Tag: progesterone

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Vitamin D may treat dry-eye disease

I posted about a study a few months ago demonstrating that reduced steroidogenesis, and especially androgen synthesis,…

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Synthetic progestins, but not progesterone, increase risk of a brain tumor (meningioma)

Once again, the false equivalence between bioidentical progesterone and synthetic progestins (which medicine has been promoting for…

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Adding progesterone to anti-estrogen therapy stops breast cancer growth

Estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer is the most common type of cancer affecting women worldwide and…

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Estrogen causes dementia/Alzheimer, anti-estrogens are protective

This study is one of the most damaging piece of evidence I have seen over the last…

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Stress/cortisol/aldosterone cause kidney disease; pregnenolone/progesterone treat it

The condition known as chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the most common long-term co-morbidity of…

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Parkinson Disease (PD) is metabolic, of gut origin, progesterone to the rescue

One of the most famous sayings in medicine since antiquity has been Hippocrates’ quip that “all disease…

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Hormonal birth control puts women in chronic stress, by blocking progesterone synthesis

A truly remarkable study as it exposes so many lies that Big Pharma and its medical accomplices…

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Progesterone (or pregnenolone) – a cheap, safe and effective treatment of infertility

It looks like Big Pharma is getting desperate and are now setting their sights on progesterone. The…

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Low progesterone, not low estrogen, drives night sweats, insomnia of menopause

Every time I see a study like this I catch myself singing the glorious Queen lyrics “…another…

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Cells preferentially accumulate Pregnenolone (P5), Progesterone (P4), and DHEA

A study not directly dealing with disease, though its findings are probably relevant for all diseases. It…