Do not use progesterone cream - it can cause Candida

Therapeutic Efforts Pharmaceutical
#1

Progesterone cream is a corticosteroid treatment, and these treatments are known to cause overgrowth of Candida.

“Candida, (Candida albicans) is a fungal disease. Yeasts have become increasingly significant as pathogens in all fields of medicine. This is particularly true of those which are saprophytes (they live by eating dead tissue instead of living tissue), because of their opportunistic behavior towards the altered/compromised condition of their host. Fungi are part of the world of plants, not bacteria, and there are about 100,000 distinct types of them. 50 types cause disease in humans. In people they are common, and usually harmless companions of our skin tissues, and live as inhabitants of our mucous membranes in our mouth, vaginal tract etc. as symbiotic saprophytes. The outbreaks of acute episodes where these fungi “bloom and take over” are not due to a change in the fungi, (they are with us all the time in limited numbers) but due to a change in the hosts’ immunologic defense mechanisms. Someone who is compromised by radiation treatments, antibiotic therapy, AIDS/HIV, corticosteroid treatment etc. has a lowered ability to keep them in check, and is a prime candidate to have an outbreak of Candida.”

oralcancerfoundation.org/dental/candida.htm

#2

Good info. Of course, we can ask ourselves whether the potential benefits of progesterone cream outweigh the risks. Dr. Shippen has suggested progesterone cream to me at one time. I am going to do more research into it before making a decision.

#3

Given the fact that progesterone also has estrogenic properties, I always wonder why people consider progesterone, particularly when so many people already suffer from poor androgen to estrogen ratios post propecia use.

If one wanted to increase progesterone, if there was any truth to some of the ideas surrounding finasteride’s adverse effect on male health because of the effect on progestreone;

Why wouldn’t people simply consider HCG?

HCG increases endogenous testosterone production and dihydrotestosterone, but it also increases progesterone.

At least if you increased progesterone in this manner you could do it whilst positively affecting the androgen to estrogen ratio. At least you could if correctly dosed.

Personally I do not go in for the whole progesterone argument, so I am not suggesting that people go out and take HCG. But certainly if I was a believer in this supposed problem, I would be asking my endocrinologist to prescribe HCG, something that could easily be argued for in the US at least if hypogonadal levels of testosterone existed.

#4

Sort of a disconnect in responding to this one, but I have to ask:

How did Dr. Shippen justify its use?

Did he intend using it to treat the hormonal issue or the neurotransmitter issue?