Improves Cognition and Promotes Sleep
Progesterone is well known as a primary female sex hormone.
Progesterone is also considered an endogenous steroid, belonging to a group of steroid hormones called progestogens.
What Is Progesterone?
Verywell / Brianna Gilmartin
The hormonal influence on the body is very complex.
Hormones are molecules made up of chemical substances.
They act as messengers of sorts.
Progesterone is said to be the major and most important hormone in the body.
More recently, scientists have begun to discover how progesterone also works to promote brain health.
Perhaps one of the most interesting areas of clinical research is on progesterones effect on brain health.
Progesterone was also found to have zero side effects on the neurological (brain and spinal column) system.
Progesterone as a Neurosteroid
Neurosteroids are steroids that are made in the brain.
Epileptogenesis is the process by which the normal brain develops epilepsy over time.
Hormones play an important role in children and adults withepilepsy.
Progestins are another name forsynthetic progesterone, which is man-made.
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