Progesterone Cream
Progesterone Cream: The Safe Choice
Progesterone cream is the natural safe choice for most women having a 
treatment for hormonal imbalance. Progesterone is the single most important hormone in the female body. When the female body fails to produce enough progesterone between ovulation and menstruation and during menopause, a natural transdermal progesterone cream can address the underlying cause of most symptoms.
A properly formulated progesterone cream removes the unpleasant symptoms associated with menopause and PMS, and the conditions of infertility.
Progesterone cream has other important uses too. It helps burn fat, is a natural anti-depressant, restores libido, and stimulates osteoblast cells to result in an osteoporosis reversal. A progesterone cream is important for a woman specially after she has entered menopause, when female hormone production is reduced to approximately 40% to 60% of the pre-menopausal levels. It is now that a progesterone cream is a great help.
Benefits Of Progesterone Cream
Dr. John R. Lee's pioneering work has given us much information on the effects of progesterone. Here are some of the known benefits of Natural Progesterone Cream. Progesterone's Benefits include:
Where to apply Progesterone Cream
Neck, Hands, Breast, Chest, Inner Legs, Abdomen, and Feet until absorbed.
Progesterone is best absorbed on thin skin! It absorbs into the skin to the fatty layer then it is transferred into the bloodstream.
Remember to rotate sites when applying cream. (Ex. if you apply to your chest in the morning, apply to your feet in the evening, etc.)
Before applying to your face, perform a patch test by applying a small amount of cream to a small area on the side of your face to check for sensitivity reactions. Your face is the most sensitive skin area on your body.
Helps burn body fat for fuel
Sleep is improved
Stabilizes zinc-copper balance in body
Helps with concentration
Stabilizes blood sugar balance
Can help fibrocystic breasts
Natural antidepressant
Natural diuretic
Normalizes blood-clotting
Stimulates bone mineral density
Normalizes cell oxygen levels
Relief of cramping
Stabilizes blood sugar balance
Normalizes periods
Restores or increases sex drive
Helps post partum depression
Progesterone Cream Application
- For months 1-3, use 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon TWICE A DAY for three weeks then take one week off. Repeat
- Beginning month 4, you may decrease your dosage to 1/8 to 1/4 TWICE A DAY for three weeks then take one week off. Repeat.
- It is important to take one week off to avoid dulling of your receptor sites, i.e., your results should be better when using the cream three weeks on and one week off.
Most women in our culture are estrogen dominant, so using the progesterone goes a long way towards balancing hormones which usually decreases a woman’s risk for breast cancer, improves her PMS and breast tenderness and normalizes her cycle. Like most good things in life if one uses too much of the hormone cream, complications can develop in disruption in one’s hormone balance.
Dr. Lee is fond of using the lower dose creams to avoid this. But this complication can still occur with the low-dose creams.
Natural progesterone is the exact same hormone that is produced by a woman's ovary. It is made from naturally occurring plant steroids found in the wild yam. It is NOT the synthetic version that is commonly purchased as tablets with a prescription such as Provera. The synthetic progesterone can produce severe side effects including increased risk of cancer, abnormal menstrual flow, fluid retention, nausea, and depression. Side effects are extremely rare with natural progesterone. The only one of concern is that it might slightly alter the timing of the menstrual cycle.
Why Natural Progesterone Made by Your Body Is Good
Natural progesterone is very useful to balance excess estrogen. Natural progesterone is also different from estrogen in that your body can use it as a precursor or starting material to make other hormones such as adrenal hormones. It can even convert it into estrogen or testosterone if your body needs it. The table on the next page lists the properties of estrogen relative to progesterone. Some of the reasons that estrogen is frequently in excess in many women are:
- Over production of estrogen. Ovarian cysts or tumors can lead to excess estrogen production. Stress also increases production, but probably the most common cause is obesity. All body fat has an enzyme which converts adrenal steroids to estrogen, so the more fat you have, the more estrogen is present.
- Inability to breakdown estrogen. Excess estrogen is generally removed by the liver. Diseases of the liver like cirrhosis or decreased enzyme activity can lead to increased estrogen levels. Vitamin B6 and magnesium are necessary for the liver to neutralize estrogen. Increased sugar intake will also excrete magnesium and interfere with its ability to breakdown estrogen.
- Exposure to pesticides in foods. Most of us eat foods that have pesticides on them. These and many other unnatural chemicals share a common structure with estrogen and serve as "false" estrogens which further stimulates the body's estrogen receptors.
- Estrogen supplementation. Clearly any additional estrogen given by prescription will increase the level unless it is properly balanced with natural progesterone.
- Decreased production of progesterone. Progesterone is necessary to counterbalance estrogen. If women do not ovulate during their cycle they will not produce any progesterone that cycle. This happens commonly and worsens the already disturbed progesterone/estrogen balance.