[myboobs]

Hi all,

Considering the following statements about progesterone, I'm surprised it hasn't seen more attention, although it was in an obscure post from 2007.

• Progesterone is used in hormone therapy for transsexual women, and some intersex women - especially when synthetic progestins have been ineffective or caused side-effects

• Normal breast tissue cannot develop except in the presence of both
  progestogen and estrogen.

• Mammary glandular tissue is otherwise fibrotic, the breast shape conical and the areola immature.

• Progesterone can correct those even after years of inadequate hormonal
  treatment.

It does relate to this though:

• Prolactin and progesterone may enhance ductal outgrowth by inducing ERα expression.
  

• Activation of ER-α causes elongation or horizontal growth of mammary duct cells. Progesterone receptor activation causes side-branching of mammary gland cells. Density, areolar gland development, and gland lactation development are caused by prolactin receptor activation.
  

And this is a big deal too!

• Adding progesterone back into the body helps restore normal inhibition of 5-alpha-reductase, thus preventing testosterone from changing into dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which stimulates proliferation of prostate cells.

That's really intresting bit of research . I will have to look up herbs with progestrone
My business takes up so much of my time that little time is devoted to looking up information . I am a member of AYURVEDIC group on linkedin and have many intrsting articles which I would like to post with links regard health issues , but that would be off topic on NBE forum