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...I found that it's very well absorbed through the skin, 40 to 70 times more efficiently, than if you take it by mouth. There are companies that are making progesterone pills. See, anybody that wants to can buy this progesterone on the wholesale market. Some people are putting it into pills. Well, I looked up some of the studies that have been done and the skin is 40-70 times more efficient. Which means, if I give somebody 10 or 20 milligrams by a little glop of the cream, and it's all absorbed, the doctor might then give the person 200-400 milligrams orally. Ten to twenty times greater, because when you take it orally, being fat soluble like Vitamin E, beta carotene, Vitamin A and so forth, it goes to the liver. The liver excretes it in bile, Metabolizes it, congregates it and binds it to bile and out it goes. So the person only ends up with about 5% of what you gave them. In the meantime you put the liver to all this extra work and you're creating artificial metabolites that aren't the same, you don't know what their function is. There's no reason not to use the skin. The skin is by far better.

You all know about the estroderm patches? How many people know about that? If you look up the weekly dose of the patch and then turn to PDR, Physician Desk Reference and look up the same company that sells not only the patch but the pills, the same dose to get the same effect taken orally has to be 70 times higher. Therefore the skin is 70 times more efficient. Isn't that something? This doesn't apply to everything, but it applies to these particular molecules. These are slightly smaller than a cholesterol molecule. They're fat soluble, they have the right sort of electromagnetic charge, they pass through skin, get picked up by the fat underneath, it gets into the blood stream, it rides around on the red blood cells.

I used to have doctors who would see a patient who is on the progesterone and I'd say, "well, lets do a blood test." They'd draw a serum and a plasma level and they wouldn't find much there. They'd say, "oh, this cream must be a fake." Well this has been answered now. There's been a beautiful study done in April. Some French doctors gave some women some progesterone cream and they measured it in the blood stream, in the serum. They also measured the change in the breast tissue. Turns out the breast tissue concentration went up 100 times but the serum concentration didn't change at all. How did it get to the breasts? By the blood. What part of the blood? On the good old red blood cells and the calimicrons but not in the watery plasma because fat and water don't mix.

Now when the ovary makes it prior to menopause, it wraps it in a protein which makes it water soluble. But the amount that's bound to the protein is not biologically active. Only 1-9% of the level the doctor finds in the serum is biologically active. The rest stays bound to the protein. So even thought the doctor gets higher numbers when it's made by the ovary, he doesn't know that only 1-9% is actually working. So, this is just another way of showing.

The doctor does the test, he draws the blood serum, the lab tells him they don't find much progesterone, the doctor draws the wrong conclusion. His conclusion is, "that cream isn't working." But the patient says, "but my fibrocystic breasts have turned back to normal. My bones are getting better." The doctor says, "placebo." (Laughter) The doctor doesn't even think, "I'm looking in the wrong part of the blood!" Isn't that something? You see, how conclusions can be made from a finding, and the conclusions are 180 degrees wrong. But the doctor doesn't know that unless he thinks about progesterone. I would say 99.9% of all the people calling me, and all the patients that I've seen over the years that have seen other doctors, the doctor has never once measured their progesterone level.

We now have a better way. The World Health Organization for the last 5 years has been using saliva. The saliva gland, when it makes the saliva, in the process excretes in the saliva all the cortical sterols, all the cortisone, the testosterone, the estrogen, the progesterone, the DHEA, it's all in saliva. Now they can be calculated from the level in the saliva. You can calculate what the body level is. And it only excretes the biologically active form. So you're getting a direct or proportionate measure of the body levels biologically active hormone by using saliva.

The World Health Organization uses it because number one it's accurate, number two the saliva can be stored without changing the numbers, number three it's relevant, it's really measuring the biologically active form, number four it's cheaper, number five it's easier to get. When you're out doing nations of people and cities and colonies and tribes and people all around the world, it's much easier to get saliva specimens than it is to go out with nurses and come back with blood tests that have to be analyzed within 12 hours.

