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Does Bioidentical Progesterone Work to Improve Health and Human Intelligence?How does bioidentical progesterone work to promotehealthier children? Before that question is answered, we need to explain that bioidentical progesterone (natural progesterone) is the same progesterone produced and found in human bodies. It is different than Provera one of the hormones normally found in birth control pills that is not natural to the human body. (Note in this discussion of the effects of progesterone to promote healthy children, both oral and cream forms of natural progesterone are assumed to possess similar human efficacy). Did you know that high progesterone versus low progesterone levels at the right time of your baby's life, could make the difference between mental and physical retardation versus robust mental and physical health, or even determine if a child's IQ is 135, rather than the average 100? (High progesterone means high normal levels of progesterone versus low progesterone, meaning low normal levels of progesterone). How does bioidentical progesterone work to improve brain health? According to respected researcher and biologist, Dr. Ray Peat (http://www.tidesoflife.com/essential.htm): Recent studies imply that about half the children identified as hyperactive have experienced prenatal stress. The most urgent need for progesterone therapy, I think, is preventing a continuing epidemic of brain damage. Beyond that, many studies have found that the use of natural progesterone increases a child's IQ, typically by around 35 points and produces personalities that are more "independent, individualistic, self-assured, self- sufficient and sensitive" (J.M. Reinish, The Female Patient, April, 1978, p.87). How does bioidentical progesterone work to improve child health? The effects of progesterone on the fetus during pregnancy explain the increase in IQ and decrease in ADD. It is self-evident that nutrition is an important factor in determining a kid's health. Yet, one's genetic inheritance is often assumed to be of equal or of more importance, than nutrition, particularly since genes appear unalterable. This is called the nature versus nurture debate. The fact is genes do not control who your child is. For more information, click here, Bruce Lipton - The New Biology - Where Mind and Matter Meet. However, this belief that nature, in the final analysis, was the ultimate determinant of human health failed to consider the influence of child nutrition in utero, that is to say, the effect of bioidentical progesterone on nutrition of the fetus, the unborn baby. Hence, when we consider the effects of progesterone to improve child health, we must now research its effects on the unborn baby. Moreover, there is a crucial time during fetal development that bioidentical progesterone produces an optimal effect. When this vital time, called imprinting, is taken into consideration, nutrition becomes the single most dominant factor determining your child's health and, therefore, his or her future success. So, how does bioidentical progesterone work to improve child health? The simple answer appears to be through imprinting. Imprinting means that there exists a certain time in the development of the unborn baby where effects of hormones, vitamins and other internal child nutrition factors within the womb, will have a maximal influence on, not only the unborn baby's health, but on its later health during its entire human life cycle. One of the critical child nutritive factors during the period of imprinting are the effects of progesterone. The following excerpt gives a number of answers to the importance of bioidentical progesterone. Sterling Morgan, in an excellent article, cites the importance of this hormone below (http://www.tidesoflife.com/superbaby.htm): "What if there was a natural substance that when used by a pregnant woman could:
That substance exists, and it is natural progesterone. We are not speaking about a synthetic drug like Provera, but rather one made from the extract of the Wild Mexican Yam, which precisely duplicates the chemical structure of natural progesterone as produced by the human body. Ask your doctor about progesterone and pregnancy, and he or she will probably tell you that the female produces up to 10 times more endogenous progesterone while pregnant. If you are asking about taking progesterone during pregnancy, you will most likely be told that it can be harmful to the fetus. However, the doctor is talking about synthetic progesterone, called “progestins” or “progestogens”, not the natural substance. Synthetic progestins are manufactured in the lab, and while they perform some of the functions of the natural type, they also block other important biological functions, such as the body’s own production of progesterone. Since a developing fetus actually requires natural progesterone for its growth and well being, which is why the body produces much more during pregnancy, it is easy to see why anything which lessens the natural substance could be harmful. Since the natural version is rather inexpensive and unpatentable, drug companies make the synthetic kind and then ask users to live with the many side effects. ...In an article published in 1968 in the British Journal of Psychiatry, (Katarina) Dalton studied 60 children at the age of