Nutritional Supplementation Osteoporosis Calcium Important to choose an absorbable calcium Calcium carbonate is less absorbable. Calcium citrate malate is better absorbed. They balance our hormonal levels in our body. When women go through menopause they stop producing this valuable hormone. The most common understanding in the medical community is that if a woman still has her uterus when she goes through menopause, she needs both estrogen and progesterone replaced.
Progesterone has many valuable functions in the female body and it has virtually no side effects.
Progestins were originally synthesized as alternatives to progesterone because it was believed that progesterone was poorly absorbed orally. Also oral administration of progesterone is metabolized in the liver before it can enter the body's general circulation. The by-products of the metabolic changes are inactivated before they have a chance to act in the body. Therefore, the synthetic production of Progestin. It can be taken orally without degradation and protect the uterus from unopposed estrogen use.