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Natural Progesterone Cream to Help Alleviate Symptoms of Menopause

  By | February 6, 2011 - 12:16 pm | Articles
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Natural progesterone creams can offer considerable relief of symptoms of menopause, especially over the chemical based or altered progesterone products that are proven unsafe for general use. One recent natural progesterone cream to hit the market with rave reviews is Natpro’s natural progesterone cream.

Progesterone is produced in women by the ovaries. When a woman begins to hit menopause, her natural levels of progesterone will start to decrease. The ovaries and reproductive system begins to shut off and degenerate. The use of effective natural progesterone creams are becoming hugely popular since they help increase progesterone production, even after a woman has reached menopause. Menopause is when menstruation or PMS no longer occurs in women. At this point, estrogen production is dropped significantly and this marks the end of the woman’s ability to reproduce. Along with this comes the negative effects of menopause.

Negative symptoms of menopause usually includes:

-Hot flashes
-Moodiness
-Headaches
-Dry skin
-Vaginal irritation
-Bladder problems
-Depression
-Irritation
-Fatigue

Menopause causes a severe drop in the sex hormones progesterone and estrogen. Menopause normally occurs between the ages of 50-55, although it can happen even earlier. Natpro is a natural progesterone cream that can provide safe relief for women going through menopause.

The aim of natural progesterone is to reduce or entirely eliminate symptoms of menopause such as those listed above. The main benefits of using such cream includes reduction of hot flashes and vaginal irritation. Natural progesterone will help make life easier for any woman going through menopause. Natpro is the leader in natural progesterone creams. There are no toxic chemicals, growth hormones or other unnatural ingredients. What does this mean to you? This simply means that there are no side effects involved with Natpro. There are many other creams on the market that use unnatural ingredients that can cause irritation and a host of other unwanted side effects.

Estrogen dominance has been linked to many forms of cancer, therefore natural progesterone therapy can help balance out the system, thus enhancing cancer prevention. Of all the methods to combat the negative symptoms of menopause, only exercise, proper diet and the use of a 100% organic natural progesterone cream such as Natpro has been proven effective and safe for effective treatment of menopause.

By keeping estrogen dominance at bay you will help prevent menopausal symptoms such as weigh gain, increased blood clotting, endometriosis and certain cancers.


Other sites that may interest you

Endometrial cancer - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Menopause and Depression - U-M Depression Center
The Menopausal Patient And Hormone Replacement Therapy


How Natural Progesterone Can Relieve the Symptoms of the Menopause?

  By | February 6, 2011 - 6:53 am | Articles
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If you are considering using progesterone to relieve the symptoms of menopause then it is very worthwhile to consider natural progesterone products over the chemical based or altered products. Progesterone in women is produced by the ovaries so when a women begins to go through menopause in mid life, it is only natural that her levels of progesterone will decrease due to the so called “shutting down” of the ovaries and reproductive system.

It is believed that progesterone can have a regulatory effect on the body therefore the belief that progesterone should be topped up in the body is becoming more and more widespread. This applies to both males and females, although this article will focus on progesterone for women going through menopause.

Menopause is when menstruation no longer occurs in a woman. Estrogen production drops to significantly low levels and menstruation marks the end of a woman’s ability to reproduce. Unfortunately menopause also brings with it some side effects due to the drop in the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone. Most women hit menopause at around 50 to 55 years of age although it can occur earlier.

Menopausal symptoms can include:

Hot flushes

Headaches

Moodiness

Vaginal irritation

Dry skin

Bladder issues

Irritability

Depression

Tiredness

Natural progesterone cream like NatPro provides an all natural supplement for women. The aim of it is to reduce or eliminate symptoms of menopause such as hot flushes and vaginal irritation amongst others listed above. Whilst the supplementation will not being a women back into a reproductive cycle (this is impossible), natural progesterone aims to make life easier by minimizing the irritating and often debilitating symptoms of menopause.

