The Wiley Protocol

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According to the latest buzz on the Internet, Gweneth Paltrow teamed up with her doctor, Frank Lipman, writing, "Everyone I know is knackered (tired), me included. But I didn't imagine that there could be health problems associated with not getting a good night’s rest. I recently read a book called Light’s Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival by T.S. Wiley, which talks about the negative cumulative effects of sleep deprivation (ageing, hormonal imbalances, etc.) I asked one of my doctors, Frank Lipman, for his opinion."

Doctor Lipman then offers suggestions on ways to sleep better, and writes, doctor writes, "In addition to a healthy diet and regular exercise, getting enough restful sleep is the most important thing you can do for your health. Proper sleep is one of the keys to looking and feeling your best, yet it’s estimated that up to 70 per cent of Americans are chronically sleep deprived."

He goes on to give much advice on how, "Chronic sleep problems interfere with your body’s natural rhythms and rob it of the time it needs to restore itself. The incidence of many diseases including diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks and depression increases with a lack of sleep. Recent research has even shown a connection between poor sleep and weight gain. We simply weren’t built to just go, go, go."

If you would like to purchase the book click on Lights Out at Amazon.

You can also find another reference to her comments at the following link:

http://www.hollywood.com/news/Paltrow_urges_fans_and_friends_to_get_some_sleep/6830029

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Dying of cancer is something we all fear. Having a heart attack, although it seems more remote, because we don't hear about it on television every day, would probably kill us where we stand. But the possibility of losing our minds and independence and not even really knowing it is truly the most dreaded potential out there ahead of us.

Over 4.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Every day we're all one day closer to Alzheimer's disease. Those with AD will increase significantly if current population trends continue because the risk of AD increases with age, and the U.S. population is getting older. The number of people age 65 and older is expected to grow from 39 million in 2008 to 72 million in 2030, and the number of people with AD doubles for every 5-year interval after the age of 65.

And it's preventable, according to the gold standard of research at hand. Dementia, memory loss, and Alzheimer's are preventable with natural hormones prescribed in a cycle that mimics the rhythmic, escalating, and descending doses your body naturally produced when you were young; this is not the case with conventional Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT).

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/Hormone-Replacement-Therapy/

Fibromyalgia syndrome affects an estimated 10 million people in the U.S. Around 75 to 90 percent of the people who have fibromyalgia are women, who are affected physically, mentally and socially. It is not a disease, but a syndrome - a collection of signs, symptoms, and medical issues that usually occur together, but are not related to one identifiable cause. Severe fibromyalgia can be debilitating as it interferes with basic activities of everyday life.

Often women in menopause confuse the many symptoms of hormone imbalance with those of conditions like fibromyalgia or even chronic fatigue. But the good news is that women with fibromyalgia who are taking the Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormone replacement therapy are finding relief.

Fibromyalgia is often seen in families, among siblings, or mothers and their children. Diagnosis is usually made between the ages of 20 to 50 years, but the incidence rises with age so that by age 80, approximately 8 percent of adults meet the American College of Rheumatology classification of fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic widespread pain, abnormal pain processing, multiple tender points, fatigue, psychological distress and sleep disturbances. Whereas hormone imbalance symptoms are primarily caused by the incorrect relationship between progesterone and estrogen levels in the body, and can have a dramatic effect on health, resulting in a number of the symptoms of hormone imbalance that are similar to those of fibromyalgia.

The primary symptom of fibromyalgia is chronic widespread body pain, and most people with fibromyalgia also experience sleep disturbances, moderate to extreme fatigue, cognitive difficulties, and sensitivity to touch, light, or sound. Many individuals also experience a number of other symptoms and overlapping conditions, such as lupus, arthritis and irritable bowel syndrome. Symptoms also include poor stamina and profound exhaustion. However it is important to note that fibromyalgia symptoms may vary widely from one person to the next.

T.S. Wiley says, “It’s actually diminishing hormones that are the cause of the classic lower back pain common in middle-age people. The backache of old age is really just a case of threadbare sciatic nerves. Scientists found that natural progesterone increased in the expression of the gene that remyelinates the nerves in the rats lower back. At the main nerve junctions of communication, like the heart and brain stem, wires start to fray when hormones levels fall off. Without estrogen to peak and cause ovulation, there’s no progesterone. Without progesterone to remyelinate nerves, peripheral nerve bundles that are farthest from the brain fray first. The biggest ones, farthest down, after the one in the base of your neck, is at your tail bone area in the lower back.”

Interestingly many of the women on bioidentical hormones have experienced relief from symptoms like insomnia, muscle aches and pains, chronic fatigue, depression, and many other typical fibromyalgia symptoms.

Once such example is from Linda, talking about her sister Kathryn, who takes the Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormones. She said, “She has recently run out and has been suffering the consequences of not having the hormones in her system. (Her fibromyalgia is acting up; she has osteopenia in all her joints – her pain levels are highly escalated when she’s not on the Wiley Protocol).”

Alternative therapies, such as massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal supplements, myofasical release and even yoga, can also be effective tools in managing fibromyalgia symptoms and helping improve quality of life. But even more recently, the doctors of women taking bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, the Wiley Protcol, see relief among patients. Dr. Delmi Behr, a general surgeon in Pottstown, PA, explains how the Wiley Protocol is different from other hormone replacement therapies and how it helps even uncommon menopausal symptoms and fibromyalgia.

Sources: National Fibromyalgia Association (NFA) and the American College of Rheumatology (ACR); Sex, Lies, and Menopause.

Link: http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/Hormone-Replacement-Therapy/

Bioidentical hormones has basically become a catch all phrase for anything that is not a synthetic hormone. What the word actually means is commonly applied to look-alike molecules derived from “natural” plants that are substituted for our own endogenously-produced hormone molecules. So “natural” or bioidentical hormones are made in a laboratory. How? By converting natural plant compounds from wild yams and soybeans into chemical molecules that are identical to those made in the human body (17-beta estradiol, progesterone, or testosterone hormones.)

In actuality, these sources of plant hormones mimic the chemical structure of hormones produced by a human body, with the premise that the body can’t distinguish these "created" bio-identical hormones from the ones the female ovaries "produce" on their own naturally.

Bio-identical hormones are available in standardized tablets, patches, compounded creams, gels and injectable prescriptions.

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Any endocrinologist worth his salt knows that hormones are not chronically pouring into your system. Hormones, all hormones, have a pulsatility and amplitude. That means that hormones have a "beat" like music or your heart. Think of a single drumbeat - boom, boom, boom - or your pulse. That's pulsitility. Now hear it go faster and louder - boom, boom, boom, boom. That's amplitude. In the same way your heart can "race" depending on the needs of your system and the environmental cues to which it's responding.

Transdermal hormones can deposit through your skin into your fat base below, where it will sit, waiting to seep into your bloodstream. With every pulse of your heartbeat, your resting baseline of estrogen or progesterone seeps through capillaries into the blood rushing by.

When you are under stress and your heart beats faster, the amplitude of hormone release is faster, too. The system of delivery of hormone to your bloodstream will bring you internally as close to being twenty years old as you'll ever get when putting in hormones from the outside.

The transdermal mode of delivery of physiologically more identical to the pulse and amplification of the beat of your own orchestrated hormones than any pill or patch can possibly, with their chronically low application of hormone, ever approach.

The Wiley Protocol is transdermal, and rhythmic bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.