Often read words ‘progestin’ in contraceptive pills and drugs? It is a synthetic progesterone hormone produced in a laboratory for medical purposes. Hormon progesteronenaturally found in the body and released by the ovaries. Hormone this own many important function.
The use of artificial progesterone as a drug can vary, including in the form of oral medication, topical (topical), and injections. Each form of medicine has a different treatment purpose.
Understanding the function of the hormone progesterone can make women better understand their body mechanisms. The following will discuss some of the important roles of progesterone in the female body.
Benefits of Natural Progesterone
Progesterone has various important roles, namely:
Reproduction system
The hormone progesterone, also known as the pregnancy hormone, has many roles in fetal growth:
Progesterone plays a role in preparing the uterus as a place for the growth of the fetus. Progesterone, along with estrogen, also changes the cervical mucus to become thicker and thicker in early pregnancy.
- It is suspected that the decrease in progesterone levels can cause miscarriage. Low levels of progesterone are also associated with ovulation and the likelihood of getting pregnant or not.
- During breastfeeding, progesterone and estrogen initiate lactation/preparation for breastfeeding. These two hormones also help stimulate the mammary glands to produce milk that will be used to breastfeed your baby.
- If fertilization does not occur, then menstruation will occur, beginning with a decrease in the level of the hormone progesterone.
Play a role in puberty
Various hormones including progesterone play an important role in shaping the female body during puberty. This hormone works together with the hormone estrogen for breast maturation, pubic and axillary hair growth, increased body fat in the waist and thigh area, ripening of the uterus, and overall growth and development.
Sexuality
Progesterone plays an important role in increasing female sexual arousal (libido). Sexual arousal usually reaches its peak before ovulation. This is because levels of the hormone progesterone, along with the hormones estrogen and testosterone, will increase.
Benefits of Artificial Progesterone
Artificial progesterone is commonly used for the following conditions:
- Stimulates or induces menstruation.
- Treating uterine bleeding associated with hormonal imbalance and premenstrual syndrome.
- As a component that plays a role in hormonal contraception methods, for example KB pills, injectable KB, and KB implants.
- Used concurrently with estrogen as part of hormone replacement therapy.
- To relieve symptoms caused by stopping the consumption of certain drugs.
- Treating menopausal symptoms, such as red and hot facial skin (hot flashes).
- Treat or prevent allergy symptoms caused by hormones.
- Widen the cervix.
- Treating breast pain in women who are attacked by disorders of the breast but are non-cancerous.
Although it has many benefits, the use of progesterone in people with certain diseases should be avoided, because it can cause health problems. For example in patients with breast cancer, vaginal bleeding for which the cause is not known, and patients with impaired liver function. The use of artificial progesterone hormone should be consulted with a doctor first.