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PROGESTERONE CREAM
If you are experiencing unexplained weight gain, depression, fatigue, mood swings, loss of libido, PMS, memory loss, migraines or a combination of these symptoms, it may simply be an imbalance between your estrogen and progesterone levels. More bio-available than equivalent oral doses, progesterone cream is a technologically advanced, light, greaseless, unscented formula that matches precisely with what Dr. John R. Lee recommends. The cream is readily absorbed and leaves no trace after a few minutes.
What Is Progesterone?
Progesterone is a steroid hormone made by the corpus luteum of the ovary at ovulation, and in smaller amounts by the adrenal glands. Progesterone is manufactures in the body from the steroid hormone pregnenolone, and is a precursor to most of the other steroid hormones, including cortisol, androstenedione, the estrogens and testosterone.
What Exactly Is Natural Progesterone And How Does It Differ From Synthetic Progesterone?
Natural progesterone, a cholesterol derivative, is chemically identical to natural hormones our bodies produce and thus has been shown to cause no side effects. Manufacturers of synthetic progesterone actually alter the chemical makeup of natural progesterone in order to create progestins, which are then patentable. These progestins are believed to cause serious side effects such as birth defects or abortion, fluid retention, epilepsy, migraines, asthma, cardiac or kidney dysfunction and severe depression.
Why Do Women Need Progesterone?
Progesterone is needed in hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women for many reasons, but one of its most important roles is to balance or oppose the effects of estrogen. Unopposed estrogen creates a strong risk for breast cancer and reproductive cancers.
Estrogen levels drop only 40-60% at menopause, which is just enough to stop the menstrual cycle. But progesterone levels may drop to near zero in some women. Because progesterone is the precursor to so many other steroid hormones, its use can greatly enhance overall hormone balance after menopause. Progesterone may also stimulate bone-building.
What Is Estrogen Dominance?
Dr. Lee has coined the term "estrogen dominance" to describe what happens when the normal ration or balance of estrogen to progesterone is changed by excess estrogen or inadequate progesterone. Estrogen is a potent and potentially dangerous hormone when not balanced by adequate progesterone.
Both women who have suffered from PMS and women who have suffered from menopausal symptoms, will recognize the hallmark symptoms of estrogen dominance: weight gain, bloating, mood swings, irritability, tender breasts, headaches, fatigue, depression, hypoglycemia, uterine fibroids, endometriosis and fibrocystic breasts. Estrogen dominance is known to cause and/or contribute to cancer of the breast, ovary, endometrium (uterus) and prostate.
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