Keep Your Friends Close and Your Progesterone Closer

You probably know that your social life is connected to your emotional health. When you interact with and confide in friends regularly, you feel happier and less stressed. But did you know that your social life may be connected to your physical health as well? Problems such as weight fluctuation, difficulty sleeping, headaches, and even breast pain or erectile dysfunction can be connected to a deficiency in a hormone named progesterone, which is strongly connected to your social life; high levels of progesterone make you feel more social and high levels of socialization increase your production of progesterone. But in order to truly understand the complicated interactions between progesterone, social interaction, and your body’s health, you have to understand the research... Read More