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Jun 2022

13m 14s

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Are premenstrual mood symptoms caused by progesterone or helped by progesterone? And why do antihistamines give such relief?

In this episode, Lara discusses premenstrual mood symptoms including:

the role of histamine and mast cell activation
progesterone sensitivity, and
effective natural treatments such as magnesium, iodine, and body-identical progesterone.

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