PLATT WELLNESS®

Our progesterone creams contain natural ingredients with no soy-derived ingredients, parabens, or phenoxyethanol. The base of our creams is also MSM-free, EDTA-free, and fragrance-free.

The active ingredient in our progesterone creams is bio-identical pharmaceutical-grade USP progesterone derived from organic Mexican wild yam. Note that our progesterone cream does not use wild yam in its formulation since the body cannot convert its natural compounds into progesterone. We recommend avoiding any creams based on Mexican wild yam and not USP progesterone.

Products with a lavender scent add a small amount of organic lavender essential oil, which many people find calming and soothing.

50 mg progesterone, or 1 g of 5% progesterone cream, is the amount required to block adrenaline and insulin and the ideal strength to provide protection from excess estrogen. Lower-strength progesterone cannot provide these benefits. In fact, 2% cream or less may stimulate estrogen receptor sites and cause unwanted side effects.

When you realize that there are many receptor sites for progesterone throughout the body, you can begin to appreciate the powerful effects people can experience when they are given this hormone. It is a hormone that is present in both sexes. It blocks the toxic effects of three hormones in the body – estradiol, insulin, and adrenaline.

In some cases, progesterone replacement may produce side effects, which are usually short-lived and can be managed by reducing the dose temporarily.

For example:
Because women have large numbers of progesterone receptor sites around the nipples, some women may experience some discomfort in this area when they start taking replacement progesterone. Lowering the dose will eliminate this right away, after which it can be gradually titrated back up.

Sometimes when progesterone blocks adrenaline it will unmask symptoms of a low thyroid, such as fatigue, that had previously been undetected. In these cases, the underlying low thyroid condition also needs to be addressed.

Occasionally progesterone can initially stimulate estrogen receptor sites and cause uterine bleeding or breast tenderness. This usually indicates that the progesterone level is too low. The patient may not be using it correctly or the dose may need to be increased.

We always recommend consulting a healthcare professional.

For progesterone to be effective, it needs to get into the bloodstream, so avoid areas with fatty tissue, such as the abdomen and inner thighs. The ideal site for this is the forearm. For those people who have tension in the neck, tinnitus, or headaches, the back of the neck is an excellent site as well.

With daily progesterone, you are supporting the adrenal production of progesterone, which is quite often needed. With cycling women, you might need higher doses in the luteal phase.

Relief of symptoms is the goal.

You can suppress ovulation with progesterone, but you have to use very high doses to do it. Once daily is nowhere near.

A shortened cycle can occur when starting progesterone.

Menstruating women who prefer to cycle in order to get pregnant are advised to use topical progesterone 5 to 7 days after the first day of their period and continue until the next period begins. Day 1 is the first day of your menstrual bleeding. If your period is irregular, start using topical progesterone 7 days after you begin a period and teach your body to learn a new cycle.

Stop whenever your period comes back again, and repeat, or apply as recommended by your healthcare provider.

Cycling progesterone can also be utilized if the only concern is regulating periods.

Women with no ovulation, like in the case of PCOS, can pick a day and start 7 days after the first day of the period and continue until the period starts again.

Please note: Dr. Platt had the benefit of studying and researching the benefits of a high-dose progesterone cream for over 20 years. By assisting thousands of patients, he found they had the fastest, most effective relief from troubling symptoms when using the cream at 5% strength daily.

Cycling progesterone can be utilized if the only concern is regulating periods or trying to conceive.

Dr. Platt recommends using progesterone daily as mentioned above.

The Platt Protocol calls for the use of daily progesterone to control insulin and adrenaline – hormones that are produced daily, both day and night

The number one reason that a woman has trouble conceiving is a low progesterone level. Applying a 5% progesterone cream four times a day is a recommended dose to help conceive. It would be advised to avoid the use of progesterone during the first seven days of the cycle.

As soon as pregnancy is determined, continue to use progesterone four times a day, every day, to avoid the occurrence of a miscarriage. Continue this throughout the first trimester. Those women who continue with progesterone cream throughout their entire pregnancy often wind up with babies who are very intelligent and very happy

For the most part, progesterone cream is extremely safe. Women may notice some nipple tenderness upon initial use because there are multiple progesterone receptor sites in that area. In addition, because progesterone helps to heal uterine tissue, a woman might experience a heavier period or even spotting between periods. Both these issues are temporary phenomena and subside once the body acclimates to more balanced hormones.

Progesterone cream in a 5% strength is extremely safe for children. When the fetus is in the womb, it gets exposed to incredibly high levels of progesterone which is responsible for brain growth. A 5% strength means that each pump is 50 mg, the exact strength to block adrenaline. When using the cream in a six year old, whether it be for bedwetting or ADHD, it is best to use it frequently at first. Soon after incorporating a diet of vegetables and ketones to lower adrenaline, you can reduce the dosage to twice a day. Once the meal plan is incorporated and the progesterone cream is utilized, the bedwetting or ADHD should be resolved fairly quickly.

Children who are bedwetters are almost always very creative. They will have excess adrenaline their whole life.

However, it can be managed with the meal plan and a 5% progesterone cream.

Children with ADHD can also look forward to having a lifetime of excess adrenaline. However, it is manageable. The dosage should be 2 to 4 times a day

Men and women have identical hormones – different levels, but the same hormones. Therefore, as Dr. Platt researched, he uncovered the fact that both men and women can benefit equally from using a 5% progesterone cream. Men stop producing progesterone around the age of 50. Clinically, this often results in fat deposits around the middle and may lead to prostate cancer.

