I keep hearing about progesterone and wild yam creams. What is the difference?
13: In the past few years thanks to a growing awareness that natural progesterone cream used daily on the body can help protect from osteoporosis as well as many other menstrual and menopausal problems, the market has become flooded with progesterone creams and other creams containing wild yam. There is an enormous amount of misleading information out there. Laboratory testing of both wild yam and so called progesterone creams show that most are virtually useless. Heres the story: Drug companies use diosgenin the active ingredient in wild yam (dioscorea) as a base for creams, but by itself diosgenin cannot be turned into progesterone in your body nor does it bind to your progesterone sites because your body does not have the enzyme needed to complete the chemical step that turns diosgenin into progesterone. What companies do is they use a single step chemical process to change the diosgenin in wild yam into the biologically active progesterone before adding it to their preparations. St
