Sentences with phrase «as synthetic progestin»

Natural, bioidentical progesterone is not the same thing as synthetic progestin, and -LSB-...]

She explained that while Anne's symptoms were no doubt partly related to her conflict over having a baby, the severity of her headaches, depression and weight gain, as well as her cervical dysplasia, had probably been caused by the high doses of estrogen she had been taking, as well as the synthetic progestins.

Not exact matches

Instead, the pill provides synthetic estrogen and progestin, which means you still get your periods regularly as part of a withdrawal bleed, not to be mistaken for a «real» period.

The rats were exposed to 1 of the chemicals utilized in the most commonly used HRTs in the US — a progestin known as MPA (medroxyprogesterone acetate), which is also the very same synthetic hormone which accelerates development of breast tumours.

If you are one of those women who are taking a separate synthetic progestin such as Provera, you may drop it completely and immediately.

Therefore, money from pharmaceutical funding for progesterone research veered in the direction of expensive patentable progestins such as synthetic birth control pills.

Conventional synthetic estrogen and progestin therapy caused these side effects and «Bioidentical hormones» (which are identical to natural hormones present in the body) are therefore touted as providing the same benefits without side effects.

On the other hand, pharmaceutical hormones known as Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) have been molecularly altered from natural human hormones so that they can be patented and sold as a synthetic substance; synthetic estrogens and progestins are what are commonly prescribed as HRT medications.

Dr. Lee emphasizes to his readers that conventional HRT contains synthetic progestins and not natural progesterone, and that there is no evidence that using natural progesterone as he recommends, increases the risk of breast cancer, and plenty of clinical evidence that it probably protects against breast cancer.

Furthermore, the efficacy of progesterone in hormone replacement has been totally ignored in favor of the patentable (and therefore more profitable) synthetic counterparts known as progestins.

YAZ or Yasmin (known as Drospirenone) is a synthetic progestin that is typically part of birth control medications.