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Why Transdermal Hormone Creams Work the Best
November 25, 2009 by Dee
Filed under Estrogen Dominance Treatment, Progesterone Cream
If you’ve been researching ways to reduce estrogen dominance and its disturbing effects, you may be considering using progesterone to help you recreate balanced 
hormones in your body. If so, you need to understand why transdermal hormone creams may work more effectively than other options.
Why Natural Progesterone Cream Works Best
There are several ways you can supplement progesterone in you body. You can take progesterone orally, have it injected, or use progesterone suppositories, but these methods are not very effective. Another option is to use natural progesterone transdermal (applied on the skin) creams, an option that seems to have worked best for most. Although progesterone injections have been very helpful in high risk pregnancies, if your goal is balanced hormones, progesterone cream is the most successful.
When you apply progesterone cream to your skin, it is absorbed through the top layer of skin and into the subcutaneous fat just beneath the surface where it is gradually released and spreads throughout the rest of your body. This method most closely mimics the way your own ovaries release progesterone into your body.
How do we know this? Say you took both a saliva test and a blood test to evaluate the levels of your hormones, then afterwards began using the progesterone cream. In a few days you have your hormone levels tested again using both methods. The increased level of progesterone would show up in the saliva test but you would see very little change in the blood test. If, however, you continue to use the cream, then retake the tests in 3 months, you would see the progesterone levels are now higher in the blood test as well as the saliva test. Transdermally applied progesterone cream acts in a time-released fashion, keeping your hormones more continuously balanced.
The normal oral dose of progesterone is anywhere from 100 to 400 mg per day, compared to 15 to 30 mg per day of a transdermal hormone cream. Large doses of progesterone all at once cause the body to experience a peak level 1 to 2 hours after the progesterone has been taken. Once the peak has been reached, levels fall rapidly and within 90 minutes are severely sagging again. While this is an effective way to treat premenstrual migraines, it is not the optimal choice for treating other problems aggravated by estrogen dominance.
When progesterone cream is the chosen method of supplying progesterone, saliva tests show that the levels remain high for 8 hours or more. Therefore, two small doses a day will keep levels maintained for most of the day.
Another problem with oral progesterone and other progesterone supplement methods is that they are absorbed rapidly rather than gradually. They bombard the liver all at once. The liver tries to metabolize it, but has trouble coping with large doses. The liver is unable to keep up with the demand and instead of excreting all of the progesterone metabolites in bile, some of the breakdown products end up in the blood plasma. Only about 10% of the progesterone taken ends up in circulation.
Real Proof Hormone Creams Work Best
Like the old saying goes, “the proof is in the pudding”. The most convincing evidence that progesterone cream works better than oral progesterone and other progesterone supplements is the relief that is experienced by the women using it. PMS symptoms recede, breast fibrocysts disappear and estrogen-encouraged breast cell proliferation, which is the first step towards cancer, is inhibited after using transdermal progesterone cream.
It’s nice to know that you are free to discover the benefits of natural progesterone creams for yourself. You do not need a prescription and the progesterone creams are readily available online and from natural health products retailers.
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