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 ====== Hormone and pro-hormone therapy    ======  ====== Hormone and pro-hormone therapy    ====== 
-<html><div class="mainarticle">Related article:</html> [[home:patients:assessing_literature:palliative|Palliative vs. curative treatments]] <html></div></html>+<relatedarticle> [[home:patients:assessing_literature:palliative|Palliative vs. curative treatments]] </article>
  
  
-Due to the nature of chronic disease, it is common for patients suffering from chronic diseases to have low levels of hormones. This may be due to high levels of the vitamin D metabolite 1,25-D which interferes with the production of hormones.+Due to the nature of chronic disease, it is common for patients suffering from chronic diseases to have low levels of hormones. This is often due to high levels of the vitamin D metabolite 1,25-D which interferes with the production of hormones such as T3, testosterone, etc. Because the vitamin D system is dysregulated in chronically ill patients, supplementing with other hormones tends to further dysregulate the receptors rather than increase hormonal expression. Thus, hormone supplementation is contraindicated. If the patient is already on hormone “replacement” therapy, judicious use of low-dose hormone therapy (to relieve intolerable symptoms) may be necessary until the patient is able to wean from the hormones.
  
-When supplemented, all of the steroid hormones have the capacity to interfere with the proper function of various nuclear receptors. This effect is dose-dependent. Marshall Protocol (MP) patients are advised to work with their doctor to use the lowest dose of medication that is effective.+Marshall Protocol (MP) patients are advised to work with their doctor to use the lowest dose of medication that is effective.
  
 As patients begin to kill the Th1 pathogens causing their disease, vitamin D metabolism restabilizes and 1,25-D's effects on hormonal stabilization becomes less of an issue. Once this happens, there is no longer a need to take extra hormone supplements, and patients can then wean off their steroids. As patients begin to kill the Th1 pathogens causing their disease, vitamin D metabolism restabilizes and 1,25-D's effects on hormonal stabilization becomes less of an issue. Once this happens, there is no longer a need to take extra hormone supplements, and patients can then wean off their steroids.
  
    
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 ===== Overview of how steroid hormones work ===== ===== Overview of how steroid hormones work =====
  
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 ===== Types of hormone supplementation ===== ===== Types of hormone supplementation =====
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 +<relatedarticle> [[home:othertreatments:epo|Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (EPO)]] </article>
  
 The following types of hormone supplementation are discussed: The following types of hormone supplementation are discussed:
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 ===== High 1,25-D interferes with the production and activity of other hormones ===== ===== High 1,25-D interferes with the production and activity of other hormones =====
  
-<html><div class="mainarticle">Related article:</html> [[home:pathogenesis:vitamind:metabolism#effect_of_high_1_25-d_on_nuclear_receptors|Effect of high 1,25-D on nuclear receptors]] <html></div></html>+<relatedarticle> [[home:pathogenesis:vitamind:metabolism#effect_of_high_1_25-d_on_nuclear_receptors|Effect of high 1,25-D on nuclear receptors]] </article>
  
  
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-<blockquote>When I started the MP, I was also taking DHEA, pregnenolone, progesterone and testosterone. When I tested them again in December, the DHEA and pregnenolone were back to normal and I had to reduce the progesterone! I was able to stop progesterone and testosterone a few months ago as well!+<blockquote> 
 +When I started the MP, I was also taking DHEA, pregnenolone, progesterone and testosterone. When I tested them again in December, the DHEA and pregnenolone were back to normal and I had to reduce the progesterone! I was able to stop progesterone and testosterone a few months ago as well!
  
 //**Alayne**//</blockquote> //**Alayne**//</blockquote>
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 +My wife gets HRT due to surgery to remove fibroid tumors.  She's had to lower the dose to the smallest available while on the MP. HRT is simply sometimes necessary, and the MP can be done in combination with the HRT.  However, you do need to be able to change the dose level of the HRT as the MP changes things.
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