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PMS and Progesterone
Premenstrual syndrome or PMS is an all too common complaint of pre-menopausal women.
Approximately 90 percent of all women in the United States have at least some type of
menstrual complaint. The most common PMS complaints include; bloating and water retention
(and the resulting weight gain), breast tenderness and lumpiness, headaches, backaches,
cramps, depression, fatigue, irritability, mood swings, and anxiety. Interestingly enough
these complaints are also symptoms of estrogen dominance. Not all PMS symptoms can be
blamed on estrogen dominance, but it is certainly a major factor. Stress, diet and
environmental toxins can influence PMS complaints by contributing to estrogen dominance.
If this were not bad enough, the effects of your mother's exposure to damaging
environmental toxins both before and during her pregnancy are capable of being passed
along to you, and may well continue to affect you throughout your adult life. This
onslaught of xenohormone exposure cannot be countered by lifestyle changes alone.
Many women find that following the perfect diet and exercise program is difficult to
maintain on a long-term basis, luckily natural progesterone could be "just what the
doctor ordered". In women of any age, just using progesterone cream in normal doses
of 15 to 30 mg daily for two weeks a month, often completely eliminates PMS. For optimum
results the supplementation of progesterone along with stress management and diet is the
most successful strategy.
Note of interest:
In Great Britain progesterone treatments have been accepted so completely that, in three
different murder trials, women have not been sent to jail but instead
"sentenced" to take progesterone. The defense? They committed violent crimes
because they were premenstrual. |
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