Women with high blood sugar READ THIS.

If you’ve ever had problems with regulating your blood sugar, READ THIS.

A new study with baby fat cells (3T3-L1 cells) demonstrates that E3 (estriol) activates the genes that make visfatin, a hormone that comes from fat that helps to regulate blood sugar. That may not mean a lot to you yet, but once you read this short handout, it will. This study has far-reaching implications for women, as a tool, to help maintain healthier blood sugar levels.

Visfatin, like leptin, is a hormone produced by your FAT cells. The primary hormone produced in fat cells that regulates blood sugar is called adiponectin.
Since Visfatin is a hormone, it appears to help blood sugar metabolism under forms of potential stress. For example, as your abdominal size increases - visfatin levels rise, seemingly to help you metabolize blood sugar in the presence of being too FAT.

Similarly, Visfatin levels rise during pregnancy to help regulate your blood sugar during the pregnancy as extra weight is gained. When you lose your extra pounds of stomach FAT or after the weight gain of pregnancy is gone - then your Visfatin levels return to normal.

The new research shows that E3 (estriol) is the key hormone that activates Visfatin production during pregnancy, and its production is synergistically enhanced by Progesterone and E2 estradiol (but not activated by these other two sex hormones).
This means that women lacking in E3 (estriol) the good estrogen type hormone or (progesterone) during pregnancy are much more at risk for gestational diabetes.
However, E3 (estriol) levels, as well as (progesterone) levels, decline with age and often take a jolt after menopause. That’s the main reason you need a topical hormone crème like E3 (estriol).

Additionally, women who have had one or both ovaries removed will NOT make E3 (estriol) at the proper rate, so you definitely need to use a topical E3 (estriol) creme.

Women have a higher percentage of body FAT than men, so it makes sense that they have a way to regulate their blood sugar in the presence of this higher natural level of body FAT: it appears E3 (estriol) is the primary answer and progesterone is the secondary support to the E3 (estriol). I suggest you use both.
This study supports the theory that a decline in E3 (estriol) due to aging (or surgery) contributes to insulin resistance, abdominal weight gain, and a rise in fasting blood sugar levels. Both these crèmes are available at this office and you might be a candidate.

Statin Drugs and Their Effect on Your Testosterone Levels

As you already know, statin drugs such as Lipitor reduce total and LDL cholesterol and supposedly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Here’s the kicker though. As the use of statin drugs continues to increase everyday (and people have been taking statins for a prolonged period that is significantly longer than the time period required for testing drugs), the serious side effects of statins is affecting more and more people, than ever before.

Since the drug companies that manufacture these statins have become aware of the incidence of serious side effects, they added a WARNING to statin advertising that was NOT present in the earliest advertising for these drugs.
This warning states, “Unexplained muscle pain and weakness could be a sign of a rare, but serious side effect and should be reported to your doctor right away.”
People who take statin drugs need to heed this warning immediately because in extreme cases, the side effects of statins --- ‘can be fatal’.

Muscle pain and muscle weakness are two of the main side effects of statin drugs.
Italian researchers, in a study of more than 3,400 men treated for erectile dysfunction (ED), found that those taking statins had lower levels of total and FREE testosterone than men NOT taking the drugs.

Statins were linked to a “reduced testicular volume” and a higher incidence of symptoms linked to “LOW testosterone levels”. Women can have low testosterone levels too.

And here’s something most people don’t realize. Decreased strength is a common side effect of continued statin use. This might be linked to reduced testosterone levels.

One problem with this study was that statin users had double the rate of high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, which are also linked to low testosterone levels and ED. (Journal Sexual Medicine, 7: 154701556, 2010)

Make sure you’re using the hormone crèmes daily as these all natural, easy-to-apply homeopathic crèmes can help you overcome and balance your low testosterone levels.

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