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I retitled this blog "CONNECT THE DOTS" because I see missed healing opportunities all around me. I have had them happen TO me and I will share these along the way.

The latest failure to Connect The Dots became apparent to me on Friday during my consultation with a 56 year old woman who came in to have me review her salivary hormone levels, symptoms of menopause, lack of energy, insomnia and weight gain.
She had undergone a hysterectomy in 2005.

I won't iterate the entire consult but it boiled down to this for me:in 2005 she had had a series of stressors (death of father, loss of job and some other stressor). Usually, having even one of these events is enough to create adrenal dysregulation (read cortisol dysregulation). When adrenal dysregulation occurs, the body uses pregnenolone (at the expense of more progesterone) to make enough cortisol to deal with the long-term stress. For a woman of (at the time) 51 years of age who is either peri-menopausal (low progesterone) or menopausal (even less progesterone) this disruption is going to cause an imbalance of hormones. Especially the Progesterone:Estrogen ratio [which should be 100 to 500:1] Of course this is going to cause s/s of ESTROGEN DOMINANCE. This results in doctors suggesting a hysterectemy ("You're menopausal. You don't need a uterus or ovaries anymore anyway.]
OK, here's where we connect the dots but we DON'T end up with a hysterectemy:
STRESS > LOW CORTISOL > PRENENOLONE STEAL > LOW PROGESTERONE > ESTROGEN DOMINANCE > SYMPTOMS OF ESTROGEN DOMINANCE > HYSTERECTEMY [w/attendant problems and risks of taking out an organ]

Here's what COULD have occurred:

ADDRESS STRESS w/VIT C + ADAPTOGENS + GENTLE EXERCISE + GOOD SLEEP + B-VITAMINS > NORMAL DIURNAL CORTISOL SECRETION > ADEQUATE PROGESTERONE LEVELS > DISAPPEARANCE OF ESTROGEN DOMINANCE SXS > NO HYSTERECTOMY.

You see, there are endocrinologists that MIGHT see this and know how to fix it and there are Gynecological Surgeons who know how to take out a uterus (but don't understand how a woman gets there).
Sadly, never the twain shall meet.
Connect The Dots!

Next UP: How radiation therapy to the chest makes the Cardiologist suggest a pacemaker.