Most women know that using a progesterone cream is supposed to help diminish the unpleasant effects of menopause, but most don’t know or understand the full range of progesterone cream benefits that can be theirs with continued use.
Natural progesterone is produced in the adrenal glands of men and the ovaries of women. It has a more profound effect in women, as it serves to balance estrogen and moderate unpleasant effects of both monthly periods and menopause.
In the first half of your monthly cycle, your body is preparing for fertilization. Estrogen levels increase and your body begins to store water and nutrients for a possible pregnancy. Progesterone levels also increase and will become dominant during the second half of the cycle.
When you enter menopause, levels of both estrogen and progesterone diminish. This not only contributes to all of the known unpleasant effects, but opens up a long shopping list of possible problems.
For most women, entering menopause will result in your body’s estrogen production falling by as much as 60 percent. At the same time, progesterone production falls to near zero. It is this imbalance (called estrogen dominance) that causes most of the physical and emotional problems associated with menopause.
Unfortunately, your Doctor can make the situation worse by putting you on an estrogen supplement. The supplement itself is not bad, but it will add to the imbalance mentioned earlier. This is why, for some women, using a progesterone cream to regain their hormonal balance can be a godsend.
Progesterone Cream Benefits During Menopause:
- Less Depression: Progesterone is a natural antidepressant and can do wonders for your overall sense of well being.
- You get relief from the normal symptoms of menopause including hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, restlessness and vaginal drying.
- You’ll see your sex drive return. This is good for you and the man in your life.
- You’ll probable lose excess weight! A proper estrogen/progesterone balance will normalize blood sugar levels and eliminate those food “cravings” that we all experience.
- And, best of all, you’ll experience far fewer (or, NO) “mood swings” that can cause havoc with all of your relationships.
Progesterone Cream Benefits for Younger Women:
In younger women, the benefits of progesterone cream are just as dramatic. You’ll get relief from most of those pre-menstrual problems we all know and love. Having a proper estrogen/progesterone balance can eliminate weight gain, fatigue, headaches, breast tenderness, and flashes of bad temper, all of which are clinically recognized symptoms of pre-menstrual syndrome.
One word of caution, however…
If you decide to use a progesterone cream, suppository, or pill (the last 2 are not recommended, as we’ll see later), use only natural progesterone. Unfortunately, supplements that are most prescribed by Doctors contain synthetic progesterone (progestins), and they just don’t work in the same way as natural progesterone.
Why (you may ask) would my Doctor prescribe something that is “second best”?
The best answer to that question comes from one of their own. Dr. John R. Lee has more than 30 years experience treating women and writes:
The medical-industrial complex refers to the close knit association of organized medicine with the pharmaceutical manufacturers and governmental medical regulatory agencies… The system taken together is neither necessarily corrupt nor evil, but, like any human agency, is subject to the frailties and faults of humankind. Medical research is dependent on the billions of dollars of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the private pharmaceutical industry. The two are closely interlocked.
Any given pharmaceutical company, like any private enterprise, must make a profit to stay alive. Profit comes from the sales of patent medicines. The system is not interested in natural (non-patentable) medicines, regardless of their potential health benefits. Thus the flow of research funding does not extend to products which cannot be patented.
Ample medical research regarding progesterone was carried on from the 1940′s through the 1960′s, and amply reported in mainline, recognized medical literature. Since the early 1970′s, however, medical research has become much more expensive and the grants subsidizing progesterone research, (or any unpatentable medicine or treatment technique), have dried up and been blown away by the contemporary trade winds of synthetic drugs, particularly the progestins. The potential market for patentable progestins is vast– contraceptive pills, irregular menses, osteoporosis–literally every woman through the age of puberty on is a target for a sale. Do you think the prevailing powers wish to see this lucrative market left to an over-the-counter natural product not in the hands of physician prescribers and not controlled by the pharmaceutical industry?
Thus, when he (the physician) hears of the use of natural progesterone, he wonders why none of his associates know about it. If it is not commonly know, ‘it must in some way be false and/or unapproved.’ Having given lectures on the role and medical uses of natural progesterone, I have observed numerous instances wherein perfectly fine physicians will inquire about obtaining product for use by their wives or mother-in-law but not for their patients. What can account for such behavior by professionals? I suspect that it is fear of alienation from the flock that is paramount in their minds. If progestins were the equivalent of natural progesterone in effect and safety, the argument would be moot. But progestins are not the equivalent of natural progesterone and never will be.”
Dr. John R. Lee, CA, USA
Why use a progesterone cream rather that a pill or suppository?
The answer to this is actually quite simple. Nature did not intend women to put hormones into their stomachs and up to 80% is passed from the body unused. Progesterone in suppository form is intercepted by the liver and bound up by the wax vehicle, again losing much of it’s absorption.
A high quality natural progesterone cream is absorbed directly through your skin, making 100% of the progesterone available for your body to use.
Personally, I use nothing but Emerita Pro-Gest Natural Progesterone Cream. It’s the only all-natural progesterone cream to be clinically tested by the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP). The USP classifies the progesterone used in this product as the highest quality available, based on its purity and strength.
I’ll admit that it’s a bit expensive, but I buy it at Amazon.com for about half of the retail store price.
Just 1/4 of a teaspoon soothes and treats a variety of symptoms when applied twice a day. Massage the external cosmetic cream into the skin of your inner arms, inner thighs, abdomen, or chest for best results.
But…I digress. The main point that I’m trying to make here is the fact that these progesterone cream benefits can apply to every woman of any age. Give it a try and see the “women’s problems” part of your life disappear!
