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Foods containing progesterone

I have been on the internet for 4 hours looking for actual foods containing progesterone... not creams... or pills... the actual food. All I found was yams and soybeans. Are there not any other foods?

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Foods containing progesterone
by: Wray

There are no foods that contain progesterone.

It's an animal hormone and never found in plants. Not even soy beans or yams! Plants such as the soy bean, Dioscorea species of yams, fenugreek and many more, contain phytosterols, two such are stigmasterol and diosgenin.

As these sterols have a similar molecular structure to progesterone, they are used as starting points for the bio-synthesis of progesterone. This is then further broken down to oestrogen, testosterone, cortisol etc for use in HRT, testosterone replacement, cortisone etc.

Stigmasterol was first isolated from calabar beans. The commercial source of the sterol is the unsaponified fraction of soya-bean oil, which contains 12-25% stigmasterols. In 1976, stigmasterol was the starting material for 25% of the world production of steroids, and it has now overtaken diosgenin as the principal starting material for the industrial semi-synthesis of steroids. Do hope this helps, Take care Wray

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