09-10-2011, 10:04
Hi Mel,
What dr. Lee writes is true, but the words are very well chosen to protect his commercial interests. The use of diosgenin (WY, FG) to increase progesterone goes back to publications like the one I linked here:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=36418&highlight=diosgenin#pid36418
There has been recent activity to check how exactly progesterone is increased:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149279/figure/F1/
The figure confirms the 2003 observation: diosgenin increases progesterone in ovariectomized rats. The figure is from this article, published July 13th of this year:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21814480
What dr. Lee writes is true, but the words are very well chosen to protect his commercial interests. The use of diosgenin (WY, FG) to increase progesterone goes back to publications like the one I linked here:
http://www.breastnexus.com/showthread.php?tid=8419&pid=36418&highlight=diosgenin#pid36418
There has been recent activity to check how exactly progesterone is increased:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149279/figure/F1/
The figure confirms the 2003 observation: diosgenin increases progesterone in ovariectomized rats. The figure is from this article, published July 13th of this year:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21814480