The informative interview with Cheryl Jazzar is now posted.  Please share this with any one suffering from postpartum depression – or depression, or anxiety disorders.

Join Leslie Carol Botha on Monday May, 14 on Holy Hormones Honey when she interviews Chery Jazzar, CEO and founder of WellPostpartum Consulting from Post Partum Depression to Majestic Motherhood – KRFC FM - http://krfcfm.org  from 6 to 7 pm MST. An important interview for mothers who are struggling with mood and anxiety problems .

Cheryl Jazzar is the founder of WellPostpartum Consulting.  She has supported thousands of new mothers since 1998. Her background is in psychology, counseling and women’s studies with a Master’s degree in Human Relations.

After pregnancy Cheryl suffered a severe postpartum depression and psychosis. She was hospitalized for six weeks and told she would have to remain on medication for life. She ended up divorcing and losing custody of her precious daughter, Angelica.

These experiences, and her remarkable healing, led her to develop a passion for helping women live the type of motherhood they were meant to have. She hasn’t used any medication in over 15 years and she and Angelica now live together after more than a decade apart!

Cheryl co-founded Postpartum Support of Oklahoma with Sheryl Cozad, MFA, which hosted the state’s first postpartum mood conference. She was trained in assessing and treating mood and anxiety disorders by Dr. Shoshana Bennett at The Postpartum Health Alliance.

Cheryl served as a volunteer state coordinator with Postpartum Support International for 8 years. She has also received training on weaning from medications to nutritional supplements by Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Charlie Popper.

Ms. Jazzar has provided numerous trainings and been interviewed for local and national television programs, including Know the Cause with Doug Kaufmann. She authored “Postpartum Emotional Health” in the book 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health.

Cheryl lives in Norman, Oklahoma with her adorable family of six. Together they enjoy traveling, museums and exploring abandoned oil-boom towns.

Read the complete article and related information at Postpartum Wellness Expert Cheryl Jazzar on Holy Hormones Honey! May 14

May 7, 2012

I found a very interesting article and explanation on Leaky Gut Syndrome written by Dr. Jeremy E. Kaslow. According to Dr. Kaslow “Leaky Gut Syndrome is a very common problem of modern society in part because of antibiotics and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), like Motrin, Advil, Aleve, Vioxx, etc.  While this discussion is not going to focus on the pros and cons of antibiotics or NSAIDs, both damage the natural balance the bowel requires to operate optimally.”

For those of you who may be experiencing adrenal fatigue, you may want to look into Leaky Gut Syndrome as well. “Leaky Gut Syndrome slowly diminishes adrenal function. In the early and middle stages, there is actually an adrenal excess, as measured by excess cortisol output.  Eventually, cortisol levels drop and exhaustion develops.”

Most people are not aware that if they are taking vitamins or other supplements and they also are experiencing Candida overgrowth or Leaky Gut Syndrome, the nutrients will not be absorbed by the intestine.

Please read more here:

Read the complete article and related information at Leaky Gut Syndrome Affects Hormone Balance

[Leslie Carol Botha: It took 30 years before funds could be raised for an independent study on HRT - and now hundred's of post-menopausal women are developing breast cancer and filing lawsuits?  Does this sound like good medicine to you?]

Ex-Principal Wins $4 Million Verdict Against Drug Maker

Hundreds of women have filed suits claiming menopausal treatment causes breast cancer

Connecticut Law Tribune
April 30, 2012
By CHRISTIAN NOLAN

Margaret B. Fraser and Joseph T. Fraser v. Wyeth Inc. and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals Inc.: A retired elementary school principal and her husband recovered $4 million after a federal jury in Connecticut decided that the woman developed breast cancer as a result of taking a menopause drug.

According to the lead plaintiffs lawyer, this was the first of several expected trials in Connecticut focusing on the drug Prempro. A trial is expected to start in U.S. District Court in Connecticut in May for the estate of a woman who died from breast cancer after taking the drug.

“I’ve got about 100 individual cases and jointly prosecuted matters” nationwide, said Gregory J. Bubalo, of Bubalo Rotman in Louisville, Ky.

Bubalo said Prempro, manufactured by Wyeth Inc., is a combination of two hormones, estrogen and progestin, and is used in the treatment of menopausal symptoms. The drug is one of several used in what’s called hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, whose purpose is to replace the female hormones the body no longer produces because of menopause. Prempro was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1994 and has remained on the market ever since.

