Project4_rev3_such_saturation

Herb Doctor:
Dr. Raymond Peat is a specialist in hormone physiology and the aging process !!!he!!! having studied it for the last 35 years or so.  Lets go on then  to what you mentioned about methylation and demethylation and how that occurs, how that affects the gene, how it silences it, how it allows tumors to grow and how they have just found now in this piece of research the very presence of this is a very diagnostic indicator of how !!!well!!! the tumor will continue to grow and how switching this off is actually a fairly new approach to cancer therapy.  So in terms of the process of methylation and how this happens and how this is also related to the train of thought that fasting is good for you and  going without is actually fairly healthful and if you starve yourself fairly regularly and live on a meager caloric intake you'll actually have a greater chance of longevity.  That's not actually true is it?

RP:
No. It was definite about 70 years ago a researcher named !!!Clive McCay!!! I think it was showed that restricting food supply made animals live longer.  But later people restricted the type of food, kept down the heavy metals in their diet alone and let them eat all the fat, protein and carbohydrate they wanted and they lived longer.

Caller - Gena from Kansas:
My question is not about tonight's subject.  My question is about estrogen and the reduction of estrogen or if there are any herbs that can function as an aromatase inhibitor.  My situation is that I am in a high estrogen state.  I'm in my 40's but I am already post menopausal.  I entered menopause very early at about the age of 40.  I have been diagnosed this year with hashimoto and I have gained a lot of weight like 40 pounds in just 3 years.   Since the menopause I was also told I probably had the hashimoto for 3 years or so.  I have gone from 99 pounds to 139 in just 3 years.  My progesterone is very low even though I am supplementing with Progest-E.  And very high  SSH and LH.  I'm under a lot of stress so even though the blood has shown the estrogen as low as 12, I believe it is only because it is trapped in the cells.  I don't believe I have !!!high!!! [Sic] estrogen, I don't see how I could considering I'm fat, I'm under stress, I have !!!digestive!!! problems and a lot of other issues.  So since I can't raise the progesterone even with supplementation and diet such as raw carrots, low fiber,  I still cannot pull it up. Would you suggest that perhaps I should take something as !!!an!!! aromatase inhibitor.

Herb Doctor:
The main aromatase inhibitor that I'm familiar with is from !!!Nettle rooth!!! and that's really used as a kind of  prostatic agent in men to treat  benign prostatic hypertrophy by blocking the enzyme.  In terms of your condition and what you said about the weight gain and your age, it's not uncommon for what  you are saying to occur.  I think it happens fairly commonly.  Dr !!!Peat!!! , in terms of this lady's supposed low progesterone levels and the estrogen she's been exposed to having gone into early menopause at 40, I know you'd probably be looking at her thyroid function as  a main route with which to treat her situation in terms of her possible now hashimotos diagnosis.

RP:
Almost everyone around the age of 40, that's when the highest ratio of estrogen to progesterone exists.  But the trouble is if the estrogen seems to drop when measured in the serum, even though it was at its very highest lifetime level around the age of 40.  When progesterone falls the estrogen can't be released from the cell and so it doesn' t appear in serum until progesterone affects the cells to release it so that it can be measured but that means even without taking something to increase your progesterone, the aromatase inhibitors  are very practical and logical.  Two fruits that contain effective aromatase inhibitors are oranges and guavas. Apigenins.  Naringenin in oranges and then in guavas there's one called apigenin.  And aspirin by blocking the production inflammatory prostaglandins, aspirin helps.   The supplement pregnenolone is indirectly able to increase your progesterone and lower your estrogen production.