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✨The Magic of Progesterone ✨
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Progesterone, most commonly known as the pro-gestation hormone, due to its protective qualities during pregnancy, is far more than a pregnancy hormone. Yes, progesterone is produced by the corpus luteum, to prepare the endometrium for possible egg implantation. And yes, due to this fact, women DO produce higher amounts than men, but men DO produce and need progesterone.
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Progesterone is also produced by the adrenals and the gonads, consisting of the testes and ovaries. Thus, progesterone has many functions besides baby-making that are essential for our physiology.
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One amazing quality of progesterone is it can oppose both deficiencies and excesses of other hormones, thus protecting against many pathological extremes.
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Let me give you a few examples...
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Progesterone can compete with aldosterone for the "aldosterone receptor" which can cause water retention in the kidneys, so when aldosterone is HIGH, progesterone can oppose this function relieving edema. However, if aldosterone is suppressed, for some reason, progesterone can work in the opposite direction promoting normal retention of sodium and water.
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Another example is progesterones affects on cortisol. When cortisol is Low (Addison's disease), progesterone can work by INCREASING cortisol to normal levels. Yet, when cortisol is HIGH (Cushings disease), progesterone can work by DECREASING cortisol to normal levels. Please note, that adding supplemental progesterone will NOT promote increased levels of cortisol, if cortisol is already HIGH. Progesterone ONLY increases cortisol when cortisol NEEDS to be increased.
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Thus, due to these protective facts, progesterone has stabilizing affects in both sugar and salt regulation, elevating them or decreasing them, depending on what is needed.
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Progesterone is magic if I do say so myself!
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More on The magic of Progesterone come Monday.
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Stay Tuned.
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