Assertion: progesterone's metabolite | /r/HasProperty | allopregnanolone
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text: Among other neurosteroid activities, and via its active metabolites allopregnanolone and pregnanolone, progesterone is a potent positive allosteric modulator of the GABA A receptor, the major signaling receptor of the inhibitory neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
text: It helps us to sleep because it makes a metabolite (or by-product) called allopregnanolone which interacts with GABA a receptor in the brain.