Progesterone - What its all About

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" Progesterone - the Natural Hormone "

by Kimberley Paterson

 

Progesterone -What its all about?

 

Some of the most exciting work in terms of real solutions to health

problems comes from biochemists and scientists who are coming to

grips with the healing power of plants. This new movement understands

that nature herself can help without too much of mankind's tinkering.

 

My 1995 trip to England took me on to Europe where I met a young

Danish biochemist deeply involved in this kind of work, a perfect

example of anenlightened new breed of scientific researcher.

 

His passion is the power he finds in organically grown plant compounds, natural

remedies he takes and enhances with modern technology to create a whole new

gender of natural remedy: a veritable 'super botanical' for the 21st century.

 

The beauty of his work lies not only in marrying the best of ancient

plant wisdom with the best of our modern age, but in that he is a

scientist with a spiritual consciousness, aware of the profound

impactpeople like him can have on the future health of humankind.

 

Natural progesterone, too, has its genesis in both worlds: the

diosgnenin plant compound from the wild yam (discorea villosa and

dioscorea mexicana) is converted in a three-stage laboratory process

to a molecule that is nature identical.

 

(Disogenin is a plant sterol, a substance closely related to human steroid

hormones).

Nature identical or bio-identical means that the molecule is exactly

the same as the progesterone that is made in the human body.

 

Because natural progesterone is nature identical, the body can use it and

tolerate itexactly as it would our own progesterone.

 

Diosgenin from wild yams is also used by the pharmaceutical industry

asthe starting block in the creation of synthetic oestrogen and

progestogens. What then is the difference between synthetic and

nature identical?

 

Slight variations in the structure of the atoms in a

molecule. It sounds simple enough; one set of processing techniques

takes you to a nature identical hormone, the other to a synthetic

hormone.

 

One matches the hormone in our body exactly: the other is

similar but not the same. These slight variations lead to big

differences in the effect these molecules have on our bodies.

 

Every year we learn more and more about hormones and how exquisitely

fined-tuned and sensitive they are. We now know that hormones fit

intoreceptor sites all over the human body in a process described as

a 'key fitting into a lock'. When this happens it's as though a cell

door swings open and the hormone relays its chemical message into

that cell... a master plan at the edges of human understanding all going

onwithout a single thought from us.

 

When you think about the perfect design of the human eco-system, it's

little wonder that foreign substances wreak such internal damage.

 

Mostmodern 'life-saving' drugs come with lists of adverse reactions

andside-effects.

 

Synthetic oestrogens are strongly linked with uterine and breast cancer;

synthetic progestogens with blood clots, changes invision, irregular bleeding.

 

If nature identical hormones give such good results with few

associatedproblems, why not just formulate natural hormones and be

done with it?

 

'It is a sad commentary on the pursuit of profit over women's

wellbeingthat the pharmaceutical companies take perfectly good

natural hormones that our bodies know and can use them, creating synthetic

compounds with similar hormonal effects but toxic side-effects.' -

 

Dr John Lee-

 

Well, that's the rub. Pharmaceutical companies are businesses that

existto return a profit and it doesn't make sound commercial sense

for

them to work with nature identical hormones. Why not? Because the

system we've created means it costs vast sums of money to put a new

drug on the market, literally millions.

 

To expend that kind of money on development,research, manufacturing and trialing

a new product,

pharmaceutical companies have to know that they 'own' the molecular

structure and technology for a certain length of time so they can get

a return and profit on their investment.

 

That's why patients exist. A new molecule can be 'patented', in

effectowned for a certain number of years so the company can market

andsell it's product without competition. Natural hormones can't be

owned.

 

Therefore it doesn't make financial sense for pharmaceutical

companies to expend the huge resources required to create nature

identical molecules

when, at any time, a competitor could do the same thing andthe money

would be lost.

 

That's why HRT and the oral contraceptive pill are so very familiar

to us and to the medical profession (you can be sure that

pharmaceuticalcompanies spend a lot of money ensuring doctors know

all about their products).

 

That's why the information about natural

progesterone comes to us from the very small band of doctors who have

been prescribing itand from the women who have been taking it over

the past two decades.

 

Natural hormones aren't allocated big advertising budgets, slick

promotions and glossy advertisement campaigns to inform the medical

profession about them.

 

That's why chances are your doctor knows

little or nothing about natural progesterone.

 

We are beginning to hear about natural progesterone and the other

bio-identical hormones because doctors like Katherina Dalton, Ray

Peatand John Lee spent years in research, trying to understand their

potential and gradually introduce them to their patients.

 

It's good news for us now, but sobering to think how many women have suffered

needlessly - not to mention died - from decades of adverse reactions to

synthetic copies.

 

" We know that we don't have as many studies on bio-identical

hormones

as we have on synthetic hormones. We know that the whole reason for

that is because of patent issues; the pharmaceutical house has to make

amolecule that is not bio-identical.' - Dr Christiane Northrup.

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