Quiz: Effects of Progesterone Versus Provera and Estrogen

1. According to Dr. Robert Lee, MD, which of the following is true, regarding the effects of progesterone:
   
   a) It is natural to the human body
   b) It is synthetically manufactured
   c) It is the same as synthetic Provera
   d) It promotes bone growth
   e) All of the above
   f) a b & d
   
   
2. In reference to bioidentical progesterone, which of the
   following are true, regarding the effects of progesterone:
   
   a) It is the female hormone responsible for secondary sex
   characteristics, like breast development
   b) It affects every tissue of the body
   c) It affects bone, brain, immune system, reproductive organs
   d) It affects thyroid function, fat metabolism, fluid
   retention, thermogenesis (heat production), and energy
   production
   e) It affects growth and development of the fetus
   f) b, c, d, & e
   g) All of the above
   
   
3. All of the following are true except:
   
   a) Progesterone is virtually side effect free
   b) Provera has a list of side effects as long as your arm
   c) Doctors often prescribe Provera, instead of progesterone
   d) Progesterone is safer than Provera
   e) Provera is dangerous to use during or prior to pregnancy
   f) All are true
   
   
4. Which of the following is not true:
   
   a) Provera and Premarin are often used in hormone
   replacement therapy
   b) Progesterone and Premarin are often used in hormone
   replacement therapy
   c) Provera and progesterone are both synthetically made
   d) Provera is not natural to the human body
   e) Progesterone is natural to the human body
   
   
5. Which of the following are true about Provera and
   the effects of progesterone:
   
   a) Provera promotes breast cancer, but progesterone protects
   against it.
   b) Provera blocks production of sex hormones, but
   progesterone is needed in their production.
   c) Provera causes depression and irritability, but
   progesterone is a natural tranquilizer.
   d) Provera can cause blood clots, but progesterone
   normalilzes clotting.
   e) Provera causes fluid retention, but progesterone acts as
   a diuretic
   f) Provera impairs glucose tolerance, but progesterone
   normalizes glucose tolerance.
   g) All of the above are true
   h) a, b c & f are true
   
   
6. Regarding effects of Progesterone and Provera issue:
   
   a) All of the major studies (heart, breast and uterine
   cancer, and osteoporosis) have been done with Provera, not
   progesterone
   b) The lab tests for progesterone receptors in breast
   tissue, tests for Provera, not progesterone
   c) The conclusion is hormone replacement therapy is not
   really identical hormone replacement therapy since
   progesterone is being replaced by Provera
   d) Big Pharma has colluded with the medical industry to
   misinform and confuse women on this issue
   e) All of the above are true
   f) b, c, and d are true
   
   
7. Provera, also, can cause migraines and weight gain. So why is Provera prescribed, usually, instead of progesterone?
   a) It works faster than progesterone
   b) It's cheaper than progesterone
   c) It can be patented, which pays for expensive testing, and
   yields greater profits for Big Pharma
   
   
8. It has been hypothesized that estrogen and progesterone
   oppose each other, and yet promote normal bodily functions
   when they exist in proper ratios to one another-where there
   are significantly greater amounts of progesterone than
   estrogen. According to this hypothesis, estrogen acts to
   initiate cell multiplication through increasing the cell's
   fluid uptake. The effects of progesterone are to organize this
   uncontrolled growth, causing the cells to differentiate into various
   tissues (heart, lung, etc.) and eventually stop growing.
   
   In this model, estrogen promotes a low oxygen or anaerobic
   environment, leading to lactic acid production, like one
   experiences with sore muscles. The effects of progesterone,
   on the other hand, promote a normal oxygen or aerobic
   environment for the cell leading to the production of water
   and carbon dioxide. The progesterone mediated environment
   leads to normal cellular growth and differentiation, while
   the estrogenic environment, if not eventually organized
   and controlled by progesterone, leads to uncontrolled
   cellular proliferation or cancer.
   
