Dr. Tabatha Barber (speaker) describes progesterone as a "game changer" in her functional-medicine practice, replacing progestins with progesterone. She reports dramatic patient improvements in sleep, anxiety, and quality of life, and links gynecologic problems (fibroids, endometriosis, heavy periods, breast pain/cysts) to an estrogen-dominant state she frames as progesterone deficiency.
So progesterone was a game changer for me. And I thought, okay, there is something to this. Functional medicine knows what they're talking about. And I started using it on my patients instead of the progestins. Game changer. Like, I get so many thank yous, so many amazing emails just telling me that I'm giving women their lives back. Because that is how much you can be affected by sleep deprivation and anxiety and just this feeling of, like, something is off, right? Or estrogen excess, where you're growing fibroids, you're growing endometriosis, causing heavy periods, you're in this state of estrogen dominance, your breasts are painful, they're growing, you're getting cysts. So many things from this estrogen dominant state, which is actually a progesterone deficiency.
