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Hot
flashes, night sweats
Rapid heart beat
Irritability
Mood
swings
Trouble
sleeping
Irregular
periods
Loss
of libido
Vaginal
Dryness
Crashing
fatigue
Anxiety
Feelings
of doom
Inability
to concentrate
Disturbing
lapses of memory
Incontinence
Itchy,
crawly skin
Aching,
sore muscles, tendons & joints
Increased
muscle tension
Breast
soreness
Bouts
of depression
Increased
allergies
Sudden
weight gain
Bleeding
Gums
Osteoporosis
Fingernails
softer, cracking. |
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Natural Progesterone
WHAT IS PROGESTERONE?
Progesterone is a female sex hormone whose primary use in postmenopausal women is to prevent the endometrial lining of the uterus from building up. If this lining gets too thick, it results in heavy or irregular bleeding and may become pre-cancerous. Like estrogen, progesterone levels are greatly reduced in menopause. |
Progesterone is a hormone, which means that it's a messenger chemical that moves through the bloodstream, across a cell's membrane, and attaches to receptors in a cell's nucleus. Hormones are like keys searching for their locks. When they find the lock that they fit, they insert themselves and open the lock, starting one of many processes. Cells with these progesterone receptors are in the uterus, the central nervous system, the mammary glands in the breast, and the pituitary gland--as well as urinary and vaginal tissues.
| It's most important role for the survival of the species is the fact it maintains pregnancy. Progesterone levels are controlled by luteinizing hormone, which starts the chain of events that takes cholesterol and converts it pregnenolone, which in turn becomes progesterone. The end of progesterone release each month premenopause is the signal for menstruation. |
Surprisingly enough, progesterone can be made, not only in the ovary, but also in the adrenal glands and glial cells in the central nervous system. Some think that up to 60% of progesterone in healthy premenopausal women is made in the adrenal glands, so many in surgical menopause may not need replacement once our adrenal glands get healthy.
When the balance tips toward estrogen, it can contribute toward impaired liver function, it can decrease the action of vitamin B6, and it can increase aldosterone and prolactin. |
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Of course, it's not good if the progesterone levels get way too high in relation to estrogen either; then insulin resistance gets worse, depression and fatigue get worse, and libido drizzles away. |
The synthetic version is a chemical compound called "progestin" . It is a prescription drug commonly used in small amounts to balance the estrogen effect in a hormone replacement program. Being a drug, progestin is far more powerful than a woman's natural progesterone. It is metabolized in the liver into toxic metabolites which if excessive, can severely interfere with the body's own natural progesterone. This creates other hormone-related health problems and further exacerbating estrogen dominance.
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The structural differences between natural and synthetic progesterone is significant with direct bearing on its functionality. Whereas natural progesterone causes a reduction in water and salt retention, synthetic progesterone do the opposite. This is why some women taking synthetic progesterone in their birth control pill or estrogen pill combined with synthetic progesterone during menopause experience bloating and fluid retention. In fact, studies have shown that administration of synthetic progesterone lowers the blood level of the body's natural progesterone.
Reported side effects of synthetic progesterone include an increased risk of cancer, increased risk of birth defects if taken during the first four months of pregnancy, fluid retention, abnormal menstrual flow, nausea, acne, mental depression, nausea, insomnia, and depression. It is contraindicated in those with thrombophlebitis, liver dysfunction, known or suspected malignancy of breast and genital organs. One of the metabolites has an anesthetic effect on brain cells. A woman on high doses of synthetic progesterone is often lethargic and depressed and cannot be cured with anti-depressants such as Prozac.
| Natural progesterone is obtained by extracting diosgenin from wild yams and then converting this component into natural progesterone in the laboratory. Natural progesterone is referred to as natural because it is the identical molecule to that which the human body manufactures. Such yam-derived natural progesterone should not be confused with "yam extracts" that are commonly sold in health food stores. Our body easily converts natural progesterone into the identical molecule made by the body. It cannot convert the "yam extracts" into progesterone. There is no evidence that such "wild yam extract" is converted into progesterone once it enters into the human body and unlike natural progesterone, no conclusive formal studies have ever been conducted that identifies any particular benefits from "wild yam extracts". |
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