NatPro is the leading natural progesterone cream. It does not contain any toxic substances. There are no growth hormones and no unnatural ingredients. This means there is no risk and no side effects.

Natpro only contains only vegetable substances, no animal substances. It is important to know that many drug companies use animals in cruel testing procedures in laboratories. On the other hand, NatPro has never and will never cause suffering to any animal in the manufacture or use of NatPro organic natural progesterone cream. If a woman becomes estrogen dominant (where there is excessive estrogen but little or no progesterone to balance it out), a variety of health problems can occur such as endometriosis, uterine fibroids, weight gain, increased blood clotting, thyroid dysfunction and cancer. This is because there is too much estrogen and not enough progesterone.

For this reason it is vital to balance the estrogen out with an optimal level of natural progesterone. This can be achieved through the use of NatPro, a highly effective and widely recommended organic natural progesterone cream.

Researchers are constantly linking many forms of cancer to estrogen dominance, so it is obvious that this needs to be balanced out with progesterone. The cream is the easiest and least invasive method of bring your levels up to avoid becoming estrogen dominant.


Other sites that may interest you

Menopause: MedlinePlus
Menopause : Health A–Z Resources and Publications
Menopause: What is Menopause? Menopause Symptoms ...


How Intense Can A Hot Flash Be?

  By | January 16, 2008 - 2:22 pm | Uncategorized
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Most of the 40% of menstruating women who get hot flashes will have mild to moderate hot flashes. The unlucky 10% to 15% of women who experience severe hot flashes will definitely want to seek help from medical professionals.

Women who have already experienced breast cancer are more prone to having severe hot flashes.

Women who transition faster through peri-menopause than their peers will also experience more severe hot flashes.

Women who have had surgical menopause or who have undergone chemotherapy-induced medical menopause will also be more likely to experience severe hot flashes.

Women who have not been warned about what to expect beforehand and are caught unawares by a sudden hot flash can be frightened by its intensity and may even confuse the episode with that of having a heart attack.

Women who are overweight may experience milder hot flashes than women who are thin. Finally benefits to not looking like a model!

Watch out female smokers, as your blood vessels may not have the same ability to radiate heat as a non-smoking woman and therefore women who smoke are more prone to severe hot flashes.

Women who do experience intense and severe hot flashes have an alternative to putting hormones into their body and running the risk of cancer or heart conditions. The alternative women with hot flashes have is to turn to natural progesterone products.


Other sites that may interest you

Menopause (journal) - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Menopause - PubMed Health
Menopause - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia


The Anatomy Of A Hot Flash

  By | January 16, 2008 - 2:22 pm | Uncategorized
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There may be those of you out there that have never experienced a “hot flash”, lucky you! Perhaps you are married to someone who just turned forty and you want to know what is in store for her or be prepared yourself for what she and you are about to encounter – good for you. Perhaps you are a woman who has had a very uncomfortable occurrence and want to know if what you experienced was indeed a “hot flash”. Well, you have come to the right place; the anatomy of a hot flash will try to describe what a hot flash is and what you can do about it.

Women can start to experience hot flashes as early as forty. The physical occurrence goes something like this:

You may first feel a chill, or an “aura” or and uneasy feeling that something is about to happen followed by a sudden and intense, hot feeling that happens on your face, neck and upper body. You may feel your heart race too. You could be sweating profusely or just get beads of perspiration on your upper lip. You may feel dizzy. There may be feelings of anxiety or that you are about to suffocate. You may also experience a headache, or weakness. If you did not experience a chill to herald the episode you may end the hot flash with a chill. This description is what 40% of menstruating women will go through. Hot flashes are uncomfortable and embarrassing if they happen in public. After the hot flash subsides they may have a reddened face or neck that is visible to everyone and further embarrasses the woman. If the physical symptoms of a hot flash are not uncomfortable enough the fact that everyone looking at her is wondering why she is sweaty and all red will make her feel very uncomfortable indeed.

