Does a body good
Q: I had a hysterectomy several months ago. After I showed him your books and articles, my doctor agreed to my request to use bio-identical hormone replacement therapy instead of the conventional HRT drugs, but he says I don’t really need the progesterone you recommend since my uterus has been removed. Is that true?
Dr. Wright: All medical textbooks — even mainstream ones — state that there are “receptors” for progesterone on bones (where progesterone helps trigger bone growth), on brain cells (where progesterone helps to stabilize mood), on white blood cells (where progesterone helps support and regulate the immune system), and on and on. In fact, every textbook I’ve ever read says that there are progesterone receptors on nearly every cell in the body.
Progesterone is one of those essential-to-life molecules that our bodies make whether or not we take extra amounts, so even though you won’t die from not supplementing any, your internal production of it slows down as you age, just like your estrogen production slows down. So if you’re taking bio-identical hormone replacement therapy for estrogen, you should follow nature’s plan by also taking natural progesterone.
