Progesterone
Q. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ESTROGEN DOMINANT?
A. Estrogen is an essential hormone but when it is out of balance with progesterone hot flushes and `other health issues can become a big problem for a lot of woman.
Q. WHAT ARE HORMONES?
A. Chemical compounds that originate in various glands and travel through the blood stream responding to altered conditions of the body.
Q. WHAT IS PROGESTERONE
A. The hormone of gestation. Pro = promoting Gest = gestation, pregnancy,
Sterone = a steroid hormone conditions in the body.
Q WHAT IS ESTROGEN?
A. Hormones responsible for the menstrual cycle and one of the three sex hormones that are released from the ovaries involved in promoting female sexuality. Oestrus = egg-making cycle, gen = gives rise
If you are estrogen dominance, what can you do?
The simplest way is to use a USP-grade Natural Progesterone cream to increase the level of progesterone in your body. Natural progesterone can aid in bringing a woman’s body (and a man’s) back into balance. A natural approach to rebalancing a woman’s hormone levels is preferred to a synthetic approach and is better tolerated without the negative side effects of synthetic drugs. Progesterone helps you to correct estrogen dominance as it does the following:
- Helps use fat for energy
- Normalizes blood sugar levels, thus reducing food cravings
- Protects against fibrocystic breasts
- Is a natural anti-depressant
- Facilitates thyroid hormone action
- Normalizes zinc and copper levels
- Restores proper cell oxygen levels
- Normalizes blood clotting
- Restores sex drive
- Helps prevent breast cancer
- Activates to increase new bone formation, thereby stimulates bone building John R. Lee, MD, the pioneer in the field of progesterone therapy, says that taking natural progesterone also lowers the risk of osteoporosis, PMS, fibrocystic breast conditions, ovarian cysts, miscarriage, menopausal symptoms, and breast and endometrial cancer.
Most natural progesterone is made from diosgenin, a plant sterol abundant in the Mexican yam (Dioscorea villosa). Manufacturers convert diosgenin to the same progesterone molecule that the body produces. Therefore, progesterone is natural, i.e. it’s found naturally in the body. It is not a synthetic substance. Progestin is synthetic, because it is not found naturally in the body.
Caution: Please note that the various creams being sold in many health food stores for the treatment of menopausal symptoms, containing Mexican wild yam without natural progesterone, are useless. The diosgenin contained in the yam must first be converted to progesterone, a process that the body cannot do.
ESTROGEN and PROGESTERONE need each other! And you need BOTH hormones!
Look at the list below for SOME of the functions played by each hormone in the body. Notice how one hormone balances the other.
Estrogen Effects Progesterone Effects
• Weight gain • Utilizes fat for energy
• Depression, headaches • Natural antidepressant
• Fibrocystic breasts • Protects fibrocystic breasts
• Breast cancer risk • Decreases risk of breast cancer
• Increases risk of gall bladder • Needed for embryo survival
• Increases endometrial cancer • Prevents endometrial cancer
• Decreases sex drive • Restores sex drive
• Increases blood clotting • Normalizes blood clotting
• Causes thyroid imbalance • Causes thyroid balance
• Irregular menstrual flow • Normalizes periods
• Elevated blood pressure • Regulates blood pressure
• Risk of miscarriage • Prevents miscarriages
• Depletes bone density • Stimulates bone density
Where can you get good USP Natural Progesterone?
The natural progesterone cream that I use and highly recommend has extra ingredients such as Noni fruit juice, Safflower seed oil and Sunflower seed oil that help the USP natural progesterone penetrate through the skin better…Click here to check it out
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