Progesterone

But opposing some of those actions, but, uh, uh, facilitating others, is growth hormone itself.

So in pregnancy, the insulin resistance is a product of growth hormone and progesterone.

Progesterone also has an insulin resistance inducing effect.

Um, and of course progesterone being the hormone of gestation is going up higher and higher and higher throughout pregnancy, which matches very well and, and largely provides part of the explanation for why insulin resistance is also steadily climbing.

But progesterone is so good at that, Thomas, that even during the, a menstrual cycle, um, in the luteal phase when progesterone comes up, so too her insulin resistance is good, good, good, good, good.

So again, this is just kind of a fertilization nightmare.

So how do we simplify this? Progesterones, the testing's gonna start on day five to seven of the cycle.

The only time that we're gonna do it any earlier than that is if we know that there's an animal that's going to ovulate faster, and sometimes we know that well in advance, all right? Cytologies don't tell you ovulation.

They tell you yes or no in estrogen influence, and they tell you yes or no inflammation.

you don't always want to tell any organ in your body to grow, grow, grow all the time, right? So estrogen is that factor that tells us grow, grow, grow.

Progesterone is what tells us to shed.

And so you need to tell your uterus to shed on a regular basis.

And so I explained to my patients, I never want you to go longer than three months without having a period moving forward

How can you support implantation? All the information about implantation and progesterone is great, but what exactly are you supposed to do with that? The best way to support implantation is to support progesterone production.

The same clinical study from earlier also found that if you have low PDG levels after ovulation, there were simple medications that would increase PDG levels and pregnancy rates.

These included ovulation induction medications like Clomid and Letrozole, Progesterone supplementation after ovulation also improved low PDG levels and pregnancy rates.

If you're getting low PDG results or your PDG levels drop before the end of the implantation window, please share your results with your doctor and ask about supporting ovulation with these medications.

There are also other ways you can support progesterone production naturally.