12-10-2010, 22:26
When the companies tout that their pills are estrogen based, I'm afraid it's more for show than what it's going to do for you. First let me say that I love BB and I have had incredible results with it, but one of the first things that made me choose it was that it was said to be progesterone based. As I began to learn more and more about it, I tried everything I could to find out why it would be considered progesterone based and I could never get a single anwser from the experts about it. I could get answers to everything but that, in fact if you want a no response, to an email to any of the BO sellers throw the word progesterone in it with a question. LOL.
Here is what I have come up with. If you go back to the basics of glandular therapies, if you take a bovine ovary supplement you will be getting some estrogen and some progesterone. For the most part it is an estrogenic supplement though and the amounts of progesterone in it are so small that it's really not worth monetioning in my opinion other than for the fact that natural progesterone is the "in" thing now and makes women feel safer.
Basically when you take BO it begins increasing your estrogen load and for all intensive purposes puts you back into puberty if it's going to work for you. There really should be a good cleanse every few months to help dump out the excess load of estrogen from the body or the liver will begin processing it out slower and slower and eventually allow you to become estrogen dominant. I've noticed this tends to happen around month 5 to 6 sometimes even when you are careful. It's one of the reasons you see so many women talk about taking a break. Once you hit the full blown dominant zone, you won't be getting any growth anyways, so you might as well take a break and cleanse.
Too much estrogen begins to show itself with symptoms of painful periods, pms, headaches, acne, ect. You can mask these symptoms by taking DIM or for that matter actually using natural progesterone cream, which will help get your body balanced again if you are on a break.
Some people just can't get the bo to work for them. I'm beginning to suspect that not only is it about temp, but for some women can also be about their existing hormone levels. I took BB for a year. I had fantastic growth the first 7 months, then after that began to see swelling that would go away after my period. That began to happen once I began to show symptoms of estrogen dominance which is why I finally gave in and decided I needed a break.
I have been on a break now for over 2 months and have not lost any of my original growth which I'm pleased about. I'm currently taking progesterone cream and getting myself balanced out, so that once I feel I am level again, I can give it another go and see if I can get some more decent growth out of it.
Here is what I have come up with. If you go back to the basics of glandular therapies, if you take a bovine ovary supplement you will be getting some estrogen and some progesterone. For the most part it is an estrogenic supplement though and the amounts of progesterone in it are so small that it's really not worth monetioning in my opinion other than for the fact that natural progesterone is the "in" thing now and makes women feel safer.
Basically when you take BO it begins increasing your estrogen load and for all intensive purposes puts you back into puberty if it's going to work for you. There really should be a good cleanse every few months to help dump out the excess load of estrogen from the body or the liver will begin processing it out slower and slower and eventually allow you to become estrogen dominant. I've noticed this tends to happen around month 5 to 6 sometimes even when you are careful. It's one of the reasons you see so many women talk about taking a break. Once you hit the full blown dominant zone, you won't be getting any growth anyways, so you might as well take a break and cleanse.
Too much estrogen begins to show itself with symptoms of painful periods, pms, headaches, acne, ect. You can mask these symptoms by taking DIM or for that matter actually using natural progesterone cream, which will help get your body balanced again if you are on a break.
Some people just can't get the bo to work for them. I'm beginning to suspect that not only is it about temp, but for some women can also be about their existing hormone levels. I took BB for a year. I had fantastic growth the first 7 months, then after that began to see swelling that would go away after my period. That began to happen once I began to show symptoms of estrogen dominance which is why I finally gave in and decided I needed a break.
I have been on a break now for over 2 months and have not lost any of my original growth which I'm pleased about. I'm currently taking progesterone cream and getting myself balanced out, so that once I feel I am level again, I can give it another go and see if I can get some more decent growth out of it.