High Estrogen Symptoms in Men

​Too much estrogen isn’t a problem just for women, men can also experience high estrogen symptoms.
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High Estrogen

Is there Estrogen in Men?

Yes, men do make estrogen and levels can become very high and signs of high estrogen for men include:

• Loss of libido
• Low levels of testosterone
• Weight around the waist, hips and thighs 
• Growing and enlarged breasts 
• Fatigue 
• Depression
• Submissive
• Gossip
• Relies more on emotions than on logic 
• Loss of muscle mass
• Cannot be a leader with his family 
• Angrier 

When men have too much estrogen in their bodies they also tend to have more of the feminine traits, as noted above, although it may not seem like a big deal, the yin and yang (active-passive) is unbalanced and creating many illnesses on a physical and emotional level and it spills into society. 

​ESTROGENS AND HAIR MINERAL ANALYSIS

Most men on the nutritional balancing  show high estrogen on their chart.  Higher estrogen levels interfere with adrenal gland activity.  As a result, the total effect of increased estrogens can be a lower sodium level and a lower sodium/potassium ratio on a hair mineral test.

For example: 

• Fast oxidizers tend to have lower estrogen levels and higher testosterone levels.  The opposite is true of slow oxidizers. 
  
• Slow oxidizers usually have higher estrogen levels and lower testosterone levels, particularly men.  The only caveat here is that slow oxidation is also associated with lower hormone levels, in general, and poorer transmutation.  Therefore, estrogen and other hormones such as progesterone may be lower in slow oxidizers for this reason.
  
• A low sodium/potassium ratio is also associated with higher estrogen levels, in general.
  
• A high copper level is often associated with higher estrogens in the body. 
  
• A high arsenic level may or may not be associated with higher estrogen levels, as there are many types of arsenic toxicity and current mineral testing technology cannot distinguish which arsenic compound is present in the body.  The current mineral analysis only measures total arsenic in the hair, which does not supply enough information to distinguish the type of compound.
  
• Very low zinc on a hair mineral test is sometimes associated with higher estrogen because zinc opposes copper.
  
• Low phosphorus is sometimes associated with lower estrogen because all hormones are lower, in most cases, when phosphorus is less than about 10 mg%.
  
• Cadmium toxicity (greater than about 0.009 in hair) may be associated with higher estrogens, as cadmium damages the liver and replaces zinc in many cases, leading to a predominance of copper in the body.  High-cadmium women, for example, often have estrogen dominance.
  
• Mercury toxicity (greater than about 0.35 mg% in hair) may be associated with higher estrogens.  Mercury is a ‘female’ toxic metal that can mimic copper, damage the liver, and more.
  
• Nickel, other toxic metals and some toxic chemicals also often result in higher estrogen levels or estrogen dominance because they damage the liver and kidneys, replace zinc and selenium, and damage the adrenal glands.

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NUTRITIONAL BALANCING LOWERS ESTROGEN IN MOST CASES

Nutritional balancing science lowers high estrogen by many mechanisms.  These include:
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1. Focusing on restoring the liver. This is done using a diet high in cooked vegetables, very little raw foods, coffee enemas, near infrared lamp sauna sessions, and drinking plenty of spring water, though not with meals.  Other methods are the use of GB-3 or ox bile and pancreatin to assist digestion, balancing the body carefully, learning to forgive and let go of anger and other negative emotions that damage the liver, and restoring and loosening the body structure.  Foot reflexology is also extremely helpful to assist the liver in some cases.
   
2. Reducing copper and arsenic.
   
3. Reducing fear and despair.
   
4. Improving zinc metabolism and zinc status.
   
5. Improving testosterone and adrenal activity.  Estrogen can substitute, to a degree, for low levels of some of the other adrenal hormones, in both men and women.
   
6. The diet.  The diet high in cooked vegetables with a little animal protein is not only a low estrogen diet, but it helps reduce the body’s accumulated estrogen by helping the liver, providing plenty of fiber, reducing weight (stored fat and estrogen) and other means.
   
7. The procedures. These are the coffee enemas, saunas, reflexology, spinal twist, and the pushing down exercise.

The best plan of attack to get rid of excess estrogen in your body is to begin a nutritional balancing program.  

Remember that not only do you need to concern yourself with the food you eat and the products you buy, you also need to guard yourself with much propaganda that is coming from Hollywood, the news and  the internet.  

Take action for your health!

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