Low Progesterone, Stress, and Inflammation

Low Progesterone, Stress, and Inflammation

If your mood is all over the place and you’re having a hard time managing your stress right now, you’re not alone. A lot of us are struggling. For some of you, though, your quarantine / the-world-is-a-dumpster-fire anxiety may be being made a whole lot worse by low...
All hail progesterone.

All hail progesterone.

Seriously. But, to get to the punchline, we’re going to have to go over a few terms that aren’t particularly user-friendly. The first is allopregnanolone, which is a neurosteroid that gets released when your body is metabolizing progesterone. The second is...