This is now available, and in the book I tell, for instance there's a lab in California, Dr. Zava's Aaron lab, and he's been doing these tests on people for three years now himself, and they're very accurate, and they're much less expensive than blood tests, and he's developed a mailing kit. (click here Saliva Hormone Test to learn more or to order) You collect your saliva and send it back and he'll tell you what your estrogen and progesterone levels were. You don't even have to go to the doctor. He has enough of an explanation so then you can show it to your doctor and the doctor will be able to learn. You can teach your doctor. They're teachable. Not very, (laughter) but with effort you can.

Okay, now we come to the second part of my talk. I'm going to explain how all this came about. Remember how I told you that I didn't think mother nature would put women through this, there has to be a reason? When I first got into it I thought, "oh, it's our bad diet." We in America eat way too much animal fat, we eat way too much sugar and highly refined foods, we eat way too many milk products with all the cows hormones in there.

Homogenized milk is a very unnatural thing, shouldn't be drunk by a grownup. There's no animal in the world with breasts, who's children come back to drink their mothers milk when they grow up. And they ask us to drink this mothers milk of this other animal! Craziness. 75% of the people around the world live where there's no milk. There's no cows, and they've got good bones, good teeth, and they beat us at the Olympics every 4 years, (laughter) there's no reason to drink milk.

Anyway, I thought it was diet. Then, the other thing I was thinking about was stress. We know that the control of these hormones emanates from the hypothalamus center in our brain, the limbic brain. The limbic brain is where all the stress manifests itself. All of these computer like things for stomach acid and for blood pressure and rapid pulse and having to urinate or blushing or anything, it all comes through computers in that part of the brain. Can you imagine? You get a little embarrassed you turn red all over. That's blushing. You don't plan to do this, it's not a thing you can tell your body to do. In fact, you only blush down to where the blouse line is. Isn't that interesting? How does the brain know that? Imagine how clever the darn brain is.

Well, at any rate, it's the brain that sends the signal to the pituitary to tell the ovary when to start the period and when to stop. We know that at college age when women have the most definite periods of all time, if they have some emotional stress it can throw their periods off. The break-up of a relationship, a test that they did badly on, losing out at some silly sorority house, whatever it is it can mess up their periods.

We also know you can take three unrelated women, have them room together at college time and by the end of the year their periods are all in synchrony. Isn't that something? They didn't plan that. The brain does that.

So I thought: diet, stress. But still I thought, "well, we've had bad diet and stress all the times people have been on earth. Why is this happening to people now?" They're getting breast cancer, they're getting PMS, they're getting fibrocystic breast disease, they're getting even more of it, they're getting it earlier, it's more intense and the breast cancers are worse. We're not winning the war against breast cancer. No amount of mammograms going to do it, no amount of self examination is going to do it. Doesn't change anything, we're getting more breast cancer, and where is all this coming from?

Well we know that estrogen makes it, we know that progesterone protects against it, but what's happened to the progesterone when we do measurements? For instance Dr. Terri Lynn Pryor, chief of Women's Endocrinology up in the University of British Columbia in Vancouver tested female athletes who were getting osteoporosis. 24 year old long distance runner breaks her leg, her hip, they have osteoporosis.

The common thought is, "oh, they're running so hard their fat level is down and they're not making estrogen." She tested that and she found the estrogen was fine. The progesterone was gone. Lack of progesterone makes osteoporosis. See, I like that particular reference because here I was seeing elderly people with osteoporosis and I was giving them progesterone and their bones were getting better and she was seeing young people who had low progesterone and their bones were getting worse. So it all fits. Isn't that nice?

Well, she thought it was due to the running. Then she tested women who weren't marathon runners. And she found that by the time they're 35, 50% of the women in North America are missing their progesterone. Whoa! By age 35, 50% of you aren't making the progesterone you ought to be making.

