Grow Your Own HRT Articles
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If you don’t know anything about Sprouting for Menopause symptoms start here
You’ve probably heard of bioidentical HRT which are hormones synthesised from plants. Did you know you can cut out the middleman and grow plant hormones yourself and simply eat them! Grow Your Own HRT explains that sprouted beans and seeds are a brilliant source of plant hormones and shows how to sprout them, in two…
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Men, sprouted foods and prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is now the second biggest killer of men in the UK. Many older men have prostate cancer and don’t know it because it’s dormant and they don’t have any symptoms. We need to know why it stays dormant in some men but is killing others? One of the answers is diet and eating…
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The difference between synthetic hormones and plant hormones (it’s all about the molecules)
There are lots of different types of hormones, such as plant hormones, synthetic hormones, chemical and industrially produced hormones. So what’s the difference between them, why are some good and others bad? Well it’s all about the molecules… Ready? Here we go….. First of all, let’s look at the hormones our bodies create. Here are…
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So how did an ex stand up comic end up writing a menopause book? (2025)
So how did an ex stand up comic end up writing a menopause book? Basically my hobby was bean sprouting, and growing baby greens, it was a great way of indoor gardening. I started giving talks about it at festivals because it meant I could get in for free. I was excited when growing red…
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It worked for five years (2020)
It’s a while since I’ve written but I’m still growing my own HRT, eating mung, red clover, fenugreek, cress or broccoli. I eat them as part of my salad for lunch and I add them to a big old juice or smoothie in the evening before dinner. I also add wild foods, dandelions and nettles…
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Menopause week on womans hour (2018)
Last week they did menopause week on Women’s Hour, (radio 4) one of my favourite shows. I listened avidly everyday, sent them a couple of emails explaining that there was new science on the subject and they really should include it. I managed to speak to a researcher after they peddled the old myth the…
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Red clover can help hormone dependent breast cancer
It’s bad enough for a woman to get hormone dependent breast cancer, but to add to it, if you get menopause symptoms you are not allowed any kind of hormonal help, not HRT, not even plant hormone supplements. When women ask me if sprouting red clover can help (because it contains plant oestrogens) I’ve always…
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Fenugreek boosts libido – oh yes, yes, yes!
I promised to update you all on my experiments with fenugreek and luscious libido, but have been reluctant to commit it to print. This is because while I genuinely think it makes a difference – and so do some of my readers – I’m on other sprouts too so how can I be sure it’s…
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You CAN sprout Broccoli in bags
Both my sprouting books say that Broccoli can be a bit of a sensitive sprout to grow. They love growing in trays because they like to root through the slats, but only want to be the top tray (spoilt!!) and sometimes need extra water(very spoilt!). But if you don’t have time for that, I’ve discovered…
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Article published in She Who Knows 2018
Imagine a world where the young don’t get acne, infertility is unheard of and the only sign of menopause is that our periods cease. This is the world we evolved from. Stepping bravely into cities, we modernised, industrialised, denatured our food and lost something along the way that our bodies crave. Of course every wise…
