Menopause and Progesterone

 22 November 00:00   

    Menopause and Progesterone   by Cathy Taylor

    Do women traveling through menopause accept bargain levels of progesterone?

    Recent analysis tells us that women do ache from decreased levels of progesterone and aswell acquaintance additional affection such as alien weight accretion (particularly in the abdomen area), depression, fatigue, hair loss, anamnesis loss, affection swings, migraines and accident of libido. A accustomed chrism can antithesis estrogens after ancillary effects.

    Progesterone and estrogen are the two capital hormones create by womens ovaries if they are menstruating. Abate amounts of these hormones are aswell buried by the adrenal glands. It s all-important for the adaptation of the fertilized ovum, its antecedent as able-bodied as the fetus during gestation.

    Progesterone s primary functions include: acting as a forerunner to estrogen and testosterone; it maintains uterine lining and aids in gestation; protects adjoin fibrocystic breasts, endometrial and breast cancer; acts as a accustomed diuretic, helps use fat for energy; can be a accustomed antidepressant; aids thyroid hormone action; normalizes claret clotting; restores sex drive; normalizes claret sugar, zinc and chestnut levels; restores able corpuscle oxygen levels, has a ardent effect; builds cartilage and helps to protects adjoin osteoporosis.

    Some doctors feel that menopausal symptoms, osteoporosis and affection ache may not be due to a absence of estrogen, but to a about estrogen balance due to progesterone deficiency.

    Synthetic progestins, such as an HRT biologic alleged Provera (a constructed chemical), do not accept the aforementioned biological furnishings as accustomed progesterone and accept been accepted to couldcause ancillary furnishings including: aqueous retention, depression, breast tenderness, stroke, jaundice, claret array and cervical erosions.

    On the additional hand, accustomed progesterone has no accepted ancillary furnishings and has been begin to be accessible in abating affection such as PMS and hot flashes. It has aswell been accustomed with allowance to anticipate osteoporosis.

    Many doctors now appoint for women in menopause the use of a low-dose, accustomed progesterone chrism during the endure two weeks of the menstrual cycle. The chrism is calmly captivated into thin-skin areas such as the breasts, close arms, close or abdomen by the subcutaneous fat and then appear into the bloodstream. You should be accurate of the dosage akin in these products. Some may accept none to actual little and others accommodate 20-30 mg in an boilerplate application. It s consistently best to first analysis with a doctor.