Natural Progesterone - Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy

The benefits of natural progesterone for Hormone Balance and Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Many women and Doctors use bioidentical progesterone for hormone replacement therapy because it reduces many or most of their PMS, peri menopause and menopausal symptoms. Why is it so effective for over 150 symptoms?  Progesterone is a precursor to all other hormones in the body including estrogen, testosterone, and especially the corticosteroids (the stress hormone). Progesterone is made from the cholesterol in your body. Progesterone balances your hormones if you have high or low estrogen or high or low progesterone. It affects your entire endocrine system. It addresses the cause of all your symptoms. Progesterone fits with the estrogen receptor sites enabling estrogen to work more efficiently without being dominate. It is the only bioidentical hormone that can effectively achieve relief for your symptoms.

The benefits of natural progesterone cream from Dr. John Lee's proven research:

•    Brings hormonal balance back into your body
•    Balances estrogen dominance
•    Improves lipid profile
•    Improves blood sugar control
•    Improves burn up of body fat
•    Rebuilds lost bone mass at a rate of 5-15% per year
•    Improves new bone formation
•    Natural anti-depressant
•    Natural diuretic
•    Eliminates hot flashes
•    Creates the myelin sheath over nerves
•    Gives people more energy
•    Helps with sleep disorders
•    Helps with Fibrocystic Breast Disease
•    Normalizes and restores sexual desire
•    Promotes youthful skin appearance
•    Resists facial hair growth
•    Reduces risk of breast cancer
•    Reduces risk of uterine cancer
•    Improves blood sugar control
•    Promotes youthful skin appearance. (The late diet guru, Dr. Robert Atkins, M.D. was enthusiastic about natural progesterone cream for skin care. He endorsed its use because he found it the best wrinkle eradicator he ever had experienced.

Perimenopause symptoms. The following may reflect early hormonal imbalances:
•    Hot flashes
•    Fibrocystic breast disease
•    Hot flashes
•    Insomnia
•    Night sweats
•    Mood swings
•    Depression
•    Vaginal dryness
•    Reduced sexual desire

Until recently, estrogen replacement therapy was given to women for just about ever complaint from hot flashes to headache. The Women’s Health Study discovered that the estrogen hormone replacement therapy had extremely high risks of cancer, heart disease or stroke. Doctors stop recommending estrogen replacement therapy and began to look at safer more effective ways to treat women with hormone imbalances that cause PMS, perimenopause and menopause symptoms. Women became fearful of taking all hormones.

The importance of bioidentical progesterone is that it effectively helps hormone imbalances whether you have too high estrogen or low estrogen and/or low progesterone or high progesterone. Only bioidentical progesterone has the ability to balance the ratio of either estrogen or progesterone according to the needs of your body. Some women choose to take a saliva test to determine your hormone levels. If you go to your doctor, he may want to take a blood test to determine your hormone levels. If you are going to take a blood test you need to do a test for progesterone around day 21 and estrogen levels should in the first two weeks. Most doctors do not want to take your hormone level tests for PMS or perimenopause symptoms because the levels will change daily. They do not feel it is accurate. However, if you are seeing a doctor for fertility reasons, he will take hormone level tests. He needs to know the information for him to do IVF treatments. He will also give you natural progesterone shots during IVF treatments to prevent miscarriages. You may be surprised to know that progesterone is the only hormone made when you get pregnant. The term is pro-gest-tation derived from the word progesterone.

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