one year. Twenty-nine of these were born to mothers who used supplemental natural progesterone during pregnancy. The mothers of the other 31 did not use any. Over 90% of the “progesterone” children were standing by age one, compared to only 60% of the “non-progesterone” children. Also at age one, over 60% of the “progesterone” children were walking, compared to about 35% of the “non-progesterone” children. Even more significantly, Dalton followed a different group of 79 children and related their school grades to whether their mothers had taken bioidentical progesterone during pregnancy. She used a scale from 0 to 100% to measure their scholastic achievement in various subjects at school. This scale did not reflect actual grades received, but was an arbitrary method of measuring success. In all cases, bioidentical progesterone children did better than the “non-progesterone” children, but in some cases the results were astounding! She also discovered that the best results occurred when the progesterone was started before the 16th week of pregnancy. Math skills were three times as high (60% to 20%) in progesterone children, and this was only for those whose mothers took it before the 16th week. For mothers who took it after the 16th week, the scores were 30%, still a 50% improvement over non-progesterone children. Bioidentical progesterone children scored much higher than non-progesterone in verbal reasoning skills, academic subjects, and significantly better in physical education and English. In fact, the only skill where non-progesterone children scored almost as high as the progesterone children was in crafts. Finally, children whose mothers used bioidentical progesterone were about seven times more likely to gain entrance to a university than their non-progesterone counter parts.... Finally, when does bioidentical progesterone work best to improve child health? It works optimally through imprinting when the unborn infant is started on progesterone prior to the 16th week of pregnancy. Note that Dr. Dalton, not only concluded natural progesterone is safe to use during pregnancy, she recommended it. For unbiased information, concerning the effects of progesterone, thyroid and other nutrients, search the internet for books and articles by Dr. Katerina Dalton, Dr. Ray Peat and Dr. John Lee. Does bioidentical progesterone work in other ways? (The chief cause of early pregnancy loss is failure of increased progesterone production). Some doctors find that women with autoimmune fertility related problems are best treated with progesterone through the 16th week.- http://repro-med.net/papers/progest.php Does bioidentical progesterone work in still other ways? In a 1997 study (see: http://altmedangel.com/estrogen.htm)by Formby and Wiley, they found other potential child nutrition affects, such as:
Does bioidentical progesterone work in yet more ways? Dr. Uzzi Reiss, Beverly Hills gynecologist and obstetrician confirms these findings and adds: Progesterone, on the other hand, is the most protective breast hormone...It increases the activity of a gene called P53, which protects us from cancer. It also down regulates and decreases the function of BCL2, a gene that causes cancer. Progesterone prevents cells from replicating. Progesterone causes adhesion in the cell. There are many other detailed functions of progesterone that decrease cancer in the body. It also moves estrogen from a strong state to a less strong state. Medroxyprogesterone acetate (progestin), on the other hand, does the opposite. (See: (http://www.cbs.com/cbs_cares/menopause/menopause_interview_uzzi.shtml) Points to remember regarding the effects of progesterone
How does bioidentical progesterone work to preserve the brain? Prior to birth, there is a natural die off of brain cells. It appears that progesterone supplies increased glucose to the baby's brain decreasing this brain cell die off. Some conclusions, regarding bioidentical progesterone are:
Given the above information, regarding the healthful effects of natural progesterone on child nutrition, the question comes to mind, why haven't these revolutionary positive affects been publicized? Unfortunately for child nutrition, the answer, according to this video, is that good health means less profit for the large pharmaceutical corporations. How does bioidentical progesterone work for the large pharmaceutical companies? Widespread use of progesterone, as part of a national pregnancy nutrition program could prove an economic nightmare for the large pharmaceutical corporations. In this regard, the phrase, follow the money, appears very appropriate when applied to the pharmaceutical industry. According to the following article, cited by Dr. Joseph Mercola: "On the matter of the 'fact creation' process, renowned author John Le Carre recently stated: "Big Pharma [the industry in general] is engaged in the deliberate seduction of the medical profession, country by country, worldwide. It is spending a fortune on influencing, hiring and purchasing academic judgment to a point where, in a few years' time, if Big Pharma continues unchecked on its present happy path, unbought medical opinion will be hard to find." (The Nation, New York, Interview with John Le Carre, 9th April 2001)" A bioidentical progesterone quiz can be found by clicking here.
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