Thank you for your interest in the Natural Medicine approach to treating disease and healthy living! Caring Medical is currently a full time Prolotherapy doctor's office, headed by Ross Hauser, MD and we are blessed to fill the needs of patients seeking an alternative to surgery. We are accepting new patients and athletes suffering from chronic pain, sports injuries, and arthritis for treatment with Prolotherapy. Due to this large demand in Prolotherapy, we are not currently accepting new patients for natural medicine conditions, this includes autoimmune conditions, weight loss, menopause, hormones, or cancer. Through the years, we have seen so many lives turn around for the better with some of the methods discussed on this page, and encourage you to seek a Natural Medicine practitioner at www.acam.org.
The Response of Modern Medicine
The conditions that commonly plague women, such as dysmenorrhea, PMS, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, fibrocystic breast disease, migrane headaches and chronic pelvic pain, are often written off in the medical community—and society at large—as unfortunate "side effects" of being a menstruating woman. Some of these conditions, particularly PMS and dysmenorrhea, are considered a normal part of having a monthly period.
As a result, allopathic physicians simply will try to help relieve the discomfort a woman may experience with these conditions. For example, to help relieve a woman's severe menstrual cramps, irregular cycles, bloating or moodiness doctors often prescribe oral contraceptives (OCPs). The tragedy, however, is that these symptoms are very often a sign of estradiol excess. Most do not realize that estradiol is at least partly responsible for many of the conditions that plague women, from PMS to endometriosis to breast, cervical, ovarian and uterine cancer. OCPs not only mask the estradiol excess by alleviating the symptoms that point to the problem, they inhibit a woman's own production of hormones, as well as ovulation. OCPs interfere with the female hormonal makeup without doing anything to correct the problem.
The more serious female-related conditions such as uterine fibroids or endrometriosis usually begin as menstrual cramps. If OCPs are not prescribed, doctors will treat the cramping with a series of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs), which mask the symptoms but do nothing to address the underlying estradiol excess. Left unchecked, this hormonal excess often leads to these more serious female-related conditions, which are most commonly treated with surgery. The most tragic aspect of this scenario is that the woman's estrogen dominant state is never addressed, which increases her risk of female cancers. This is why we advocate a better solution: a natural medicine solution.
The Natural Medicine Approach to Treating Female-Related Conditions
In treating female-related conditions natural medicine specialists recognize that the hormone estradiol may be at least partly responsible. It's no surprise that the majority of women suffering from the most extreme female conditions—female cancers—have had a long history of menstrual irregularities, birth control use, migraine headaches or endometriosis, all conditions that the hormone estradiol has been implicated in propagating. Physicians who practice natural medicine take this important estradiol connection into account when treating women who suffer from female-related conditions.
When female-related conditions are being investigated, natural medicine physicians usually will perform a comprehensive saliva hormone profile, which measures the free fraction of active hormone levels in the body. It is important to do the test on the day when the symptoms are worst. This will provide a more accurate picture of what needs to be done and progress can easily be monitored. Most women with female-related conditions have too much estrogen, specifically estradiol, and too little progresterone. However, women often are unaware of their physiology because it has been masked for years by taking oral contraceptives (OCPs).
In treating female-related conditions, natural medicine doctors pay special attention to diets that help reverse the effects of estradiol excess and increase progesterone, including consuming high quantities of isoflavone-rich soy products, flax seed and cruciferous vegetables. Dr. Hauser recommends this natural medicine action plan to decrease estradiol:
1. Do not take estradiol-containing hormone replacement in the form of Premarin, oral contraceptive pills or postmenopausal hormone replacement.
2. Decrease sugar, grain and pasta consumption.
3. Decrease fat in the diet.
4. Increase fiber containing foods, such as vegetables.
5. Increase low-fat protein sources, such as soy and fish.
6. Make ground flax seed and flax seed oil a significant part of the diet.
7. Consume as many cruciferous vegetables as possible.
8. Eat a high-soy diet.
9. Take a supplement of chasteberry and vitamin B6.
10. Take a soy isoflavonoid supplement.
11. Take a supplement like DIM (indole-3-carbinol and/or diindolylmethane).
12. Supplement with chrysin and quercetin.
13. Use the nutriceutical calcium D-glucarate.
More can be read about this in The Hauser Diet book.
By starting on natural medicine therapies and supplements to boost the immune system and lower estradiol levels as well as a low-carbohydrate/low sugar diet, this dangerous physiology can be reversed.
If you are interested in more information about our natural medicine program, or to schedule an appointment with Dr. Hauser, please contact Caring Medical at 708-848-7789 or online using our contact form.
