How Estrogen and Progesterone Balance Each Other

Below is a look at how the hormones estrogen and progesterone work together each month to keep one another in balance. In order for your body to function properly, making you comfortable, they need to be balanced each month. When reaching Perimenopause, if you miss a period, your body then does not produce estrogen, and the estrogen you already have in your body is not sufficient to balance the progesterone.

Estrogen Effects Progesterone Effects

• Weight gain • Utilizes fat for energy

• Depression, headaches • Natural antidepressant

• Fibrocystic breasts • Protects fibrocystic breasts

• Breast cancer risk • Decreases risk of breast cancer

• Increases risk of gall bladder • Needed for embryo survival

• Increases endometrial cancer • Prevents endometrial cancer

• Decreases sex drive • Restores sex drive

• Increases blood clotting • Normalizes blood clotting

• Causes thyroid imbalance • Causes thyroid balance

• Irregular menstrual flow • Normalizes periods

• Elevated blood pressure • Regulates blood pressure

• Risk of miscarriage • Prevents miscarriages

• Depletes bone density • Stimulates bone density

Megan Mathews, Research and Content, March 7, 2006

http://www.bioidenticalmedicaldictionary.com