Today's fervor for environmental preservation has also hit
the medical industry as researchers, scientists and doctors
are discovering the importance of the newest emerging field
called environmental endocrinology. Doctors are now
learning how environmental endocrinology, or the effect of
daily stressors like light, food and crowding on multiple
endocrine systems, controls the rate of aging and the
quality of life. This also covers reproductive
endocrinology, converging to become what we call menopause
medicine.
Envronmental endocrinology has roots in the earliest
calendars, which historically were lunar calendars, based
on the time interval from one new moon to the next, or also
known as lunation. In colder countries, the concept of the
year was determined by the seasons, specifically by the end
of winter. But in warmer countries, where the seasons are
less pronounced, the Moon became the basic unit for time.
Calendar consciousness first developed in women because
their natural body rhythms corresponded to observations of
the moon, and as it turns out, 28 days is not the true
average of the natural female cycle. In ancient mythologies
it is clearly related to the full moon, but in the modern
world the female cycle is disturbed by what some
researchers believe to be the existence of artificial
lights and the use of artificial hormones. Many light
sources including TV and computer screens, have probably
perturbed the female cycle, and shortened it.
A woman's menstrual cycle responds to many subtle
environmental cues and one of these is the presence of
other women. Those who work closely together, or who live
together, can set off each other's menstrual cycles. It
happens via pheromones-chemical substances that are
secreted by the skin. Once their nasal receptors pick up
the scent, the pheromones stimulate their endocrine
systems, which then drive their menstrual cycles into a
similar pattern.
There's also evidence for photoperiodicity controlling
estrogen reception along with the obligate melatonin
response. Melatonin blocks estrogen receptors. As the light
increases with the waxing moon, melatonin secretion
diminishes, allowing estrogen full rein.
Doctors who are studying environmental endocrinology are
in the vanguard of an elite group of forward-thinking
physicians and researchers trying to put the scientific
method back into medicine, spearheaded by a researcher
named T.S. Wiley.
The studies focuse on the following topics: Insulin and
cortisol metabolism over the course of a lifetime; the
interplay of insulin, SHBG and estrogen; the effect of
declining quality of sleep on sex steroid production and
use; the seasonal variation in hormone fluctuation through
shunt physiology; the action of sex steroids on
immunological, emotional and neurological disorders; how to
use and adjust the Wiley Protocol to solve all of the side
effects of menopause'hot flashes, migraines, joint pain,
incontinence, hemorrhaging, endometriosis, hypo and
hyperthyroidism, fibroids, PCOD, insomnia, acid reflux,
gall bladder disease, thinning skin, vulvodynia, low
libido, IBS, anxiety and depression; the connection of
insulin and sex hormones to cancer; C-reactive protein and
cardiovascular risk: the eyes of the hippopotamus;
non-Genomic actions of steroid Hormones in Reproductive
Tissues; complex actions of sex steroids in adipose tissue;
and the cardiovascular system and brain: insights from
basic science and clinical studies
"Since my involvement with Wiley and environmental
endocrinology, I have become more keenly aware of the
nuances of hormonal interaction and understanding the
molecular aspects of hormonal relationships," said Courtney
Paige Ridley M.D."It answers the questions being posed
regarding cancer and other dysfunction afflicting not only
menopausal women but those women with significant
alteration of cycle created by interaction with our
estrogen toxic environment."
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Kristin Gabriel is the marketing communications director
for T.S.Wiley, a medical writer and researcher in
chronobiology, environmental endocrinology and circadian
rhythmicity. She is the author of "Sex, Lies & Menopause,"
and the also the developer of The Wiley Protocol
(http://www.thewileyprotocol.com ) For more information
about the Wiley Protocol Physicians Training and
Certification, email caren@thewileyprotocol.com. *The
Medical Educator Consortium (MEC) is accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to
provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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