Even if a woman has low estrogen levels, she can still be subject to
effects of estrogen dominance if her progesterone levels are extremely low. Dr. John R. LeeAre you perimenopausal, postmenopausal, or experience PMS? No matter where you are, real USP Progesterone is a necessary, simple and an all-natural treatment that can improve your quality of life especially when you suffer from.....
* Hot flashes * Mood swings * Weight gain * Night sweats * Bloating * Headaches * Loss of energy/sex drive * Uterine fibroids * Hypoglycemia * Endometriosis * Fatigue * Irritability
Progesterone, a highly fat soluble and essential hormone created by our body naturally when
body metabolizes
"mother of all hormones," pregnenolone.
Pregnenolone is
precursor for corticosterone, testosterone, estrogen progesterone, DHEA, cortisol and aldosterone both in men and in women.
Look at
research that was done over
years (and is still going on around
world):
-dePeretti et.al, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 1983
-Roberts, E. "Pregnelonone - From Selye to Alzheimer and a MModel of
Pregnenolone Sulfate Binding Site on
GABA Receptor:, Biochemical Pharmacology, Vol 49., No. 1,1-16, 1995
-Ray Sahelian, M.D. (www.raysahelian.com/pregnenolone.html)
-William Rdelson, M. D. amd Carol Colman, The super Hormone Promise: Nature's Antidote to Aging, Pocket Books, 1996
-Victory Dolby, Pregnonolone: A natural hormone to increase energy levels, mental acuity, immune system function and alleaviate thritis and stress
-and many others
The question for both genders is: 'how much progesterone is your body producing to help keep you hormonally balanced.'
The key word here is "balance." As we get older we tend to produce less and less progesterone for a variety of reasons, such as menopause, creating a hormone imbalance that can affect us in many ways.
There is a big difference between pharmacological versud physiological doses of a hormone.
Pharmacological doses are superphysiological that involve taking large quatities of an active ingrediet. These doses exceed level found naturally in
human body and promote abnormal actions and imbalances.
Physiological doses are merely a replacement designed not to exceed normal levels.
In
case of pregnenolone, less than 50mg a day may constitue a good physiological dose. In fact many people have obtained excellent resuts with much less (15-20 mg per day).
With DHEA, 25 - 50 mgs are recommend for women; 50 to 100 mgs for men per day. For those taking progesterone, 20 mg a day is sufficient. If you are over 50 years of age, you may require slightly more, while those youngs may require slightly less.
Why do we need to supplement with a hormone?