Minor hormones rejuvenate your sense of wellness and create the peace of mind you want as you get older.    Decreases in your minor hormones leads to menopause.  The decrease in your minor hormones makes it harder to heal after an injury.    Decreasing your minor hormones leads to the decline in your quality of life.  Are those enough reasons to think these hormones aren’t very minor?

Everybody is looking for the fountain of youth.  Replacing and balancing minor hormones is as close as you can get to taking a drink from that fountain.  So identifying problems with your minor hormones is the best place to start to get in line for that drink.  

Just talk to any woman in her 40’s about hormones, they know their body is changing.  PMS is estimated to effect up to 75% of women in their child bearing years.  PMS is most common from the late 20’s to mid 40’s.  50 to 60% of women with severe PMS also suffer from depression.  

These women don’t think sex hormones are minor.  PMS has a dramatic effect on their life and all they want is to feel good again.

There are 3 levels of PMS.  Mild menstrual syndrome describes physical and emotional symptoms present but those symptoms don’t interfere with daily activities.  Pre-menstrual syndrome describes the second level of PMS; these symptoms significantly interfere with daily activity.  Finally, Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder describes the worst level, when severe symptoms interfere with most daily activities.  This disorder occurs in an estimated 5 to 7% of women. 

Common physical symptoms of PMS include: back pain, swelling, cramps, muscle spasms, breast tenderness, weight gain, cold sores, acne, nausea, bouts of constipation and diarrhea, decreased coordination, food cravings and painful periods.  Any or all of these physical symptoms can be seen at any time with PMS.

Common emotional symptoms of PMS include:  anxiety or panic, confusion or forgetfulness, difficulty concentrating, poor judgment, depression, irritability, increased guilt, fatigue, decreased self image, change or loss of sex drive and decreased tolerance for noises and light.  Any or all of these emotional symptoms can be seen at anytime a woman is experiencing PMS.

This discussion is like preaching to the choir for most women over 40.  These symptoms are monthly reminders of the stage of life they’re in and it’s not for sissies!  Changes in your sex hormones create serious problems in the way you feel, act and the amount of energy you have.

So what can you do about it?

There are many treatments available.  The most basic treatment is eating right and exercising. Hundreds of studies link proper body composition and good nutrition to decreased PMS symptoms.  If you work out and eat right many of your symptoms will disappear.

A second more popular way of treating PMS is prescription drugs.  Hormone Replacement Therapy has been done for decades.  The standard protocol in Hormone Replacement Therapy is oral synthetic hormones given in different doses until the symptoms subside.  These hormones have been created in the lab from horse urine.

Another popular way of treating PMS symptoms is adding anti-depressants or anti-anxiety drugs to the mix when hormone replacement therapy hasn’t decreased the symptoms to the patient’s satisfaction.  These mood altering drugs affect your nervous system by turning down the volume of what you feel.  People describe these drugs as putting a wet blanket over everything so you basically feel nothing…good or bad.

Finally, an alternative to prescription drug therapy is beginning to become more popular.  Nutritional supplements such as black cohosh, and many others have shown promise in relieving PMS symptoms.  These supplements work naturally to bring your body back into balance.  But sometimes these supplements aren’t enough to treat severe cases.

Another alternative to classic drug therapy is called Natural Hormone Replacement therapy.  This therapy differs from standard hormone replacement therapy by using natural hormones from a plant source, not a synthetically produced hormone from a laboratory. 

You might be thinking to yourself, “What’s the difference?”  Well the difference is very important.

This difference has been argued and debated for years.  Basically any compound produced in a lab doesn’t have the same natural energy found in that compound from an un-altered source.  This natural energy is called bioavailability.  The more bioavailability a compound is, the more energy that compound has to produce positive change in your body.  Doesn’t it make sense that natural compounds always work better than man-made compounds.

To make this difference a little more real life, visualize the difference between a prime cut of Filet Mignon and a hot dog. 

They’re the same thing…right?  They are both made from cows so they must be exactly the same.

This argument has been used by the food and drug manufacturing companies for the last 70 years.   The same basic molecules are being used, with the same chemical structure; therefore the healing value of the synthetic molecules made in the laboratory must be the same as the natural compound.

Anyone who has eaten a filet mignon will tell you it tastes better than a hot dog.  Why is that?  The filet is butchered directly from the cow’s most tender and lean part.  There is nothing else done to it.  There is only 1 step from the cow to the table.  And man is it tasty!

Now let’s look at a hot dog.  Scraps from different cuts of meat are put together with fillers, chemicals, preservatives and red dye #2 and shoved into an artificial casing.  Only God knows how many steps it takes to create the finished hot dog.  Does it taste as good as a filet?  Does it have the same nutritional value as the filet?  Of course not.

Are you beginning to see the difference between naturally occurring vitamins and hormones and synthetic vitamins and hormones?  The argument has always been synthetic vitamins and hormones have the exact same molecular structure so they must act the same way natural hormones and vitamins do.

Let’s take this argument to the dinner table.  If you took all the chemicals and compounds from a laboratory and put it together to make a filet would it taste as good as coming from ol’ Besse?

So why have the food and drug companies argued this fact so long?  Profit.  These companies are in business to make a profit.  It is much less expensive to distill vitamins and create drugs from synthetic sources than it is to extract them from natural sources.   It makes financial sense to get these compounds inexpensively so they can sell it at a reasonable price and still turn a profit.  That’s just good business.

The problem is this good business has been based on information that is faulty.  Your body can’t utilize synthetic vitamins and drugs as well as organic natural vitamins or hormones.  There are energies and natural vibration patterns in nature’s vitamins and hormones that cannot be duplicated in the laboratory.

There are literally hundreds of cofactors, phytonutrients, enzymes and mineral activators found in natural vitamins and hormones that are not found in synthetic vitamins and hormones.  These ingredients have profound effects on the actions of these compounds in your body.  These subtle energies are important in creating the proper downstream effects of vitamins and hormones within your body.

Downstream effects are events that happen once a vitamin or hormone has been activated in your body.  Downstream effects create wellness.  Synthetic hormones and vitamins can’t create the same downstream effects; therefore they can’t create wellness to the same degree.    

You know you have to do something about your PMS.  But the more you look around the more confused you get.  Every time you go out on a limb and buy something (like a new vitamin, exercise machine or diet plan) you end up with less money, more fat and more frustration than you started. 

I understand how you feel.  You have the right to test any program to see if it will work effectively and efficiently for you before you make another large investment of your hard earned money and your time.

The proof is in the pudding.  A new age of lifestyle modification is developing.  Fabulous results are being seen in many programs around the country.  I have participated in many of these programs and have taken the best parts and combined them with the innovation of the Real Life Wellness Brain Map technology to re-invent and rejuvenate your body and hormone systems like never before.