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I've decided to make a few changes to my program that I thought I should mention. I decided to increase my placenta to 4 tabs a day instead of only one. I'm not really doing it to balance my hormones. I'm just trying to match Ginie's dose. I have absolutely no way of knowing the relative strengths of different placenta supplements, or how much of the "active" constituents are retained depending on different processing methods etc. That means that I really only have Ginie's dose as a reference for what a normal dose of Maruman brand placenta MIGHT be. 4 caps per day is also the recommended dose on the bottle. I might have been wrong in assuming that Maruman extract and the placenta extract in Whitex are similar enough that I can just match the dose. It probably can't hurt to try a higher dose and see what happens. Placenta doesn't seem to be a very strong or dangerous supplement.

I think I might also use PC during luteal phase again. I'm torn about whether I should really do it or not because I'm not actually deficient, just very low. PC has worked extremely well for a few women on this board who were diagnosed as being deficient in progesterone, but I've never seen any evidence that it works for women who are estrogen dominant but not deficient. In theory it makes sense, but it doesn't seem to work in reality. I don't have the foggiest idea why.

Since I'm borderline deficient, I think I might take a full dose for 2 luteal phases, and hope to God that it doesn't give me excessive progesterone levels. It should also have the side effect of raising my testosterone a little, which is a good thing in my case. If I do take it, I'll only apply to the recommended areas instead of my breasts. That should make it much less likely to build up to excessive levels.

I really didn't want to use PC again unless my test results said that I was deficient, but I don't really know what else to do, so I might as well try it out.