Progesterone. wild yam

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I am forwarding this message on I wrote a few years ago

before I had even heard of pregnenolone .. I needed

progesterone and started taking it about 10 years ago. and

it was costing too much so I figured out a way to make it

myself. Here is that post.

> When I first started progesterone wild yam cream I was soooo

deficient I was

> taking it every few hours and was spending $120 on a months

supply !!!

> so I did some research and found out how to make an herbal tincture-

-- which is

> all that the wild yam cream in the stores is made from. THey

formulate it so

> that it is pleasant to put on the skin.. The tincture I end up with

is bit

> sticky and is dark coloured -- but I live by myself and figured

what the

> heh...

>

> To make it you buy the wild yam herb in a powder form-- I paid $24

for a Kg {

> which has lasted for a long time .l.

..

> Put it in a glass jar with a wide mouth.. YOu pour in grain alcohol-

- I

> use vodka, brandy and cover the herb with about enough to cover

with about an inch , inch and a half of liquid on top of the herb

> liquid on top --I just add enough so that when I stir it is is the

> consistency of of a thinish milk shake...

>

> HEre are the amounts according to the original book I got it from:

> 4 ounces of herb plus half a litre{ one pint } of 30% vodka ---Keep

it in a

> warmish place for two weeks and stir or shake it twice every

day..Pour the

> residue through a muslin clothe{ cheese cloth ]and wring out the

liquid Pour

> the liquid into a dark bottle and stopper the top well..

>

> I use two dropperfuls from a small dropper bottle that herbs

usually come in

> . Again I started with alot-- then two times a day , now

experimenting again to find the right dose/

>

> It works totally fine... I could tell as my syptoms of poor

concetration,

> lower energy would improve within minutes of putting it on my skin -

-just like

> the store bought stuff..... You put it on according to the

instructions for

> the store stuff---ie on different parts of the body , preferably

where there is

> some fat--- ie-- arms, upper thighs. breast, stomach.. YOu rotate

daily the

> position as therefore the body can move the stored stuff more

freely in the

> body...

>

>

> \I would say the cost making it is at least one tenth the

cost of store bought and I figure I will be on it forever

as progesterone is also so important for bone development.

> ,

>

>

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Hi -

Wild yam is a raw material for progesterone, but it does not contain

progesterone. The process needed to make progesterone from wild yam is a

complicated one that is done in a lab -- the human body doesn't have the

ability to do it.

Wild yam does contain constituents that support the body, but taking it in

any form does not directly give the body progesterone supplementation. If it

made you feel better, there is probably something else in it that you

needed. It may support the body's ability to make its own progesterone, but

I'm not sure that process would happen so quickly.

Many of the early wild yam creams contained progesterone; others did not.

Best,

Dana

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From: frequent-dose-chelation

[mailto:frequent-dose-chelation ] On Behalf Of nanciwell

I needed progesterone and started taking it about 10 years ago. and

it was costing too much so I figured out a way to make it

myself. Here is that post.

> so I did some research and found out how to make an herbal tincture-

-- which is

> all that the wild yam cream in the stores is made from.

[Guest guest]

Nanci, thanks for sharing your recipe for making your own cream, but for those

of us who are too lazy to do this (me!), here is a link to the progesterone

cream that I am currently using, and it was recommended to me by ,

so I feel it should be a good one. The thing to look for is ones that have 20mg

of natural progesterone per pump, and this one does. It is NOW brand, and only

costs $11.02 per bottle, which I think is very reasonable.

http://www.iherb.com/ProductDetails.aspx?c=1 & pid=7922 & at=0

Jackie

[Guest guest]

Wow, thanks Nanci. I'm going to give the lotions I have on had a try

and if I decide to get on it and stay on it, I'll give this a go.

Jen

>

>

>

> I am forwarding this message on I wrote a few years ago

> before I had even heard of pregnenolone .. I needed

> progesterone and started taking it about 10 years ago. and

> it was costing too much so I figured out a way to make it

> myself. Here is that post.

>

>

> > (see original post in message history)

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All I can say is that it did the very same thing for me as the

sttore bought cream.. I had been on the store bought for a

couple of months before switching. I had dramatic improvements

with the store bought with increase in temperature, I began

sweating for the first time in many years ,plus a dramatic

improvement in concentration.

Now I stayed on the wild yam cream I made from the herb

for many years,it kept me going and without it I was a

wreck. and the only thing to go away somewhat was the

concentration , which pregnelonone has helped/ I never had

any more problems with sweating , nor temperature. I can not

think of anything else I took that would help these symptoms.

And now when I put it on my skin I get more mentally alert..

Maybe the achohol is enough to take out the progesterone part

of it from the herb..??

Nanci

In frequent-dose-chelation , " Dana Black "

wrote:

>

> Hi -

>

> Wild yam is a raw material for progesterone, but it does not contain

> progesterone. The process needed to make progesterone from wild yam

is a

> complicated one that is done in a lab -- the human body doesn't

have the

> ability to do it.

>

>

>

> Wild yam does contain constituents that support the body, but

taking it in

> any form does not directly give the body progesterone

[Guest guest]

Hi -

Wild yam has value even though we can't make progesterone from it. There

isn't really any progesterone in it - it's just a basic raw material that's

converted through a complex chemical process to progesterone. Alcohol won't

do it. I believe it might support our own hormone production though, and it

probably has other value. I'm not really up on exactly what wild yam does in

the body. Wild yam creams (without progesterone) have been popular for

years, so there must be some benefit other than directly supplying the body

with progesterone. The human body has the ability to make progesterone from

the raw material cholesterol (cholesterol --> pregnenolone -->

progesterone), but we do not have the metabolic ability to convert

diosgenin, the wild yam saponin used as a raw material for " synthetic " (lab

made) progesterone, into progesterone. Here's an interesting article on all

of this:

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/15/wild-yam-why-its-not-recommended

-for-progesterone-but-does-provide-eight-other-health-benefits.htm

Best,

Dana

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From: frequent-dose-chelation

[mailto:frequent-dose-chelation ] On Behalf Of nanciwell

All I can say is that it did the very same thing for me as the

sttore bought cream [. . .] I began

sweating for the first time in many years ,plus a dramatic

improvement in concentration.

[. . .]

And now when I put it on my skin I get more mentally alert..

Maybe the achohol is enough to take out the progesterone part

of it from the herb..??