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Can Natural Progesterone Relieve the Symptoms of PMS?

  By | February 5, 2011 - 8:18 pm | Articles
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Many women would like to now if natural progesterone will relieve their PMS symptoms. The good news is that it certainly can in most cases.

Progesterone is a hormone which is very much involved in the menstruation cycle as well as pregnancy. They are a naturally occurring hormone in the human body. Progestins on the other hand are synthetic progestogens. This is why natural progesterone is ideal as a form of PMS relief, because it is all natural and not chemically formulated. PMS or pre menstrual syndrome is a common occurrence for women when they are about to have their period each month. Symptoms can include:

Fatigue – Most women feel more tired than usual just before their period begins.

Mood swings – Irritability and moodiness is a common sign of PMS.

Headaches – Not all women experience headaches however many notice an onset of headaches up to one week before menstruation.

Stomach cramping – Very common symptom, often severely debilitating.

Sore breasts – Most women experience breast tenderness.

Depression – Similar to mood swings, with heightened emotions causing feelings of depression and sadness.

The above are just the typical symptoms and the most common. Some women experience other symptoms for which natural progesterone can also assist with.

Menstruation affects women both physically and mentally so it is important that any treatment addresses both of these issues, not just the physical symptoms as many PMS medications attempt to focus on. PMS sufferers often show signs of estrogen dominance. This is where there is not enough progesterone being produced in the body

If a woman fails to ovulate in a particular month (and this is more common than you think) then the progesterone levels will not rise enough to be balanced with estrogen. This means that progesterone deficiency will occur which can cause PMS afflictions.

Many women have a great response to natural progesterone supplementation. It is mostly used in certain situations such as for women who are using estrogen replacement therapy, when birth control pills with too much estrogen in them are used, for women who have undergone a hysterectomy, post menopausal women and certain other situations. These are the people who respond most strongly to natural progesterone supplementation.

If you want to treat PMS with it then the best way to do it is to start building up the level of progesterone in your body from around day 12 of your menstrual cycle (you will need to know your cycle to do this). If you then increase these levels right up to just before your period, you should notice a dramatic decrease in PMS symptoms.

Although day 12 is recommended as the time to being Natural progesterone treatment, every woman is different and some require progesterone earlier than day 12. You will gradually learn to know the right time for you after you begin using it. After using Natural progesterone for 3 or 4 months you should notice an overall difference in your menstruation symptoms. NatPro is an excellent way to relieve the symptoms of PMS.


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How Natural Progesterone Can Relieve the Symptoms of PMS?

  By | February 5, 2011 - 4:44 pm | Articles
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Countless women the world over are realizing the benefits of natural progesterone when it comes to relieving the symptoms of PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome). PMS symptoms occur when there is an over abundance of estrogen in the body. This causes a hormonal imbalance whereby the woman becomes what is known as estrogen dominant, meaning progesterone and estrogen are not balanced. This results in the tell tale PMS symptoms such as:

Fatigue Headaches Stomach cramping Mood swings Tender breasts

Natural progesterone adds to the progesterone that a woman’s body produces. Whilst useful for PMS, it is also highly beneficial for menopause as women produce less and less progesterone as they age.

Whilst doctors often prescribe synthetic progesterone, it is the creams like NatPro which hold the greatest benefit for PMS sufferers. Synthetic progesterone can cause health problems beyond that of PMS symptoms. It can actually play havoc with the natural production of progesterone, which defeats the purpose of taking progesterone supplementation.

What else can happen if you take synthetic progesterone rather than natural progesterone? Your body can start producing more testosterone, the male sexual hormone. This results in further degradation of health and the appearance of unwanted male characteristics such as facial hair.

Natural progesterone will not react negatively on your health. Natural PMS treatment like NatPro is the ideal way to treat the debilitating monthly symptoms that so many women simply suffer through each month. It is a cream which is applied to the skin and is quickly absorbed to treat PMS. There are no artificial hormones or chemicals, just an all natural formula which means no side effects and no long term damage, unlike synthetic progesterone which carries with it a host of risks.

