A healthy liver converts estrogen to less active, noncarcinogenic forms. However, consuming too much alcohol, sugar, fat, and caffeine causes the more active forms of estrogen to recirculate through the body. 

Moderate exercise is also a component in balancing the functions of the body and building bone strength. Diet, exercise, and natural progestorone will almost always correct the imbalance. 

John R. Lee, MD, the pioneer in the field of progesterone therapy, says that taking natural progesterone lowers the risk of osteoporosis, PMS, fibrocystic breast conditions, ovarian cysts, miscarriage, menopausal symptoms, and breast and endometrial cancer. (CLICK HERE for details on Dr. Lee's book, called the most important book ever written about menopause.) 

Evidence that natural progesterone relieves PMS conditions and menopausal symptoms is based on the clinical findings of Lee and other physicians. Evidence that it prevents and even reverses osteoporosis and prevents certain forms of cancer is based on the common scientific understanding that estrogen and progesterone must be in balance to prevent bone loss and certain cancers. 

Most natural progesterone is made from diosgenin, a plant sterol abundant in the Mexican yam (Dioscorea villosa). Manufacturers convert diosgenin to the identical progesterone molecule that the body produces. Therefore, progesterone is natural. It is not a synthetic substance. Progestin is synthetic, because it is not found naturally in the body. Please note that the various creams currently being sold in many health food stores for the treatment of menopausal symptoms, containing Mexican wild yam without natural progesterone, are useless. The diosgenin contained in the yam must first be converted to progesterone, a process that the body cannot do. 

Menopause was pretty much hell for Joan Beckmeyer, fifty-two, of Somerville, New Jersey. 

"During the day, I had the most incredible hot flashes you could imagine," Beckmeyer says. "And at night, I had these sweats that left me absolutely drenched. I'd wake up and have to clean up my soggy body." Beckmeyer was otherwise in good health and steadfastly avoided drugs prescribed by her physician. But she was also practically at wit's end and was considering succumbing to synthetic estrogen and progestin. Then, a friend recommended that she read Dr. John R. Lee's book, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause. It made sense to her, and she began using a natural progesterone cream. 

"For the first month or two, I didn't notice any change," Beckmeyer recalls. "Then, during the third month, I realized that I hadn't gotten up that night with a terrible sweat. And then I stopped having hot flashes during the day. 

"Not only that - I feel a lot better, too," she adds." I have a lot more energy. The progesterone cream is just wonderful, and I'm no longer embarrassed to sleep over at friends' houses." 

Estrogen is the conventional treatment for osteoporosis. Yet, it does not reverse osteoporosis. Progesterone does actually reverse osteoporosis. Bone density tests have shown that progesterone treatment even in women over 70, have reversed osteoporosis. Typically there is a 15% annual increase in bone density when a woman uses progesterone cream.