Then a study done by Dr. Peter Ellison who worked for the World Health Organization with the saliva hormone essay, he was asked to use his saliva business to test a long standing theory, that at the time of ovulation, women make a burst of testosterone to explain their increased libido. It's kind of a male conceit I think, that it has to be testosterone to make women have a burst of some extra libido. But he took 18 normally, healthy, sexually active women and using his saliva test measured for testosterone every day for 3 cycles to see if a spurt of testosterone coincided with ovulation.

But he knew that he had to find out when the ovulation time was. So he also had to do a progesterone level every day throughout the 3 cycles because you never make progesterone unless you do ovulate. So to his amazement, out of these 18 women, the average age was 29, seven of them were not ovulating. Whoa! 7 out of 18, average age 29, normal, functional, sexually active women, didn't have any progesterone. Something strange was going on here.

Well, the answer came about the last couple years. It turns out that down in lake Apopka in Florida, second largest lake in Florida, everybody noticed the alligators were dying off. So they hired Dr. Louis Gillette Jr. from Florida University, professor and his students, to examine the alligators and find out why this was happening because it wasn't happening in other lakes. It was also happening to the Florida cougar, and deer and foxes and was happening to frogs and toads around this lake and not other places.

So they examined them and they found that in the female alligator's large ovaries, the follicles were all burned out or damaged. The follicles. They're the ones that make the eggs, and they're the ones that make the progesterone. They could look through the microscope and they could see these damaged follicles. They went back to younger and younger female alligators and they found that it originates in the embryo stage, when the alligator embryo is only 12-15 days old. Something is happening to the follicle that they're going to end up not being able to make eggs, not being able to make progesterone. It starts at the embryo stage. And then later in life it continues to happen but the most sensitive time of life is the embryo stage.

This is why the FDA and the NIH and the National Institutes of health, and the EPA all missed it. The way they test for toxicity is to give a suspicious chemical to a normal animal and then see if the animal gets sick some time or another. See, these females didn't appear sick.

The other way is to give it to them until they have a baby and then examine the baby and see if the baby's deformed, has some kind of congenital abnormality somewhere. The baby's come out looking fine because the doctors weren't looking at the ovaries to look for the follicles on the inside.

Well, they then examined the males and they observed that the males had very small testicles and small penises. In the testicles the sicoli cell is the male equivalent of the follicle cell, and the sicoli cells in the males were all burned out. They weren't producing sperm.

So now we know why the alligators were not reproducing right. The females weren't making enough eggs, they weren't making progesterone, and the males weren't making enough sperm. Well they looked around the world at the sperm banks to say, "I wonder what's happened to people?"

In the sperm banks in all the industrialized countries over the last 30 years sperm production has fallen 50%. FIFTY PERCENT! If you draw a line from where it was 30 years ago down to the sperm production now and continue that same line, you can calculate that the last person to father a baby in the United States has probably already been born. In two generations we're going to run out! Now it might be it's not going to go down to zero, maybe it's just going to level off, we're going to find some people who are still able to make the sperms, still able to make an egg, but these animals showed other things, they had cross beaks, they had thyroid abnormalities, they had tumors here and there, they were sick in other ways.

They did not know what was causing it but some old geyser living down at Lake Apopka said, "we know what happened. There was a big chemical spill here 8 years ago," so they went back and talked to the company and they said, "oh yeah, we accidentally discharged a whole bunch of this insecticide we were making into the lake, but we've checked the water and there's not a sign of it left. So Dr. Gillette checked the water and there's no sign of it left and still this was happening.

Then he checked the bottom of the lake where those little plants and those little clams and little creatures live, crawdads and whatnot. In the body fat of the plants and the creatures, there's where all the insecticide is. And those are the creatures that give rise up the food chain up to what the alligators eventually eat, what the frogs and the toads were eating and so on.

