Sentences with phrase «called diosgenin»

Fenugreek also contains a compound called diosgenin which helps new mothers to lactate, and according to some stories I've read, produce gallons after gallons of breast milk...

A: The USP progesterone used for hormone replacement comes from plant fats and oils, usually a substance called diosgenin which is extracted from a very specific type of wild yam that grows in Mexico, or from soybeans.

Bioidentical Natural Hormones are made by converting the ingredient called diosgenin, derived from wild yam, to actual hormones that are identical to the ones produced by the body.

They extracted very valuable chemicals out of the root called Diosgenin and Sarasapogenin.

It is also rich in a compound called diosgenin which has estrogen - like properties and steroidal saponins.

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Wild yam has been found to contain about 3.5 % diosgenin, which is is used as a source in the synthesis of a sex hormone called progesterone, as well as for the production of cortisone and other steroids prescribed in hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which benefit women with fertility problems, irregular menstrual cycles, and hormone deficiencies due to menopause and post-menopause.

Several species of the yam family (dioscoreaceae, also called barbasco in Central America) as well as soybeans, contain significant amounts of diosgenin, a complex molecule which converts readily and inexpensively to pregnenolone and then into a «natural» progesterone which is essentially identical to the hormone produced in a woman's body.