Hot flashes can happen at night waking her with the uncomfortable chills, feeling of extreme warmth or with the wet clothing or bed sheets from her sweat. These night experiences of hot flashes can cause sleep disturbances that lead to daytime tiredness that may affect her ability to function at home, school or work.

Why do women get hot flashes?

Hot flashes can be caused by hormonal fluctuations as the woman experiences a decline in hormone levels in her forties and fifties. The exact cause is as yet, unknown. There are studies being conducted to determine the cause of hot flashes. There is some suggestion that certain lifestyles or even some medications can have an influence on whether or not a woman will experience hot flashes or to what intensity she may feel them.

Because estrogen has a direct effect on the hypothalamus, part of the brain which controls appetite, sleep cycles, the sex hormones, and body temperature it is little wonder that women experiencing the fluctuating hormones of pre-menopause and menopause have symptoms such as hot flashes. The hypothalamus is after all the body’s “thermostat” and when something is messing with it, then we can expect changes in the way the body perceives the feeling of “being hot” such as women do when having a “hot flash”. Since the brain tries to compensate for the confusing signals the hypothalamus is giving out it sends out a signal to the heart, blood vessels and nervous system to react to what the hypothalamus is doing which is why a woman experiencing hot flashes also feels her heart race, and her skin flush as well as those feelings of nervousness and anxiety. The heart racing, blood vessels of the skin dilating causing flushed skin and the blood vessels circulating more blood which heats up the skin as well as releasing more sweat from your glands are all a result of the brain trying to compensate for what the hypothalamus is doing. The sweat is supposed to cool you off; it is a normal body reaction to being overheated.

Women experiencing hot flashes used to have only one option for treatment and that was hormonal therapy (estrogen alone or a combination of estrogen and progesterone). Today women have other choices such as natural progesterone products that she can explore.


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Premature ovarian failure - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Menopause and Depression - U-M Depression Center
Menopause Introduction: MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial ...


Why Wild Yam based Progesterone may not benefit you

  By | January 16, 2008 - 2:19 pm | Uncategorized
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There is a divide in the world of progesterone. On one side are those who believe that wild yams provide the perfect base for progesterone products and on the other side are those who believe that wild yam is of no benefit to humans when used in progesterone formulas.

A yam is a tuber which is grown in Central and South America as well as in certain parts of Africa and Asia. Yams are similar to sweet potatoes (and are often confused as such) but they are in fact a different species of plant.

Wild yams contain diosgenin which is a plant steroid. Our bodies are unable to metabolize diosgenin from wild yam into progesterone; it must be processed by chemical means in laboratories. Obviously this detracts from the “natural” claims of wild yam based progesterone. A product simply can not be classes as natural if it has undergone chemical processing in a laboratory!

In stark contrast to the misleading claim of wild yam being a natural basis for progesterone, NatPro is made from the soya bean and this is actually identical to the progesterone that your body manufacturers itself. No chemical altering and no processing. This makes NatPro all natural compared to the non natural wild yam forms of progesterone.

Wild yam actually stopped being widely used in 1976 when it was found that diosgenin should not be used a principal sterol to synthesize progesterone. Why did people start realizing that wild yam was not beneficial to people? Simply because it was discovered that they do not contain progesterone in their extracts.

It is important for a progesterone cream to have a certain amount of progesterone in it. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology stated in a study in 1999 that this level should be at least 30 milligrams per gram.

Wild yam based progesterone creams were found to have as little as 5 milligrams per ounce. Some even had none at all!
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology even stated “the creams that are made from Mexican yams are not metabolized to progesterone by women”. Thankfully people are now realizing that wild yam based progesterone is of no benefit to humans.

As mentioned, Natpro uses progesterone which is derived from the soya bean. Being identical to the progesterone found in the human body, soya bean extracts form the perfect base for progesterone creams.

