Natural Progesterone cream is relatively safe compared to other things you could buy and use. If you use topical Natural Progesterone and avoid xenoestrogens very carefully, you will boost libido. Your body makes Natural Progesterone in quantities of 20-40 mg/day.
Progesterone is the hormone of pregnancy. “Pro” means for. “Gesterone” refers to gestation. So progesterone means “for pregnancy”. Adequate levels of progesterone are needed t maintain the pregnancy. If you do NOT have enough progesterone during pregnancy, you will have a miscarriage. In fact the most common miscarriage for recognized pregnancies occurs during 5-8 weeks involves too low progesterone or something that you are putting on the skin that is blocking progesterone. These kinds of miscarriage can easily be halted by applying Natural Progesterone to the skin under the care of a physician.
Progesterone is so safe that Fertility MD’s routinely use Natural Progesterone to help with the in vtiro pregnancies. These are known as test tube pregnancies. Fertility MD’s help the test tube baby along by giving the mother progesterone.
During pregnancy, progesterone ramps up from 20-40 mg/day so that one day during the third trimester, your body is making 400 mg/day of progesterone. So even baby is getting huge amounts of progesterone.
And guess what? Sex drive during the second and third trimester goes through the roof. You and your hubby are both happy because high levels of progesterone during the latter two trimesters increase your sexual desire.
So taking progesterone is safe for baby, hubby, and yourself.
Pregnant women do NOT get an increase of blood clots or Deep Veinous Thrombosis. In contrast, some synthetic brand name progestins cause increased blood clots.
Shockingly, synthetic brand name progestins cause birth defects. Natural progesterone does NOT cause birth defects.
Which would you rather use?
So there is a wide therapeutic range to use progesterone. It is even safer to use than aspirin. You can use anywhere between 20-400 mg/day and you are fine.
So relax.
Use progesterone without fear.
“Okay,” I hear you say, “I’m convinced of the safety. But How do I use it, already.”
If you do not want to conceive immediately, you may use progesterone whenever you do not have a period. So if you do not want conceive immediately, you may use progesterone cream whenever you are NOT bleeding. If you use more than 60 mg/day during your period, the lining of the uterus will think that your are pregnant and then, just like a pregnancy, you won’t bleed. So dosage of 60 mg/day or more may stop your period. This is why Fertility MD’s use progesterone to stop a miscarriage.
If you take progesterone before you ovulate, then the ovaries “see” the progesterone levels in your blood and “think” that your are pregnant, and will not ovulate. So taking progesterone before ovulation will tell they ovaries NOT to ovulate. This does NO harm to the ovaries because they are not ovulating, they are saving their eggs for later.
So for the typical woman, you may start progesterone about after or when you ovulate, then continuously until you have a period. Assuming you have a 28 day cycle, you may take progesterone from days 12-26.
Take 20-60 mg/day once before bedtime, or 20-60 mg/day divided 3 times per day.
Rub the Natural Progesterone Cream anywhere on your body. Just make sure to rotate areas. So one day you use progesterone on the right leg. The next day you use progesterone on the left arm. And the next day, use progesterone on the belly.
The reason for this rotation of areas is that progesterone cream is absorbed by the subcutaneous fat. If you keep doing right arm, right arm, right arm for three consecutive days, then the subcutaneous fat becomes saturated with progesterone and you can’t absorb any more progesterone.
So you need to rotate ares to apply the progesterone cream.
When you put progesterone cream on the body, the levels in the oil fraction of the blood go up and down in about 7 hours. so women that want continuous levels of progesterone can apply the progesterone cream three times daily. However, for other women this is too much of a hassle. So these women just apply it once daily just before bedtime.
Natural progesterone can make you sleepy. So some of my patients just take it before bedtime and it makes them sleep nicely. They do not have that groggy feeling in the morning.
Just be careful going to the bathroom at night that you are not so sleepy that you fall and hurt yourself.
Exact Dose
So the dose is 20-60 mg/day. Your job is to find the minimum dose to get the required effect. In other words, find the smallest dose that works for you. Depending on what their condition is, some women actually find that they can vary the progesterone dose during the cycle for maximum effect on you and your sexual desire.
If you are really good about avoiding xenoestrogens, you may find that your do not even need progesterone cream after several months. Getting rid of xenoestrogens is enough to restore sex drive in the majority of women.
Anecdotal Use of Progesterone on Clitoris Increased Orgasm
Anecdotally, I did have one patient that claimed that progesterone was a godsend to give a boost to her libido. She also claimed that she used topical Progestelle (progesterone oil) directly on her clitoris and began to experience orgasms for the first time. She was ecstatic! If this works for any of you out there let me know!
