WHAT DETERMINES THE BALANCE OF GOOD HEALTH?
By Alfred J. Plechner, D.V.M.
The balance of good health comes from a
proper balance of active cortisol from the middle layer of the adrenal cortex
and the estrogen that is produced from the inner layer adrenal cortex.
When these two hormones are in a proper
balance both the hormone producing system and the immune system regulate the
effects of good health.
When an imbalance occurs, the immune
system may not protect the body with their functions and can lose recognition of
self tissue allowing for destruction of the host.
What are the factors that may cause an
imbalance to occur?
1.Deficient or defective cortisol.
2.Estrogen ingested from foods
called phytoestrogens.
3.Estrogen ingested from plastics called xenoestrogens.
4.Estrogen from medications.
5.Estrogen from municipal or well water and water containing
heavy metals.
If any of these factors may be
causing the imbalance, it should not be too difficult to determine.
First of all, you can have you
or your pet’s blood sampled and an endocrine- immune panel performed by your
health care professional.
Information will be found on
how to do this and where to send it at the healthypetnetwork.org or at
drplechner.com.
If there is an
imbalance, information on correcting this imbalance will be available on both
the above websites.
You also may want to check
both these websites for an article, “Foods that contain natural estrogens.”
It might be wise to check with your
municipal water district to see if they offer an estrogen analysis for their
water. If not, it might be worthwhile to take a sample of municipal water and
also a sample of well water, if
applicable and have a private laboratory check for estrogen. At the same time,
particularly with well water, have the laboratory check for heavy metals which
also may damage hormone production.
If there is any indication
that the well water contains heavy metals, check with your health care
specialists for both you and your pet because they may want samples of urine,
serum and possible hair for analysis.
After the
analysis is performed, if an estrogen dominance is still present, your health
care specialist can change this imbalance through the use of hormone replacement
to reinstate a normal balance between adrenal cortisol and estrogen. More
information can be found under the “published works’ button at drplechner.com or
under the library button at helthypetnetwork.org.
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