What else will a cream do for you?

It assists in giving you a better nights sleep, many women have reported an increase in daily energy levels, an overall sense of wellbeing and relief from hot flushes. Natural Progesterone is also thought to help prevent osteoporosis

Side effects which can occur from it include: Kidney dysfunction, Cardiac dysfunction, Epilepsy, Migraines, and Fluid retention. These are just some of the dangerous symptoms which can occur from using synthetic progesterone creams. I don’t know about you, but it’s certainly not worth the risk! Natural progesterone does not come with these risks.

The amount of cream that you will need to use depends on your age and health, so please read the packaging before applying. You will notice a decrease in your PMS symptoms relatively quickly – within a couple of months. From there you will generally forget what it was like to have debilitating PMS month after month.

The best way to treat PMS with this is to start using it at approximately the 12th day of your menstrual cycle. This will vary between women, but is a good place to start until you know your cycle intimately (if you don’t already). If you increase the level of natural progesterone cream up until your period starts then you will start noticing a rapid decline in the symptoms of PMS.


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Getting Relief From PMS Though Progesterone Therapy Part 1

  By | February 5, 2011 - 4:07 pm | Articles
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No woman wants to suffer every month when she gets Pre-Menstrual Syndrome (PMS). There are various physical symptoms that come with PMS including bloating, acne, fatigue, headaches and breast tenderness. The emotional symptoms of PMS are even worse and they might include sadness, depression, anger, irritability, becoming overly sensitive to little things and of course, irritability. Over the years, progesterone cream has been the treatment of choice for the majority of women. One product that has been receiving huge acclaim is Natpro Natural Progesterone.

Different women experience different types of specific symptoms, so finding relief for PMS can often be very difficult to achieve for most women due to the different intensities and severities of each case of PMS. Effective treatment will usually entail a combination of the following: exercise, healthy nutritional intake, emotional guidance and specific changes to one’s lifestyle.

Keeping a PMS diary will help you establish which treatment works best for you. In your diary you should keep tabs on specific symptoms you experience each month and note all the activities you do to successfully relieve them. A PMS diary will help you determine with specific treatment works to treat a specific symptom. Before we take a further look at Natpro’s natural progesterone cream for effective PMS relief, let’s look at some other commonly used options.

Commonly used traditional options include:

-Exercise

-Quitting smoking(social and frequent)

-Reducing or quitting alcoholic intake

-Eliminating salt from one’s diet prior to menstrual time

-Take supplements daily. These might include vitamins B6,vitamin E, magnesium and calcium

-Reduction of sugar intake. Especially refined sugar.

Medications are also often prescribed to help lessen the effects of PMS. Such medications might include:

Antidepressants- This treatment option can help with relief from sadness and mood disturbances. The antidepressant serves as a means to balance hormonal changes within the body that might affect mood negatively. Antidepressants work by increasing “feel-good” brain chemicals, such as serotonin. The brain chemical levels are often affected negatively by the rapidly changing ovarian hormonal levels during PMS.

Ovarian suppressors- Medications such as Danazol (Danocrine) are used in suppressing ovarian hormone production. However, they cannot be used for a long time as the side effects can be pretty severe when used for a prolonged period of time. Another choice of effective treatment include gonadotropin-releasing hormones. This class of drugs can often bring relief to many women suffering from PMS. Unfortunately, this type of treatment cannot be given for long periods of time due to the severity of side effects when taken for a longer period. They can, in fact, have an adverse effect on bone density and can also increase the risk for bone thinning. These types of hormones may be prescribed in combination with other hormone supplements for even greater PMS relief.


