The Wiley Protocol

Are you are experiencing any of the following fifty hormone imbalance symptoms? If you are then you may be entering peri-menopause or menopause. Since women are designed to give birth to children, they actually go into what is known clinically as geriactric pregnancy if they have children after the age of 28. So one might assume that menopause actually starts at the age of 29.

It starts out as perimenopause, which eventually turns into menopause. The symptoms of perimenopause typically begin when she is in her fourties, but it can start in your 30s or even earlier. And it usually lasts for four yearts on average. This is the time when you may want to begin to think about taking bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Clinically, menopause is defined as the cessation of menstruation for 12 consecutive months. Menopause marks the end of a woman's reproductive years, and this usually occurs naturally around the age of 52 when her ovaries stop producing estrogen, and there are no more fertile eggs.

Symptoms of hormone imbalance are primarily caused by the incorrect relationship between progesterone and estrogen levels in your body. The two female hormones, estrogen and progesterone, exist in a delicate balancing act and the variations in that balance can have a dramatic effect on your health. The amounts of these hormones that your body produces month-to-month can vary, depending on factors such as stress, nutrition, exercise plus ovulation or the lack of it.

Here are the fifty symptoms most often associated with peri-menopause or menopause:

1.Anxiety attacks
2.Allergies
3.Brain fog
4.Breast pain or tenderness
5.Bloating
6.Body odor
7.Bone loss
8.Burning tongue
9.Chronic fatigue
10.Gum bleeding
11.Depression
12.Difficulty concentrating
13.Discomfort during sex
14.Disorientation and dizziness
15.Dry eyes
16.Dry itchy skin
17.Emotional bouts
18.Facial hair increase
19.Face flushing
20.Fatigue
21.Fingernails are dry, brittle
22.Feelings of apprehension doom and gloom
23.Forgetfulness
24.Hair loss
25.Headaches
26.Hot flashes
27.Incontinence
28.Irregular periods
29.Joint pain (back of knees and heel pain)
30.Lethargy and tiredness
31.Light headedness
32.Loss of balance
33.Loss of libido
34.Memory lapse
35.Menstrual irregularities
36.Mental confusion
37.Migraines
38.Moodiness
39.Muscle aches and pains
40.Night sweats (nocturnal hyperhydrosis)
41.Osteoporosis
42.Panic disorder
43.Rapid heart beat
44.Sleep Disorders
45.Sudden tears
46.Thinning hair
47.Tingling extremities
48.Urinary urges
49.Vaginal dryness
50.Weight gain

As your estrogen levels drop during perimenopause or menopause, you may begin to feel any of these symptoms and in varying degrees of severity. Basically, as your estrogen decreases you may still have regular periods, or periods that come irregularly. At this time, you are probably no longer ovulating, and cannot get pregnant. You have just enough estrogen to make a real thin lining in your uterus but not enough to peak. That is why in perimenopause, your periods get shorter, your breasts get lumpy, and your mind gets foggy. Some women experience a pounding, racing heart - the second most common complaint associated with perimenopause.

If you don’t peak estrogen with regularity, then it means you are in perimenopause, and the loss of this rhythm triggers the destruction of the rest of your eggs. This happens through the action of excessive FSH, using up the remainder of your eggs. At around this time, you may start to get hot flashes. This is how your system shuts down for good and you will enter menopause. It is your body's reaction to a decreased supply of estrogen, which occurs naturally as women approach menopause. Menstrual irregularity is most common in the mid-forties as you approach menopause. A lack of hormonal balance or a decrease in estrogen production is the main cause of it.

Menopause
The clinical diagnosis of menopause is finding in your blood work of an FSH score higher than five (5). During the early stages of menopause, many women experience getting bad headaches, most often caused by estrogen levels dropping. Known as "menstrual migraines" these headaches can occur when estrogen levels drop during her period. Another common pain includes aching joints and muscles.

Typically, if you are going into menopause you will experience short, irregular periods caused by hormone imbalances. Your periods may even come more frequently, every 24 days instead of every 28, or they may come later than normal. You may have a light period that lasts only a few days, then the next month have a very heavy period. Your period may last a long time or a shorter amount of time. You could skip a month, or two, and then go back to normal for a couple of months, until your period ceases completely.

Early menopause, causes some women to have allergies, brain fog and have trouble concentrating. Most women experience some anxiety, night sweats or hot flashes. Your skin may become dry and fingernails brittle and most women experience a loss of the moisture in the lining of vaginal area which may be associated with itching and irritation. One of the most dreaded signs of getting older is dry wrinkled skin. When your estrogen levels drop, collagen production, which keeps our skin youthful looking, also drops.

Second only to pain, fatigue is the most common symptom, and is defined as an ongoing, persistent feeling of weakness, tiredness, and low energy. When your estrogen levels drop, your vaginal tissues start drying and become less elastic. Sex becomes uncomfortable and you may be more prone to infections. Sudden hair loss happens because our hair follicles need estrogen. Sleeplessness is another common sign. If you're tossing, turning, and have insomnia, it may be because of menopause. Weight gain, especially around your middle, is yet another sign of changing hormones and your metabolism is slowing down. You may also notice bloating as well, due to periodic increases in fluid retention and abdominal distension. A loss of sex drive or loss of libido is a problem for some women at this age. All women will experience acceleration in bone density reduction as their estrogen levels drop.

Women in menopause will experience osteoporosis, the thinning and weakening of the bones and a general decrease in the bone mass and density making us more susceptible to fractures or breaks. This happens later in menopause after your estrogen levels have dropped. Estrogen is involved in the process of the bone’s calcium absorption.

You too can stop this destruction of old age, get rid of the symptoms of hormone imbalance and menopause and achieve feedback and shut off FSH with estrogen replacement. The Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormone replacement is all about replacing the hormones in exactly the amounts and rhythm in which they would occur. Developed by medical researcher and Author T.S. Wiley, who wrote the book Sex, Lies, and Menopause. She examined and identified the fact that if we don’t replace our hormones, we will face debilitation, or the falling off of hormones that you experience in perimenopause and finally menopause.

Today’s woman can stop the aging process and not experience the dreadful symptoms of hormone imbalance and menopause by taking natural bioidentical hormone restoration. But she can only try to fool nature by covering the fact that she's missing eggs if the hormones are replaced exactly as that they would be generated in youth - in exactly the amounts and the rhythm in which they would occur when she was younger. This is the premise behind rhythmic, bioidentical hormone therapy. It is not static dosing, but dosed in a rhythm with varying amounts of estrogen and progesterone during the month. Women using this rhythmic cycling also will get their periods again, just like when they were in their prime.

Most all of the women taking rhythmic bioidentical hormone replacement therapy are raving about how good they now feel. They no longer experience brain fog or depression. Their sex drives are back! No more sleep deprivation due to hormone-related insomnia and hot flashes. Their skin looks soft supple and youthful, taking them back ten years or more in their looks. Best of all, almost all of the women taking the Wiley Protocol say that all of their symptoms of menopause are gone, and they now feel like they got their lives back.