSE

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Some doctors feel that maca may be able to serve as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy [HRT]. Can you explain how it works in that way?

Dr. Viana Muller: Perhaps it is best understood put in the context of other "natural" alternatives to the pharmaceutical hormone replacement therapy, such as Premarin. Premarin and Provera, the two most widely prescribed hormone replacement therapies in America are respectively synthetic estrogen, made from pregnant horses' urine and synthetic progesterone, manufactured in the factory and called 'progestin.' Both of these synthetic substances will partially "hook up" like a key in a lock with the estrogen and progesterone receptors in a woman's body but they are actually a very poor fit.

The human body can only use two out of the eight horse estrogens in Premarin and the other six estrogens just circulate in her blood stream. The progestin is such a poor fit it actually greatly increases a woman's chance of getting breast cancer, and the longer she uses it, the higher her risk of breast cancer. The estrogen receptors, by the way, are found all over the body, not just in the ovary, the uterus, and the breasts, and the vagina, but also in the brain, the heart, the bladder, in fact, in every organ, and in fact, in all human tissue both in men as well as women. Progesterone receptors and testosterone receptors are found in fewer tissues, both in women and men. The ratios of all of these hormones are different in women and men.

"Natural" pharmaceutical hormone replacement therapy is also manufactured in the pharmaceutical laboratory but in a different way. The 'natural' estradiol is synthetically produced Estradiol Beta 17. It does not start out as horse urine but is manufactured from scratch with the molecules produced synthetically being a much better match for the real thing than the horse estrogen. The 'natural' progesterone is derived from a plant, the wild Mexican yam, which in its natural state does not have any progesterone in it.

Once it is processed in a laboratory and one of its chemical compounds extracted and transformed by laboratory processes, it ends up with a chemical structure very similar to human progesterone. This type of 'natural progesterone' is not harmful and in fact has been shown to have beneficial effects. But of course, taking natural HRT still involves taking hormones, and it has been shown that once you begin to regularly take a certain hormone your body will stop producing that hormone since it is already provided from the outside. The human ovaries, if HRT is not given, will produce some estrogen (in the forms of both estradiol and estriol) and progesterone throughout a woman's life, although in reduced quantities after menopause.

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