Re: progesterone cream update

If you want to save a lot of money buy bulk powdered herbs and make your own blends. You will pay a real premium for pre-capsuled herbs. For example, pau d' arco runs around $16 a pound retail. The same weight in capsules will run around $86 a pound retail.

You are taking a good combination of herbs for the adrenals, so adding the ashwagandha is not going to make much difference unless you need a calming herb for stress, or you also want to focus on thyroid function.

You can buy wild yam creams, which are a better choice, or make your own with either powdered or liquid wild yam extract. The advantage is that taken orally the active component, diosgenin, will pass quickly through the liver where much of it will be metabolized before it can have an effect on the hormones. Absorbing the diosgenin through the skin greatly reduces the rapid breakdown of the diosgenin. You can then use the cream in the same manner as your progesterone cream, with more safety.

Bitters can cause an ill feeling from toxins being released from the liver, and body fat, back in to the blood. These symptoms generally include nausea, fatigue, and mild diarrhea. Te biggest risk of these symptoms is with the first several doses. After that the risk of these symptoms should decrease rapidly. You should still drink a lot of water throughout the day to help hyperdilute and flush these toxins. This will also help reduce the symptoms. Another suggestion is to start out with one dose in a day, then wait three or four days to take another dose. Again this will give the body time to cleanse those toxins before another surge of toxins is released. You would then gradually work up to at least once a day. After a few weeks I would cut back to once a week just as a maintenance. Keep up on high B vitamin foods though since B vitamins are essential for the liver to break down excess estrogens.

It would also be a good idea to wait until a day that you have nothing important to do before starting the bitters. This is recommended since you do not know how strongly you will detox. So you may want to be close to a restroom and a place to rest.