How Bioidentical Natural Progesterone Helps With Low Thyroid

A question I am frequently is ‘can I take bioidentical natural progesterone with my thyroid medicine?’ It is asked so often I thought it would be helpful to look at why it is not only allowed, but truly helpful.

This is because one of many ways progesterone helps balance things is by helping your thyroid work well.

An under active thyroid is what happens when your thyroid gland makes too little of some important hormones. The thyroid hormone influences growth, development, and many cell actions, which means that the usual balance of body chemistry is disturbed.

This has broad effects on the body and although it rarely causes signs at first, it can, if not treated, lead to several health issues,. These can include being overweight, pain in the joints, not being able to have children, and heart problems.

Is it menopause – or something else?

Menopause has its own common symptoms, but if you also have an underactive thyroid, it can be easy to confuse your frustrating symptoms to this natural period of transition.

Symptoms of low thyroid can include:

• fatigue
• poor concentration
• weight gain
• low sex drive
• dry hair or hair loss
• cold hands and feet
• brittle nails

Risk factors

Hypothyroidism can happen at menopause even if you’ve been looking after yourself well. The signs are similar because your thyroid and reproductive hormones are very closely linked.

You might have been prone to thyroid imbalance earlier in your life but usually the body handles the big hormone changes women go through from puberty onwards.

But other things can make you more likely to get it, and that the body may have trouble fixing, like these:

– stress

– environmental exposures such as BPA

– poor diet or nutrition

– family risk

Those are the external factors, but also playing their part are the menstrual cycle, the Pill or Coil, childbirth, perimenopause, menopause itself and HRT.

How best to support your thyroid

Thyroid hormone levels are closely linked to our sex hormones, so too much oestrogen can prevent thyroid function.

Too much oestrogen is common during menopause and after a hysterectomy, especially with standard oestrogen only HRT. One of progesterone’s jobs is to balance extra oestrogen and bring back normal thyroid function.

If you take thyroid medicine, usually levothyroxine, a real problem is that the thyroid makes less of its own hormone once you start taking it.

This is why it is suggested to check your levels when using progesterone that is identical to the body’s own as many women find they don’t need as much medicine, but you must check this with your doctor often.

Good food is also important, and you need many different nutrients daily to make and process all the body’s hormones, including thyroid hormones.

A diet of fresh, natural foods is the best source, but most of us also need help from a good quality multivitamin and mineral supplement that also contains selenium, iodine, vitamin A, and zinc for the most help.

Adding natural progesterone that is identical to the body’s own, and watching your diet are important, as is managing your stress levels.

Long-term stress really harms you because the hormones released during stress interfere with the making, processing, and/or use of oestrogen, progesterone, and your thyroid hormones.

This is why menopausal symptoms that you thought you had dealt with can return if you are stressed, as this is the hormones normal reaction when the body tries to cope.

More help?

Having good hormone balance is essential for overall health at menopause and beyond but a particular problem can be difficulty losing weight, so this article shows how Serenity progesterone only cream can help.

https://blog.wellsprings-health.com/how-to-lose-weight-with-hypothyroidism-low-thyroid/