Posted by MERM on 9/2/2009, 11:21 am, in reply to "FIBROMYALGIA Tips to Reduce Fibromyalgia Symptoms "
SAMe
Supports Joint Comfort and a Positive Mood
SAMe has been shown to reduce morning stiffness, fatigue, and pain to improve mental outlook in those with fibromyalgia. Reports show same can help reduce depression by increasing levels of dopamine and serotonin. It also helps produce glutathione, which is found in low levels in fibromyalgia patients. Note: Suffers of bipolar disorder shouldn’t use SAMe unless under medical supervision. Those taking anti-depressant medications should confer with their physician before taking SAMe in place of or in addition to those medications and they should continue to be monitored. Some caution is advised in those who have cancer due to its methylating properties.
DIMPRO
Estrogen Metabolism Support for Women and Men
Helps with hormone imbalance by metabolizing and reducing excess estrogen, which has been implicated as a factor in those suffering from fibromyalgia. Disruptions in the brain’s hormonal regulatory mechanisms are thought to lead to common symptoms associated with fibromyalgia.
Life Essence
The Master Multiple Vitamin
Helps with possible nutrient deficiencies, as well as low energy and poor immune function. Provides important factors necessary for the activation of enzymes. Life Essence provides the vitamins and minerals your body needs. It also delivers enzymes, metabolic pigments, flavones, trace elements, amino acids, antioxidants, and countless co-nutrients and phyto-chemicals
Magnesium Citrate
An Enzyme Co-factor
Magnesium is necessary for energy production within muscle cells. It can help the smooth muscles of the body relax relieving muscle spasms and pain. It can also help increase blood circulation and is responsible for over 300 enzymatic reactions. All of these factors are important for those who suffer from fibromyalgia.
MSM & Glucosamine Cream
Support for Connective Tissue and Cartilage
Studies have shown that glucosamine helps support joint function by stimulating the production of cartilage and helps provide support for connective tissue, specifically in the joints. MSM has been shown to help with arthritic pain and inflammation. When these two ingredients are combined, they can help reduce pain in relation to fibromyalgia.
Glucosamine and Chondroitin with MSM
Support for Connective Tissue and Cartilage
Helps provide support for connective tissue and cartilage, specifically in joints, which can help reduce pain in relation to fibromyalgia. This formula contains a combination of ingredients to help promote joint, tendon, and ligament flexibility.
MSM Plus Cream
Maximum Strength Joint & Muscle Pain Relief
Research suggests that MSM is a basic element essential to many structures and functions of the human body. One clinical trial showed that MSM produced significant decreases in pain and physical function impairment, while improving performance activities of daily living when compared to a placebo.
Myomin
Natural Herbal Supplement
Helps with hormone imbalance by metabolizing and reducing excess estrogen, which has been implicated as a factor in those suffering from fibromyalgia. Disruptions in the brain’s hormonal regulatory mechanisms are thought to lead to common symptoms associated with fibromyalgia.
One 'n' Only
A Once Daily Multiple Vitamin
One 'n' Only is a once daily version of the Life Essence multi-vitamin (see above) that is the most nutritious one per day dietary supplement ever offered. It provides a perfect balance of all the standard vitamins and minerals plus super foods, tonic herbs, and plant enzymes.
Progesta-Care
Natural Progesterone Cream and Spray
Helps increase levels of progesterone. Low progesterone levels associated with hormone imbalance symptoms could also be related to the many symptoms that fibromyalgia patients suffer from.
Proper Hormone Balance
Women today are truly living in exciting times as science and nature enlighten us to the lifecycle of premenopause. When your female hormones are in balance, everything from digestion to immunity works properly. You feel great, look great, have the energy of a teenager, and your sex drive is normal. This is your body performing at its best.
