Estrogen and Progesterone need each other for you to feel good.
Not exact matches
By taking a woman off
estrogen and not understanding that what she really
needs is the right ratio of
estrogen and progesterone to recreate — to simulate — a reproductive template, you're walking into a disaster.
But proponents of compounding, like C.W. Randolph Jr., MD, co-founder
and medical director of the Natural Hormone Institute of America in Jacksonville, Florida, say the ability to individualize a hormone blend (usually
estrogen,
progesterone,
and sometimes testosterone) to meet each patients
needs trumps the FDAs cookie - cutter approach.
Your ovaries stop producing
estrogen and progesterone, two of the main hormones you
need for fertility.
While
progesterone and estrogen are two key hormones for your fertility health, there are several others that
need be in sync as well.
Estrogen and progesterone are two of the most important hormones for optimal fertility,
and they
need to be happy
and balanced to prepare your body for pregnancy.
Estrogen and progesterone influence your body's hydration levels,
and when the two are roller - coastering, like when you're in the throes of PMS, you may
need to increase your fluid intake to stay hydrated, Dr. Kominiarek says.
Cholesterol is
needed for formation of healthy cell membranes
and is a precursor to all steroid hormones (
progesterone,
estrogen, FSH, etc.).
My answer is that if women ate a perfect diet, got plenty of exercise, fresh air
and sunshine, had no chronic stress, got plenty of sleep,
and lived in a world free of environmental
estrogens, most of them wouldn't
need progesterone after menopause.
Without sufficient proteins, the resulting hormonal imbalance can disrupt the release of
progesterone,
estrogen,
and DHEA that are
needed for a regular menstrual cycle.
The body
needs many hormones, including
progesterone, testosterone,
and estrogen to keep bones
and muscles strong, brain functions sharp,
and sexual desire revved up
and active.
A little bit of
progesterone will help a lot,
and in some women it solves the problem, because it offsets the effects of environmental
estrogens and anovulatory cycles, but PMS is a multi-factorial problem that
needs to be handled on many physical levels as well as on the emotional level.
Have your hormones checked You may
need to balance your
estrogen,
progesterone and testosterone
Coffee has been shown to help support your body's ability to produce
progesterone, the hormone that plays the important role of offsetting the negative effects of
estrogen and is essential in signaling your thyroid gland to release healthy amounts of thyroid hormone when
needed.
The article above states somewhere that
progesterone is a female sex hormone, so I'm assuming it is something that is consistently present, but just
needs to stay balanced, much like
estrogen and testosterone.
So, in drinking a shot of apple cider vinegar you're actually giving your body what it
needs to make hormones — addressing any imbalances between
estrogen,
progesterone and testosterone.
While not the only two important hormones to manage as you age,
estrogen and progesterone are unique because they actually
need each other to stay balanced
and for you to feel good.
Balancing testosterone,
estrogen,
progesterone,
and thyroid hormone production is very difficult,
and needs to be approached in a careful, thorough,
and responsive manner.
You may find that your testosterone levels are fine
and that your
estrogen and progesterone levels are what really
need to be addressed.
At this point, patients are told they have a hormonal imbalance
and will
need natural hormone replacement that can include
estrogen,
progesterone,
and sometimes also testosterone.
Maybe her GABA levels are now good (because her
progesterone levels have improved due to be on a regular zinc supplement or because she has been doing regular yoga sessions)
and maybe she
needs more serotonin support (because her
estrogen levels are off because of recent exposure to xenoestrogens in plastics).
If you're doing an ARL or TEI program based on your HTMA (hair tissue mineral analysis), you simply
need to let the program heal your adrenal glands so they produce sufficient amounts of all the hormones, including
progesterone,
estrogen, testosterone
and a few others.
In addition to
estrogen,
progesterone and testosterone, insulin, cortisol, leptin
and the thyroid hormones are all part of your endocrine system,
and need to be balanced for you to experience good health.
For the first part of the follicular phase we are menstruating, which means there is not much action happening from a hormonal level — all hormones including
estrogen,
progesterone and testosterone are low because they are not
needed.
Also would love to add, that I had social anxiety which kept me house bound
and could only go out with my mother or boyfriend
and what I
needed was T3 medication (not t4)
and progesterone (was
estrogen dominance).
Because DHEA is the main ingredient your body uses to make testosterone,
and because testosterone works in tandem with
estrogen,
and because
estrogen works in tandem with
progesterone... it's truly the whole system you
need to address.
Now
estrogen is important because we
need that when it comes to certain tissue like in the endometrial lining, but
progesterone is important to help that egg bond to the endometrial lining
and then essentially maturize into a grown baby.
estrogen domanince is a big part in our conception
and developing babies we
need progesterone on its own to work with the
estrogen already in our bodys
These books are more practically useful for later stages of ovarian imbalance: -
estrogen dominance / deficiency: there are three
estrogens you need to know about, all are best covered in an excellent early chapter of «Natural Health for Women» by Roger Mason; - progesterone deficiency: «Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple» and «Dr. Eckhart's How to Use Progesterone Cream Practical Guide for Avoiding Side Effects & Chemical Estrogen
estrogens you
need to know about, all are best covered in an excellent early chapter of «Natural Health for Women» by Roger Mason; -
progesterone deficiency: «Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple» and «Dr. Eckhart's How to Use Progesterone Cream Practical Guide for Avoiding Side Effects & Chemical Estro
progesterone deficiency: «Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple»
and «Dr. Eckhart's How to Use
Progesterone Cream Practical Guide for Avoiding Side Effects & Chemical Estro
Progesterone Cream Practical Guide for Avoiding Side Effects & Chemical
EstrogensEstrogens».
Also effective are hormone tests, such as the simple
and accurate salivary cortisol, DHEA,
and sometimes others as
needed, such as testosterone,
estrogen and progesterone.
So if energy
and youthful vitality are goals for you in your 40s
and 50s, it's not just your «womanly» hormones (i.e.
estrogen and progesterone) that you
need to pay attention to.
For example, if a woman
needs more
estrogen she should eat more cruciferous veggies
and if another
needs more
progesterone (or has
estrogen dominance) she should limit or avoid cruciferous veggies.
You
need to ovulate in order to produce
estrogen and progesterone.
However, during the»30s
and»40s, when scientists were kicking such ideas around, there was no known method of extracting enough
progesterone from animals to provide the therapy to the people who
needed it — 80,000 pigs» ovaries were
needed to extract a minuscule amount of
estrogen —
and cost would have been prohibitive to virtually anyone who wanted such a drug.