Progesterone… an interesting hormone.

This is a very well written article. And even though it does not explicitly talk about potential miscarriage early on in the pregnancy due to too little of this hormone, it’s kinda implied.

When estrogen levels are high in relation to our progesterone we experience many severe symptoms, among them anxiety, breast tenderness, cyclical headaches or migraines, depression, digestive issues, fuzzy thinking, palpitations, food cravings, irregular bleeding, water retention, weight gain and more.

(Note that a number of these symptoms are also indicative of the exact opposite condition — a deficiency of estrogen — another example of why the concept of estrogen dominance is too simplistic.)

If estrogen levels stay unopposed, women may develop infertility, endometriosis, amenorrhea (skipped periods), hypermenorrhea (heavy bleeding), fibroids, uterine cancer, stroke, and decreased cognitive ability, among other conditions.

Understand estrogen levels and estrogen dominance related to menopause

Read the full article at the above URL.

Another interesting article can be found here – but this one is for German speaking people only.

Reason for me being interested in this right now is after my talk with Jenny (sister-in-law and a nurse) yesterday during our unconventional Thanksgiving late lunch – not dinner – preparation.

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