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Progesterone

Natural progesterone that your body makes is very different from synthetic progestins that are patented and sold by commercial companies. The differences between the two are often misunderstood in scientific literature as well as in the clinical trenches of many doctors’ offices, even gynecologists.

In this show you will learn:

  • How progesterone got its name.
  • How much progesterone a pregnant woman makes and how and why this tends to put autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in remission.
  • The dose spectrum range of progesterone.
  • Routes of delivery.
  • How and why progesterone is made all over the human body, (in both genders.)
  • The role of the English physician Katherina Dalton in PMS and progesterone.
  • Progestins vs. progesterone
  • How natural (made by your body or bioidentical compounded by compounding pharmacists) progesterone is breast protective and reduces the risk for breast cancer whereas progestins increases the risk of breast cancer by 26%.
  • How natural progesterone promotes healthy cognitive function and oral ingestion creates calming neuro-steroids (allopregnanolone) vs. progestins which increase the risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 100%.
  • How natural progesterone benefits heart health while use of progestins increase the risk of heart attack by 28% and adversely affects coronary function in young women.
  • How progesterone acts upon receptors, and then even without receptors.
  • How progesterone and estrogen intimately, physiologically intertwine.
  • How insufficient progesterone signaling increases the risk of endometrial cancer.
  • Progesterone receptors in the human breast.
  • How synthetic progestins don’t perform better than natural progesterone, up vulnerability to adverse health effects and are not best suited for long-term therapies.
  • About progesterone metabolites: good, bad and ugly.
  • How excessive oral progesterone increases pregnane production and what this means.
  • Progesterone for men?
  • And more.

If you care about hormones you will not want to miss this show.

Resources & Links

Safe Hormones, Smart Women  

End of Estrogen Phobia Webinar

Hormones and Covid 

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