Can Progesterone Cause Weight Gain?

Adapted from Wray Whyte,   Progesterone cannot cause weight gain. Estrogen causes cells to proliferate, including adipose cells, see here. These are also a source of estrogen, so excessive estrogen leads to excess fat, which in turn leads to excess estrogen, and...

Estrogens, progestogens and thrombosis

F R Rosendaal 1, A Van Hylckama Vlieg, B C Tanis, F M Helmerhorst Affiliations expand PMID: 12871270 DOI: 10.1046/j.1538-7836.2003.00264.x Free article Abstract Hundreds of millions of women worldwide use either oral contraceptives or postmenopausal hormone...

Hormone replacement therapy and it’s dangers

This is taken from the progesterone therapy website and I have found it to be one of the most thorough explanations of the differences between PROGESTERONE and progestins and the dangers of taking bio identical estrogen or synthetic estrogens without progesterone...