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The Unconventional Wisdom of Progesterone For a long time, progesterone just didn't rank in people's minds with estrogen as the female hormone. But now three decades of research are telling a different story. We'd been told for decades that progesterone is the 'pregnancy hormone.' So why would we want anything to do with it as we approach mid-life? Well, it turns out that this story is far from the whole truth. When our ovaries begin gently signaling that they do not want to continue the task of producing an egg every cycle, they don't do it by dropping estrogen levels. Instead, we start to experience the odd cycle when no egg is produced. In those months, the ovaries do not produce progesterone. And the relation between estrogen and progesterone levels in our bodies begins to change. We know now that it's progesterone that affects our hearts, our blood vessels, our nerves, our brains and even our estrogen activity. Because progesterone does so much more than manage fertility, its decline can produce a lot of dramatic effects. We experience these effects as hot flashes, anxiety, sleeplessness, changes in sexual energy and vaginal changes. Today we understand that it's progesterone that other female hormone that is missing, causing all kinds of subtle imbalances by its absence. And that led us to believe that supplementing the circulating levels of progesterone would curb a whole range of distressing experiences women had simply come to accept as part of being a woman. When you buy our products, you're joining a group of women who believe that information is power and that real choices are worth fighting for. That's why when we learned last year that researchers are studying possible health effects related to exposure to parabens (common product preservatives), we decided to begin introducing paraben-free versions of our products. You deserve to have choices.

Direction for Use: Pro-Gest cream is easy to use. To apply, just massage a 1\4 teaspoon into your skin twice a day as recommended on the package. Apply it to your inner arms, inner thighs, abdomen, or chest, rotating the areas where applied. It absorbs quickly through the skin, and you're on your way back to a natural balance in no time.

Ingredients: Water, Tocopheryl Acetate (Vit E), Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice, Carthamus Tinctorius (Hybrid Safflower) Seed Oil, Panthenol, Glycerin, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Cetyl Alcohol, Sodium Behenoyl Lactylate, Stearic Acid, USP Progesterone, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Sorbic Acid, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Oil, Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Peel Oil, Carbomer