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by Raymond Peat, Ph.D. Many people found the list of signs and symptoms either useful or interesting; at least it is an emphatic way of pointing out that progesterone has so many functions it can't be considered to be just a "reproductive hormone." Since I now understand better the biological meaning of these signs, I want to emphasize more strongly the importance of normalizing nutrition, thyroid function, light exposure, and bowel action in correcting the problems behind these signs and symptoms. It is really a kind of index of physiological disorders, and it happens that progesterone is a major tool for physiological adaptation. Abdominal bloating Accident proneness Acne (cyclic) Accident proneness Aggressiveness Alcohol or drug addiction Allergic rhinitis Appetite disturbance Arthritis(1) Asthma especially in adolescence & menopause Bleeding gums Breast symptoms(2) Bruising spontaneously, Capillary fragility Carpal tunnel syndrome Cold hands & feet Conjunctival or retinal hemorrhage Constipation, colicky pain Colitis, regional enteritis Depression Diabetic vascular problems Edema Endometriosis, cervical dysplasia Epilepsy, vertigo Facial hair Facial pallor, puffiness, darkening Fainting Fatigue, lethargy Fibroids Formication (crawling sensation on the skin) Gall bladder symptoms Glaucoma (high eye pressure) Goiter Headache, eye pain, flashes of light, photophobia Heart murmur High blood pressure Hypoglycemia Hysteria (many emotional symptoms) Infertility Inflammatory and "fibrous" disease Inner ear dizziness Insomnia Irritability Low blood pressure Lethargy and clumsiness Menopause Mittelschmerz(3) Migraine Nymphomania, loss of libido Optic neuritis Panic, weepiness, nightworry Palpitations or paroxysmal tachycardia Paraesthesias Pituitary abnormalities Porphyria Sciatica Skin disorders: facial pigmentation, under the eyes erythema, urticaria Stroke symptoms Sweat glands: fewer functional Toxemia of pregnancy Fluctuations in weight Urinary frequency, etc. Varicose veins, tired leg Vascular abnormalities: flushing, capillary fragility, clotting, kidney underfunction, varicosities 1. Antibodies to joint material are found after even a mechanical or thermal injury to the joint; twisting cartilage makes it antigenic; autoimmune disease is probably nothing very special, and estrogen is now known to be responsible for many forms of it, including osteroarthritis. "Rheumatism: is an early sign of stress damage to the joints. See H. Selye's book on arthritis and scleroderma. 2. See Annales d'Endocrinologie 37, p. 309; Cancer 33, p. 1506; Ann. NY Acad. Sci., 1977. Progesterone deficiency predisposes to cancer. 3. Cramping at ovulation often mistakes for appendicitis: in a 1962 study, 62% of all appendices removed from girls ages 11-20 were normal. REFERENCES Katharina Dalton, The Premenstrual Syndrome and Progesterone Therapy, Year Book Medical Publishers, Inc., Chicago, 1977. Ashley Montagu, Human Heredity, New American Library, New York, 1963. R. F. Peat and A. L. Soderwall, "Estrogen stimulated pathway changes," Physiological Chemistry and Physics, 4 (3), 295, 1972. R. F. Peat, "A biophysical approach to altered consciousness," J. of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, September, 1975. S. Rose, "Environmental effects on brain and behavior," chapter in Race and Intelligence, edited by Richardson and Spears, Penguin Books, Baltimore, 1972. A. E. Needham, The Growth Process in Animals, Van Noatrand, Princeton, NJ 1964. Max Reiss, Psychendocrinology, Grune and Stratton, New York, 1958. Dr. Peat's Natural Progest E Oil can be purchased through Long Natural Health's On-line Catalog
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