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What Is Menorrhagia? Too Much Bleeding During Your Period
Menorrhagia is essentially excessive bleeding during your period, often contributing to irregular periods. In my experience, two different things have been the main reasons for this:
1. Xenoestrogens in the environment. Or you may have lost weight. The poisons (some of which are xenoestrogens) stored in the fat are released.
2. Malnutrition leading to a vitamin A and vitamin K deficiency. The second question that must be asked is, "Why is this malnutrition occurring?" For many women, this malnutrition is due to a malabsorption of the intestine. The malabsoption is frequently caused by parasites.
3. Flax seed and Omega-3 eggs. High dose Omega-3 fatty acids, fish oil and krill oil and high dose Vitamin E also are known to cause increased bleeding. Flax does "thin" the blood and can cause excessive bleeding. [1] Hens fed flax seed have high Omega-3 eggs. Regular eggs do NOT have this thinning blood capability. Please look at this list of herbs and drugs that cause bleeding courtesy of Stanford Medical School.
I Was So Glad The Bleeding Stopped!
When I first starting using it, I had been bleeding for about 3 months. The bleeding stopped within two days of starting the Progestelle. As long as I take it, mood swings are less frequent, and my period is more regular, though of less duration. Sometimes I am off the Progestelle for a couple weeks before my period actually starts.
I did an experiment last month and didn't use the Progestelle at all. It was a bad month! mood swings, depression, crying. I am back on it now and feeling much better. Also, I have been battling vaginal yeast, and the symptoms seemed to be less while I was off the Progestelle. I'm not sure if there's a correlation. Any thoughts on that? I'll let you know when I'm ready for another shipment. Thanks!
Caryl F.
Yes, you can publish my testimony. If you need any other background info for it, let me know. I am 45 years old, always had a "regular" period, and they started getting somewhat irregular in the past year,(sometimes very light, sometimes 2 in a month) While I was bleeding for those three months, it was variable, but continuous. I even had times when it was so heavy, one clot or burst of blood would soak me and I had to leave work immediately. That's why I was so glad when it stopped within 2 days of using the product!
I use extra virgin coconut oil on my face as a moisturizer, and Larenim (supposed to be the cleanest)brand make-up over the top of that. I do use some shampoo that may have some bad stuff in it, but mostly Kiss My Face, Giovanni, or other "health" brands of shampoo and lotion. I use soap that a friend of mine makes for washing, and "green" type products for cleaning. I do, however, use clorox wipes on occasion. It may be a while before I have time to send ingredients, but I will keep it in mind, and appreciate your offer to look it over. Thank you!
Caryl F - Mosinee, Wisconsin
May 29, 2009
Editor's Note: Usually yeast infections go away with progesterone. Usually yeast infections are due to estrogen dominance. Chronic estrogen exposure leads to yeast infection and a lessened sensitivity to estrogen (down regulation).
The reason why the yeast infection got worse is after taking progesterone Caryl's sensitivity to estrogen went back up to normal. It seemed like she was getting more estrogen even though she was not. Thus, she got a yeast infection. The solution is to cut out all xenoestrogens and phytoestrogens.
I Feel Like I Have My Life Back
Have been using this for 1 year now, it has decreased symptoms of endometriosis and menorrhagia so much that I feel like I have my life back after 18 years of not being able to leave the house during that time of the month due to heavy cramping and flooding, now I can grocery shop, exercise, etc. which I could never have dreamed of doing before I started using this. It did take almost 3 months for the full level of help. The Dr's have only offered me a the pill or a hysterectomy after having DnC's. I use this on days 15-30. I am very pleased with this product!
"Psalm 127"
August 10, 2014
Seems To Be Working
I've been using this product for a little over a month. I had been bleeding for 3 months straight, and even a D&C didn't stop it. Dr. said estrogen dominance was probably to blame. I started using the Progestelle as well as DIM and VItex and within 1 week the bleeding stopped. Just bought 2 more bottles. Rubbing the oil on can be a little messy, but it does soak in fairly well and quickly, and is worth it if it works.
"Frequent Shopper"
January 13, 2013
In my experience, xenoestrogens can cause excessive vaginal bleeding. Xenoestrogens are chemicals or herbs that mimic estrogen strangely. I have found that chemicals or herbs on the skin have 10 times as much potency compared to chemicals or herbs that are taken orally. This is because anything on the skin is absorbed directly into the body. However, anything taken orally is 90% pre-filtered by the liver.
