Bioavailable copper and estrogen dominance

What's really behind estrogen dominance?

Part 1

In most cases it is an indirect effect of something bigger. Before you know it, you'll find yourself in a sea of additives, losing a huge opportunity to track down the real cause.

Today we are going to talk about minerals and their importance for hormonal balance. Dr. Hans Celier shows that stress is a condition caused by changes in our environment, which leads to autonomic reactions and in the long term to hormonal changes.

So the question is, should our attention be focused on correcting the hormones or rather correcting the environment? The environment that surrounds us is everything, and to achieve lasting healing, changes must be made accordingly.

As humans, we are wired to adapt to the stresses around us. Something stressful happens, we respond and subsequently recover (return to a state of homeostasis/balance). Unfortunately, it's not quite like that these days. We are witnessing a huge number of health problems, new and old disorders spreading rampantly even among young people.

Chronic stress and the inability to adapt causes inflammation in cells rather than energy production, thus creating an environment for disease to develop - so the environment must be the focus, the center of attention.

If we don't pay attention to the environment, functional changes will occur. We will not have the ability or resources to produce copper rich antioxidants( ceruloplasmin, cytochrome oxidase, SOD, etc.)

We will not be able to produce or convert the thyroid hormones that assist in energy production in the cells. We will not be able to recycle cholesterol. We also lose the ability to recycle iron.

All this matters for the regulation of the adrenal and thyroid glands, as well as the nervous system.

As a result, we lose minerals, there is reduced energy production, cell death, inflammation and calcification = low oxygen levels in the cells (hypoxia), which also makes the whole body hypoxic.

Part 2

Today, we'll dive deeper into hypoxia, a condition in which the body's environment is suffocated by a lack of oxygen at the cellular level.

Hypoxia increases oxidative stress and ROS and lowers bioavailable copper (shown as elevated copper in lab tests), which in turn leads to iron overload of tissues of various organs such as the liver and gastrointestinal tract.

This compensation not only causes but also maintains this environment and taking supplements to correct it would be like trying to put out a forest fire with a fire extinguisher.

To summarize: hypos = decreased bioavailable copper.

We can't use copper, we can't produce energy, we can't recycle iron and our cells are suffocating to death.

A simple example of this is the zinc and copper relationship as seen in HTMA.

Zinc in women correlates with progesterone, and in men with testosterone. Copper in both sexes correlates with estrogen. Whenever you see an increase in copper or zinc levels in the CTM, the body loses its ability to recycle iron. It's lower in the blood because it's elevated in the tissues, and that equals hypoxia.

If we look at the ratios, low is associated with an increased level of copper - copper toxicity, which actually means low bioavailable copper and is equivalent to estrogen dominance.

If the ratio is elevated, it usually means that zinc is in excess, and this is associated with elevated iron, which is tantamount to latent copper toxicity (decreased bioavailable copper).

Let's not get confused with lab tests, but keep the basics in mind:

Stress at the cell level is associated with decreased bioavailable copper and an inability to recycle iron, which is tantamount to hypoxia. Every time we lose/have a copper deficiency, we are losing the ability to methylate. Estrogen goes through phase 1 and then phase 2 (methylation) in the liver. Copper is needed for methylation. When there is no bioavailable copper, iron is increased, inflammation is increased and estrogen detoxification is decreased.

In conclusion, the best approach to regulate estrogen is to focus on copper metabolism, iron recycling and energy production by the cell to support the liver in methylation.