Where does our website stand on progesterone dosage?

Over time, the Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com website began to identify the need to individualise dosage according to each woman’s unique hormonal profile to treat her symptoms.

We concluded that a physiological dose of 15-20mg was an unrealistic ‘maintenance’ dose for many of the women working within our Network. Five years on, this continues to be the trend.

Very few women in our organisation sit on 15-20mg and remain asymptomatic. The only two categories that fall into the 15-20mg maintenance dose are the elderly taking progesterone for osteoporosis and suffer no symptoms of hormone imbalance, and the younger women that appear to have relatively healthy functioning ovaries.

Interestingly, these younger women may or may not need to remain on progesterone once they achieve balance.

Our working range has been from 20mg (2%) to a maximum of 100mg (10%), and found no reason to go beyond this range.

Having addressed ALL other factors that may contribute to hormone imbalance, women clearly do best on an average maintenance dose of 32mg per day once they have achieved balance. Are the every-increasing xenoestrogens in our environment coupled with our very overweight population major players here? Evidence suggests, from our neck of the woods anyway, that there’s a growing epidemic of hormone imbalance emerging with the post-war baby boomer generation and their off-spring.

We acknowledge there are probably thousands, upon thousands of women who use progesterone very successfully without the need for direction or guidance. However, there IS a need (upon which the Natural-Progesterone-Advisory-Network.com website was founded) to address the group of women out there floundering and in need of support, information, and direction.

It was through the networking of these women, our Resource Library evolved. Their experiences battling major health and hormonal concerns, and the incorporation of progesterone as an alternative therapy was the genesis for this on-line Resource Library.