The drug, which is still on the market, was largely prescribed from 1992 to 2002, said Bubalo, until a study by the Women’s Health Initiative highlighted its link to cancer. The label for the drug indicated that it could be prescribed for menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, vaginal atrophy and the prevention of osteoporosis.

“Epidemiologists basically have concluded that Hormone Replacement Therapy was responsible for up to 200,000 excess breast cancers in the decade from 1992 to 2002, when HRT was among the best-selling drugs in America,” said Bubalo. He said the American Cancer Society then wrote in its Breast Cancer Facts & Figures “that hormone positive breast cancer rates dropped for postmenopausal women after many women stopped using HRT in 2002.”

Nevertheless, defense lawyers for the Pfizer-owned drug company have argued that, despite the studies, there’s no way to directly connect any individual woman’s breast cancer to the drug. The lawyers also argue that the pharmaceutical company adequately warned users on the label of Prempro of the risk it could cause breast cancer.

Bubalo’s first Connecticut client to win a verdict against Wyeth is Margaret “Maggie” Fraser, 65, of Lakeville.

The attorney said Fraser began taking Prempro in the mid-1990s, when she was about 50 years old. Her gynecologist prescribed it after Fraser began experiencing hot flashes. Fraser, according to court documents, testified that she continued taking the drug because “it was working… and because my doctor felt it was safe.” Advertisements for the drug at that time also “enhanced” her decision to keep taking it.

Fraser continued taking Prempro until Sept. 11, 2001, when a mammogram revealed abnormal results. A biopsy was performed and in October 2001 she was diagnosed with cancer. The next month, a lumpectomy was performed on Fraser’s left breast. After that came six months of chemotherapy and then radiation therapy. She took cancer medications for five years after the radiation therapy.

Treatments killed the skin on her breast and she’s had three different breast reconstruction surgeries over a five- or six-year period, said Bubalo.

“She still has scars,” the plaintiffs attorney said. “She fortunately is cancer-free right now. If she ever has a recurrence, she’ll likely die. So she’ll be seeing her cancer doctor for the rest of her life.”

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Read the complete article and related information at Retired School Teacher Wins $4 million after Developing Breast Cancer from HRT

[Leslie Carol Botha: Hormones rule our health.  Hormone imbalance leads to early menopause.  Women on birth control pills are going into menopause in their 30's. Adolescent girls who have taken Gardasil - the HPV vaccine are going into menopause post-vaccination. The health of the endocrine system is crucial to the health of our bodies.]

Early Menopause May Pose Mortality Risk

By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: April 24, 2012

Menopause before age 47 significantly increased the risk of osteoporosis, fragility fractures, and premature mortality over the next 30 years, Swedish investigators reported.

The mortality risk rose by 60%, fracture risk by 70%, and osteoporosis risk almost doubled in women who entered menopause before 47 compared with women who had later onset, as reported online in BJOG.

The explanations for the higher risk of osteoporosis, fracture, and mortality all remained speculative, Ola Svejme, of Lund University, and co-authors wrote.

“The higher fracture risk in women with early menopause in the current study is probably to some extent mediated by a lower bone mineral density (BMD), as the early-menopause cohort had a significantly higher risk of osteoporosis at age 77 and already, at age 48 years, had on average a 0.4 standard deviation (SD) lower BMD than those with late menopause,” the researchers said in their discussion.

“However, the lower BMD level does not seem to be entirely able to explain the increased fracture risk.”

Numerous plausible explanations exist for the higher mortality risk, including an increased comorbidity burden, fracture-related mortality, and differences in diseases, medications, and lifestyle factors, they added.

Several studies have suggested that early menopause predisposes women to osteoporosis and associated fractures. Other studies, however, have found that age at menopause does not influence BMD after age 70, the authors wrote in their introduction.

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[Leslie Carol Botha: Diabetes is a result of hormone imbalance..... all women may be at risk for diabetes on any synthetic hormone suppressant.  Don't you hate it when the study comes out after the drug has been on the market.  Oh, yeah and I have said this before too..... Depo is used for castration in sex offenders.]

USC study: Depo-Provera birth control may increase diabetes risk for obese women

89.3 KPCC
February 1, 2012

Obese women who take long-term birth control injection Depo-Provera may be at greater risk for developing diabetes, according to a new USC study.