It turns out this insecticide along with about 5000 other petrochemicals that we now call xenoestrogens, foreign estrogens, or xenobiotics, foreign to the life of your own cells, these chemicals are all fat soluble, they go into body fat and none are biodegradable. They do not ever get degraded. We do not have the enzymes, the metabolic machinery to degrade these, to eliminate them, to get rid of them. When we die, they get in the soil and get picked up by some other creatures. They end up getting swept out into the channels out into the lakes and the ocean, and they're showing up now in the penguins down in the south pole.

In every creature studied, seagulls, salmon, humans, cougars, toads, amphibians of all sorts, fish of all sorts and the alligators, in every creature it damages the follicles in the ovaries and the sicoli cells in the testicles. Isn't that something? Plus it damages the thyroid hormone's ability to do it's work. Plus it can cause cancers throughout the urogenital tract.

The classic example of course is DES. Remember? They gave that to women 25-30 years ago, women who were thought to be at risk of losing their pregnancy. That was the first classic xenoestrogen. A synthetic compound that does estrogen like things. Actually, in the long run, it turns out it didn't change the success of their pregnancy. But the babies that were born, if they were females, when they grew up to be 25 or 30, they had a risk of cancer of the cervix cancer of the vagina that was 100's of times above the average. I mean, they're rare, but it was 100's of times higher than the average among non-exposed women.

You see, the damage occurred when they were in the embryo stage and it showed up when they were 25 or 30.

So here we have a new epidemic, hitting industrialized nations in the latter half of the 20th century. We've been making these compounds for 50 years now, the first one was DDT. You all know that we banned DDT in this country? That means the DDT manufacturers moved to Mexico, Central America, North Africa, all around the world, there's more DDT produced in the world now than before we banned it. They use it on their crops, and on their people, and in their lakes and in everything, and we buy the crops and bring it back now that we have gas and we have all these wonderful things. Companies can grow things elsewhere and bring it back to the United States for sale. It's coming back to the United States in higher quantities than ever before. We have DDT poisoning going on right now. These are xenoestrogens.

So the full extent of this epidemic, will not be realized until another generation and a half from now. Isn't that amazing? We don't know how bad it's going to get. There are some good signs. Israel banned the use of all insecticides, but still allows a lousy diet in some of their communities, they still allow other things that can be considered risk factors, and the incidence of breast cancer has fallen over 50% in Israel in the 10 years since they banned it. I mean there's just powerful evidence that this stuff does something to make you more susceptible to breast cancer and to other cancers.

So now we have the full circle. We have an epidemic of illnesses related to progesterone deficiency and I have defined a condition called estrogen dominance that results.

By the way, Dr. Ellison found the other factor in raising women's estrogen levels higher than normal is the total amount of extra calories we eat in this country. If we look at other countries in the third world, the amount of calories they eat barely matches the amount of physical energy they expend. If you reduce the amount of calories you eat, estrogen levels fall. If you increase the amount of calories you eat in relation to the expenditure, estrogen levels rise.

Dr. Ellison says that if the Doctors believe the lab tests that come back, where it says the normal range of estrogen is truly normal, it means the doctors don't understand what's going on. Our normals are merely typical results found at this time in America. It doesn't mean it's good for people. Don't ever understand that normal in medical terms means it's good. Normal means you take 100 people and see what the results are. You find the average or the mean, and you take two standard deviations, knock off two and a half percent off either end, and that's called normal. He said the normals in the petrochemical societies are so high in comparison to the 75% of the people who are in so called emerging or third world countries, that we are the abnormalists.

So we have an abnormally high estrogen level, because in general so many people eat more than their work really needs. We have a lot of workers who are not expending a lot of physical energy like they do in the third world countries. So you all have extra high estrogen. You have extra low progesterone. Because your follicles are not able to produce the progesterone having been damaged by these petrochemicals. So there's a very strange mix and I call it estrogen dominance. It's due to the high estrogen from the diet, it's due from the high estrogen the doctors are giving the people. Every women over 40 who goes to the doctor with any complaint at all is going to get an estrogen prescription. Guaranteed. The third factor is that your progesterone is low. So the balance you see, favors the estrogen. That's why I call it estrogen dominance.