I had a patient that had clumpy crampy periods for 15 years. She went on our program of avoidance of xenoestrogens. She was clump and cramp free for year and a half. Then, she gave me a phone call. She said, "The clumpy crampy periods have come back for six months."
So, I reviewed all the products and all she had put topically on her skin. However, I could not find anything that was causing the problem. Then I asked her, "What did you do differently in the last six months?"
She thought and thought. Finally, she had an "aha" experience. She said I been taking cinnamon xylitol gum.
I said that's very interesting, "I've never seen cinnamon as a phytoestrogen. However, octyl-methoxycinnamate used as a UV protectant in sunscreen was shown to act like a strong estrogen in lab tests." She switched her cinnamon xylitol gum to lemon xylitol gum and all of her clumpy crampy periods went away.
What Exactly Are Xenoestrogens?
Xenoestrogens are chemicals or herbs that mimic estrogen. They mimic estrogen strangely. They are kind of like estrogen and have estrogen like effects but they are not really estrogen.
There is a second effect. Some chemicals or herbs can stimulate estrogen to be produced higher in your body. For instance, cocoa butter and coffee can stimulate your body to produce more estradiol.
Anything on the skin gets absorbed by the human body. The potency of putting something topically on the skin is 10 times the potency of taking the same compound orally. This is counter intuitive. Do you remember the nicotine patches and estradiol patches you can buy at the drugstore? Big pharmaceutical concerns use these patches to deliver nicotine and estradiol to the human body. Similarly, laundry detergent, soap, lotions, toothpaste, cosmetics, and lipstick are absorbed directly into the human body. Anything taken orally is 90% pre-filtered by the liver. However, anything put on the skin is not pre-filtered by the liver and goes directly into the body. Thus, an estrogen patch is more potent in its delivery system than taking a estrogen pill.
Many of these cosmetics and toiletries in our modern society contain chemicals or herbs that are extremely hormone active in small amounts and just as powerful in synergy as the estrogen patches that you put on the skin. These cosmetics and toiletries are acting like 
hormone active drugs.
For instance, Bloch M.D., a pediatric endocrinologist, found three young boys with gynecomastia otherwise known as "man boobs". Bloch M.D. measured their own endogenous hormones and found their own endogenous hormones to be normal. He found that their parents had been giving them tea tree oil and lavender oil. He stopped the parents giving them tea tree oil and lavender oil. The three young boy's "man boobs" disappeared in three months. He then took the tea tree oil and lavender oil separately and put them in breast cancer cells in a test tube. These breast cancer cells were sensitive to estrogen. He found that tea tree oil and lavender oil made the breast cancer cells proliferate. Next, he put the lavender and tea tree oil into the test tube with cells that were sensitive to testosterone. He found that the lavender and tea tree oil caused the testosterone to be blocked. And so these young boys were getting a one-two punch. Not only were their estrogen receptors being stimulated, but also their testosterone receptors are being blocked by tea tree oil and lavender oil. Essentially, lavender and tea tree oil were causing the boys to grow up like girls. The effect was so pronounced that the National Institute of Health issued a warning to parents about lavender and tea tree oil oil in young boys.
Synthetic chemicals can also mimic estrogen. The common pesticide that was banned the United States called DDT was injected into young roosters. The young roosters grew up looking like hens. The combs and wattles were stunted. They looked like hens.
See the video that we have by frontline PBS that features a medical doctor from John Hopkins. It talks about the feminization of male bass in a U.S. river. Recently as of 2014 the U.S. Geological Survey, a federal department, finished a survey of all the major watersheds looking for intersex fish. Intersex fish are fish that are caught between male and female. The male fish look like female fish. The male fish begin to produce a protein associated with eggs called vittelogenin. In some places in United States, there has been a complete population collapse because all the fish are female. All the major watersheds have some percentage of male feminized fish. Many common household chemicals and cosmetics going into the sewer system are suspected of causing this feminization of fish.
In my experience, some of these xenoestrogens have caused menorrhagia or excessive vaginal bleeding along with the irregular period. The solution is to change the chemicals and herbs that you use on your skin topically. Then, as the root reason has been addressed, the excessive vaginal bleeding and irregular period goes away.