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine found that obese women who received the Depo-Provera injection become more resistant to insulin. That means they were less able to lower their blood sugar levels, which leaves them more susceptible Type 2 Diabetes.

Researchers compared the effects of the drug on 10 obese women and five women of healthier weight. Both groups became more insulin resistant after the injections, but the obese women stayed that way. The others were better able to compensate, by producing more insulin.

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[Leslie Carol Botha: Disturbing news from Dr. Mercola on how the cosmetic ingredients we use daily can affect the health of our breasts.]

40 Women With Breast Cancer Had This “Cosmetic Ingredient” in Their Tissues

Dr. Mercola
April 2, 2012
New research has detected the presence of paraben esters in 99 percent of breast cancer tissues sampled.

The study examined 40 women who were being treated for primary breast cancer.

In 60 percent of cases, five of the different esters were present.

Parabens are chemicals with estrogen-like properties, and estrogen is one of the hormones involved in the development of breast cancer.

The study notes that

“Variation was notable with respect to individual paraben esters, location within one breast and similar locations in different breasts.

Overall median values in nanograms per gram tissue for the 160 tissue samples were highest for n-propylparaben and methylparaben; levels were lower for n-butylparaben, ethylparaben  and isobutylparaben…

The source of the paraben cannot be identified, but paraben was measured in the 7/40 patients who reported never having used underarm cosmetics in their lifetime.”

Sources and Dangers of Parabens

Deodorants and antiperspirants are some of the primary sources of parabens, but the fact that even those who reportedly never used them still had parabens in their breast tissue clearly demonstrates that these chemicals, regardless of what products they’re added to, can, and apparently will, accumulate in breast tissue.

It’s important to recognize that whatever you spread on your skin can be absorbed into your body and potentially cause serious damage over time, as this research demonstrates.

Studies have shown that parabens can affect your body much like the estrogens, which can lead to diminished muscle mass, extra fat storage, and male gynecomastia (breast growth). Other studies besides the one featured here have also linked parabens to breast cancer. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has linked methyl parabens in particular to metabolic, developmental, hormonal, and neurological disorders, as well as various cancers.

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Read the complete article and related information at Cosmetic Ingredient Found in Women with Breast Cancer

[Leslie Carol Botha: Finally a book written by experts on the dangers of estrogen imbalance and it's debilitating effects on women's bodies.]

The Estrogen Errors
Why Progesterone is Better for Women’s Health

Susan Love MD,
President of the Dr Susan Love Research Foundation
and author of Dr Susan Love’s Breast Book

Read the complete article and related information at Jerilynn Prior MD and Susan Baxter PhD Unveil ‘The Estrogen Errors’

Remember the 1970 Senate testimony on the first birth control pills when a male ‘medical expert’ (women were not allowed to testify at this hearing either) said ‘estrogen is to cancer like fertilizer is to wheat.’ 40 years later and women are still at risk for iatrogenic disease from static based hormone therapy.

HRT With Estrogen Added Raises Breast Cancer Risk

Medical News Today
16 Mar 2012 – 9:00 PDT

According to a study published March 15 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, thoughts about how estrogen alone or estrogen in addition to progestin influence the risk of developing breast cancer has considerably changed in the past 10 years due to results from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) randomized placebo-controlled hormone therapy trials, and from large prospective cohort studies.

At present, concerns are still being raised regarding hormone therapy-induce breast cancer risk, even though the therapy is used for menopausal symptoms by millions of women. Furthermore, researchers are still not clear on the effects of estrogen in addition to progestin vs estrogen alone on breast cancer.

Rowan T. Chlebowski, M.D., Ph.D., of the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Garnet Anderson, Ph.D., at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, examined data from 2 randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials carried out in the WHI, in order to examine the effects of estrogen in addition progestin vs estrogen alone on the risk of developing breast cancer.

The first study assessed estrogen alone in post-menopausal women with prior hysterectomy, and the second study assessed estrogen plus progestin in post-menopausal women who had not undergone hysterectomy.

The researchers found that the risk of developing breast cancer was statistically considerably increased by using estrogen in addition to progestin, while the risk was statistically significantly decreased in post-menopausal women with previous hysterectomy who took estrogen alone.