I went back to Minnesota for my 40th medical school class reunions last June and I got to talk to a lot of my colleagues and their wives. Everyone of them at my age, 65, 66, they're on estrogen. Or they've had their breasts operated on, or they've had a hysterectomy, or they've had a cancer, their body fat's increasing, they have all these side effects. Now that I'm familiar with all of this, I recognize estrogen dominance all over the place.

Then my sister arranged a family meeting with all sorts of cousins and nieces and nephews and second cousins and second nephews and nieces I've never met in the last 40 years, and we had a get-together at somebody's cabin on a lake in Minnesota. It's a very Scandinavian thing to do. You get together at somebody's cabin on a lake, despite the mosquitoes, and the algae in the water and everything. But at any rate, we all got together and it was fun to see all these kids I never saw before. But I got talking to some of the mothers and I talked to 4 or 5 of them, they're all 40, 45, 50 years old now. Every single one has had a hysterectomy already. The story's all the same.

They hit 40, 42, they notice a little change going on in their periods. They're putting on a little more weight. Their breasts are a little more full, sometimes tender. They have headaches more. They lose interest in sex. Their body's changing and they don't like what's happening. They're not sleeping as well. They go to the doctor and he says, "well my dear, you're approaching menopause, you need estrogen." The doctor never measures the progesterone. What it means to me is they've been low on progesterone for 5 or 6 years already. And these things are happening.

So he puts them on estrogen and after a month or two they come back and say, "I don't think that's working so well, I'm bloating up even more, my breasts are even more swollen....," he says, "oh, that's because I didn't give you ENOUGH." So he raises the estrogen level.

Then she starts getting spotting and more blood and starts getting clots along with her period because this is stimulating to the lining of the uterus, to make more stuff. So he says, "oh, this might be cancer, we'd better do a D&C." So they have a D&C and they find guess what? Hyperplasia. He MADE the Hyperplasia! That's the whole function of estrogen, is to tell those cells to multiply, divide, make more. He made the Hyperplasia. And he says, "hyperplasia's the first sign you're developing cancer of the uterus, we've got an appointment for you next Wednesday to have your uterus out." Every single one of them went for it. Isn't that something?

We've GOT to change the doctors. How do we do that? We get intelligent, assertive women who understand what the problem is and THEY educate the doctors. That's what we've got to do.

I want to add one more thing and that is a collection of papers put together by a lady, Brenda Adelman, in Sonoma County where I live. She invited all of those animal scientists who've been doing research on the salmon and the toads, the cougar, the alligators, these scientists that she could get a hold of in the United States and Canada. She asked them to come to Sonoma County to have a symposium one day and she got 6 or 7 of them. These are the world authorities on the xenoestrogen. They came and she made copies of all their papers plus the pictures of the slides they showed and where they all come from.

We're talking not just insecticides but the outgassing of the petrochemicals in the backing of carpets, we're talking about the low fat foods. They say, "how can it taste so nice and fatty and there's no fat in it?" Those are petrochemical fats and oils and they're all poisonous for you. We're talking about the plastic on the dashboards of cars. You drive to the grocery stores and go to church and it sits in the hot sun, and all of these are outgassing through the interior of the car. Then you get into the car and drive home and breath this stuff in. We're talking plastics all over the place. We're talking emulsifiers that are in the whipping cream and things like that, it's all these petrochemical things. They all act like xenoestrogens.

Anyway, this lady put together a symposium. Best thing I've seen. Cost 90 bucks to go to the symposium and I got to talk to these scientists, and to everyone of them I said, "when you look at the ovaries, tell me again, what did you see?" "Well," they said, "the follicles are all burned out, there were abnormal clusters of cells and there were broken pieces of ova eggs and sometimes triple eggs and things like that, it was obviously dysfunctional." Not one of them was aware of the importance of that in humans, the importance of the loss of progesterone. So nobody's writing about that. They just say, "yeah, we saw the dysfunctional problem."

