Correction, it may still be progestogenic. Read this study
https://www.ncbi.nlm...les/PMC3800090/
What you bought is almost certainly not progesterone, though it may contain estrogen or phytoestrogens. If it treats menopause, which is caused by a deficiency of estrogen, then it must have estrogenic properties. The primary reason that progesterone is added to menopause treatment is because progesterone has antagonistic effects on estrogen receptors, so it protects against some of the side-effects of too much estrogen.
I tried buying a progesterone cream myself and just like you I got scammed. What I got was a cream with some phyoestrogen in it (made my nipples very sensitive) and probably the saponin diosgenin and other junk.
"Dr. Peat's Progest E Replenishing Oil Complex from Kenogen is natural bioidentical progesterone derived from wild yam preserved in vitamin E oil."
"...dispel a common myth in this country that wild yam is a good source of progesterone. In reality, wild yam should not be used for this purpose.
Wild yam is a plant source for a saponin called diosgenin (the active component in wild yams), which can be converted in a laboratory into progesterone.
However, your body cannot convert diosgenin into progesterone, DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) or any other sex hormone, and wild yam does not naturally contain any progesterone that your body can use. The progesterone that is made from wild yam is known as pharmaceutical progesterone because it only exists after a chemical conversion process has been performed in a lab.
So, wild yam products that say they contain "natural progesterone" -- and many do -- can be misleading because progesterone does not actually exist in wild yams, nor can your body convert any wild yam components into it."
Edited by PeaceAndProsperity, 21 August 2017 - 10:52 AM.