Progesterone Deficiency

What is progesterone deficiency? That is exactly what we will cover in today’s post. There is another hormone that is directly linked to progesterone and it is estrogen. Estrogen Dominance is often directly linked to progesterone deficiency.

Hormonal Imbalance can be hard to pinpoint. This is because when one hormone in our body drops our bodies kick into high gear trying to fix it for us. Often this can cause other hormones to be affected. Then the hormonal imbalance dominos effect begins.

In today’s post, we will answer the 9 Most Commonly Asked Questions about Progesterone Deficiency.

1. What is Progesterone Deficiency
2. What are the Progesterone Deficiency Symptoms to look for
3. How to fix Progesterone Deficiency weight gain
4. How to reverse Progesterone Deficiency hair loss
5. What are the most common Progesterone Deficiency side effects
6. Why Progesterone Deficiency miscarriages happen
7. Is there a Progesterone Deficiency test
8. What is the best Progesterone Deficiency treatment
9. Is there a Progesterone Cream that can help

Today’s post will answer the most googled questions about Progesterone Deficiency. You can easily find the question you wanted to be answered by scrolling down.

To truly understand progesterone deficiency you might want to start from the top down.

Progesterone Deficiency & Progesterone Deficiency Symptoms

Low progesterone, or progesterone deficiency, may cause irregular or absent menstrual cycles, mood changes (particularly anxiety or depression), hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, headaches or migraines, and women who aren’t pregnant. 

Progesterone Deficiency Weight Gain

Low progesterone can lead to weight gain, also known as hormonal weight gain. 

If the thyroid is not supported and thyroid levels are not balanced then the thyroid cannot produce a sufficient level of hormones. When this happens your metabolism will slow down as an effect, meaning less food is burned for energy. 

Eating more food than you burn will lead to weight gain. 

The tricky thing here is that our hormones are also responsible for giving us the signal that we are full.

When hormonal imbalances occur very often the issue also known as endocrine disruptors is being blocked from sending the signal to our brain that we are full causing overeating.

Hyperthyroidism in particular is linked to sufficient weight gain and the inability to lose hormonal weight gain. The weight gain often leading to obesity comes with hypothyroidism as a result of hormonal imbalances.

In particular, the thyroid gland is not producing sufficient hormones to stay balanced. This is a very common issue in many women today.

You will find many articles on the blog where I share my personal journey to healing my thyroid (hypothyroidism) here on the blog. How I used food as medicine and clean nontoxic living to reset my hormones to healthy happy hormones, or our hormones “factory settings”.

(read more about my journey and Keto Custom Meal Planner review here)

In short, when I reset my hormones my body lost 50+ pounds of hormonal weight gain from my pregnancies. In creating a wellness lifestyle around foods that are best for hormonal balance the weight has stayed off and I was able to wean myself off all thyroid medication.

My hormones healed themselves back to their healthy factory settings!!

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Hormonal Harmony Supplements

If you are really serious about hormonal weight loss you can combine the keto diet with the right supplements to give you a boost right out of the gate.

Hormonal Harmony HB-5 is an all-in-one supplement to support resetting your hormones. Formulated with all-natural ingredients

Progesterone Deficiency Hair Loss

A lack of progesterone can lead to a variety of health issues it can also contribute to hair loss. Could just her own is a natural inhibitor of 5-Alpha reducrase. This enzyme converts testosterone into DHT. 

DHT is one of the leading causes of pattern hair loss for both men and women. 

Getting any medication, cream, or any other natural remedy for hair loss is simply treating the external symptom. The internal root problem is hormonal imbalance. 

Without addressing and fixing the root problem, hormonal imbalance, medications are simply acting as Band-Aids covering up the symptom. And often are not even efficient at doing that. 

One of the most important places to start when balancing your hormones is with food. 

Dr. Mark Hyman, a functional medicine doctor who also had to heal his own autoimmune system, said, “ food is medicine or poison, it is either nourishing and healing or slowly poisoning your body.” 

If you scroll back to the section above this one you can read how I healed my autoimmune system using food as medicine and clean non-toxic living. 

Keto was the first eating style that my body responded to immediately. 

Hormonal acne cleared up, my hair texture was soft again, fatigue was gone, and so many other symptoms of hormonal imbalances were gone as my hormones began to heal.

The Custom Keto Planner is such a great and effective way to make sure you’re doing keto properly and to keep you on track as it gives you weekly meal plans based on your taste buds with a shopping list and all. 

Removing foods that cause inflammation and have hormonal imbalance effects is step #1 in repairing our hormones. 

Even if your goal is not hormonal weight loss and you are just concerned with hair loss healing your hormones using food as medicine will also reverse the issues and symptoms related to hormonal imbalance, such as hair loss.

Progesterone Deficiency Side Effects

We have already covered two of the symptoms or side effects of progesterone deficiency above. Hair loss and hormonal weight gain. 

When you don’t have enough progesterone estrogen dominance. Quick here to read a full post on estrogen dominance. 

This should be what you read after this post as you cannot have progesterone in Balance without also having estrogen dominance.

 Estrogen dominance leads to many other factors, signs, and symptoms to be aware of. 

Think of estrogen and progesterone on opposite ends of a seesaw. 

If one moves up or down even a little it affects the other one.

Here are the top symptoms to be on the lookout for, if you have more than two or three from this list please reach out to your doctor and ask for a hormonal panel blood work and let them know you think you may be progesterone deficient,

• depression, anxiety, or other mood changes 
• mood swings
•  low libido
•  weight gain
•  hot flashes
•  frequent migraines and headaches
• Menstrual cycle irregularity or absence of menstrual cycle

Progesterone Deficiency Miscarriages

Low progesterone or luteal phase defect may make conception more difficult because they prevent the uterus lining from becoming ”sticky” Enough to sustain a healthy pregnancy. 

