Progesterone - a female hormone that supports the correct functioning of the menstrual cycle and allows a woman to have a baby. The lack of progesterone leads to disturbances in the female reproductive system. Increase progesterone medication possible way, through diet, correct mode of the day and recipes of traditional medicine.

The hormonal system of man

Hormones - are chemicals that regulate metabolism Improves metabolism and losing weight without dieting Stimulate growth and development, run by the sex glands and reproductive functions, control the behavior of the person. It produces hormones in the endocrine glands or individual tissues.

"Commander in Chief" of all endocrine glands is one of the parts of the brain, called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus sends orders to the main endocrine glands pituitary, and he is already transmitting them to the other glands - the thyroid, sexual, adrenal glands. These glands secrete hormones that are transported through the bloodstream to the cells of his appointment.

For example, stress, heavy long Neuropsychiatric load can cause major disruptions in the hormonal system. Thus, severe stress during the war caused persistent menstrual disorders in women, up to the complete absence of menstruation.

It has the meaning and power. Hormones - chemical substances, which are needed for the structure of proteins, fats and carbohydrates that we obtain from food. If there is a flaw in the body of the hormone, its chemical structure may suggest any kind of food should be consumed in order to increase the amount of this hormone.

For example, progesterone relates to a steroid hormone, is synthesized in the body from cholesterol. So, in order to increase the amount of progesterone in the body need to eat foods rich in cholesterol. This meat, eggs, fatty dairy products, including cheese, red and black caviar, animal and vegetable fats.

Increased progesterone folk remedies

Traditional medicine to increase progesterone offers traditional herbal remedies. For example, it has long been known that the fruits of K. prostrata ordinary help with menstrual irregularities.

Today, the action of this plant are known. It is found that extracts from its fruit inhibit prolactin Prolactin - effect on the body is not fully known   - Pituitary hormone, which is often the cause of menstrual disorders, as suppresses the formation of pituitary gonadotropins (they affect all of the human reproductive system) and disrupt the relationship between the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone receptors, inhibiting the action of the latter. Application fruits K. prostrata ordinary harmonizes the relationship between all the hormones involved in the reproductive function of women. But especially the effectiveness of progesterone increases. On the basis of this plant available drugs mastodinon, Ciclodinone and so on.

Increase the amount of progesterone may also cross the meadow, bloodroot goose, raspberry, and other cuff. Take them into the second phase of the menstrual cycle from 15 to 25 days. For example, the infusion of raspberry leaf is prepared as follows: two tablespoons of dry powdered raspberry leaves pour two cups of boiling water, leave for an hour, strain and drink throughout the day.

Increased progesterone necessary medication

For this purpose, applied drugs based on natural or synthetic progesterone (e.g. utrozhestan Utrozhestan - corrects the deficiency of progesterone   or djufaston). The doses of these drugs and duration of use are determined by the doctor, depending on the cause of violations of a woman's body and her general condition.

Another dangerous side-effect of medication - analogs of progesterone is the negative effect on the liver. Under the action of progesterone decreases locomotor activity biliary tract, bile stasis is formed, which can lead to the formation of cholesterol stones and development of hepatitis.

Therefore, to increase progesterone Progesterone - norm and pathology   medication methods can only be prescribed by a doctor, and after a preliminary examination.

Galina Romanenko

Progesterone - a female sex hormone, which is produced mainly by the ovaries, and supports the second half of the menstrual cycle, as well as the whole period of pregnancy. From the amount of this hormone in the blood depends on a woman's ability to conceive, pregnancy and childbirth.

Progesterone and its physiological effect

The main function of the female sex hormone progesterone is to prepare the body for conception and childbearing, and if pregnancy occurs - to maintain this state. Under the action of progesterone in the body there are numerous variations from level changes to the metabolic changes of a physical condition.

Progesterone is produced by the corpus luteum of the ovary, which is formed on the site of the ruptured follicle after exit from the egg, ie after ovulation Ovulation - How to determine as accurately as possible? . A little progesterone is produced by the adrenal glands and seminal vesicles, so it is present in small amounts in the body of men.

Ovulation shares the woman's menstrual cycle into two phases - first, when under the influence of estrogen and pituitary hormones matures the egg and the uterus grows mucosa and second, when under the influence of progesterone inhibited proliferation of endometrium, and it begins to secrete substances necessary to sustain the pregnancy. By the end of the menstrual cycle when pregnancy does not occur, the corpus luteum gradually atrophies and stops producing progesterone. Without hormonal support the mucous membrane of the uterus is torn away and menstruation begins.

If pregnancy occurs, progesterone helps the transition of the mucous membrane of the uterus in the condition necessary for the development of the fertilized egg. Simultaneously progesterone inhibits smooth muscle of the uterus, which could lead to spontaneous abortion. In addition, progesterone suppresses the immune system - the physiological response is also aimed at the preservation of pregnancy: the immune system may contribute to the removal from the mother of a foreign protein the embryo.

The corpus luteum of the menstrual cycle increases in size and becomes a corpus luteum of pregnancy to be actively secrete progesterone Progesterone - norm and pathology   in the first 16 weeks of pregnancy. After this period, all hormonal functions will take the matured placenta. Throughout pregnancy, progesterone levels will increase.

Standards of progesterone in a woman's blood

The different phases of the menstrual cycle and at different ages in the blood of women contained different amounts of progesterone:

• Phase I of the menstrual cycle (egg maturation) - from 0, 15 to 1, 1 ng / ml;
• ovulation (yield egg from the ovary) - 0, 7 to 1, 6 ng / ml;
• phase of the menstrual cycle (phase luteum) - 1, 5 and 22, 6 ng / ml;
• after menopause - less than 0, 2 ng / ml;
• I trimester of pregnancy (12 weeks) - from 16 4 to 48 6 ng / ml;
• II trimester (13-24 weeks) - from 19 7 to 51, 7 ng / ml;
• III trimester of gestation (with 25 weeks before delivery) - 25, 3 to 91, 4 ng / ml.

As the amount of progesterone in the blood affects the state of the body Zhenya and men

Reducing the amount of progesterone in the blood of women of childbearing age leads to the fact that during the second half of the menstrual cycle, uterine cavity is ready for introduction into a fertilized egg and it, despite the fact that conception occurred, further development of the pregnancy does not occur. That is formed at infertility against violations of the second phase of the menstrual cycle.

Maybe so that the fertilized egg does manage to penetrate the wall of the uterus, but progesterone levels in a woman is not enough. This leads to the fact that is not inhibited contractility of smooth muscles of the uterus, the uterus contracts and expels the fetus from the cavity - that is, there comes a spontaneous miscarriage, or miscarriage Miscarriage - why you lose the most precious thing? . In order to prevent miscarriage, a woman prescribed progesterone.

But it is dangerous not only reduced, but also increased the amount of progesterone in the blood. Increased progesterone levels above normal may indicate that women are quietly developing a tumor of the ovary Ovarian cysts and tumors: diagnosis and treatment   or adrenal gland (adrenal medulla normally produces a small amount of progesterone). Similar rates in men can talk about testicular tumors or adrenal glands.

Increased progesterone levels outside of pregnancy - is a dangerous symptom that requires thorough examination and to identify the reasons for such changes.

Progesterone - a female sex hormone, which is especially important for women of reproductive function.

Galina Romanenko