If a woman is on the pill, should she and or can she still use progesterone creme?

Hi Catherine,

I work at a health food store and am always telling females and males about progesterone cream. But the one question I cannot answer is “if a woman is on the pill, should she and or can she still use progesterone creme?”

Thank you,

Debbie

Dear Debbie,

Birth control pills contain artificial variations of bioidentical progesterone known as synthetic progestin analogues that are, in fact, distant cousins to progesterone.

These artificial progestin analogues occupy progesterone receptor sites, blocking the action of progesterone supplementation.

Any bioidentical progesterone that we introduce into our body while we’re taking the Contraceptive Pill would be rendered useless because it would not be able to latch on to these receptor sites. Such an approach may also over-burden our body with hormones that (a) it cannot utilise and (b) that the body then needs to dispose of via the liver.

Patent medicine companies manufacture birth control pills and HRT by using USP progesterone as a building block, and then chemically alter its molecular structure away from its natural configuation such that it is NO LONGER identical to anything found in the human body. They do this for one reason, and one reason only - to slap a patent on their drug, followed by ‘inventive’ market application to drum up profits.

Birth control pills are a potential risk to women because they incorporate these potent, unnatural-to-the-body progestin analogues that are twisted, deformed versions of real progesterone which can potentially throw our body into a state of imbalance.

To recap, synthetic progestins found in birth control pills and some forms of HRT blockade progesterone receptor sites. Synthetic progestins are not well processed by the body. Their activity is prolonged, creating reactions that are not consistent with natural progesterone.