This can impact implantation or cause early miscarriages.

Low levels of progesterone might be the first sign that the body is preparing to miscarry a pregnancy that has already failed.

In early pregnancy, progesterone is critical for the maintenance of pregnancy. 

In the second and third trimesters of pregnancy, progesterone maintains uterine quiescence and acts as an immune modulator, decreasing immune response that could result in preterm labor.

Early pregnancy loss affects 10% to 15% of clinical pregnancies and up to 31% of pregnancies in total. 

Cases related to insufficient possessed row during pregnancy action are known as luteal phase deficiency.

Following the hormone balancing protocol discussed above can help balance hormones before getting pregnant. While eliminating foods causing the problem as well as toxic beauty and personal hygiene products can make massive improvements naturally as well if you are already pregnant and concerned.

Please reach out to your doctors for more help.

Progesterone Deficiency Test

The Progesterone Test (PGSN) can help tell your doctors if your progesterone levels are too low. This simple blood test doesn’t require any preparation. 

The test may show why you’re having trouble getting pregnant. It can also confirm if you ovulated. 

Progesterone deficiency signs and symptoms that you may need to see your doctor and request the PGSN test are;

•  low libido
•  hot flashes
•  migraines or headaches frequently
•  depression, anxiety, or other mood changes
•  menstrual cycle irregularity or absence

In case you skipped down in the post the way I healed my autoimmune system and reset my hormones naturally was by using clean Keto and supplements.

Above you can click any of the links to get my “happy hormones trifecta” great for any beginner to see FAST results in healing your hormones.

The Green Drink (the one we use and love is linked above) will help get the nutrients back into your body that we are missing from our foods mostly due to poor farming practices. The fact that most of us do not eat our daily fruits and veggies is also sadly just a reality for most of us.

The Custom Keto Plan is one of the best meal planners I have seen! It takes your taste buds and your weight gains and formulates a meal plan just for you. A weekly meal plan and shopping list make it easy to cut the foods that are causing hormonal issues.

Quick note I recommend cutting out dairy for at least 90 days too. It is called Clean Keto and it is dairy free and has little to no processed foods. This will get you to your goals of balanced happy hormones the FASTEST!!

It is well worth the sacrifice!

Hormonal Harmony HB-5 was formulated by a doctor to pack all the best hormonal balancing vitamins into one supplement, so if you are someone who does not like taking 500 different supplements this is an easy one-stop shop.

A quick note about all three of the Happy Hormones Trifecta if you click on the links above one thing you will notice with all 3 is the weight loss that happens when our hormones are properly balanced!

If you don’t need weight loss no biggie your body will not respond in this way….most people with hormonal imbalance also suffer from hormonal weight gain they cannot seem to get rid of!

Progesterone Cream

Progesterone cream itself can and will be a stand-alone blog post. (I will link that post here) For now, let us cover some of the most asked questions about progesterone cream.

Progesterone Cream Benefits

• Known to reduce hot flashes and vaginal dryness.
• Helps with fatigue.
• Can improve mood and sleep.
• Relieves skin dryness, and wrinkling, and can aid in conceiving.
• Helps prevent loss of bone density
• Increasing libido (sex drive)
• Can help reduce hormonal weight gain

• Best Progesterone Cream for Men – Natural progesterone creams for men can prevent osteoporosis, decrease male balding, and provide some relief from pain and swelling from rheumatoid arthritis. P50 is natural, made in small batches, in the USA. If you really take your health supplementation seriously, then you want the best bioidentical beauty products to put into your body possible! P50 is engineered for maximum bioavailability to penetrate deep into your skin and bloodstream for powerful results. Apply to inner arms or thighs.

• Best Progesterone Cream for Estrogen Dominance – Smoky Mountain naturals progesterone cream is highly absorbable, fragrance-free, and easy to apply. Dermatologists tested, the top progesterone cream on amazon, and it is party tested for quality assurance.

These are some great topical progesterone creams to try if you are experiencing the symptoms of progesterone deficiency as listed above.

However, I will circle back to the fact that the BEST way to solve the problem is to get it at the roots. Topical creams like these are good for helping with the symptoms, no doubt you will feel better, but they do not treat the root causes of the problem.

A clean keto diet will eliminate so many of the foods causing hormonal imbalances. Let me offer you the “big red easy button” again in case you missed it above…..

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This can save you the headache of figuring it all out for yourself.

And again if you are not already taking good supplements for hormonal balance this is an easy step 2 in the process. After you eliminate foods that could be causing your progesterone and estrogen levels to be out of wack it is time to help your hormones out by supplementing until they get back to a happy healthy hormonal balance.

HB-5 was formulated by doctors to do just that. Pack into one supplement a powerful boost for victims known to aid in hormonal balance.

The cool thing about Hormonal Harmony supplements (click the link to see the photos) is they have story after story of weight loss. You can think of this as a pleasant side effect.

Hormonal weight gain can finally be lost when hormones come back into balance.

Conclusion

So many men and women suffer from hormonal imbalance. Without understanding how our hormones (endocrine system) work it can feel impossible to know what to do to fix the problem. Like with progesterone deficiency there is almost always another hormone that is also thrown out of balance.

Estrogen dominance and progesterone deficiency are found hand in hand.

To fix one you must understand the other!

(Click here to read my in-depth post on Estrogen dominance)

We will be deep diving more into progesterone deficiency in further posts. To find more simply search “progesterone deficiency” in the search bar above.

As always if you need more help my husband and I work one-on-one with couples who want to heal their hormones (especially over the age of 40 when things in our hormones really start to change) to create a lifestyle around wellness.

If you are wanting more one-on-one coaching reach out to me and let’s see if our coaching program is right for you.