What’s New in Complex conditions
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Fibroids grow under oestrogen — and the usual answer to why yours are growing is a shrug. There’s a clearer picture: oestrogen dominance plus oxidative stress, amplified by insulin, alcohol, gut health, low vitamin D,…
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Fibroids feed on oestrogen — and early perimenopause is when oestrogen runs highest and least opposed. As ovulation skips and progesterone crashes (the Progesterone Shift), oestrogen dominates, and the growth it drives is amplified by…
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When two oestrogen-driven conditions meet, the result is not relief — it is amplification. Progesterone Shift lands on lesion tissue that already produces its own oestrogen via local aromatase and is structurally resistant to progesterone…
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Endometriosis is an oestrogen-driven, inflammatory condition — and the inflammation (through a molecule called PGE2), the excess oestrogen, and the oxidative stress that keep it going are all things you can act on. Here’s the…
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Adenomyosis is a condition where the tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus is found within the muscular layer of the uterus. It is common in women who are of childbearing age, and…
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Polycystic ovaries contain about twice as many small cysts as normal. These cysts are egg-containing follicles that have not developed properly. PCOS is the leading cause of infertility in women, and it comes in 4…
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Tanya was 43 when she came to see me about what she described as severe premenstrual syndrome (PMS): She said: “Two weeks before my period starts and usually around the new moon, I go what…