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Read the complete article and related information at Breast Cancer Risk Increases with Estrogen HRT

“Sex can be very emotional, but remember to look at sex in a practical view too so that it won’t dictate how you think you feel emotionally. If you can enjoy a person with or without sex, then that’s a special connection.” - Leo ext. 5265

Snag Him With Sexting

California Psychics
By LJ Innes
March 15, 2012

Have you ever considered sexting to spice up your sex life? What is sexting? Well if you know how to text and you know how to be flirty and suggestive, you have all the ingredients needed to be a world-class sexting (s)expert.

A stimulating sex life is the key to intimacy in a thriving relationship, and you don’t have to be a tri-athlete to have a fulfilling sex life. All you need is a little imagination and enthusiasm for heating things up in the bedroom (or any room). You can dress in sexy lingerie, try a little role playing, maybe add a few toys to the game, but if you want the fun and games to flourish beyond the bedroom and beyond the times when you’re physically together, sexting is a great way to both spice up your sex life, and keep you in the forefront of your lover’s mind.

Novice/Virgin Sexting

Sexting doesn’t have to be raunchy, just solicitous. Reminisce about an intimate moment you’ve shared and how you can’t wait to do it again. Evoking memories of passion by sexting can only lead to more moments of passion. If you have a secret language with your honey, by all means, use it. In this vein, a commercial for “KY” comes to mind, where the wife asks the husband, “Did you put cinnamon in the dessert last night?” They both smile. He replies, “Yes, and a bit of nutmeg too!” There are, of course, subtitles for us on the outs of their secret speak, but they knew what they meant, and that’s really the point. Sexting is intimate. So if you both share a secret language, start sexting to spice up your sex life with your little love muffin.

“Sex can be very emotional, but remember to look at sex in a practical view too so that it won’t dictate how you think you feel emotionally. If you can enjoy a person with or without sex, then that’s a special connection.” - Leo ext. 5265

Spontaneous Sexting

Spontaneous, out-of-nowhere messages will delight a guy who’s having a rough day, or any kind of day for that matter. Almost any guy will admit that he’s probably incapable of concentrating heavily on more than one thing at a time, so why shouldn’t it be you? Tell him what you’re wearing or not wearing, or better yet, send him a picture text — a picture is worth a thousand words, after all. That will perk him up in a heartbeat. Get as naughty as you dare; at least as naughty as you know he’ll like it, and maybe even kick it up a notch. Your sexting efforts will definitely spice up your sex life.

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Read the complete article and related information at Sexting – The New Way to Snag A Man

Join Leslie Carol Botha on Monday, March 19 on KRFC FM when she interviews T.S. Wiley, on her book, ‘Sex Lies and Menopause: The Shocking Truth about Hormone Replacement Therapy” and her work and research on Rhythmic Cyclic BHRT and the development of the Wiley Protocol using natural cyclic hormones for menopause. Wiley has made numerous national radio and television appearances and since 2000 continues to present and lecture on Multi-Phasic, Rhythmic Cyclic BHRT and Hibernation and Metabolic States. Wiley’s Seminar’s on the Natural History of Endocrinology are attended by physicians from all over the world and they are awarded CME credits for her work.

T.S. Wiley is the author of “Sex, Lies & Menopause,” Harper Collins, 2003, the hypothesis of which explains why postponing marriage and motherhood, women have accelerated the aging process and put themselves in the bull’s eye for breast cancer. The book also examines the introduction of the birth control pill in the early 1960’s and the impact of not breast-feeding our young. In her previous book, “Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival, ” Pocket Books, Simon and Schuster, 2000, Wiley succinctly and logically argues that electricity and the light bulb put us out of sync with nature as the ultimate “endocrine disruptors”.

People spent summers, before electric lights, sleeping less and eating heavily in preparation for winter because the light triggered the hunger for carbohydrates. Now, light is available 24 hours a day. Heating and air-conditioning climate control our hormonal responses to consume carbohydrates now available year round. This is the scenario for obesity, Type II diabetes, and depression.

In Wiley’s opinion, sleep is the best medicine. T.S. Wiley has also published peer-reviewed scientific papers in molecular oncology and endocrinology, as well as lecturing globally and teaching physicians Environmental Endocrinology in Planetarium settings around the world. Her newest work in process is “Manthropology”, exploring how medicine and modern life are killing men. Find out more about the study of bio-identical, bio-mimetic HRT on her website, www.thewileyprotocol.com

Read the complete article and related information at ‘Sex, Lies & Menopause’ Author T.S. Wiley on Holy Hormones Honey!