(24-06-2013, 07:08 PM)MonikaT Wrote: Looking at your current program, there seems to be a conflict. For whatever reason, it is not advised to use PM and BO together. It is either/or.
Actually in that particular case I don't see much of a conflict...
(24-06-2013, 07:08 PM)MonikaT Wrote: In fact, you seem to be spending a lot of money on competing herbs. RC competes with PM. The body has only so many estrogen receptors. The idea is to tie them up with either estrogen or a phyto-estrogen to stimulate them. BO is a source of estrogen. RC and PM are phyto-estrogens. PM is more powerful than RC.
Here, however, there be truth.
(24-06-2013, 07:08 PM)MonikaT Wrote: Estrace is more powerful than PM. Taking PM could reduce the effectiveness of estrace. I'm not sure 90 days is enough time to see if anything works, though pharmaceuticals are more powerful than herbs and glandulars.
This gets a little murky again... Bear in mind that herbs work for women, women who arguably ought to already have significantly more estradiol than any biological male ever should without taking something for it.
The trick is that there's actually different kinds of all the different hormone receptors and certain things bind more strongly/weakly to different kinds. There's two MAJOR receptor types for estrogens, and for the most part, animal estrogens seem to bind more strongly to one type, while plant estrogens more strongly to the other.
PM if nothing else is a powerful anti-carcinogen. Between binding to a certain kind of receptor and keeping any "extra" animal estrogens off it, which has been found to be a leading cause of cancer... and then the plethora of anti-oxidants and everything else... PM is fantastic stuff. And that's part of why I use it despite using estradiol as well. I'd like to keep my cancer risks as low as I can while still being who I really am.
Now, mixing glandulars with estradiol would be dumb. Those are both animal estrogens, and invites all kinds of potential problems, and them duking it out would be the least of my concerns.
(24-06-2013, 07:08 PM)MonikaT Wrote: Abi is correct about hormone levels being at their highest around 8:00 in the morning. The same is true of testosterone.
Thank you for confirming that, lol.
I don't think it's a matter of people not knowing though, but just not regarding it as important.