We are all guilty of using the phrase, "Not tonight, I have a headache.”
The most common headache triggers are hormonal imbalance and blood sugar fluctuation — not to mention food allergies, caffeine, lack of sleep, extreme weather conditions, medications and stress.
Understanding the role of estrogen in the body:
Estrogen dominance is a term coined by Dr. Lee in his first book on natural progesterone. It describes a condition in which a woman can have deficient, normal or excessive estrogen, but has little or no progesterone to balance its effects in the body. Even a woman with low estrogen levels can have estrogen dominance symptoms if she doesn't have any progesterone. Here are a few things to remember about estrogen dominance.
- Fat stores estrogen. The more you gain weight, the more estrogen you will retain.
- Stress — that word we’re all too familiar with — produces cortisol, boosting estrogen levels and contributing to weight gain.
- A toxic liver will not filter estrogen out of the body.
- So many foods we eat are fed estrogen to make them grow and produce more food. Eating meat and dairy products will increase your estrogen levels.
- Plastic containers, pesticides and cleaning chemicals produce "xeno-estrogens" — chemicals that mimic estrogen in the body. Read more.
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