I got his book today. Wondering if anyone ever put his approach into practice?
Hi Andrea
I have seen his webpage but I didn’t buy the book or anything. What does it say? Does it recommend you buy lots of ‘bioidentical’ hormones from his company? Would be interested to know your thoughts. I was personally a bit scared about taking something I had bought off the internet.
Becky x
Yes it does. Being very specific about the supplements, like Magnesium needs to be in an “-ate” form rather than the common oxidized form. Of course easily found on his web site and not else where. It talks about adding bioidentical progesterone but I am so leery about that. 10 years ago my OB thought adding progesterone my help my migraines and put me on a low-dose progesterone only BC pill. I ended up with the headache from h— that lasted for over a month. Finally ended when I became pregnant. So the thought of adding any kind of progesterone scares me. I really wonder about the magnesium…does the form really make that much difference. I did not notice that the form mattered in the studies I read.
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Yes it does. Being very specific about the supplements, like Magnesium needs to be in an “-ate” form rather than the common oxidized form. Of course easily found on his web site and not else where. It talks about adding bioidentical progesterone but I am so leery about that. 10 years ago my OB thought adding progesterone my help my migraines and put me on a low-dose progesterone only BC pill. I ended up with the headache from h— that lasted for over a month. Finally ended when I became pregnant. So the thought of adding any kind of progesterone scares me. I really wonder about the magnesium…does the form really make that much difference. I did not notice that the form mattered in the studies I read.
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Yup, it seems to matter, at least anything is better than oxide.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1459 … d_RVDocSum
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1179 … d_RVDocSum
— Begin quote from “9kidsus”
Yes it does. Being very specific about the supplements, like Magnesium needs to be in an “-ate” form rather than the common oxidized form. Of course easily found on his web site and not else where. It talks about adding bioidentical progesterone but I am so leery about that. 10 years ago my OB thought adding progesterone my help my migraines and put me on a low-dose progesterone only BC pill. I ended up with the headache from h— that lasted for over a month. Finally ended when I became pregnant. So the thought of adding any kind of progesterone scares me. I really wonder about the magnesium…does the form really make that much difference. I did not notice that the form mattered in the studies I read.
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First of all, there is no such thing as a low- dose progesterone only BC pill. None exists and never has. What is in BC pills of any kind is progestin, not progesterone.
Progestin is a nasty synthetic drug which actually excites the nervous system, whereas real progesterone calms the nervous system.
Any competent doctor knows BC’s have no progesterone in them. BC pills actually keep your own body from producing progesterone because they halt ovulation.
If you don’t ovulate, no progesterone is produced by your body in that monthly cycle. The only FDA approved oral form of progesterone is called Prometrium.
Migraines are abundant in scenarios where hormones rapidly fluctuate up or down. (Perimenopause is fraught with women in this situation).
I know some women who use topical estrogen and get a migraine in an hour. Yes they need the estrogen but it hits the body so fast, the rapid fluctuation
can set off a migraine.
FWIW, I’d stay away from those internet hormone guys. See a competent doctor in person (easier said than done) and ask if they know any doctors in your city
who specialize in balancing hormones. You could also call a compounding pharmacy in your city and ask for some doctor’s names who use their pharmacy for hormone
prescriptions.
Heather