Re: menopause questions - more on balancing hormones!

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This is also another post I thought might be useful to paste over

here. The author gave permission but asked I not use her name.

There were two posts in responce to the one I've pasted that are

worth mentioning. One warned that kombucha contains oxalic acid and

possibly sent her to the ER for kidney stones problems. She had been

drinking it for a few years. She felt you need to be sure kidney

stones are not a problems.

The other suggested using green tea + 1 bag black (for the

glucaronic acid)but to cut down on oxalic acid.

Hope this is of help to someone!!!

Lynn

Lynn, I would think that kombucha would help you a lot. I drank a

lot of

kombucha (several quarts) in the days following the birth of my

second

child. It really helped getting all those hormonal and metabolic

wastes

from the labor/delivery cleaned out of my system really fast. I did

not

experience the " hormonal burnoff " that is typically associated with

the

first few weeks after delivery (night sweats, etc) nor did my

breastfeeding

baby get any skin bumps at all (unlike my first child). From what I

understand, these " milia " are caused by excess hormones in the

breastmilk

which are circulating in the blood from the birth.

From what I understand, the glucaronic acid in the kombucha is the

binding

agent which escorts metabolic and environmental toxins out of the

body. It

binds them into an inactive form and rushes them to the excretory

system.

Glucaronic acid is produced by the liver, but cannot be synthesized

in the

lab. All of us living today have stressed livers from the flood of

toxins

coming in from every direction and could use a little help. I

personally

think kombucha is a MUST in the daily diet.