The website Quackwatch.com which keeps track of frauds, myths and misleading information concerning medical products, states that dioscorea villosa, from which the wild yam based cream is supposedly made, is not a source of progesterone and in fact is may even be estrogenic. They claim that the plant is useful in a lab but not in humans.

Quackwatch also go on to say “Not only is there little reason to suppose that Wild Yam Cream would be helpful for the medical conditions for which it is being promoted, but it doubtful that it ever could be as useful as synthetic progesterone.” It should be noted that these comments were made by a qualified doctor and therefore by someone who knows both sides of the story.

It is even said that there is a danger that menopausal women who use wild yam based progesterone could forego or even stop their hormone replacement therapy due to the sometimes deceptive promotion of wild yam based progesterone.

The greatest danger posed by this product and its deceptive promotion is that it will lead many menopausal women to forego or even discontinue appropriate hormone-replacement therapy (HRT).

Wild yam based progesterone is not recommend for women due to the fact that it is not natural and undergoes chemical processing before being sold to the public.


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European Menopause and Andropause Society - Wikipedia the free ...
Introduction to Menopause
Menopause | What to expect during menopause | womenshealth.gov


How Natural Progesterone Can Relieve the Symptoms of the Menopause

  By | January 16, 2008 - 2:14 pm | Uncategorized
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If you are considering using progesterone to relieve the symptoms of menopause then it is very worthwhile to consider natural progesterone products over the chemical based or altered progesterone products.

progesterone in women is produced by the ovaries so when a women begins to go through menopause in mid life, it is only natural that her levels of progesterone will decrease due to the so called “shutting down” of the ovaries and reproductive system.

It is believed that progesterone can have a regulatory effect on the body therefore the belief that progesterone should be topped up in the body is becoming more and more widespread. This applies to both males and females, although this article will focus on progesterone for women going through menopause.

Menopause is when menstruation no longer occurs in a woman. Estrogen production drops to significantly low levels and menstruation marks the end of a woman’s ability to reproduce.

Unfortunately menopause also brings with it some side effects due to the drop in the sex hormones estrogen and progesterone. Most women hit menopause at around 50 to 55 years of age although it can occur earlier.

Menopausal symptoms can include:

Hot flushes
Headaches
Moodiness
Vaginal irritation
Dry skin
Bladder issues
Irritability
Depression
Tiredness

Natural progesterone cream like NatPro provides an all natural supplement for women. The aim of natural progesterone is to reduce or eliminate symptoms of menopause such as hot flushes and vaginal irritation amongst others listed above. Whilst progesterone supplementation will not being a women back into a reproductive cycle (this is impossible), natural progesterone aims to make life easier by minimizing the irritating and often debilitating symptoms of menopause.

NatPro is the leading natural progesterone cream. It does not contain any toxic substances. There are no growth hormones and no unnatural ingredients. This means there is no risk and no side effects.

Natpro only contains only vegetable substances, no animal substances. It is important to know that many drug companies use animals in cruel testing procedures in laboratories. On the other hand, NatPro has never and will never cause suffering to any animal in the manufacture or use of NatPro organic natural progesterone cream.

If a woman becomes estrogen dominant (where there is excessive estrogen but little or no progesterone to balance it out), a variety of health problems can occur such as endometriosis, uterine fibroids, weight gain, increased blood clotting, thyroid dysfunction and cancer. This is because there is too much estrogen and not enough progesterone.

For this reason it is vital to balance the estrogen out with an optimal level of natural progesterone. This can be achieved through the use of NatPro, a highly effective and widely recommended organic natural progesterone cream

Researchers are constantly linking many forms of cancer to estrogen dominance, so it is obvious that this needs to be balanced out with progesterone.

Natural progesterone cream is the easiest and least invasive method of bring your progesterone levels up to avoid becoming estrogen dominant.


Other sites that may interest you

Menopause and Depression - U-M Depression Center
Hormone replacement therapy (menopause) - Wikipedia the free ...
Definition of menopause - NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms - National ...