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During the years that a woman is able to bear children, the hormone progesterone is produced from within her ovaries. In her post-menopausal years, her body continues the production of progesterone in the adrenal glands and fat cells.

“Natural progesterone” is a hormone produced from plants that is biologically identical to the progesterone created in a woman’s ovaries. It is made from soybeans and yams, and is readily accepted by the body.

Natural progesterone works within the body exactly as progesterone manufactured in the body would, causing few if any side effects. For many years, natural progesterone has been used by women consistently and successfully in hormone replacement.

Synthetic progesterone, or progestin, is a man-made hormone that is made using chemical compounds. Also used in hormone replacement therapy (HRT), it can produce various and undesirable side effects including headache, breast tenderness and PMS.

The use of natural progesterone provides women with a means of boosting unacceptably low levels of progesterone in their bodies. Low progesterone levels may allow the hormone estrogen to reach a “dominate” level causing problems such as breast tenderness, water retention, irregular menstrual periods, as well as other, more serious, health issues.

When natural progesterone has been used in treatment, it doesn’t interfere with the performance of estrogen hormones, but works in a balance as it would under natural conditions. One of the concerns of synthetic progesterone use is that it may diminish estrogen benefits.

Some of the benefits of natural progesterone include:

helps prevent fibroids in the uterus
improves sleeping
restores sexual desire
works as an antidepressant
relieves water retention
helps stabilize blood sugar
helps eliminate postpartum depression
helps fight obesity
facilitates thyroid activity
stimulates bone building
helps to restore clear thinking

The use of natural progesterone can help to re-establish hormonal balances in a woman’s body and relieve worsening premenstrual symptoms as a woman approaches menopause. It can be used safely in hormone replacement to restore a woman’s hormonal health to natural, optimal levels both comfortably and successfully.

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Progesterone is a hormone produced in the ovaries of women. It is also produced by men, but in small amounts.

Progesterone is a fundamental hormone and is the forerunner for the production of additional, important hormones including estrogen and cortisone. Progesterone, in conjunction with estrogen, works to regulate a woman’s reproductive cycle.

Progesterone is considered critically important to a woman’s health. It is produced prior to ovulation to prepare a woman’s uterus for accepting a fertilized egg. Each month, during a woman’s childbearing years, progesterone is secreted from within the ovaries signaling the body to thicken the lining of the uterus, so that a fertilized egg may attach and begin to develop.

If a woman becomes pregnant, progesterone is then produced by the placenta to maintain pregnancy and prevent rejection (spontaneous abortion) of the embryo. When pregnancy does not occur, the levels of progesterone decrease, and the thickened uterine lining along with the unfertilized egg is shed in the menstrual period.

Progesterone’s most important role relative to a woman’s general health, is to keep the level of estrogen in a woman’s body in a balanced state. Unchecked estrogen can lead to very serious medical issues including increased risk for breast cancer or cancer of the reproductive organs.

In addition to the reproductive system, progesterone also stimulates thyroid activity, reduces inflammation, helps with immunity, blood-clotting abilities and other functions of the body. It is also used in synthetic (man-made) form to help with treatment of menstrual problems, prevent miscarriages and for birth control.

The body requires progesterone during all of the different phases of a woman’s life. It is therefore important that a woman’s body continues to generate progesterone even in the post-menopausal years, especially to prevent conditions such as osteoporosis.

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