Nat Pro Bio-identical Natural Progesterone Cream

Product Description

Ingredients: De-ionised water, caprylic/capric triglyceride, natural progesterone USP, cetearyl olivate, sorbitan olivate, Aspen bark extract (populus tremuloides), dl-alpha tocopherol (vitamin E), dehydroxanthan gum, providing 3.33% progesterone or 33.33 milligrams per gram; One full pump action dispenses 1.5g of cream which contains 50mg of progesterone

USAGE: ​Please read the insert that comes with the Natpro product. Use progesterone cream for 14 days (starting after ovulation) and then stop. For general use it’s not necessary to know when ovulation occurs: beginning 12-14 days before bleeding is sufficient. Apply on different areas on the body (arms one day, legs the other, belly another, etc). Apply 1 pump before bedtime and if needed, once in the morning also. There are varying protocols for different conditions. If you are unsure of your hormone levels then test yourself first before using this product but most women and men are low due to the xenoestrogens in our environment. If you have taken birth control pills in your life then you will be low. If you experience any negative symptoms using this product, this is generally due to initial estrogen dominance that is experienced as these estrogens leave the body. You can continue its use or take breaks as this clears. If you have been on the birth control pill, this cream will assist hormone balance and removal of xenoestrogens, which are a leading cause of breast, uterine and ovarian cancers.  It can assist with anxiety, panic attacks, sleep disturbances, postpartum depression, cancer prevention.

Peri-Menopause This normally begins 5 to 10 years before menopause. As a rough guide, women tend to go into menopause round about the same age as their mothers. There’s no significant change when entering peri-menopause, such as the start of bleeding in puberty. Or the stopping of bleeding in menopause. Many women have no symptoms at all, but many do, some quite severe. Progesterone levels are now dropping, and continue dropping at an ever faster rate. This is due to the increased frequency of anovulatory cycles. Roughly one to two years prior to menopause cycles can become very erratic. Every two weeks, or at three month intervals, there is no telling when bleeding will occur. This can vary from spotting, to a normal period, to flooding. 100-200mg/day progesterone should be used, more if symptoms are severe. Once cycles become erratic, and impossible to follow, it’s best to stop following the cycle and use progesterone daily, through any bleeding. It is safe to do so. Ironically no caution is given to women who take contraceptives continually, some of which are progestin only.

Menopause This begins on average at age 51. It’s normal to wait a year before judging menopause has begun. Many women think their problems will be over once in menopause, but this is often not the case. Ovulation has now ceased, ovarian production of progesterone and estrogen has stopped. But fat cells continue secreting estrone, the menopause estrogen, until death. Unfortunately there is no compensatory secretion of progesterone. Many women have their estrogen levels tested and are told it is low. But it’s estradiol which is tested for, the pre-menopause estrogen, never estrone. Estradiol should be low, it varies from 0-30pg/ml (0 – 110.13 pmol/L). 100-200mg/day progesterone should be used, more if symptoms are severe. As there is no cycle to follow use progesterone daily. Many women are advised to take a break, but it’s not necessary. Women who begin using progesterone for the first time once in menopause can experience one period, rarely two. This is nothing to be alarmed about. Over the course of the proceeding months or years the small amount of estrogen being secreted by fat cells is enough to build or thicken the lining. The progesterone is effectively cleaning out the uterus. The bleeding more often than not occurs within the first year of menopause, but it has been known for women 12 years into menopause to have a period when first using progesterone.

Pregnancy If pregnancy is the aim, it is necessary to know when ovulation occurs (track your ovulation using an ovulation thermometer, an app, and/or any or method or combination of methods). Use progesterone cream for 14 days, starting after ovulation, and when the next period occurs, stop using the progesterone for the follicular phase, and resume again at ovulation. Each time a break is taken for the follicular phase (from bleeding to ovulation), estrogen rises again: this surge of estrogen is necessary to complete the final step before ovulation. Progesterone cream can help hold a pregnancy, use it only for the first 6 weeks of a pregnancy to assist implantation and prevent miscarriage.

Contraception Progesterone can be used as a contraceptive. It has none of the adverse side effects the drug based contraceptives can have. It should be started 3 to 8 days or more before ovulation depending on the cycle length. This will stop the estrogen surge which occurs 2-5 days before ovulation. This surge of estrogen is necessary to complete the final step before ovulation. A study of progesterone contraception found a failure rate of 2.66 pregnancies per 100 women, which compares well with other methods. Amounts of 100-200mg/day should be used. It should be continued until bleeding occurs when it should be stopped. Resume using it again as outlined above.

Stress drops progesterone levels sharply, so adverse symptoms can return. The reason for this is cortisol, the stress hormone, is made from progesterone. The stress response is a survival instinct, so the body will use any available progesterone to convert it into cortisol to overcome the stress, be it acute or chronic, good or bad. Progesterone should be increased over any stressful time.

Estrogen Dominance This is a term coined to describe adverse symptoms which occur when first using progesterone. It generally occurs if 20-40mg/day progesterone is used. Dr Dalton’s patients never experienced it as she gave them amounts varying between 400-800mg/day. It also occurs in the early days of pregnancy with rising progesterone levels. If progesterone doesn’t rise fast enough nausea, headaches, tiredness, high blood pressure and more can occur. The same symptoms can occur in the last month or so of pregnancy, when progesterone should be at it’s peak. This can lead to pre-eclampsia. It can also occur when first using progesterone, when increasing it, when decreasing it or stopping it. Or when changing brands of progesterone without taking into account the amount of progesterone in the product. Many blame progesterone and reduce the amount they’re using, ironically this does help. It’s now no longer stimulating estrogen, but defeats the purpose. Which is to suppress the excess estrogen causing the adverse symptoms in the first place. To prevent it happening progesterone should be increased. Ideally, high amounts should be used initially to prevent it occurring.

Shelf life: 18 months

Each dispenser comes with a full instructional pamphlet, and contains 100 grams (3.5 oz) of product.