11/26/2025
Estrogen Again
We all know that environmental estrogens cause reproductive cancers:
Breast, uterine, prostate.
How can they claim that taking estrogen to relieve menopausal symptoms doesn't?
By distorting the facts.
"Hormone therapy for menopause, specifically any type that combines estrogen and progesterone, increases the risk for certain kinds of breast cancer. The increase in risk is small (less than 1 in 1,000)."
Right now about 2.5 million women are using some form of hormone therapy.
2500 women are likely get breast cancer as a direct result of that choice.
It may seem insignificant, unless you are one of them.
In my opinion, and I speak from experience, enduring cancer treatment — radiation, chemotherapy, and/or surgery (sometimes multiple surgeries) — is far worse than menopause.
And the effects of cancer treatment,
Again, I speak from my own experience,
Are lifelong,
While hot flashes do end.
I first doubted the safety of menopausal hormones
Because I read the package insert
Which warned me to
"Consult a physician" if I experienced:
Chest pain, trouble breathing, or nausea.
All symptoms of a heart attack.
Hormones are still being pushed as a way to prevent heart disease.
Do they?
Not really.
". . . Cumulated data showed that when the effect of HRT on all-cause mortality and CHD were analyzed across all women regardless of time-since-menopause with all ages combined, the outcomes were null, obfuscating the beneficial effect of HRT on all-cause mortality and CHD in women who initiated HRT at a younger age close in proximity to menopause." NIH
We all know that lifestyle choices are the road to enduring health.
How is it that we are willing to believe that taking hormones/drugs is better?
Safer?
Healthier even?
I think it is because we mistrust our bodies.
We are taught to believe that our bodies are traitors to us.
Doctors are trained to view the natural stages
And problems
Of a woman's life
As fundamentally wrong.
Menarche/puberty brings period pain, flooding, emotional uproar.
Birth control pills stop that nonsense.
Non-sense?
Or sense?
If one follows the teaching that menstruation is a sacred time
And that menstrual pain is a signal to withdraw
Into a sacred silence
Into a sacred peace
With herbal allies that relieve pain
And make the uterus stronger,
Then taking hormones can be seen as thwarting this.
Of course, modern women stop for nothing.
No matter what, we must keep going.
Take time off for menstruation?
Are you kidding?
The pain of childbirth can also be removed.
My mother was astonished that I gave birth without drugs:
Naturally.
"The pain of birth kills women," she dutifully repeated.
That's what they told her when they knocked her out
And dragged me out of her with forceps
(Since the drugs kept her from pushing me out).
This betrayal has echoed through my life.
The one being I counted on
Disappeared when I needed her the most.
So menopause must be treatable too.
No need to suffer.
My teachers have constantly reminded me that
While pain is inevitable
Suffering is always a choice.
Hot flashes are kundalini training wheels.
Teaching us how to embody the power
Of crone
Of old woman.
But our culture doesn't honor old women,
And we swallow that,
Fear that we will be "discarded."
So it's difficult to want to be an old woman.
Better to do whatever we can to present ourselves as
Fertile
Available
Useful
Alluring.
The crone is not fertile.
She is creative.
The crone is not available.
Menopause has cleared the way.
She follows her own path.
The crone is not useful to men's desires.
She uses herself as she sees fit.
The crone is not alluring.
She is an or**sm waiting to light up every heart
That opens to her wrinkles,
Her gray hair,
Her sagging breasts,
Her ample belly.
Have you seen the ads telling men that TRT isn't the way?
"Shrinks your balls."
Could it be that men are wiser than women regarding hormones?
Wouldn't that be rich?
It's your choice.
What are you basing it on?
Distortions about safety?
Fear of aging?
The desire to be "yourself"?
Maybe menopause is a passage to power.
Maybe menopause is a metamorphosis.
Maybe taking hormones isn't the best choice.
Maybe there's a different "self" on the other side
Right now, very few American women take hormones at menopause.
Around five percent
The drug industry wants to change that.
They are waging a campaign to convince us that hormones are safe.
To take for the rest of my life.
They aren't.
They are doing their best to torture the statistics to made hormone supplements seem healthy.
They aren't.
I trust my body.
I especially trust my body when it distresses me.
I want to nourish my wholeness,
Not fight against myself.
Do you honestly believe the drug industry has women's best interests in mind?
May it be in beauty.
May it be a giveaway dance.
May we breathe with the plants.
May our hearts beat as one with the earth's heartbeat.
Green blessing surround us.
Gratitude
Joy
