Articles on Progesterone

Osteoporosis is really due to Progesterone deficiency

Osteoporosisplus Osteopeniaby Phillip DayOn average, one in three women and one in 12 men over 50 in the western cultures suffer from osteoporosis or its precursor, osteopenia (low bone mineral density). The word osteoporosis actually means ‘porous bone’. The disease is all but unknown in those consuming plant-based agrarian diets (which should have alarm bells […]

Bioidentical Progesterone and Osteoporosis

Many medical authorities tell female patients who are post-menopausal that osteoporosis is inevitable. A physician in Mill Valley, California, John R Lee, has proven that this often repeated statement is simply untrue. The result of his ongoing clinical study with 68 women is noteworthy. All have experienced new bone density ranging from 5 to 40 […]

Perimenopause and Hormonal Balance from 30 to 50

Information from Dr. John Lee Has your doctor prescribed estrogen or progestin (Provera, contraceptives, ect.) pills or patches to treat your GYN problems? If he has and you are finding that things are getting worse instead of better, Dr. John R. Lee’s latest book, “What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About PREmenopause,” may be […]

Best alternative to HRT ..Natural Progesterone

Natural progesterone is the mother hormone from which a myriad of hormones can be synthesized in the body when and where they are needed. (including oestrogens). This therapy allows the body’s innate intelligence to manufacture exactly what the body needs. It is a non-invasive, natural way of dealing with imbalances that have now been caused […]

Bioidentical Progesterone and Estrogen Dominance

What Hormones should I take now that I am going through Peri-Menopause and Menopause?

You are well into peri-menopause and going into menopause at this stage, of life. Menopause is NOT a deficiency disease, but a needed change in our hormonal balance. The only extra hormone needed at any stage of life these days in this polluted world, in 95% of cases, is Progesterone because it is from this […]

Bioidentical Progesterone and Hot Flashes

Hot flashes usually begin when periods are still regular or are just starting to fluctuate. Hot flashes are often one of the first indications that menopause is approaching. Hot flashes are most uncomfortable in the first stages of perimenopause, gradually decreasing in frequency and intensity as the body adapts to the hormonal changes.   Duration, frequency, […]

Depression

an answer to a letter … by Sally LongdenThe letter ..My daughter suffers with depression and has done for the last 15 years. She has been diagnosed as having bipolar disorder.Is there anything we can do to get her off all the medication and treatment?I am not sure if this is your field or if […]

Progesterone and Senility

By John R. Lee, MDWhen I was in medical school, senility meant confusion, loss of short-term memory, impaired ability to balance a checkbook or carry on a meaningful conversation in an older-aged person. If it got so bad that the person was lost in his/her own house or could not recognize his/her own children, it […]

Progesterone and epilepsy

NIH-sponsored research shows benefitfrom http://www.virginiahopkinshealthwatch.com/It’s been fairly well established that women who suffer from premenstrual or catamenial epilepsy improve when they use progesterone, but mainstream medicine never got on board with the treatment. Now a gold standard, NIH-sponsored multicenter randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial should finally make progesterone a front line treatment for […]

Bioidentical Progesterone and Migraines

A migraine is a vascular headache that involves the excessive dilation or contraction of the brain’s blood vessels. Common and classic are the two types of migraines. Slowly, the common migraine produces a throbbing pain that may last for two to seventy-two hours. Often centered at the temple or behind one ear, the pain is […]

Progesterone inhibits tumor growth — new study

Virginia Hopkins Health WatchA new study from Emory University published in the journal Molecular Medicine shows that high doses of progesterone inhibited the growth of neuroblastoma tumors in mice without killing healthy cells. Neuroblastoma is a cancer that develops from nerve tissue, and is the most common cancer in small children. The Emory researchers are […]

Reasons for Hormonal imbalance can be 3 fold

All your symptoms show hormonal imbalance as the route cause of your problems … this is huge Oestrogen dominance which is effecting you….. The fact you went through menopause so early, to the fact that you thyroid supposedly is not behaving well, to Fibromyalgia, and now weight and fluid gain, all show this.The cause of […]

