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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

Depends right?, I think health and NBE go hand and hand, so if we can talk about gender we can certainly talk about health.

But if your concerned about where it should go, there's the " Any other Subject Sub Forum"