Women have unique organs and require special care. Simply FemaleTM was developed to help naturally nourish and support a woman’s organs by providing 100% glandular support.
The consumption of glandulars provides nutritional support to the corresponding gland in the human body [e.g. 1]. Glandular organs contain vitamins, minerals, and nutritional peptides, without sugar [2]. They also supply enzymes, and substances believed to be hormone precursors. Freeze drying results in a glandular that is the closest to ‘whole food’ [3].
Unlike plants, glands have most of the same biological materials (like enzymes and other peptides) that humans do [4]. It is now believed that there are as many as 75,000 different enzymes in the human body [5]. Consuming glandulars helps directly supply enzymes. Enzymes are biological catalysts that encourage metabolic, catabolic, and digestive processes in the body. They help rebuild and detoxify. Enzymes tend to be specific, such as thyroid enzymes tend to help the thyroid, but are ignored in the ear. Enzymes help the respective organs they are involved with function better.
Simply FemaleTM is intended to support the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis as well as other systems in the female body. The HPA Axis is your body’s main way of responding to stress. It consists of three organs that each release hormones to eventually raise cortisol level in your body. The HPA Axis is a communication system between three organs, it is crucial for your body’s stress management [6]. These endocrine system organs create a feedback loop of hormones to enact and regulate your body’s stress reaction.
The HPA Axis is comprised of three glands:
Hypothalamus: The hypothalamus is a structure deep within your brain. The hypothalamus keeps your body in a balanced state (homeostasis). The hormones [it produces] can control body temperature, water balance, appetite, gastric activity, and the fear and rage emotions [7]. The hypothalamus can also increase feelings of tranquility [8].
Pituitary: The pituitary gland is a small endocrine gland located at the base of the brain below the hypothalamus. It makes several essential hormones and regulates other endocrine glands management [6]. The pituitary gland secretes human growth hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, thyroid-stimulating hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, antidiuretic hormone (also called vasopressin), and oxytocin [8]. Beef pituitary glandulars have been recommended for fatigue, stress intolerance, digestive complaints, metabolic disorders, headaches, obesity, delayed healing response, and nervous manifestations [9]. Some have also recommended it to help with sleep as well as seasonal affective disorders.
Adrenal: The adrenal glands secrete androgens, which in a woman’s body can be converted into estrogen, along with cortisol (which controls aspects of metabolism) and aldosterone. They also produce mineralocorticoids (involved in electrolyte balance) and glucocorticoids (involved in blood sugar regulation). Adrenal glands secrete epinephrine and norepinephrine in response to sympathetic stimulation. “More than 30 steroids have been isolated from the adrenal cortex” [8]. Adrenal glandular support is often used by people who are under stress, fatigued, having difficulty getting up in the morning, who have adrenal stress headaches, or have an abnormal craving for salts [10].
In addition to supporting the HPA Axis, women may benefit from additional bovine glandular support of the reproductive organs.
Simply FemaleTM contains glandular support for the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus and cervix.
Ovary: While ovaries are involved in reproduction and hormone production, bovine ovarian tissue has been advised to help women sleep at night, reduce the production of acne, improve mood, sometimes aid in menopausal issues and for some women, increase fertility [11].
Fallopian tubes: are a pair of hollow, muscular ducts located between the ovaries and uterus. Each Fallopian tube is a channel between the ovaries which are involved with reproduction and menstruation [8]. Estrogen causes the ciliated epithelial cells that line the fallopian tubes to increase [8].
Bovine uterus extracts have long been used for women with leucorrhea, uterine cysts, fibroids, uterine displacement, excessive or scanty mense, some types of sterility, menstruation cramps, prolapse uterus [7, 12]. Some practitioners have found uterine glandulars to be helpful for female moods.
The cervix is the lower, narrow canal part of the uterus, connecting it to the vagina. It plays a vital role in menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth [13]. The cervix allows fluids to leave and enter the uterus.
Simply FemaleTM also contains bovine thyroid tissue (note: bovine thyroid glands are thyroxine-free, thus do not result in a shutting down of the thyroid gland when taken). Thyroid tissue is used by people with symptoms associated with low thyroid such as afternoon tiredness, poor circulation, poor temperature tolerance, headaches, low metabolism, diminished female libido, weight concerns, and sometimes dry skin [14]. After a short adjustment period many people will find that they crave less junk food, caffeine, and similar items less but instead carve more water, fruits, and even vegetables.
Bovine animal glands have been consumed since the beginning of history [15], and glandulars have been part of the human diet for thousands of years. They were used for medicinal purposes in the USA in the 1800s [16] and were mentioned in Merck’s 1905 Manual of Materia Medica [17]. Their long-term use in nutritional supplements began over a century ago [18].
Various studies and reports involving glandulars have been published [e.g. 19-26]. Interestingly, a study of Australian aborigines found that those that had obesity and diabetes who left Western diets and returned to a native diet that included consuming animal glands found that those diseases reversed [26]. Glandulars are “generally recognized as safe” [27]
New Zealand, Australian, and Argentinean farmers tend to raise their cattle more naturally than those raised in places that use a lot of genetically-modified grains like the USA. Cows in New Zealand, Australia, and Argentina are almost exclusively raised on unfertilized natural grasses which are found in the pastures of those lands. Neither New Zealand nor Australia, nor Argentina has ever had a case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) nor scrapie, a similar disease found in sheep [28-30]. Simply FemaleTM only provides glands from those southern hemisphere nations.
In summary,Simply FemaleTM supports the HPA Axis, the reproductive organs and the thyroid gland. Simply Female offers complete glandular support for the neuroendocrine system, the endocrine system and the reproductive system.
Women seeking relief from hormonal imbalances, as well as those ending hormone replacement therapy, can nourish and help stabilize their endocrine systems with glandular support, such as in Simply FemaleTM [31].