   According to this model, it is important that estrogen and
   progesterone be in balance, and, particularly, there be
   enough bioidentical progesterone to balance estrogen. When there
   is too little progesterone compared to estrogen or too much
   estrogen compared to progesterone, the condition has been
   named estrogen dominance by Dr. Robert Lee, MD. Moreover,
   Dr. Lee believes that environmental contaminants and toxins
   often have estrogenic effects that swing the pendulum
   favoring estrogen dominance in humans.
   
   Keeping the aforementioned theory in mind, what might estrogen
   dominance create as opposed to the effects of progesterone:
   
   a) Prostate cancer
   b) Cancer of the reproductive organs in women
   c) Breast cancer
   d) Premenstrual syndrome
   e) Menopausal Problems
   f) Post-partum depression
   g) All of the above
   
   
9. Since the birth control pill contains estrogen, it too,
   conceivably, could lead to estrogen dominance, with any of
   the effects mentioned previously. In the early years of
   birth control pill use, what eye problem did optometrists
   occasionally notice in young women?
   
   a) Cataracts that disappeared when clients were put on
   weaker contraceptive pills
   b) Permanent cataracts
   c) Cancer of the lens of the eye
   d) All of the above
   
   
10. Regarding the effects of progesterone on kids, Dr. Katarina
    Dalton found profound improvements in academic and physical
    performance in children whose mothers received progesterone
    supplementation prior to the sixteenth week of pregnancy.
    Estrogenic effects have been blamed for the steep fall
    in man's sperm production, as well as, birth defects and
    children's brain damage. It may be that Dalton's
    children's profound improvement was due to the following
    effects of progesterone:
    
    a) Neutralizing environmental estrogens
    b) Preventing estrogen dominance
    c) Optimizing the nutrition to the unborn baby at the
    critical time of imprinting
    d) All of the above
    
    
11. Some of the ways bioidentical progesterone prevents
    cancer are:
    
    a) It increases activity of the P53 gene that protects the
    body from cancer.
    b) It down regulates the BCL2 gene that causes cancer
    c) It causes adhesion in the cell
    d) It prevents cell replication
    e) It converts estrogen into a weaker less carcinogenic state
    f) There are many other ways progesterone prevents cancer
    g) Bioidentical progesterone does all of the above, but
    Provera does none of the above.
    
    
12. Only research can determine the effectiveness of
    bioidentical progesterone in disease prevention and
    enhancing human physical and mental ability. However, from
    what is known presently, progesterone, in addition to
    thyroid hormone and an optimized vitamin and mineral
    formula, including a diet of organic food, filtered water,
    along with a major environmental clean up could, potentially:
    
    a) Prevent childrens' brain damage disorders that lead to
    ADHD, autism, learning disabilities and other behavioral
    disorders.
    b) Prevent childrens' brain cancer.
    c) Increase average IQ to the 135 range
    d) Help prevent Down's syndrome
    e) Be particularly effective against cancer of the
    reproductive organs and breast in women, and of the prostate
    in men
    f) Eliminate all cancer
    g) Lead to the birth of calmer children, who in later years
    would prove physically and mentally advanced and relatively
    disease free, due to their superior start in life
    h) All of the above and possibly much more
    

    
    
    

1. f) http://www.johnleemd.com/store/natural_hormone.html
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5. g) http://www.healthy-communications.com/7pharmaceutical_companies_create.htm
   
   
6. e) http://www.pap101.com/progest.htm
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7. c) http://www.healthy-communications.com/7pharmaceutical_companies_create.htm
   
   
8. g) http://www.johnleemd.com/store/faqs_progest_crm.html
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9. a) http://www.naturaleyecare.com/diseases.asp?d_num=2
   
   
10. d) http://www.yourlifesource.com/dr-john-lee-interview.htm http://www.parenting-healthy-children.com/does-bioidentical-oral-progesterone-work.html
    
    
11. g) http://www.parenting-healthy-children.com/does-
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12. h) Speculation from known information
    
    
    

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