Persephone Vitamins:Antioxidants For The Summer Months
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Summer is officially underway. According to Chinese Medicine this very Yang season is ruled by the ‘fire” element which controls the heart, small intestine, mind, and spirit. I always recommend increasing antioxidants during the summer months to protect you from summer sun and nourish the heart.
During the summer months Chinese wisdom recommends waking early, going to bed late, and resting in the midday. Avoid excess fats in your diet in preference for fruits and vegetables. Chinese medicine routinely uses food for its medicinal properties.
The ideal drinks for summer are: chrysanthemum tea, and mung bean tea. You can find chrysanthemum tea in any Chinese grocery store. Mung beans, tiny green beans, have a special cooling quality. You can make a drink from mung beans by boiling washed beans. The resulting green-colored liquid can be cooled and refrigerated. It is best to avoid excess ice -though it is appealing as a quick cool down. Too much ice can weaken your digestion and cause diarrhea particularly common in summer months.
Great food combinations for the small intestine are brown rice, lentils, and sunflower seeds. These can be mixed together in equal parts with one and a half times the amount of water and simmered slowly for about 45 minutes. The resulting concoction makes a great meal. Other great foods for the summer are green leafy vegetables, especially endive, watercress, and escarole. Cucumbers, citrus, avocado, and melon are also especially good. Cut back on meat, fats, and fried foods during summer months.
Check out the Persephone Summer Multidose Packs in my store to take the guesswork out of your summer supplements and make life easier! I have designed packets that contain all of the essential oils, bone minerals, and nutrients that you need for this season. The summer packets are especially high in antioxidants such as vitamin E, C, and lipoic acid, and extracts from power foods like pomegranate and broccoli.
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Hazards of Bone Loss Drugs - In the News
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Watch me on WBZ Channel 4 news this week, Wednesday, May 14 at 11 pm. It is an investigative report on the hazards of commonly used bone loss drugs which grew from my blogs.
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Breast Lumps and the WHI Study: Guess What We Are Not Horses!
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Okay another week of misleading headlines. The confusion stems from a study that is about to be published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI)2 (View PDF). The alarming headline, “Estrogen Linked To Breast Lumps”, would lead you to believe that this is a new finding and that the researchers studied natural bioidentical estrogen and not synthetic horse estrogen, right? Wrong. They examined data from the World Health Institute (WHI) study published in 2002, which involved a group of women who used only Premarin, derived from horse estrogen, and keep in mind that this group had had hysterectomies, so we already know from the get-go that their hormone balance was not great.
The WHI gave this group of women horse estrogen (yes estrogen designed for 1200 lb mares and known to be much more potent than a woman’s own natural estrogen). And, guess what? These women had an increase in breast lumps. Go figure. They really should have titled the article, “Horse Estrogen Use Causes Breast Lumps” or “Estrogen not Properly Balanced with Progesterone Increases Breast Lumps”.
As I discuss in my book The Natural Hormone Makeover, breast lumps will occur if estrogen is in excess of progesterone. The women in this study did not have any progesterone to oppose the extra strong stimulating effects of Premarin, horse estrogen. Progesterone is naturally produced by women to counteract estrogen’s stimulating effects on the breast.
I have posted a great article on my website from Climacteric1 (View PDF) which shows that using transdermal natural estradiol with natural progesterone does not increase breast cancer or breast disease. Show this to your doctor. Other nations have been using natural hormones for years. When are more US physicians going to start? Ladies, when you begin to demand natural hormones. In order to stop being treated like horses we may need to act more like cougars!
1Lignieres, B. de, et al., “Combined Hormone Replacement Therapy and the Risk of Breast Cancer in a French Cohort Study of 3175 Women”, Climacteric 5, no. 4 (2002): 332-340. View PDF
2Rohan, TE, et al., “Conjugated Equine Estrogen and Risk of Benign Proliferative Breast Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial”, Journal of the National Cancer Institute 100, no. 8 (2008): 563-571. View PDF
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