Taking Natural Estriol Cream 0.5 mg/every other day 3 weeks out of 4 with Natural Progesterone Cream routinely thickens vaginal skin and decreases inflammation. Even mainstream physicians use Estriol cream.
After menopause in 50% of all women, the vaginal walls begin to thin and become inflamed because of decreased estrogen. Symptoms include:
•Vaginal soreness and dryness
•Vaginal burning
•Increased bladder infections
•Urination burning
•Increased frequency of urination
•Bleeding on intercourse
•Discomfort on intercourse
•Birth canal may shorten and tighten
Sores on the skin and cracks on the skin in vagina may appear. These may cause post menopausal bleeding. This will of course produce low sexual desire. Just the thought of all that pain will create low libido.
Causes of drops in estrogen include:
•Post menopause
•Around menopause (perimenopause)
•During Lactation (Breast Feeding)
•Oophrectomy - surgical removal of both ovaries
•Chemotherapy
•Synthetic hormone treatment including Tamoxifen (Nolvadex), Nafarelin (Synarel), Leuprolide (Lupron), Danazol (Danocrine), Medroxyprogesterone (Provera)
Smoking and never giving birth vaginally are related to vaginal atrophy. Women who smoke and have never give birth vaginally are at an increased risk for Atrophic Vaginitis (vaginal atrophy).
You have 4 natural sex hormones. Progesterone, Estradiol, Estrone, Estriol are naturally made by your body. However, you cannot make much money selling natural hormones. This is because you cannot patent natural hormones. Anyone can compete in the market and prices are driven down. No one makes money.
So what to do?
Pharmaceutical companies slightly modify the hormone molecule, and then claim that it is novel, different and unique. Thus, the “new” molecule can be patented and no one else can use it for 17 years. So now big pharma has a big marketing push. They send drug reps to doctors offices. Drug reps are paid $60,000 to $120,000 per year. They have the best benefits of all. Television ads are fair game.
When I was a physician, the drug reps would wait all day to see me for 10 minutes. If you prescribed enough, you would get free dinners and free trips to exotic locales. You would get free samples. They would slap a thick “scientific paper” on your desk extolling the virtues of their drug. Guess who funded the study? Usually, as a physician, you are overworked and short on time. You don’t have the time or the patience to read the entire paper. So normally, you just read the conclusion. You think, “Thank God, they made this drug for this problem.” The next time the patient comes with the problem, you try to give them the drug.
In modern medicine, with cost cutting and all, there is no time for thinking. I have to see 50 patients a day and run them through. Say hello, listen to their complaint, and make a prescription.
The problem with patented “novel” hormones is that they fit into the receptor but they stimulate the receptor in a slightly different way than the real hormone. For instance, Natural Progesterone does NOT cause birth defects, but a Synthetic Progestin can cause birth defects according to a 1993 Physician’s desk reference. For more information, on the difference between Natural and Synthetic Progesterone see www.bioidenticallporogesterone.info. One causes birth defects and one doesn’t. Which hormone would you rather take?
So what about about Estriol?
Your body makes three different estrogens. It makes estradiol, estrone, and estriol. Estradiol is the “strong” estrogen that creates the “femaleness”. Estradiol fits into the receptor and strongly stimulates the receptor. Estradiol stimulates breasts to grow and hips to be wide. Estrone and Estriol are considered to be “weak” estrogens. They both fit into the same estrogen receptor and stimulate the estrogen receptor “weakly”.
Estradiol is linked to increased breast cancer. Women with early menarche (beginning of menstrual cycles) and late menopause have an increased chance of breast cancer. This is thought to be linked to the increased exposure to estradiol.
Estrone is considered to be a “weak”estrogen. However, practitioners are backing away from Estrone because of increased levels of Estrone in breast cancer patients.
Estriol is the estrogen of pregnancy. Estriol goes up 100 times during pregnancy. Multiple pregnant women have a smaller chance of breast cancer and endometrial cancer. Thus, estriol should be safe for these cancers. Also the pregnant female churns out ever increasing amounts of estriol during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
During the second and third trimesters of pregnancy libido is super boosted. Libido is boosted because of increased levels of natural progesterone and natural estriol.
Henry Lemon, MD University of Nebraska used estriol treatment for breast cancer. A small group of women with untreatable breast cancer (because it had metastasized to bones) took large doses of estriol. 40 percent of these women breast cancers went into remission.
It may be that Estriol is just as good as Tamoxifen without the nasty side effects.
Essentially, estriol is a weak estrogen that goes into the estrogen receptor and blocks all the other garbage xenoestrogens.
So how come we don’t use estriol?
Simple, I can’t make any money off of it. No money for TV ads. No money for drug reps. No money for vacations to motivate physicians. No money for me. In fact, I am not making enough money to even put up this web site.
People with more money and competing synthetic products would love to take this website down. They can hire lawyers because they have money.
From John Lee, MD’s book.
"After menopause, vaginal dryness and reduced mucous production predispose women to vaginal, urethral, and urinary bladder infections. To treat whatever is causing the infection with antibiotics is only temporarily successful (and sometimes not at all successful) because the underlying and real cause of the problem is the inability of these parts of the body to resist infection, which is caused by a hormonal imbalance. For this reason, using a vaginal application of an estrogen often works very well to restore hormone balance, with estriol being the most effective. A recent controlled trial of intravaginal estriol in postmenopausal women with recurrent urinary tract infections found that estriol significantly reduced the incidence of urinary tract infections compared to placebo (0.5 versus 5.9 episodes per year). In additions, estriol treatment resulted in the reemergence of friendly Lactobacilli bacteria and the near elimination of colon bacteria, as well as the restoration of normal vaginal mucosa and the a resumption of normal low pH (which inhibits the growth of many bacteria).
Natural Estriol is the estrogen most beneficial to vaginal and cervical tissue, the sites that act as the first line of defense against infection. Estriol is a product of estrone metabolism. Contraceptive synthetic estrogens, which inhibit the production of natural hormones, do NOT contain estriol and are not metabolized to form estriol. Progestins similarly inhibit the function of natural progesterone. (Progestins are synthetic prescription brand name hormones).
After menopause, progesterone levels fall to near zero and estrone levels are also very low. Thus, the protection against infection offered by estriol and progesterone is lost unless natural hormones are used in supplementation.”
John Lee, MD
We all know that women with recurrent bladder infections may be reluctant to engage in sex, because intercourse may result in another bladder infection. But there may not be low libido.
