What Is Progesterone & Why Is It Super Important?
Progesterone is more than just a hormone needed for pregnancy - it's a genuinely protective hormone that has far-reaching benefits beyond just helping to regulate your cycle.
Progesterone helps us be chill, calm, and feel good in average amounts. It helps us sleep well and is essential in keeping our moods stable. It also helps to keep estrogen in check, so if your progesterone levels are low, you may notice symptoms of estrogen dominance, as well as PMS in the week or so before your period, making you feel the exact OPPOSITE of what progesterone does within the body-- anxiety-ridden, sleepless, erratic moods, and just overall feeling very un-chill.
Progesterone helps protect our brains, hearts, and bones. It reduces the aging of the skin and boosts our immune system. Many organs and systems within our bodies depend on progesterone to function at their best. The adrenal glands, for example, use progesterone to produce hormones that are anti-stress within the body. This powerful hormone has a whole-body effect on how we feel day to day and impacts our health later on down the road.
How can we naturally boost our production of progesterone within our bodies?
Work on actively destressing your lifestyle. Find a method that works for you to regularly get into a calm state. When the adrenals become taxed, and we keep pumping out cortisol, our body will use progesterone to keep making enough cortisol, rather than using it for protecting the parts mentioned above of the body.
Eat nourishing meals. Make sure you are eating enough and regularly eating so your body has the fuel to detoxify excess estrogen and keep stress levels down correctly.
Sunlight. Getting proper exposure to natural sunlight helps boost your vitamin D levels, which are needed to make adequate progesterone levels, so don't forget to sit in the sun today!
So tell me, do you feel relaxed, calm, and collected before your period? Or do you think your progesterone levels need some loving?
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