Seasonal affective disorder treatment

Discussions on which seasonal affective disorder treatment to use tend to focus on any of the following...

However, the hormone progesterone is gaining much support as an alternative treatment due to its actions on environmental estrogens.

Seasonal affective disorder (also known as 'SAD') is caused by the long nights experienced in high latitudes. Normal treatment is to make the sufferer extend the daylight hours with artificial lighting. Researchers have found that long nights cause a drop in the level of progesterone in the blood.

People have lived for centuries in high latitudes without suffering from the condition. The obvious question is 'why now?' There is some evidence to support a correlation between the incidence of the disorder and the rise in environmental estrogens. Progesterone is a powerful antagonist to estrogen.

Seasonal affective disorder has been known to respond to between 20 to 200mg/day of progesterone adminstered as a skin cream.

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