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Balancing Your Hormones With Progesterone

  By | February 5, 2011 - 4:01 pm | Articles
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Natural progesterone can assist you by balancing your hormones and therefore reducing highly uncomfortable and life altering hormonal induced symptoms and complications. Progesterone can also help you with issues that you may not even know you had! For example, did you know that natural progesterone can improve the quality of your hair? Or your skin? This is entirely possible and in fact, very likely through the use of a progesterone cream like NatPro.

Progesterone supplementation will balance your body, leaving you feeling healthier and stronger than ever. The creams like NatPro contain a hormone which is the same as the one found in the human body. When a woman goes though menopause, her hormone levels drop. This brings about the symptoms of menopause like moodiness, skin irritation and generally not feeling yourself.

It is important that you stick to the recommended dosage of progesterone to ensure that you receive the greatest benefits. There is no benefit in using higher than the maximum recommended dosage; in fact the benefits may even be reduced if you do this. It can even cause your body to become estrogen dominant again, which is the opposite of what you want to achieve when balancing your hormones.

Natural progesterone cream should only be used to balance your hormones after a doctor has confirmed that you are deficient. This can be achieved through saliva testing. The cream replaces hormones through the skin (transdermally) and this ensures that it enters straight into your blood stream. What else can progesterone cream do? It will assist in balancing your hormones which in effect can help with the following hormone related symptoms:

Irritability

Migraines and headaches

Low libido

Fatigue

Mood swings

Bloating

Fluid retention

Hot flushes

Sore joints

Vaginal dryness and itching

Bladder problems

Anxiety

Depression

Backache

Sore breasts

All of the above are symptoms of menopause, PMS (pre menstrual syndrome) or both. These problems generally occur due to estrogen dominance in the body. The goal of natural progesterone is to introduce more progesterone back into the system to create the balance that is needed to restore “regular” body patterns, as it is before menopause begins.

It is not only menopausal women who need progesterone. Other situations may require it as well.

Women are on estrogen replacement therapy may have a drop in progesterone which can be “topped up” with natural progesterone cream. Women on birth control pills which have too much estrogen in them can also be at risk of estrogen dominance and lack of progesterone. Women who have undergone a hysterectomy are also candidates for natural progesterone treatment as well as post menopausal women, particularly those who suffer from insulin resistance or who are overweight.

It is even thought that people who are over exposed to a substance found in the air called xenoestrogens may be estrogen dominant. Most women use progesterone for around three months before feeling normal again and this is a good point of reference to go by once you start using a progesterone cream like NatPro.


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How Natural Progesterone Can Relieve the Symptoms of PMS

  By | January 16, 2008 - 2:12 pm | Uncategorized
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Countless women the world over are realizing the benefits of natural progesterone when it comes to relieving the symptoms of PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome).

PMS symptoms occur when there is an over abundance of estrogen in the body. This causes a hormonal imbalance whereby the woman becomes what is known as estrogen dominant, meaning progesterone and estrogen are not balanced. This results in the tell tale PMS symptoms such as:

Fatigue
Headaches
Stomach cramping
Mood swings
Tender breasts

Natural progesterone replaces the natural progesterone that a woman’s body produces. Whilst useful for PMS, it is also highly beneficial for menopause as women produce less and less progesterone as they age.

Whilst doctors often prescribe synthetic progesterone, it is the natural progesterone creams like NatPro which hold the greatest benefit for PMS sufferers. Synthetic progesterone can cause health problems beyond that of PMS symptoms. It can actually play havoc with the natural production of progesterone, which defeats the purpose of taking progesterone supplementation.

What else can happen if you take synthetic progesterone rather than natural progesterone? Your body can start producing more testosterone, the male sexual hormone. This results in further degradation of health and the appearance of unwanted male characteristics such as facial hair.

Natural progesterone will not react negatively on your health. Natural PMS treatment like NatPro is the ideal way to treat the debilitating monthly symptoms that so many women simply suffer through each month.

NatPro is applied to the skin and is quickly absorbed to treat PMS. There are no artificial hormones or chemicals, just an all natural formula which means no side effects and no long term damage, unlike synthetic progesterone which carries with it a host of risks.