But at any rate, the other thing is Dr. Zava at the Aeron Labs, he's become very interested in this. In addition to doing progesterone levels on human saliva, he's been doing progesterone levels on all the creams that have come out. Are you aware that since I wrote my book two years ago more companies are jumping in with all sorts of creams? They're advertising themselves as if they've got THE progesterone cream. One is called Progerome, Progestone HG and all these things. He's been analyzing all these for progesterone content. Turns out there's only 5 or 6 that have the progesterone that I think is physiologically normal.

The cream that I've always used has 400-480 of progesterone per ounce. So I could tell people to use an ounce a month over 24 days, and I know that they're going to get 20 milligrams a day. You see how simple that is? Doctors will say, "how does Dr. Lee know how much to give?" Well, 20 milligrams a day is the normal amount that the ovary makes and that's what I want people to have. It's a physiological normal amount. And it was easy when it was that.

Now there's a whole bunch of creams that only have 2 milligrams per ounce. Then there's another bunch of creams he couldn't find any. Two milligrams spread out over 30 days is nothing. And nothing spread out over 30 days is also nothing. (Laughter) I'm happy to see here that the Allen's who invited me to come here today, their cream came out good.

The thing I wanted to tell you about is Dr. Seth said, "well how does Dr. Lee know these things? It's circumstantial evidence. He's counting up the patients who get better, maybe it's the diet put them on, maybe it's a placebo, maybe they believe." I always say when they bring that up, "if it's a placebo, it's a really GOOD placebo. You know, it works! (Laughter) It's been working now for 15, 16 years.

But it's true, no one has done a double blind study. Until recently. Love it! There's some French doctors in Taiwan, with some Taiwan doctors, who had 40 female patients lined up. Young, menstruating, healthy female patients lined up for some minor breast surgery. Ten days before the breast surgery they gave a fourth of them a cream, just like happy PMS cream, same dose. Ten days before, and they rubbed a little dab in making 20-25 milligrams a day for 10 days. The other group was given an estrogen cream. The third group was given a mix of the two creams, a combination. Very good. The fourth one was given a placebo cream with no hormone in it.

So we had four groups out of 40 women, they all had their surgery 10 days later. At the time of surgery they were able to get some breast tissue. From the breast tissue they measured the hormone concentration. So you had the placebo group and that was the background hormone concentration, typical woman without any hormone.

Those that were receiving the progesterone, their progesterone concentration went up 100 times. Nice normal full progesterone levels as if she had ovulated. The ones that got the estrogen cream, they rose like 100 times higher too. So this test, right there proved that both estrogen and progesterone are well absorbed through the skin.

They get to the target tissues in full physiological concentrations. These doctors also measured where it was in the blood plasma during these days. How much was in the blood serum?

When they did that, they couldn't find any progesterone in the serum at all. The serum's the watery part of the blood, no cells, no fats, no nothing, just the watery part. The doctors have been measuring the wrong part of the blood all these years! Isn't that amazing? Having proven that it gets from the skin to the breast tissue, it had to get there somehow. It was carried by the blood, but it was carried by the red blood cell membranes and fatty things. Not in the serum. I hope you see that distinction.

When the doctor says, "we did a blood test," you should say, "what part of the blood did you use doctor?" "I used the watery part" "why'd you do that? This is a fat soluble thing we're looking for." So you can help educate the doctors this way.

Then, they did two tests on the breast tissue, two different ways of counting how fast the breast cells in the milk ducts were multiplying. You understand, cancer is not something out there. Cancer is a normal cell which multiplies itself more rapidly than it ought to. That's what cancer is. So they're looking to see how fast the breast milk duct cells are multiplying. They know what the normal rate was because they could see it on the women who were receiving the placebo cream.