It is not unusual for women to experience hot flashes either in the perimenopause or the postmenopausal phase. In almost all cases, it is treated with some type of estrogen, usually estradiol. However, very often this might provide a reduction in the severity of hot flashes but not cure the problem. The frequency and intensity of hot flashes vary among women and can last up to 10 years. The best approach to dealing with this problem is to treat the cause of the issue, which can be the release of luteinizing hormone. This can be treated with a combination of estriol, DHEA, and progesterone. If the hot flashes occur around 2:30 am, then the cause is most likely excess adrenaline, which is treated with progesterone. You can read more in Dr. Platt;s book Adrenaline Dominance.

It is important to differentiate between natural, bio-identical progesterone and synthetic progestogens. Bio-identical progesterone is identical to the progesterone naturally produced in the body. Progestogens are synthetic and found in birth control pills, hormonal IUD’s, and drugs like Provera. Progesterone receptors will not transport progestogens to the nucleus of a cell and therefore can never duplicate the action of natural progesterone.

The body keeps making estrogen, and as we age, we become estrogen-dominant–including men. Progesterone is probably best known as an anti-estrogen hormone. Estrogens can, in some ways, be considered toxic hormones. They are responsible for causing cramps and PMS in women, as well as fibroids, endometriosis, fibrocystic disease of the breast, and PCOS. They are also likely responsible for menstrual migraines, asthma, gallbladder disease, and cellulite. They are the cause of phlebitis and blood clots, and estrogen is associated with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis (conditions rarely found in men). As lipogenic (fat-creating) hormones, they can put fat around the hips, buttocks, and thighs. In addition, estrogen is linked to six different cancers in women – the breast, uterus, ovaries, vagina, cervix, and colon. It may also be the cause of breast cancer and prostate cancer in men. Progesterone cream may help with all these conditions.

Many people ask whether they should use oral progesterone or cream. The definitive answer is the cream. When you take oral progesterone, it goes straight to the liver where it is converted into allopregnanolone – a derivative of progesterone. It is recognized on a lab test as progesterone, but is not able to attach to progesterone receptor sites. It causes drowsiness, which is why they recommend taking it at night. The cream, however, enters your bloodstream and bypasses the liver which explains why it is much more effective than oral progesterone.

Progesterone cream is the most important hormone to replace after a hysterectomy. Ironically, there are doctors who give women only estrogen after a hysterectomy because they feel that progesterone is not needed if there is no uterus. I guess that these doctors are not aware that these women also have breasts and progesterone cream helps protect against the estrogen-dominance effect.

If you have excess adrenaline and start using progesterone with the proper meal plan, P Cream can increase adrenaline levels, which can cause hot flashes. This occurs if you use progesterone cream without having the right fuel in the brain. Your hot flashes are coming on about the same time your brain runs out of fuel. When that happens, the body releases more adrenaline to increase glucose levels for the brain. The brain uses two different fuels. The first is glucose, and the best source of glucose comes from vegetables. The other fuel is ketones, which can be obtained directly from coconut oil and MCT oil.

The only way that progesterone cream can cause weight gain is if you use a low dose that acts like estrogen.

In other words, use a full pump for the full-size bottle and three pumps for the mini.

Progesterone is a thermogenic (fat-burning) hormone. It blocks insulin, the hormone that puts on fat around the middle, it blocks estrogen, the hormone that puts on fat around the hips, thighs, and buttocks, and it blocks adrenaline, a hormone that raises sugar levels. It also helps the thyroid to function.

As everyone knows, concerns about weight are exceptionally common. Perhaps the most frequent unrecognized cause of weight gain can occur when people have excess adrenaline. In order to understand this last statement, it is necessary to understand why the body is producing excess adrenaline. Thousands of years ago, the only time the body released adrenaline was during periods of danger. As soon as the danger passed, the body immediately stopped producing the adrenaline. Nowadays, however, people are often producing excess adrenaline all day and all night and they are not in danger. The reason for this is that the body is using adrenaline to raise sugar levels for the brain via a process called gluconeogenesis. Many people do not realize that the brain utilizes more sugar per weight than any other tissue in the body, and that the brain cannot function without sugar. When sugar is taken away from the brain, the brain falls asleep. From a survival standpoint, the body always wants to make sure the brain can function. Because of this, any time the body detects the brain has run out of fuel it puts out adrenaline to help fuel the brain by raising sugar levels. People that toss and turn at night, or grind their teeth, or get up to urinate, are having issues caused by excess adrenaline. If these people wind up producing more sugar than they can burn up, the excess sugar winds up being stored as fat inside fat cells. In other words, they are gaining weight while they’re sleeping.

My books outline my 30 + years of study and assisting thousands of patients to live happier, healthier lives through hormonal balance: “The Miracle of Bioidentical Hormones” and “Adrenaline Dominance”

Estrogen is a lipogenic (fat-creating) hormone. It usually puts on fat around the hips, thighs, and buttocks. It can also be blamed for the addition of cellulite to the thighs and buttocks. On the other hand, progesterone cream is a thermogenic (fat-burning) hormone. To aid in this endeavor, it helps reduce adrenaline and cortisol levels, helps the thyroid produce thyroid hormone, and, most importantly, it blocks insulin which is the hormone that creates fat around the middle. This blockage of insulin also helps people to not get sleepy in the afternoon when insulin peaks between 3-4 pm, and prevents people from getting sleepy in the afternoon. Read more here.

There is only one thing that stimulates the growth of endometrial tissue and that is estrogen. The approach to this situation is twofold. You can lower estradiol levels (the strongest estrogen) with the use of two supplements: DIM and I-3-6. In addition, you can use a 5% strength of progesterone cream. This will block estradiol, and at the same time will heal your uterus. A lower strength of progesterone can actually stimulate estrogen receptor sites. Try to avoid hormonal contraceptives that will prevent you from releasing your own progesterone, and do not use an oral progesterone product.