Testimony From Moira Stoole Re Sally Longden 2003

Sally is a breast cancer survivor who during the course of her own treatment and fight for survival researched everything she could lay her hands on through books, the internet and various doctors including the late Dr John Lee and Dame Shirley Bond, a Harley Street Specialist. She herself is a teacher of science subjects […]

Why Progesterone Therapy as you age

Progesterone is a basic hormone responsible for the manufacturing of many very important hormones and is produced primarily in the Adrenal glands in men and woman. However it is also produced in large quantities in the ovaries in fertile females (to keep oestradial under control). Also huge amounts are released during pregnanacy.Before menopause, during the […]

What is Progesterone

What is Progesterone?Progesterone is A NATURAL STEROID HORMONE derived from our own cholesterol. It is found in the human body and is known as the “MOTHER HORMONE” as it is right at the top of one of the most important hormonal pathways in our body.Progesterone, being at the top of the D4 steroid pathway, is […]

Pregnancy and Progesterone

The most prevalent reason for Luteal Phase Abortion (the most common reason for infertility right now) , miscarriages and PND is lack of progesterone. You cannot accurately test progesterone levels with a blood test, so testing your progesterone levels is a waste of time. The truth is, we are all progesterone deficient due to our […]

Road to Hope for Female Infertility: Progesterone

By Stephen T. Spagnol, Spring 2010AAmy is a 33 year old school teacher. All her life she has worked with kids, beginning with her first job at a day camp at age 16. For as long as she could remember, she had always dreamed of being a teacher because of her passion for working with […]

Progesterone Halves the Risk of Premature Birth

Bioidentical Progesterone and Depression

When our hormones are out of balance, our whole body is affected. Frequently, a woman on hormone replacement therapy is oestrogen dominant and progesterone deficient. When our progesterone levels are in balance, excess estrogen is managed. The effects of oestrogen in comparison to those of progesterone differ when dealing with depression. Most women notice a […]

Pregnancy, Another Miracle

April 2017 Hello Sally, I am 38, no children and have had IVF done last month unsuccessfully.Â I have always suffered from very painful and heavy menstruation, anxiety, low energy, and, for the past 2 years, insomnia. When I started the ovarian stimulation (Gonal F injection) I started suffering from disturbing thoughts, terrible anxiety and […]

Endometriosis and Progesterone

Endometriosis and ProgesteroneHORMONE RESEARCH: Progesterone and EndometriosisMonkeys in captivity get endometriosis too, and researchers used progesterone to give them some relief. Maginnis G, Wilk J, “Assessment of progestin-only therapy for endometriosis in macaque,” J Med Primatol 2008 Feb;37 Suppl 1:52-5.Comments: Much as I cringe over animal research, the Oregon National Primate Research Center has done […]

Bioidentical Progesterone & Endometriosis

 As oestrogen initiates endometrial cell proliferation and the formation of blood vessel accumulation in the endometrium, the aim of treatment is to block this monthly oestrogen stimulus to the aberrant endometrial islets. Study findings showed that progesterone stops further proliferation of endometrial cells and is considered the most favorable treatment.   We advise women to use bioidentical progesterone […]

Natural Progesterone by Dr Wright

I will focus much of this article on natural progesterone cream as it is one of the most popular and useful ones for women.Typically, women find rapid improvement in two of the most common premenopausal challenges which are PMS and painful cramps. It can be also extraordinarily useful to prevent miscarriages but dosing would be continuous after conception.Dr. […]

Natural Progesterone as a Preventive for Breast Cancer

by Dr David Zava on 07/02/11 at 11:04 pmEditor’s Note: After the publication of Dr. David Zava’s last Health Watchers News and Views post, Hormone and Breast Cancer: the Latest Findings from the WHI, he received an attacking comment from a doctor who has been making claims for years that natural progesterone has the same […]