On those receiving the progesterone cream, it dropped the rate to about 15% of what the normal was, it slowed the cells down. They could take their time. The instruction of progesterone to your cells all over your body is "slow up, relax, don't multiply so fast, mature, differentiate, become what you're supposed to become."

The estrogen taking women, their cells were multiplying at a rate 250% faster. The message of estrogen is, "get to work, multiply, make more of yourselves, proliferate, become more." That's what you don't want. It happens on fat cells, it happens on breast cells, it happens on cells inside the uterus, it happens wherever estrogen has a receptor. It stimulates cell proliferation. Unopposed by progesterone that leads to cancer.

Now we have the fourth group that had the combination cream. The question was, who's going to win? Is the estrogen part of it going to stimulate more rapid proliferation, or is the progesterone part going to hold it down? Among the dose they used, progesterone won. It kept the proliferation rate down to the low normal range. Stopped that estrogen from multiplying.

So now we see, what we've got is an epidemic of estrogen dominance going on. The estrogen can come from the xenoestrogens, it can come from the estrogen the doctors are giving inappropriately, it can come from the more estrogen you make because you're eating more fat, and more sugars and more calories than you truly need, and it can come from the fact that your ovaries are not making the right amount of progesterone.

So what can you do about it? Pretty simple, you quit overeating, you quit exposing yourself to all the xenoestrogens by eating food that doesn't have all this animal fat in it. What do we call that food? Veggies! Plant food! We get along fine with plant food. We get all the protein, all the vitamins, all the amino acids, all the minerals, everything comes from plants. All we need is a variety of plants. It doesn't matter. You can eat any particular plant you want as long as you eat a variety. You should eat the whole plant, eat the leaves, stems, stalks, roots, the tubers, the flowers, the fruit, the whole works, and eat them as unprocessed as possible. Eat them the way your grandparents ate their vegetables. They had gardens, they went out and picked them. Okay? Then you can have your progesterone measured.

If you are over 35 and if you are having any of these changes we are talking about, swollen breasts, fibrocystic breasts, more water retention, loss of libido, obesity, depression, low thyroid, these are all signs of low progesterone. The only way you're going to find out is to measure for it, and the measurement should be the saliva test. I didn't have access to the saliva test in the many years that I've been doing this. I did it because I learned to recognize estrogen dominance. It isn't that tough. Anyone who does this any period of time, they'll pick up on it very easily. The woman herself will know. The best laboratory in the world is the woman's body herself.

It's good for PMS which is strictly estrogen dominance. The dosage has to be individualized that's not strange, we're all individuals, we all differ. It's safe to use. The skin that it's well absorbed through is the face, the neck, the hands, the upper chest, the inside of your arms, wherever there's thin skin and large areas and plenty of capillaries. So every place you can blush, every place that your skin is relatively thin. If you look at palms, they tend to be pink. The pink palms mean there's more capillaries there. Isn't that amazing?

I think of the couples that I've taught over the years, advising the male part of the couple to go ahead and massage it into the female partner and now I realize the male was getting more of it than she was. (laughter) Fortunately it doesn't hurt males at all. Males make progesterone. They need it to make their testosterone and for the adrenal glands to make cortisone. So males make it. You can measure males progesterone levels, and you'll find that when the woman has this follicle damage I'm talking about, the amount of progesterone she makes is less than that of a male. So it's a big difference. It's not like shades of gray here. It's not hard to find. So the saliva levels are now very easy to do and progesterone can be given and people will learn as they do this.

So here we have the whole story of how it helps the bones, that led me to learn more and more about progesterone, things that I learned from the patients and that has led me then to look for the causes of why a woman would be low on progesterone, and now we have the reason for the low progesterone. The fact that the ovaries had been damaged by petrochemicals in our environment, so perhaps that should be enough for a while, we can answer questions now, thank you very much.
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