Traditional PMS Treatments

Traditional treatments have included tranquilizers, diuretics, dietary changes, thyroid supplements, herbs, vitamins, exercise, acupuncture and psychiatric counseling.  While these may provide some easing of symptoms, the underlying causes remain.

Successful Treatments

Dr. Joel T. Hargrove of Vanderbilt University Medical Center has seen some success in treating PMS with oral doses of natural progesterone. The problem with oral progesterone administration, however, is that the liver intercepts approximately 90% of the hormone.  So, in order to achieve a net dose of 20 mg. the typical dose prescribed is 200 mg. per day.  The liver thus converts progesterone to progesterone metabolites, which work against natural hormone function.

The more natural method of raising progesterone levels is free from side-effects.  This has been well documented by the high rate of success reported by Dr. John R. Lee, M. D., using Transdermal Natural Progesterone in his practice for approximately 19 years and the success reported to the Health & Science Research Institute from thousands of women around the world. 

Finally, oral progesterone will produce a sharp rise in serum progesterone levels followed by a rapid drop within about an hour.  Progesterone administered via a properly formulated progesterone cream will raise systemic progesterone levels for eleven or twelve hours.  This offers informed women continual and stable progesterone levels which may play a critical role in the prevention of female specific cancers, the amelioration of the symptoms of PMS & Menopause, the ability to get and stay pregnant, and the reversal of Osteoporosis.  (Bone loss in women who live in industrialized countries begins, on average, at age 35).

In thirty years of clinical practice, seventeen recommending transdermal natural progesterone, Dr. Lee has observed the consistent benefits and safety of natural progesterone therapy. He makes this statement:

“Though not completely understood, PMS most commonly represents an individual reaction to estrogen dominance, secondary to relative progesterone deficiency. Appropriate treatment requires correction of this hormone imbalance in conjunction with known dietary lifestyle modifications and the most effective technique, at present, for achieving this is supplemental Transdermal Natural Progesterone.”