By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 You started progesterone and the scale went up. Or your progesterone dropped and the scale went up. Either way, the number changed, the hormone changed, and now you want to know whether those two things are actually … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 You cannot sleep. Your periods have changed. Your mood feels like it is balanced on a knife edge between anxious and flat. Your body feels unfamiliar in ways that are hard to name, let alone explain to … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 The search for ways to raise progesterone naturally is often driven by a specific experience. Sleep is broken, the second half of the cycle feels unstable, and periods have changed. The hormonal cause has a name. Now … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Does Progesterone increase libido or does it go lower? It can be confusing sometimes. One article said low progesterone kills sex drive. Another said progesterone is sedating and actually suppresses it. Perhaps a supplement company said their progesterone cream … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published June 2026 · Last reviewed June 2026 You slept. Eight hours, maybe more. And you woke up as tired as when you went to bed. Not the kind of tired that a weekend fixes, or a holiday, or an early night. The kind that sits … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Your shoulder started hurting and you cannot remember injuring it. It aches when you reach behind your back. It wakes you when you roll onto that side at night. Age, or posture, or sleeping position seemed like the … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 For decades you had a routine. The cramps, the mood, the week before. You knew how to manage it. And somewhere in your late 30s or 40s the routine stopped working. The symptoms are the same but turned … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Here is the hormone that women are almost never told about until they go looking for it themselves. Testosterone, specifically. The one described as a male hormone so reflexively that most people have forgotten women have it too. … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 If perimenopause had a villain, most people would cast oestrogen in the role. The hormone that supposedly crashes, takes everything with it, and leaves you stranded. Except that is not quite what happens. Oestrogen does not simply fall … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Here is the hormone nobody told you about. Progesterone. The one that declines first, affects the most, and gets the least airtime in most conversations about perimenopause. If sleep has gone wrong, anxiety has arrived uninvited, moods are … Read more