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Who can use natural progesterone cream?

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Who can use natural progesterone cream?

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The natural progesterone supplementation we sometimes recommend to patients is in an extremely low-dose (2%), USP (United States Pharmacopœia), topical cream form. Keep in mind when choosing a topical progesterone cream that it is important for “USP progesterone” to be listed in the ingredients. Many formulas use wild yam without converting it first to progesterone, and these formulations cannot be metabolized into progesterone within our bodies. Bioidentical progesterone is safe for women when used as directed (three weeks on, one week off; or two weeks on, two weeks off). Because there doesn’t seem to be a risk associated with naturally occurring high blood levels of progesterone following ovulation, we feel it is safe to use cream in this fashion. However, the female breast is programmed to take a break from progesterone every month after a period, and we feel it wise to emulate this cycle while your ovaries are still functioning. Over the years, I have monitored many healthy patien

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