by

Norm E. Easley

Progesterone and the desire to improve

Women naturally have higher levels of progesterone than men. It is the presence of this hormone that gives women the need to improve themselves, and the self evaluation to want to be healthier. It also gives one the desire to be attractive. When the progesterone levels drop in women who have always had normal levels, their self worth plummets. This is the hormone responsible for bringing 80% of my patients in to get healthy.

Psychologically, progesterone is involved with the inner environment of a woman, allowing her to feel comfortable about herself. It produces feelings of self-worth and value due to their accomplishments. Healthy progesterone allows a woman to recognize and accept the significance of what they have done. It is from this point of self-worth that progesterone facilitates awareness for self-improvement. There is an essential need to grow, expand the consciousness, learn, and progress. A lifetime of development and progression are the primary indicators of healthy progesterone levels.

Estrogen and self appreciation

Estrone
&
healthy detachment

Estrone is a form of estrogen produced by the liver from circulating estrogens, androgens and from raw materials supplied by the adrenal cortex...

...it functions similar to estradiol, but because the liver produces it, estrone possesses some unique characteristics. The liver adds a sense of inner strength to the personal awareness. The resulting independence, confidence and motivation to achieve things make estrone one of the productive hormones. It enables a woman to feel self-assured, free, mentally stable, and capable in her environment. It also enables them to be physically strong, athletic, and competent. Estrone establishes the strength and enthusiasm for personal development. This can include career, athletics, or any creative process that makes them feel complete.

Estriol
&
emotional strength

...in the body, estriol developes healthy fibrous and supportive tissues. This includes connective tissue, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, and the tough fibers that provide support for all body parts and functions. Estriol maintains the structural fiber of the body like it does the emotional fiber of a woman. It establishes emotional strength and integrity that supports a healthy defense. With a healthy production of estriol, women have the ability to comfortably assert themselves, maintain boundaries, and have freedom of expression. Estriol makes it possible for a woman to move through her environment knowing she will succeed.

Estradiol and deserving

...eating properly, good hygiene, the need for exercise and knowing how to care for the self come from healthy levels of estradiol. From this center, a woman is able interface with her environment, knowing how she fits in, what is required of her. Estradiol allows a woman to know her environment by perception, feeling, and awareness. It is all intuitive. There is no thought, just action in response to demands. Multitasking is a primary trait of healthy estrogens. Normal levels of estradiol enables a woman to feel secure, emotionally stable, appreciated, and worthy in her environment. There is a known sense of belonging in all immediate relationships, an inner knowing of what to do, how to act, what is right and how things should be done properly for the betterment of herself and her family.

Follicle Stimulating Hormone
and creative ideas

...it is actually the hormone responsible for producing the ideas that give birth to creativity. This includes the desire to have children, prepare a fancy meal, artwork, creative dance, or anything that allows for an intuitive flow of energy with the purpose of creating something tangible. The desire to be a parent and have children, to cook, paint, dance, be creative is a result of normal FSH production. It also provides the ability to maintain an acceptable and heartfelt level of interest necessary for raising healthy, well-adjusted children, and, it allows for successful, progressive marriages and projects. FSH instills the need to create and provides the ideas of what needs creating. The ultimate reward is an intuitive sense of validation resulting from generating practical ideas manifested with satisfaction.

Luteinizing hormone and the ability to accomplish ideas

...the psychological nature of LH is to figure out what it takes to bring an idea into manefestation. A healthy LH bestows an intuitive knowledge concerning what needs doing and how to do it, and where the difficulties are with effective resolutions. The outcome of LH is that everyone benefits. LH just knows how to create contentment with themselves and consequently with their relationships. A normal production of LH enables parents to maintain an acceptable level of enthusiasm and interest necessary to raise healthy, well-adjusted children, and, it allows for successful, progressive marriages. This also applies for any creative endeavors. FSH wants to create a painting of a tree. LH brings the awareness of what brushes and paints to buy along with the wisdom for usage. The outcome is a manifestation that validates existence.

Women and men have all of the same hormones. Its just that women naturally have more concentrations of some of them. These include estrogens, progesterone, L.H. and FSH. Men naturally have the market on testosterone, adrenal cortex , and the adrenal medullae. Each of these hormones gives a special set of charachteristics physically and psychologically to a person. These characteristics change when the hormonal levels change.

Since women are more saturated with these hormones we have a greater ability to manifest the gifts that they give. Along with this honor is a greater chance of having an imbalance. And women tend to have wider fluctuations when we are off-center. Yet when we are right with ourselves, we flow with the rhythms of the world and we are the archetype of the earth mother.

Women are powerful and complicated. When you read about what each hormone gives us, you realize that women are meant to be the chiefs and men are meant to be the indians. I love how it is explained in the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" The character that plays the mother explains to her daughter that the man is the head and the woman is the neck, and acting as the neck we turn the head where we think it should go. This is not supposed to take any power or respect away from the man, it just illustrates the symbiotic relationship that we have together. We need the natural strengths of each other to be better together. Not every woman or man is born with the "classic" hormone concentrations, and thus you have different variations of the dance including gay and lesbian relationships. In addition I have noticed that humans are becoming more androgynous, and that adds a whole new level of interpretation to this discussion! So for the purposes of this chat, I'll talk about the "classic" hormones concentrations of women.

I love how nature mirrors itself everywhere. When you learn how to read it, its amazing how simple it seems!

Take estriol, it is responsible for creating the fiberous tissues of the body. Psychologically it gives a woman emotional strength (fiber) and healthy boundaries.

Estradiol is responsible for sexual maturation. In a woman that includes the breasts and the womb. Psychologically it is enables one to nuture. What better symbolism than to nuture a baby in the womb and with our breastmilk!

FSH regulates the eggs. The classic symbol of an idea or any creative process is that it starts with an egg. The rawest simple state of potential from which anything can happen. The gift of healthy FSH is to produce ideas worth developing.

LH is responsible for releasing the egg. It also stimulates the ovaries to make progesterone which carries out a miriad of things responsible for the facilitation of the sexual process. These include lining the uterus with blood for the egg to implant in, providing the fluids necessary for lubrication, sperm facilitation, PH balance and a healthy disease resistant mucousal environment. Psychologically, LH is the orchestrator of how to effectivily carry out any idea. If you have ever seen a symphony conductor at work you get the idea! (pun intended!)

Which brings me to the final symbolism for the main female hormones, progesterone. Like I just mentioned it produces many things to help facilite the sexual health and processes, and one thing that is not yet confirmed by Norm, but through deduction, I find quite obvious, is desire itself. If progesterone is responsible for the DESIRE to improve, than I bet it has a lot to do with the libido. Further study is needed!

The societies and relationships that allow women to direct and guide will be the ones that take advantage of nature's gift to women, and they will gain from it. In the classic dance between a man and a woman this energy of recieving actually fuels the man to produce and accomplish even more. Synergy is beautiful!

So, if I were to catagorize the most important demographic to keep healthy and stay healthy, it would have to be women! With our natural levels of progesterone and estrogen, we are born to keep ourselves healthy and progressing, and to facilitate our families into their own health and progression. Multiply this process, with women's health as a solid foundation, our world soon will naturally follow. Amen to that sister!