Natural Progesterone: The Multiple Roles of a Remarkable Hormone
by John R. Lee, M.D.This was Dr. Lee's first, self-published book about progesterone, written directly to doctors and other health care professionals. If you like your information in medical language with detailed science and biochemistry, this is for you. A gift every woman should give her doctor!
BLL Publishing, First published in 1993, updated in 2002 (156 pages)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
· Note to the reader
· Foreward
· Introduction
· A history of progesterone
· What is progesterone?
· What are progestins?
· The dance of the steroids
· Progesterone and the menstrual cycle
· Progesterone and pregnancy
· A word about estrogen
· Progesterone and pelvic disorders
· Progesterone and PMS
· Progesterone and osteoporosis
· Progesterone and cancer
· Women’s heart disease and hormones
· Prostate problems and hormones
· How to use natural progesterone
· Progesterone and the medical-industrial complex
· Afterword
· Glossary
· References
· Further Information
· Index