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Volume 1 Issue 1

Welcome to Heartland's NATURAL SOLUTIONS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY newsletter. We are excited to share relevant news about natural health topics and offer alternative and complimentary options for you and your family. We are committed to helping you find more complete answers to your health concerns, and look forward to being a friend as you seek greater health through innovative natural products, ideas, and educational resources. For personalized direction, call our helpline at 1-888-772-2345.

Topics in today's issue:

-Did You Know: The Estrogen Dominance Puzzle: Where do you fit in?
-Natural Solutions: Pesticide-free, human-safe solution for lice
-Testimonial: Relief from headaches, fatigue & fibrocystic breasts
-In The News: Estrogen Imitating Chemicals in Sunscreen

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HUMOR & INSPIRATION

It's not your age that matters, it's how your matter ages.
- Martin A. Ragaway

"A cheerful look brings joy to the heart, and good news gives health to the bones."
- Proverbs 15:30

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DID YOU KNOW

Estrogen and progesterone are two important hormones with multiple purposes in the human body. While they are best known for their female reproductive roles, they also play diverse roles in men's bodies (at lower levels). The critical factor for these two hormones is that they need each other to function properly. They play opposing roles and belong together, just like a pair of shoes need to match. If you walk around with different sized heels on your shoes, you don't have balance. The same is true when you have too much estrogen coupled with a lack of progesterone. You might manage OK at first, but after a while it gets very tiresome! When this hormonal imbalance occurs, the excess estrogen becomes toxic to the body. Some common effects of estrogen dominance include irritability, rage, depression, increase in body fat storage, fatigue, headaches and decrease in sex drive. Some more serious consequences of estrogen dominance include steoporosis, gallbladder disease, breast and uterine fibroids and cancer, prostate inflammation, and risk of stroke.

Excess Estrogen + Progesterone Shortage = ESTROGEN DOMINANCE, affecting men, women & children.

Why you might have too much ESTROGEN:
- Pesticides of all sorts (considered "xenoestrogens" because they contain synthetic estrogens that imitates natural estrogen in the body)
- Foods contaminated with pesticides and insecticides (especially meats, milk and coffee, unless you buy organic)
- Bovine estrogen in beef and milk (unless you buy hormone-free)
- Poultry loaded with estrogen to get to market faster and fatter(unless you buy hormone-free)
- Petrochemical exposure from solvents, adhesives, plastics and petrochemical ingredients in products.
- Prescribed synthetic estrogen (the number one prescription in the United States)
- Excess body fat. Our bodies are always making estrogen because fat cells also produce estrogen.

Why you might not have enough PROGESTERONE:
- Not eating enough plant-based fresh foods containing phyto-progesterones (do you eat more processed foods or fresh vegetables and fruits?)
- Your mother consumed xenobiotics when you were an embryo, or was exposed to toxic petrochemicals like DDT when your sex organs were being formed on the 14th day after conception. Some xenobiotics are foods containing pesticide and insecticide residue, and can damage the the follicles in the ovaries, which are crucial in adulthood for normal progesterone production. Jerilyn C. Pryor, MD, an endocrinology professor at the University of British Columbia, found through testing that 50 percent of the women in North America are severely deficient in progesterone by age 35.

To find out more about the missing pieces in your hormone balancing puzzle...

Call the Heartland Helpline at 1-888-772-2345 for directions specific to YOU, and where you can get a simple saliva test to check your hormone levels. Order an instructional video, audio or book by Dr. John Lee, MD and learn how Heartland Natural Progesterone Cream can help balance your hormones without side effects. You can read more about the effects of enoestrogens in your body (and even how the wildlife populations like alligators and turtles are also affected!) in Dr. John Lee, MD's recent book, "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Premenopause." Call us at 1-888-772-2345.

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NATURAL SOLUTIONS

Heartland also carries Lice Arrest, a pesticide-free solution for eliminating head lice. Avoid xenoestrogens and keep your child safe and lice-free with our non-toxic, chemical free Lice Arrest. To order call 1-888-772-2345 or check us out at www.heartlandnatural.com.

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DEAR HEARTLAND,

I ordered your natural progesterone product and received it about the 25th of June, 2000. I have used it for one month and have noticed improved health. I no longer take Ibuprofen daily for headaches and I have noticed increased energy and no sugar cravings. I have lost 3 pounds in the past month. I also noticed that my fybrocystic breasts have gotten much better.

I was 33 when I had a complete hysterectomy. It is now 3 years later. I have fought the past 8 years with a so-called auto-immune disease. I think the Dr.'s just slapped the name on me because they didn't know what else to blame my body malfunctions on. After reading Dr. John R. Lee's book on "What your Doctor May Not Tell You..." I am so convinced that this is my answer to many years of prayer.

C.G., South Dakota

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HOT NEWS

"Estrogen Imitating Chemicals in Sunscreens"

Summarized From "New Scientist" magazine, 21 April 2001

GENDER-BENDING chemicals that mimic the effect of estrogen are common in sunscreens, warns a team of Swiss researchers who have found that they trigger developmental abnormalities in rats. Researchers know that chemicals which behave like estrogen can cause health problems. They can have a dramatic effect on animals, for example turning fish into hermaphrodites.

Margaret Schlumpf from the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland and her colleagues tested six common UV screening chemicals used in sunscreens, lipsticks and other cosmetics. Five of the six chemicals behaved like estrogen in lab tests, making cancer cells grow more rapidly. One of the most common sunscreen chemicals, 4-MBC, had a particularly strong effect. When the team mixed it with olive oil and applied it to rat skin, it doubled the rate of uterine growth well before puberty. "That was scary, because we used concentrations that are in the range allowed in sunscreens," Schlumpf says.

4-MBC and other sunscreen chemicals have been shown to accumulate in fish from lakes where people swim. More worryingly, they have been found in breast milk at levels of nanograms per kilogram of fat--about the same as other known environmental contaminants. Schlumpf worries that the large amount of sunscreen used by bathers, especially children, could dramatically increase this exposure. For the moment, she isn't advising people to ditch sunscreens completely, but suggests that sunblocks like zinc oxide might make a healthier alternative.

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