What types of food are rich in natural progesterone?
June 19, 2009 by Helpful Menopause Tips
Filed under Hormones, Estrogen & Hysterectomy
Can you answer nandaland’s question about Menopause?:
I am aware that progesterone is found in many types of plants (such as the popular mistletoe), but I’d like to know what kinds of foods are also rich in this substance.
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I am aware that progesterone is found in many types of plants (such as the popular mistletoe), but I’d like to know what kinds of foods are also rich in this substance.
Perimenopause And Weight Gain
Menopause Feedback: Wild Yam and Mexican Wild Yam are rich in natural progesterone.
Wild yam is a type of yam usually found growing uncultivated in tropical wild forest. There are quite upwards of 150 varieties. Their popularity stems from their medicinal uses. Their tubers are usually smaller than the regular yam variety and are often referred to as rhizomes rather than tubers.
Wild yams form part of the diet of the pygmies of tropical regions of the world, from central Africa to Latin America and the Philippines.
They were used as food. The most popular of these yams are the Mexican wild yams which include the following: Diascora barbasco, Diascorae villosa, Diascorae batatas, Diascorae floribunda and Diascorae composita.
Uses of Wild Mexican Yam
Wild yam is used medicinally because of its high concentration of phyto-oestrogen and as a source of natural progesterone and other steroids.
The active ingredient of wild mexican yam is a saponin called diosgenin. This agent after extraction from yam is converted to natural progesterone or dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA).
This chemical conversion can not take place inside the body on its own.
These steroids helps to regulate smooth muscles, release of other types of hormones, division of cells on the surface of the uterus, and lots more.
They are also called colic – root, devils bones or rheumatism root.
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Menopause Feedback: None. Progesterone is a hormone. Foods don’t contain hormones- at least they shouldn’t! You can buy natural progesterone cream at your local pharmacy (make sure it’s 450-500 USP)- you apply it to your skin like a lotion.
As for wild yam: While components of wild yam are chemically manufactured into the hormones progesterone or estrogen, the body is unable to use wild yam in the same way. (It does nothing for you.)