Progesterone hormone helps Brain Trauma?
Yep! That’s the headlines today!
Doctors have found an unexpected ally in efforts to save people who suffer serious head trauma - the hormone progesterone!
In a study released today, doctors in a small study at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta report giving progesterone hormone to patients with serious heady injuries with great results.
What they found, according to the study is that progesterone is safe and that more patients who got progesterone survived moderate head injuries than did those who were given a placebo. “This is very exciting. We can fix a lot of things in the body, but we do not have a drug that fixes damaged brains… this new research is hopeful” says Arthur Kellermann, emergency department chairman at Emory Univerisity School of Medicince, one of the study authors.
Progesterone has a wide range of uses, from helping women through the first trimester of pregnancy to helping with menopause symptoms, depression, aches and pains, pms, etc.
Because progesterone receptors are widely distrubuted in the central nervous system, and because progesterone appears to reduce brain swelling and prevent the loss of some nerve cells in animals studied after brain injury, researchers believe it will help humans with head trauma. In the human study, patients got progesterone for three days, some patients with moderate brain injury were more likely to hae better neurological outcomes if they got progesterone. Patients on progesterone had a lower 30 day mortality rate.
Each year across the USA 1.4 million people suffer a traumatic brain injury… this is incredible good news!
