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Bioidentical Hormones - U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

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The world as we know it, from bacteria to blue whales, the whole universe, in<br />

fact, is all about timing, within each of us and in relati<strong>on</strong> to everything outside us. The<br />

individual rhythms overlap into larger patterns that then weave in and out of each other.<br />

Human beings swim in and out of this sea of rhythms. The mo<strong>on</strong> provides more light<br />

with its full face and sure enough as the new mo<strong>on</strong> ends, every twenty-eight days females<br />

bleed. The circadian clock in every cell of our body measures <strong>on</strong>e spin of the planet, and<br />

the mo<strong>on</strong> tracks the repeating 28 of those days 13 times in <strong>on</strong>e revoluti<strong>on</strong> around the sun.<br />

Estradiol / Progester<strong>on</strong>e Doses<br />

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CYCLE DAYS<br />

To see a graph representati<strong>on</strong> of a menstrual cycle is to see what appear to be two<br />

mountains. There's a peak of estrogen and then a peak of progester<strong>on</strong>e. If <strong>on</strong>e imagines<br />

that picture strung together over a year, <strong>on</strong>e m<strong>on</strong>th c<strong>on</strong>nected to the next, there's a<br />

rhythm of unending ups and downs. It's a balancing act. Estrogen's solo in the first half<br />

of our cycle sets the stage for pregnancy all over our body. Estrogen grows, hence its<br />

reputati<strong>on</strong> in cancer research. But estrogen, by way of creating progester<strong>on</strong>e receptors,<br />

has sealed its own fate. Progester<strong>on</strong>e generated by the popping of the egg, steps <strong>on</strong> stage<br />

to end that s<strong>on</strong>g of creati<strong>on</strong>.<br />

Cancer

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