When women understand how their diet alters the acid-base balance in their bodies, and how the acid-base balance affects estrogen dominance, they can improve their ability to avoid disease.
What is estrogen dominance?
Estrogen dominance is a condition where the estrogen in a woman’s body is not balanced by sufficient progesterone. That doesn’t sound like a big deal on the surface, but it is thought to be a contributing factor in many diseases including allergies, breast and cervical cancer, endometriosis, PMS, breast and uterine cysts, decreased sex drive, infertility, hair loss, osteoporosis, and many other conditions.
Coffee contributes to estrogen dominance. The way that it contributes may be by making the body more acid. Once our bodies are too acid, the production processes of all hormones are altered; and we all know how dependent women are on hormones for their health and happiness.
When a woman’s body is too acid, it produces too much estrogen and not enough progesterone. In a small study of 500 women, those who consumed four or five cups of coffee per day had 70% more estrogen that those who drank less than one cup per day. It's clear that lots of coffee causes a woman to produce lots of estrogen, but what about progesterone? There is currently no research that proves that coffee reduces progesterone production but there are anecdotal reports from women that suggest that this is true. Kerri-Lynn Lapointe, N.D., writes that coffee and stress force the body to convert progesterone to cortisol which suggests a link between coffee and progesterone deficiency. Whatever the cause of a progesterone deficiency is, drinking coffee will make estrogen dominance worse by increasing the estrogen levels and possibly lowering the progesterone levels.
Coffee is such a delicious institution in many countries. It’s tempting to deny the facts in favor of the wonderful smell of a fresh pot. But there is no doubt that coffee makes the body more acid than it was designed to be.
Besides the acid-base problem, there are more than a dozen known carcinogens in coffee including benzene and formaldehyde. There are hundreds of more chemicals in the delicious brew that are yet to be evaluated. Coffee is a good example of a natural product that has some very deadly ingredients totaling 10 mg in each cup. It also tends to leach calcium from a woman’s skeleton producing osteoporosis.
Are there other causes of estrogen dominance?
Yes, there are other causes:
Are there other causes of acid-base imbalance?
Yes, much of the American diet causes an acid-base imbalance:
Summary
If a woman is concerned with cancer, endometriosis, a lack of sex drive, or any of the other conditions in the first paragraph, she should be concerned about estrogen dominance. She should:
It would be nice if there was a single cause of cancer, of endometriosis or of the many other ailments that plague women. Then science could come up with a pill that would block that process--maybe even reverse it. But there isn’t a single cause, except perhaps an unnatural lifestyle. But they can’t make a pill for that. So it’s really up to us to be aware of the hundreds of things we do each day that stress our body's biochemistry, and avoid as many as possible.
What is estrogen dominance?
Estrogen dominance is a condition where the estrogen in a woman’s body is not balanced by sufficient progesterone. That doesn’t sound like a big deal on the surface, but it is thought to be a contributing factor in many diseases including allergies, breast and cervical cancer, endometriosis, PMS, breast and uterine cysts, decreased sex drive, infertility, hair loss, osteoporosis, and many other conditions.
Coffee contributes to estrogen dominance. The way that it contributes may be by making the body more acid. Once our bodies are too acid, the production processes of all hormones are altered; and we all know how dependent women are on hormones for their health and happiness.
When a woman’s body is too acid, it produces too much estrogen and not enough progesterone. In a small study of 500 women, those who consumed four or five cups of coffee per day had 70% more estrogen that those who drank less than one cup per day. It's clear that lots of coffee causes a woman to produce lots of estrogen, but what about progesterone? There is currently no research that proves that coffee reduces progesterone production but there are anecdotal reports from women that suggest that this is true. Kerri-Lynn Lapointe, N.D., writes that coffee and stress force the body to convert progesterone to cortisol which suggests a link between coffee and progesterone deficiency. Whatever the cause of a progesterone deficiency is, drinking coffee will make estrogen dominance worse by increasing the estrogen levels and possibly lowering the progesterone levels.
Coffee is such a delicious institution in many countries. It’s tempting to deny the facts in favor of the wonderful smell of a fresh pot. But there is no doubt that coffee makes the body more acid than it was designed to be.
Besides the acid-base problem, there are more than a dozen known carcinogens in coffee including benzene and formaldehyde. There are hundreds of more chemicals in the delicious brew that are yet to be evaluated. Coffee is a good example of a natural product that has some very deadly ingredients totaling 10 mg in each cup. It also tends to leach calcium from a woman’s skeleton producing osteoporosis.
Are there other causes of estrogen dominance?
Yes, there are other causes:
- Xenoestrogen exposure--pesticides, herbicides, beauty products, solvents, adhesives, birth control pills, etc.
- Eating non-organic meat which is fed estrogen to plump it up
- Stress
- Obesity
Are there other causes of acid-base imbalance?
Yes, much of the American diet causes an acid-base imbalance:
- Carbonated drinks
- Excessive protein in the diet, insufficient vegetables
- Artificial sweeteners
Summary
If a woman is concerned with cancer, endometriosis, a lack of sex drive, or any of the other conditions in the first paragraph, she should be concerned about estrogen dominance. She should:
- explore all the factors that produce estrogen dominance and eliminate as many as possible from her life.
- learn what makes her body more acid and substitute things that make it more alkaline.
It would be nice if there was a single cause of cancer, of endometriosis or of the many other ailments that plague women. Then science could come up with a pill that would block that process--maybe even reverse it. But there isn’t a single cause, except perhaps an unnatural lifestyle. But they can’t make a pill for that. So it’s really up to us to be aware of the hundreds of things we do each day that stress our body's biochemistry, and avoid as many as possible.
