@stephaniecrassweller: It’s not in your head. And it doesn’t mean the hormone “doesn’t work for you.” Progesterone only calms you when your body converts it into a metabolite called allopregnanolone - the one that reaches your GABA receptors. Those are your brain’s brakes: the system that slows your mind down and lets you rest. But progesterone can travel down two different roads. On a Dutch test we call them the alpha and beta pathways. One road makes the calming metabolite. The other doesn’t. So if your body is sending progesterone down the wrong road, the exact hormone meant to settle you can wind you up instead. 🤦♀️ You’re not failing at HRT. You just can’t see which pathway you’re running - and you can’t fix what you can’t measure. That’s the whole point of a DUTCH test. It shows you which road your progesterone is actually taking, so you stop dosing blind and start working with your body instead of guessing why you feel worse. If you’ve been struggling through “the thing that was supposed to help,” this is the test that tells you why. → get more details on DUTCH testing 👇🏽 www.vitalityoet.com/dutch (link in bio)
