JJ Virgin

I never did progesterone until I started to really use estrogen consistently because for me, progesterone makes me gain weight and weep.

Yeah, wow.

I never felt good on it.

In fact, we had a doctor in Palm Desert, California, who literally, he was a nut job.

He put everybody on progesterone therapy, men and women.

He thought everyone was progesterone deficient.

And he would put them on like 100, 200 milligrams every single day.

And then he put everyone on thyroid with a goal to drive their TSH to as close to zero as possible.

I mean, horrible.

And he put me on progesterone.

I gained 12 pounds in a week.

I was like, OK, this is not for me.

So now once I started to get, you know, more into perimenopause, I could I started to cycle it in.

But low dose where, you know, most people are do about 100 milligrams.

I was doing 50.

So I never could use that.

And that's why I say these things.

You have to know the symptoms of the different hormones and what's low and really where your ideal levels would be and pay close attention because there's no way a doctor is going to know that.

They won't know how you're feeling.

They're not inside, you know, in with you.