2016年1月26日火曜日

Society in which women sparkle

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe is aiming for "society in which women sparkle."

Until recently I was far from sparkling because I was suffering from menopause. Overall fatigue, insomnia, all the stuff that many women around fifty experience due to the transition phase their bodies find hard to adjust to.

Almost overnight, however, one thing completely changed it. Literally I feel like a brand new person and thirty again -- thanks to an amazing product called "natural progesterone cream" -- just like the No. 1 reviewer of 639 reviewers in Amazon's average score 4.1 out of 5.

I am not trying to exaggerate or advertise it, but just wanted to share this information I was luck enough to encounter by Googling. On the day I applied only a very little bit of the cream I could start sleeping like a log at night.

Originally an American medical doctor called Dr. John R. Lee introduced it. He argues that it's all about balance between estrogen and progesterone, the two types of female hormone. In developed countries, women actually intake too much estrogen compared with progesterone because livestock's food contains much estrogen. Adding a little progesterone will do the trick. Natural progesterone cream's objective is not to moisturize, but supply transdermal progesterone. It is made from soy, and thus natural.

In fact, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is doing the opposite by applying estrogen, Dr. Lee asserts in his bestselling book entitled "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause." It started in the 1950s with the idea that husbands wanted wives to stay young and sexually attractive forever like Marylin Monroe. On the surface, it appeared to work, but its adverse effect turned serious with a higher rate of cancer. The book details how pharmaceutical industry manipulates and exploits women by spreading HRT based on false information.

Because the natural progesterone cream has worked so well that I started to wonder if this is really OK. Hence I consulted with a doctor in Japan. He said there is a group of medical doctors in the United States that supports Dr. Lee's idea, but natural progesterone cream has not been for conventional medical use because we don't know exactly the appropriate dose.

"But if it works for you, that's perfectly fine and no problem whatsoever," he said. "Estrogen does cause cancer, but progesterone is OK."

Japan's health ministry does not approve the cream, so I imported it from USA. Dr. Lee's book is translated into Japanese, but it's little known in Japan, compared with the No.1 bestseller on menopause in the United States.

It's surprising this amazing stuff is almost invisible in Japan, despite its miracle effect that makes middle age women sparkle.