The Dance of Estrogen and Progesterone

Hormones influence your experience of this world. When estrogen and progesterone are well balanced through a woman’s cycle, she flows effortlessly between a generative outwardly focused state to one of expansive receptivity.

While estrogen is often thought of as a female hormone, it is increasingly skillfully utilized by the body as a stress hormone for its antioxidant properties.

When the liver is

Too much of a rise of estrogen, a rise at an appropriate time, or a lack of progesterone during the luteal phase decreases the body’s ability to move estrogen out of the body.

Gut health gets impacted, detox ability, ability to feel emotionally well. Estrogen has self-proliferation quality to it

Estrogen dominance:

Exogenous estrogen

Antibiotic use

Microbiome

Ray Peat- progesterone has many health benefits, receptivity, slowing down time, putting us into an expanded state with more sensory gating channels.

Expansion and holding in hormones. Held and Open, Held and Open.

The body is the ecosystem that holds the spirit. Access spirit through matter.

*A philosophy of regenerative medicine

Regenerative medicine is a healing philosophy that supports sovereignty and spiritual growth through reclaiming ancestral knowledge and developing body literacy. It requires a willingness to step into a deeper presence of self, opening more fully to sensation and the truth of your life as a means of attunement to what is being said and asked for by your body.

While modern medicine has its value, divestment from ancestral health wisdom in favor of a narrow colonization of healing knowledge has severed the foundational elements necessary for attaining body literacy and embodying our innate healing capacity. Among the losses is our potential to skillfully interpret and support our bodies through their cyclical, seasonal processes, and with this the opportunities to deepen our self- trust and connections by doing so within the interdependent ecological and human webs within which we exist

Regenerative medicine is an act of advocacy which embraces the intersectional nature of health within the larger networks of the whole. It is the deep recognition that our individual sovereignty and resiliency does not exist in isolation from that of the mutually reinforcing webs within which we exist.

The concept of regenerative medicine is not intended to fuel polarizing narratives or demonize the for-profit health system and its dedicated health professionals. It is instead an invitation to move beyond narrative entirely, to acknowledge the undeniable incompleteness of the current medical system and how it touches us all.

Regenerative medicine is neither a critique of the dominant medical model, though it entails recalibrating collective norms and storylines that shape modern health, diet, and wellness cultures. Regenerative medicine is most profoundly a cry to reclaim our sovereignty as healers, expanding our capacity to make self-determined decisions that align with our unique dharmic expression.