More than six thousand women go into menopause every day, and most all of you are looking for ways to relieve the symptoms like sleeplessness, low libido, loss of hair, moodiness, and more. So it is no surprise that Dr. Phil’s wife, Robin, author of What’s Age Got to Do with It? was on her husband's show talking about her personal struggles with the change of life, and how her own version of bio-identical horomone replacement has helped. We see one problem... she talked more about replacing estrogen, and not about replacing progesterone.
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) offerings can be very confusing. The goal of hormone replacement therapy is to restore the hormones that your body no longer makes. What many people do not understand is that in order for hormones to be truely replaced, you must replace BOTH estrogen and progesterone - biomimetically.
We believe that the Wiley Protocol, which is based on the innate and natural rhythm of a healthy 20 year old woman, addresses the scientific aspects missing in other hormone therapies. "Bio-identical" has become a catch all phrase for anything that is not a synthetic hormone. It is commonly applied to look-alike molecules derived from “natural” plants that are substituted for our own endogenously-produced hormone molecules. Bioidentical hormones are made in a laboratory by converting natural plant compounds from wild yams and soybeans into chemical molecules identical to those made in the human body for 17-beta estradiol, progesterone, or testosterone. These plant hormones mimic the chemical structure of hormones produced by the human body, and the thought is that the body can’t distinguish created bio-identical hormones from the ones the female ovaries produce.
But one more important aspect that women on The Wiley Protocol are benefiting from includes the fact that this hormone replacement therapy is truely biomimetic. The Wiley Protocol is distinguished from other protocols because it is biomimetic. This term is used to describe the HRT because it denotes a compound that mimics a biological material in its structure and function.
Research done by T. S. Wiley shows that it may not, in fact, just be the molecule that matters. The way the hormone molecule is received at the receptor site and the way receptors are provoked may be at least as important, if not more. The WHI proved that dosing synthetic HRT in a static, low-dose regimen was harmful to woman over 65, particularly in regard to stroke and cardiac events.
The Wiley Protocol is based on the premise that “bio-identical” hormones can only be truly accurately bio-identical if the hormones for replacement mimic, not only those found in the body, but mimic the natural biological process as well. In other words, natural plant derived hormones can accurately be termed bio-identical only when they are dosed in a biomimetic fashion – which must include the natural rhythm.
Biomimetic hormones are derived from plant sources and mimic the natural undulating or wavelike rhythms of the hormone blood levels in a normal menstrual cycle of a healthy young woman. It is this natural rhythm that is missing from all other bio-identical and synthetic hormone replacement therapies. It is the absence of this natural rhythm, according to T.S. Wiley, which is responsible for the vast side-effects in both camps.
Our bodies have a rhythm and so do our menstrual cycles regulated by biological cycles. These cycles have a rhythm and are commonly called circadian rhythms or the circadian clock in our cells measures the rhythm of a 24 hour spin of the planet. For 28 days the moon tracks the repeat of that cycle – and so does the body. Ergo the female cycle.
The Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormones uses this natural rhythm to establish the proper doses of estradiol and natural progesterone that mimic the natural hormones produced by your body. It is multi-phasic rhythmic dosing, meaning that the topical creams and their amounts vary throughout the 28 day cycle to restore the hormone levels of a woman in her prime.
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