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to increase progesterone levels is to have eggs every day, liver once a
week, and a lot of butter.SUGGESTIONS TO ENHANCE THE SEX DRIVE
➤ Progesterone cream (for topical use). Apply to the wrists,
the neck, or inside the elbows. Go off periodically.
Menstruating women should apply the progesterone cream the
last two weeks of the menstrual month, and postmenapausal
women three weeks out of four.
➤ Macca Pause (made by Feminessence). This is an herb that, in
some women, converts into progesterone.
➤ Eggs daily, butter, and liver once a week. These foods help
increase progesterone production.TIMOTHY AND MAUREEN: THEIR STRUGGLE
TO HAVE A BABY
Timothy and Maureen badly wanted children, but the chances of
Maureen becoming pregnant were slim. They were married when
both were thirty-fi ve. From the age of thirty on, there is a slight
drop each year in fertility in both sexes. By age thirty-fi ve, the
chances of becoming pregnant plummet. Maureen’s age was not
the only factor making it diffi cult for her to become pregnant; a
more serious liability was the fact that she ovulated only twice a
year, so there were only two short periods in the year when she
was fertile. These two diffi culties were compounded by the fact
that neither Maureen nor Timothy had much interest in sex.
Testosterone, although the principal male hormone, is also
present in females and can stimulate the sex drive in women as
well as in men. Testosterone levels can be boosted by taking a
precursor hormone called pregnenolone, which converts into
testosterone. Maureen and Tim took pregnenolone, extractedcontinued