Hormones and Womens Health
A Huge Health Factor
Products to help regular hormones can be found in our store section, Hormone Regulation.
There are dozens of physical, mental and emotional concerns that derive from an imbalance of sex hormones.
Are you among the many menstruating women who experience cramps, muscle stiffness, joint and muscle pain, cold extremities, backache, headaches, water retention, bloating, constipation, sugar cravings, dry skin, breast tenderness, physical and/or mental exhaustion, inability to concentrate, irritability, mood swings, depression, aggression, a sense of being crazy, or crying spells?
Or are you dealing with symptoms of menopause, such as hot flashes, night sweats, interrupted sleep, and mood swings, but concerned about the potential side effects of synthetic hormones?
Whatever your age, have you taken thought about protecting yourself from the most common metabolic bone disorders in the US - osteoporosis? If not, please do. Current research indicates the decline in sex hormones is among the causative factors of osteoporosis. This bone-loss disease is responsible for 1.3 million bone fractures a year, with a care cost estimated to exceed $10 million a year, and an uncountable cost in lost mobility and quality of life.
The Importance of Natural Progesterone
Appropriate levels of the female hormone progesterone can ease the menstrual and menopausal difficulties described above, as well as prevent infertility, miscarriages, cancer and osteoporosis. However, as a woman reaches her thirties and forties, progesterone levels can drop below normal, but note that negative influences on progesterone can begin much earlier.
In addition to the natural aging process, progesterone deficiency or a progesterone/estrogen imbalance can be caused by poor nutrition (e.g., hormone-added meat and dairy), pollution, emotional or physical stress (including over-exercising), and the use of estrogens, birth control pills, and IUDs.
Enter, The Wild Mexican Yam
No matter what your age, ask yourself what the ideal solution to meeting your progesterone needs would be like. Does your answer include words like "safe," "practical and easy to use," "simple," and "economical"? And maybe you would like a product outside the mainstream pharmaceutical circus of escalating prices and high-end advertising?
Consider an increasingly popular extract of the Wild Mexican Yam, a substance identical to the progesterone produced by the human. A natural progesterone body cream is available that includes this valuable extract. When applied topically, the natural progesterone absorbs through the skin and is transported directly to receptor sites where it is needed. This form of absorption bypasses the liver, which means receptor sites receive progesterone much more efficiently than via oral or suppository administration. Further, because the natural progesterone in the cream is technically a food product, and because the other ingredients are also natural, you don't need a prescription to obtain it.
The Natural Progesterone Solution
It is very important not to confuse this natural progesterone with synthetic forms called "progestins" or "progestagens." NATURAL progesterone was NOT the subject of that recent and very discouraging hormone replacement therapy research.
It is also important to know that age is not a factor in the effectiveness of natural progesterone, and it has been clinically found to do far more than relieve menstrual and menopausal troubles and improve bone density (the concern of osteoporosis).
Natural progesterone also lessens excessive blood clotting caused by too much estrogen, alleviates several symptoms caused by birth control pills and IUDs, reduces ovarian cysts, protects the embryo, helps reduce excess facial and body hair caused by hormonal imbalance, and has an anti-aging effect on the skin. Natural progesterone has also been found to correct hypoglycemia caused by hormone imbalance, and to promote efficient use of fat for energy and reduce hypoglycemia linked with obesity. Not least, it helps stabilize muscle tissue in the uterus, blood vessel walls, heart, intestines and bladder.
And then there's what natural progesterone (thankfully) DOES NOT do. It does NOT cause masculinization, and it does NOT interfere with medicines.
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