What else will a natural progesterone cream do for you?

Assists in giving you a better nights sleep
Many women have reported an increase in daily energy levels
An overall sense of wellbeing
Relief from hot flushes
Helps prevent osteoporosis

Side effects which can occur from non natural progesterone include:
Kidney dysfunction
Cardiac dysfunction
Epilepsy
Migraines
Birth defects
Fluid retention

These are just some of the dangerous symptoms which can occur from using synthetic progesterone creams. I don’t know about you, but it’s certainly not worth the risk! Natural progesterone does not come with these risks.

The amount of NatPro cream that you will need to use depends on your age and health, so please read the packaging before applying. You will notice a decrease in your PMS symptoms relatively quickly – within a couple of months. From there you will generally forget what it was like to have debilitating PMS month after month.

The best way to treat PMS with natural progesterone is to start using it at approximately the 12th day of your menstrual cycle. This will vary between women, but is a good place to start until you know your cycle intimately (if you don’t already). If you increase the level of natural progesterone cream up until your period starts then you will start noticing a rapid decline in the symptoms of PMS.


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Balancing your hormones with… progesterone

  By | January 16, 2008 - 2:08 pm | Uncategorized
Leave a comment

Natural progesterone can assist you by balancing your hormones and therefore reducing highly uncomfortable and life altering hormonal induced symptoms and complications.

Progesterone can also help you with issues that you may not even know you had! For example, did you know that natural progesterone can improve the quality of your hair? Or your skin?

This is entirely possible and in fact, very likely through the use of a progesterone cream like NatPro.

Progesterone supplementation will balance your body, leaving you feeling healthier and stronger than ever.

Progesterone creams like NatPro contain a hormone which is the same as the one found in the human body. When a woman goes though menopause, her hormone levels drop. This brings about the symptoms of menopause like moodiness, skin irritation and generally not feeling yourself.

It is important that you stick to the recommended dosage of progesterone to ensure that you receive the greatest benefits. There is no benefit in using higher than the maximum recommended dosage; in fact the benefits may even be reduced if you do this. It can even cause your body to become estrogen dominant again, which is the opposite of what you want to achieve when balancing your hormones.

Natural progesterone cream should only be used to balance your hormones after a doctor has confirmed that you are deficient. This can be achieved through saliva testing.

Progesterone cream replaces hormones through the skin (transdermally) and this ensures that it enters straight into your blood stream.

What else can progesterone cream do?
It will assist in balancing your hormones which in effect can help with the following hormone related symptoms:

Irritability
Migraines and headaches
Low libido
Fatigue
Mood swings
Bloating
Fluid retention
Hot flushes
Sore joints
Vaginal dryness and itching
Bladder problems
Anxiety
Depression
Backache
Sore breasts

All of the above are symptoms of menopause, PMS (pre menstrual syndrome) or both. These problems generally occur due to estrogen dominance in the body. The goal of natural progesterone is to introduce more progesterone back into the system to create the balance that is needed to restore “regular” body patterns, as it is before menopause begins.

It is not only menopausal women who need progesterone. Other situations may require it as well.

Women are on estrogen replacement therapy may have a drop in progesterone which can be “topped up” with natural progesterone cream.
Women on birth control pills which have too much estrogen in them can also be at risk of estrogen dominance and lack of progesterone.

Women who have undergone a hysterectomy are also candidates for natural progesterone treatment as well as post menopausal women, particularly those who suffer from insulin resistance or who are overweight.

It is even thought that people who are over exposed to a substance found in the air called xenoestrogens may be estrogen dominant.

Most women use progesterone for around three months before feeling normal again and this is a good point of reference to go by once you start using a progesterone cream like NatPro.


Other sites that may interest you

BBC - Health: Menopause
Menopause - Cedars-Sinai
The Menopausal Patient And Hormone Replacement Therapy