You can expect natural changes to your hormone levels during the premenopause years when your levels fluctuate up and down then gradually yet steadily wind down. The severity of hormonal problems may increase with age, but it is not aging per se that is the root of declining health. Exposure to environmental toxins and the cumulative effects of stress cause disruption of the natural rhythms and balancing mechanisms of women's hormones.
However, with the proper nutrition, supplements, exercise, and avoidance of environmental estrogens you can live these years in more balance than women have experienced in the last century.
The Progression of Natural Hormonal Changes
From the time menses begins until menopause, levels of estrogen and progesterone ebb and flow in a manner which promotes reproduction. As women progress through their menstrual lives, natural hormonal imbalances can develop, even long before menopause.
Premenopause can begin when a woman is in her mid-late thirties and is the period of time when symptoms of hormonal changes begin and can last for 10-15 years prior to menopause. According to Dr. John Lee M.D., "perimenopause technically means 'right around menopause,' meaning the year or two before, during, and after menstrual cycles end.
The symptoms of premenopause and perimenopause vary. Some women experience mood changes, depression, insomnia, irregular and/or heavy periods, hot flashes, and weight gain (particularly during the perimenopause phase).
Some women notice memory impairment, in particular "fuzzy thinking," sore and lumpy breasts, migraine headaches, low libido, and dry skin.
Extreme Hormonal Imbalance
Extreme hormonal imbalance is created when the ratio of estrogen to progesterone sways too much one way or another. The most common extreme imbalance is excess estrogen in relation to progesterone. This is called “Estrogen Dominance.”
Extreme hormonal imbalance, in addition to stressors and lifestyle, are what give rise to more serious symptoms: impaired thyroid function, adrenal exhaustion, uterine fibroid tumors, irregular and/or heavy bleeding, endometriosis, polycystic ovaries, fibrocystic breasts, systemic inflammation, a suppressed immune function, accelerated aging, and increased risk of disease. In some cases, symptoms of fibromyalgia can be present.
Even if a woman has low estrogen levels, she can have symptoms of estrogen dominance, because she may have little or no progesterone. However, estrogen dominance can be caused by more than the body’s production of hormones. For example, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), birth control pills, environmental estrogens, plant estrogens, stress, obesity, poor liver function, peri-menopause, and glandular dysfunction.
Men too can suffer from estrogen dominance. Estrogens from plant estrogens and environmental sources, also known as xenoestrogens, produce hormonal stimuli that can contribute to inappropriate growth of mammary tissue cells, resulting in a problem society is calling “man boobs.” Some theorize that estrogen dominance in men is contributing to hair loss, atherosclerosis, prostrate problems, lowered libido, weight gain, and impotency.
Therefore, both women and men who are suffering from estrogen dominance can benefit from taking an estrogen metabolizer such as DIM that can help bring hormones back into balance.
Estrogen Dominance
When your hormones are in balance, everything from digestion to immunity works properly. You feel great, look great, have the energy of a teenager, and your sex drive is normal. This is your body performing at its best.
Hormonal imbalance is created when the ratio of estrogen to progesterone sways too much one way or another. The most common extreme imbalance is excess estrogen in relation to progesterone. This is called “Estrogen Dominance.”
For an overview about hormones and their changes over a woman’s lifetime, please read the Hormonal Balance page. The information below about estrogen dominance provides more in-depth information about hormones and estrogen dominance, for both women and men.
Estrogens and Progesterone Overview
Two types of sex (steroid) hormones are estrogens and progesterone. There are three estrogens: B-estradiol, estrone and estriol. B-estradiol is by far the most potent. It is 12 times more potent than estrone and 80 times more potent than estriol. Any over exposure to B-estradiol can increase a person’s risk of disease. Estriol is considered the “good estrogen.” There is only one type of progesterone, and it considered a very safe hormone. Progesterone is called progestin when it is in a synthetic form.
Estrogen and progesterone work in synchronization with each other as checks and balances to achieve hormonal harmony in both sexes. Estrogen and progesterone need the presence of each other in order to perform their individual functions.
Estrogen
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