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Progesterone in Your 40s

6 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A clinician explains that as people enter their 40s (and some in their 30s) they may develop premature ovarian insufficiency or anovulation from causes like PCOS, over-exercising, nutrient deficiencies, or toxin exposure — leading to reduced progesterone production. Absence of ovulation results in low progesterone and often irregular bleeding patterns (irregular periods, amenorrhea, or frequent bleeding).

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When we naturally go into our 40s, and some of you earlier in your 30s, you get this premature ovarian insufficiency where you're not ovulating every month either from PCOS over exercising, nutrient deficiencies, toxin overload. There's multiple reasons you aren't going to make progesterone the way that you would if you ovulate. So if you're not ovulating, you're not going to make progesterone. That typically shows up as irregular periods, no periods, bleeding every couple weeks, that type of thing.