Mainstream medicine believes that uterine fibroids or uterine polyps can cause abnormal heavy menstrual bleeding. However, I suspect that xenoestrogens cause heavy menstrual bleeding or menorrhagia. Xenoestrogens definitely cause fibroids. So, I believe that xenoestrogens separately cause heavy menstrual bleeding. I believe that xenoestrogens separately cause fibroids. The fibroids and the heavy menstrual bleeding just happens to be in the same patient.
Natural progesterone can be used to balance out small amounts of weak xenoestrogens. If you are continuing to take small amounts of weak xenoestrogens, natural progesterone can be used to stop excessive vaginal bleeding as well as the irregular periods. However, if you are taking strong xenoestrogens and many, then progesterone will not help excessive bleeding or the irregular period. Also, if you are taking herbs that block progesterone, then the progesterone will become useless, and not have any effect. These herbs that block progesterone are the same herbs that cause miscarriage.
I usually use 60 mg/day progesterone to stop menorrhagia. You can take 30 mg topically in the morning and 30 mg at night. Levels of progesterone go up and down in about seven hours so you can even break up this 60 mg per day dose into three doses: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Natural progesterone can be used to stop a miscarriage that occurs in weeks 5-8. In one way, miscarriage is like excessive vaginal bleeding or menorrhagia. Again, you can use 60 mg per day of progesterone to stop a miscarriage 30 mg topically in the morning and 30 mg topically at night.
Precautions For Progesterone Usage
It is important to cut out strong xenoestrogens for the progesterone to work. Otherwise, many of the symptoms of estrogen dominance can get worse. This is because chronic estrogen exposure in the form of xenoestrogens causes the body to shut down its sensitivity to estrogen. In order to protect itself, the body shuts down the sensitivity of its estrogen receptors. When you take progesterone, the estrogen receptors wake-up and it seems like you're getting much more estrogen even though you're not.
Here is an analogous situation. Imagine going to rock concert. Initially, the rock concert is extremely loud. However, after about half an hour the rock concert does not seem so loud. However, the noise level has not changed. Your sensitivity to the rock concert noise level has changed instead. You are now less sensitive to the noise level. When you take progesterone, it's as if your ears wake-up. All of a sudden, the noise is loud again. Frequently, patients blame progesterone as the cause of their ills. However, that is not the case. It is the simultaneous taking of progesterone and strong xenoestrogens that cause the patient to become sicker.
The solution is to go to a "quiet" place and take progesterone.
For this reason, I usually recommend cutting out all xenoestrogens from these one to two months before taking progesterone. This waiting period before taking progesterone allows the xenoestrogens to wash out of the body. One to two months seems excessive to many people. However, many topical lotions and shampoos have fat soluble chemicals that are stored in the subcutaneous fat. It may take one to three months for these fat soluble chemicals to wash out of the body.
If the patient actually loses weight, chemicals and herbs that are hormone disruptive that are stored in the fat are released. Loss of weight with the release of these toxins stored in the fat can cause the patient to have altered menstrual cycles and also become sick.
For instance, LSD the drug of abuse is known to cause bad trips 10 or 15 years after the initial taking on LSD.
This is because LSD is fat soluble and active in very small amounts and stored in the fat. When the patient get sick with the flu, can't eat, and begins to lose weight, fat is lost. Any toxins and hormone disruptors that are stored in the fat are released into the body. The LSD was stored in the fat is released into the body. And the patient has a bad trip.
Similarly, I've had patients that have lost weight. They have called me concerned about a recurrence of adenomyosis or an alteration of their menstrual cycle. However, it was due to the hormone disruptors stored in the fat that were released when the fat was metabolized in weight loss. After the loss of weight is stabilized for one or two months their health returns back to what it was before they lost weight.
Natural progesterone can be used to stop menorrhagia or excessive vaginal bleeding along with the irregular period with the provision that potent xenoestrogens are not in the patient's environment.
What About Nutritional Deficiencies?
Dr. Jonathan Wright in the book, Dr. Wright's guide to Healing and Nutrition recommends taking 50,000 IU-100,000 IU of vitamin A per day broken up into three doses on page 435 for heavy menstrual bleeding. He also suggests taking 200 IU of vitamin E and 50 mg of zinc. Also he gives a blood test for pancreatic digestive enzymes to make sure the vitamin A is likely to be absorbed.
