progesterone - men?

[Guest guest]

Hi

is there anyone on here who's husbands or partners take progesterone?

if so did they get tested first, where did you get it from etc? has it helped

them and what dose do they take?

Thanks

chris

[Guest guest]

finally got my progesterone (i say finally, it's been a few days since i

ordered: it's hard to be patient when you don't feel well)

i'll let people know if anything good happens

Chris

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> The reason I ask is that yesterday i read a good book in my local library (aka

health food shop):

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[Guest guest]

it's only been a few days since i started taking this, but i think i am feeling

improvements from it. ie, i feel better and because i've not felt this way from

anything else lately, i assume it's from the progesterone.

i feel more relaxed, calmer and less depressed. i feel tired, but in a good way

- tired in a way after an awful lot of stress has stopped and you get chance to

recover and rest, kind of way? before i was just feeling tired in a very

drained kind of way.

i have been reading about progesterone, it does seem important with regards to

estrogen and thyroid?

will try adding a bit of thyroid back as basal's still low, and will see if i

can tolerate it now....

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> finally got my progesterone (i say finally, it's been a few days since i

ordered: it's hard to be patient when you don't feel well)

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> i'll let people know if anything good happens

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> Chris

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[Guest guest]

Hi

Men can have estrogen dominance as well as women. For men, having too much

estrogen may lead to many problems. These include adiposity, breast development,

cancer, prostate problems, baldness, and more. Progesterone prevents prostate

disease. A man's prostate has progesterone receptors and it must constantly have

enough blood progesterone to keep them filling in order to have a healthy

prostate gland.

A man only needs to use 1/8 teaspoon 5 days a week. It should be applied

directly to the scrotum.

'Natural Progesterone Cream: Safe, Natural Hormone Replacement' by Dr Lee,

who was the pioneer of Natural Progesterone usage, is a good reference book.

Also it would be a good idea for men, as well as women, to have their sex

hormones tested.

B

[Guest guest]

thanks

I read a very intersting article by Hertoghe about it recently

http://www.hertoghe.eu/nl/samenvattigen/abstr/progesterone-therapy-in-men-crucia\

l-for-men-over-40/

Hertoghe T.

Progesterone therapy in men: crucial for men over 40 ?

A4M Las Vegas 12-2006

If progesterone is best known as a major hormone in women, it appears to be

important for men too.

Progesterone is mainly secreted by the adrenal glands in men.

It is a relatively abundant hormone in men. Progesterone's serum level exceeds

that of major hormones such as dihydrotestosterone, estradiol, aldosterone,

triiodothyronine, calcitonin and melatonin. Men have as much progesterone in

their blood as women during three quarters of their lifetime. The serum level of

progesterone in men is as high as that of young adult women in the follicular

phase.

Based on the latest data, it can be assumed that progesterone's plays a

strategic role: avoiding excesses in men of the dominant female hormone,

estradiol, and of the most potent male hormone, dihydrotestosterone (DHT). It is

a crucial hormone for endocrine balance. Fundamental mechanisms used by

progesterone to accomplish this task: a speeding up of the conversion of

estradiol to the much less potent estrogen estrone and a competitive blocking of

the conversion of testosterone to DHT.

The production and levels of progesterone progressively decline with age, slowly

installing in men a progesterone deficiency syndrome. The progesterone

deficiency syndrome in men is dominated by the consequences of excesses in

estradiol and DHT. Worth mentioning are the gynoid aspect of the body with

gynecomastia, benign prostate hypertrophy and excessive stimulation of

(ortho)sympatic nervous system, attributable to hyperestrogenemia. Possible

other signs and symptoms are hirsutism with male pattern baldness in men and

possibly some degree of excessive genital sensitivity, consequences of excessive

levels of dihydrotestosterone in comparison with testosterone.

New light is presented here on some medical enigmas that may be partially or

totally due to progesterone deficiency: progressive feminization of the male

body with age, male pattern baldness, benign prostate hypertrophy, prostate

cancer, men/female libido/sexual sensitivity imbalance with age. For example,

the discrepancy between men and women in sexual interest and sensitivity at age

40 may not only be due to the sharp decline of testosterone, the hormone of

desire, in women at that age. It possibly and partially could be due to an

increase in libido, caused by hyperestrogenemia, associated to an increasingly

rising genital sensitivity and need to ejaculate of men at that age, consequence

of an increased DHT to testosterone ratio. Both hyperestrogenemia and high

DHT/testosterone ratio may themselves be consequences of progesterone deficiency

and thus trigger partner frustration and quarrels.

Progesterone treatment in men can best be corrected by either the oral intake of

micronized progesterone or of a transdermal progesterone liposomal gel. Some

improvement in the diet is a plus point. The intake of foods that reduce

progesterone production such as sugar, sweets, bread, pastas, soft drinks and

alcohol, should be minimized or simply avoided. These drinks or foods reduce

the endocrine secretions of the adrenal cortex that produces progesterone. In

addition, foods that tend to increase the levels of estradiol such as

caffeinated beverages and alcohol should too become a rare part of the diet. On

the other hand, the intake of foods that increase the adrenal's production of

progesterone such as food rich in protein or healthy saturated fat, deserve to

be recommended.

for references please read the author's articles on the subject in the Journal

of European Anti-Aging Medicine, October 2006 & March 2007 issues