The #1 Best Food for All Menopausal Symptoms
By Dr. Eric Berg DC
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you know it's very strange to me that someone going through menopause would have to suffer with pot flashes night sweats vaginal dryness
decreased libido anxiety depression I mean that's just weird and we're told that these symptoms are normal it's part of life we just have to cope with it and
accept it because your sex hormones naturally decrease with age by a factor of at least 50 percent because you're no longer having
functional ovaries anymore right so the question is is this true and the answer is no it's absolutely false information
when you go through menopause you have two backup organs they're called the adrenals and the adrenals make all of the hormones that the ovaries make okay
all these sex hormones estrogen progesterone testosterone and they make a lot of other hormones too like cortisol aldosterone
DHEA things like that so the way it's supposed to work is during menopause you have a decreased ovarian function and the adrenals are supposed to back it
up and start making these hormones and no it's not normal to have any symptoms when you're going through menopause so what is the problem okay well take a
look at this chart right here we have a chart of the metabolic pathways through the adrenals the different layers of the adrenal and the different hormones that
are created by your adrenals you have mineral corticoids glucocorticoids Androgen estrogen all of these hormones stem from this one thing this one raw
material check it out right here cholesterol that's right the very thing that people are telling you to avoid because it causes heart disease right so
at the expense of lowering cholesterol through the diet a diet recommendation or medication boy are your adrenals gonna suffer
because that cholesterol is a required material to not only make all of your sex hormones and all of the adrenal hormones that are on the outside called the cortex and
also cholesterol is the absolute required material to make vitamin D and you know how important that is also to make bile salts to help you digest
fat to make sure you have enough vitamin A d e k and also to supply your brain do you realize that 25 of your brain is
cholesterol in fact certain cells in the brain these are support cells they're not neurons they're called glial cells make cholesterol so 75 of all the
cholesterol in your body right now is made by your own cells not just by the brain cells but other cells as well only 25 percent comes from the diet and you might be saying well I do eat a lot of
fat in my diet I have my olive oil I have my soy oil my canola oil I have my avocado oil I'm consuming my coconut oil
really well guess what there is no cholesterol in plants or plant oils or seed oils cholesterol only comes from
animal products and I want to emphasize that a 80 percent of the cholesterol that feeds the adrenals is in the form
of LDL that so-called bad cholesterol that we have to avoid so by cutting out cholesterol from the diet or using medication that lowers the cholesterol
there is all these Cascade problems all this collateral damage that can occur including the big ones of menopausal symptoms depression anxiety loss of
memory I mean if you think about even one of the side effects of statins which is a medication to block your production of cholesterol one of the symptoms is
called transient global amnesia okay you have certain times where you just lose your memory when you're on statins you actually increase the risk of cancer
people with higher cholesterol have lower incidence of cancer so apparently there's this cholesterol immune system relationship now that could be because the vitamin D or other factors and we
all know the common symptoms from being on a Statin is muscle pain and muscle problems because of what it does to something called coenzyme Q10 okay
that molecule is blocked when you take statins and That's essential for allowing your mitochondria to use fat as
fuel so it's intimately involved in the production of energy especially in your muscles and so if you starve off the muscle from getting energy you get all
sorts of problems and this is one of the biggest side effects and reasons why people stop taking statins as the side effect of lowering cholesterol and so if we take a broad look at all the symptoms
that women go through during menopause they all relate to a deficiency of sex hormones and what many women don't realize is the vital importance of just
supporting this cholesterol to feed these hormones to make sure they have the raw material and what you're going to find out if you make just a slight change in your diet is the very dramatic
and sudden disappearance of these menopausal symptoms just by increasing more more cholesterol in the diet and now you know why because all of these
hormones are built from cholesterol so start adding more cholesterol to the diet and the number one food that can actually help you is high quality
grass-fed butter that's right start putting it in your coffee start putting it in your food don't be afraid to consume real butter and again realize
that you can't get your cholesterol from plants so all these other oils okay which are fine like olive oil is fine some of these other oils like avocado is fine but it's not going to help you
build up your adrenal hormones and by the way the more stress that your body goes through especially during Menopause the more cholesterol you need especially
more LDL now the key to this to make sure that this LDL doesn't end up being the wrong type of LDL because there's two different kinds is this as you
increase your dietary fat you also at the same time time want to reduce your carbohydrates because you never want to consume a high sugar high carb diet with a high fat diet as long as you keep your
carbs low as in the ketogenic diet you can consume higher amounts of this fat so butter is number one you might want to add some fatty cheese like brie
cheese I would recommend grass-fed don't be afraid to add cream like I get my raw cream every week from a local Farm egg yolks another important source of
cholesterol so Seafood Oregon meats are all awesome to help support your adrenals and do not do lean proteins okay don't do low fat anything because more lean the protein is like even
protein powders you're going to stimulate more insulin the fat helps buffer the protein on the insulin index because if you keep the insulin down
you're going to be protected now during this process it may be helpful to add vitamin D as well as purified bile salts
to help you digest this fat I'm not saying go crazy with unlimited amounts of fat I'm just saying that if you are on a low-fat diet I'm talking about low animal fats you need to start increasing
it and if you have a hard time digesting it chances are you probably don't have enough bile salts add those to the mix so you can digest it and you might just be very pleasantly surprised that your
menopausal symptoms magically disappear now if you have not seen my video um the difference between the two different ldls this is a very important
video to watch and I put that video up right here check it out
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