He quotes doctors and Lithgow and Politzer that in a group of 40 women 92.5% had a substantial or complete return to normal menstrual periods with vitamin A. They reported they asked the women to use vitamin A for 35 days. Two South African researchers doctors D. M. Lithgow and W. M. Politzer reported that for 40 women, menstruation return to normal and 57.5%, and substantial improvement occurred in another 35%[2]. Dr. Wright has found those percentages to be accurate in his practice. 90% for those who Dr. Wright has suggested vitamin A treatment for heavy menstrual bleeding has corrected their menorrhagia. He recommends bioflavonoids the next thing to try if vitamin A does not work. Doctors Lithgow and Politzer also pose at least one reason why vitamin A treatment might work. They point out that enzymes necessary for the internal production of hormones are underactive in vitamin E deficiency, even when the deficiency is mild. Supplementing vitamin A stimulates enzyme activity, normalizing hormone production. Thus, vitamin A can help the body to do naturally from the inside would synthetic hormone pills or injections do from the outside.
Bioflavonoids are said to decrease capillary fragility.
Since 1981, Dr. Wright has only heard of one single case of vitamin A toxicity. "When using 50,000 IU daily compared to even over-the-counter drug toxicity, toxicity from vitamin A is small. Personally, I've never seen adults suffer vitamin A toxicity in the amount of 50,000-100,000 IU daily. According to the pharmacology textbook, the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, even in children, from all reported cases of toxicity, they had been on long term doses of 50,000 to 500,000 international unit daily. I don't want to give an impression that vitamin A is completely safe - it isn't. However, most of the talk about vitamin A toxicity is quite overdone. The symptoms of vitamin A toxicity are very noticeable and go away once the vitamin A is stopped. They include hair loss, headaches, nausea, bone and joint pain, and lumps developing on the bones in arms and legs. It is not a thing that sneaks up on you with no warning."[3]
Why Am I Vitamin A Deficient? Is The Reason Mal-absorption?
The question is, "Why you have a vitamin A deficiency?" Is it because that you are eating foods that are devoid of vitamin A? Or do you have some other malabsorption problem in the gut such as gluten sensitivity or bad bacteria in the gut that is causing malabsorption. If you have a gluten sensitivity that is causing malabsorption, you must stop eating wheat. It is like having a rash on insider your gut. The gut cannot absorb nutrients. Split fingernails are a symptom of poor nutrition or malabsorption.
Severe psychological stress can also cause allergies and gut malabsorption. The resulting gut malabsorption can also cause a Vitamin A deficiency.
Or is it possible that you have low acid in the stomach? The next question is why do you have a low acid in the stomach? Dr. Wright gives betaine hydrochloride with pepsin for patients that have low acid in the gut. However, there is some evidence that the reason why you have low acid in the gut is because of bad bacteria in the gut.
Dr. Wright quotes a commentary page 136 in the 1940 reference[4]," it is well known, however, that the administration of large amounts of dilute hydrochloric acidacid . . Alters the putrifactive flora ordinarily dominant in the upper gut of achlorhydrics." This explains why adding lactobacillus acidophilus appears even more helpful than hydrochloric acid and pepsin supplements alone.
I have not tried this with my patients yet. However, it may be possible to give probiotics to destroy the bad bacteria in the gut that is causing malabsorption and low acid in the stomach. Probiotics are bacteria that is taken for the gut. They produce natural antibiotics that 
kill other bacteria.
For instance, it is well-known that penicillin is a chemical produced by fungus which kill other bacteria. However, other bacteria can produce chemicals that kill other bacteria. For instance, there was a graduate student at Duke University. His friend was killed by tuberculosis. He decided he wanted to find a cure for tuberculosis. He decided to culture many other bacteria from the environment to see which bacteria would kill the tuberculosis. He finally cultured some bacteria from a healthy chicken's throat which produced a chemical called streptomycin which killed tuberculosis. The Duke University chairman claimed credit for his discovery. And Duke University received millions in royalties from the company that produced streptomycin. So, these bacteria from the healthy chicken's throat produced streptomycin to kill tuberculosis.
Similarly, many probiotics produce natural antibiotics that are yet to be discovered that will kill the bad bacteria in your gut. For instance, the Russians discovered that Lactobacillus Bulgaricus could cure pneumonia by producing a natural antibiotic. There were investigating the role of yogurt in Georgia and marveled at their long life span. They guessed that the Lactobacillus Bulgaricus was producing some chemicals that lengthen the Georgians lives.
