Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Surprising Benefits of Progesterone | Hormone Replacement vs Optimization

5 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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A conversational YouTube video (June 5, 2025) featuring Aaron Hartman, MD and another speaker discussing progesterone’s clinical benefits and safety. Speakers highlight progesterone’s bone-protective effects, cardiovascular risk-reduction potential, and that adding progesterone can allow estrogen to work more effectively and safely. The conversation is moving next into hormone testing methods.

Progesterone also has bone protection. Progesterone also.
Has cardiovascular.
Risk reduction. It's just one of these things where I just don't understand why you wouldn't. And there's such a safety profile along with it. And then, then estrogen can work better, but in a safer way. You can kind of find that Goldilocks sweet spot. And I think the body just balances better when you do that.
And we could talk about.
This for hours alone.
I want to go to the next part of this section, which is testing.
Yeah.
So why don't you just tell us, walk through blood testing, spit testing, urine testing. Yeah. All different testing types. Like what's out there? What are the different types of tests? And then briefly talk about some of the issues with those. And I'll kind of fill in some of the gaps after you do that.