This is very common these days with women. I would like to know how old she is? My guess is that she is going through menopause? I my experiences from working with clients and doing labs, consulting, taking courses and reading, it is rare to find young women with low estrogen levels. It is more common or should I say very common to find estrogen dominance. When I get clients come in, no matter how many labs, etc they have done, if they want to work with me I require them to do the labs that I feel necessary through the lab companies that I use. I would run a full month long hormone profile with her through BioHealth. This will graph her follicular and Luteal phase and give you readings of where her hormones are at certain times. From there, them you can recommend Bio-identical estrogen (if needed and commonly used with women 50+) and progesterone.
As well, I find when women have an adrenal imbalance (from any type of stress and it can be gut related). When this happens, the body will steal pregnenolone in order to over produce cortisol. Pregnenolone is a precursor to progesterone, cortisol, DHEA, estrogen, testosterone (this is why most women lack libido), etc. so when stressed, these hormones typically are inhibited. Also, when the body is stressed the adrenal glands release corticosteroids. The adrenals also produce female hormones as well and when stress, do not. So doing an adrenal test and even a gut test is very common in my practice and really helps to get to the ROOT of the problem. The decreased estrogen is the branch and you need to find out why, which is the root.
Joshua Rubin
April 15, 2009 at 3:32 pm |
Hey, cool tips. I’ll buy a bottle of beer to that person from that forum who told me to visit your blog