It may be that by taking numerous probiotics and different brands of different types of bacteria may be able to replace the bad bacteria in your gut. For myself, that's how I cure diarrhea. If I have a bad case of diarrhea from eating bad food I will eat live kimchi, sauerkraut uncooked, yogurt with live cultures, Kiefer with live cultures, and cottage cheese with live cultures. After I eat these things, immediately, the diarrhea will immediately get better within an hour.
I have not tested these probiotics for women with heavy bleeding but I will make it an option for patients to try next time in the absence of any obvious allergy in the gut.
Flax Seed Can Make You Bleed
I had one patient who was bleeding for 9 months straight. She was vaginally bleeding. She was severely anemic and had to be transfused with two units of blood in the emergency room.
My patient had profuse vaginal bleeding. Her doctors could not stop the bleeding and were talking about a hysterectomy. I tried to eliminate everything that could possibly be mimicking estrogen on her skin and gave her transdermal progesterone topically. She continued to bleed even after several weeks of this regime.
So I talked to her for an hour and reviewed all the things that she put on the skin. However, the vaginal bleeding did not improve. So she called again and we had a discussion on the phone. And I asked her how long this excessive menorrhagia been occurring. She said this excessive bleeding had only occurred for nine months. So I said, "What did you do differently during a last nine months?"
Initially, she could not think of anything. Then, the light bulb went on. She said, "I began to grind an ounce of flaxseed into a smoothie every morning."
I told her about the "blood thinning effects" of flax. She immediately stopped the flax seed. And within one or two days her excessive vaginal bleeding stopped. Her doctors had planned a hysterectomy. She canceled the operation.
She was ebullient. She exclaimed, "How come no one told me about this!"
Since this case, I've had a number of patients that had mid-cycle spotting and were able to trace that mid-cycle spotting to high omega-3 eggs. They feed flaxseed to chicken hens, and the chicken hens lay eggs that have high omega-3 oils. The high omega-3 oils found in the eggs are from the flaxseed that the hens eat. Patients cut out the omega-3 eggs and ate regular eggs. The mid-cycle spotting stopped. When they switched from omega 3 eggs to regular conventional eggs the mid cycle spotting stopped.
My wife and I live a very pristine life. I bought some organic crackers at a neighborhood warehouse store made in part with flaxseed. My wife could eat half of that cracker and feel herself bloat and have breast tenderness.
To be fair, flaxseed can also help with breast lumps. Dr. Lillian Thompson of University of Toronto in Canada found that an ounce of ground flaxseed given to women with breast lumps between the time of diagnosis and lumpectomy were able to decrease the mass of the lump by one half. So flax is an extremely high density phytoestrogen that acts kind of like estrogen that may increase vaginal bleeding, but yet be very helpful in breast lumps.
Here is an article from Milton Hersey Medical Center stating that flax will increase bleeding times.
1. To stop heavy bleeding, use topical Natural Progesterone. You may use 30 mg in the morning and 30 mg at night, topically.
2. Use ONLY the recommended products on our product list that are devoid of xenoestrogens. I have been developing this recommended product list since 2010. I looked through 500 shampoos and could only find 3 shampoos that were acceptable. Buy any product from us, and you will get a booklet of recommended products that are safe to use.
3. Try 75,000-100,000 IU/day of Vitamin A, Retinly Palmitate, NOT Beta Carotene for 1-2 months ONLY. The Solgar brand works well for my patients. Try this for a couple of weeks to see if it improves the heavy bleeding. Jonathan Wright, MD of the Tahoma Washington Clinic also recommends 200 IU of Vitamin E, 50 mg of Zinc Chelated, and bioflavinoids. He sometimes does a blood test for pancreatic enzymes to see if the vitamins are being absorbed. After the bleeding stops, you may cut back to 50,000 IU of Vitamin A for maintenance.
Notes:
1. Prasad, K. Flaxseed and Cardiovascular Health. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. November 2009. vol 54, issue 5. 369-377.
2. Lithgow, D. M., And Politzer, W. M. "Vitamin A in the Treatment of Menorrhagia." South African Medical Journal, there are 12, 1977, pages 191 – 193.
3. Jonathan Wright, M. D. Dr. Wright's Guide to Healing with Nutrition. Keats Publishing, Inc. 1984, pages 436 – 437.
4. "Nutrition Notes and Abstracts on Nutrition: a Plug for Acid Therapy."American Journal of Digestive Diseases, volume 16, number 11, 1949, pages 418.