How Does Resolve & Balance Wild Yam Cream Work?

Resolve is a topically applied skin cream containing Mexican Wild Yam extract and plant nutrients. It contains NO drugs or hormones, and one cannot overdose on it. It is a natural source of nutritional chemistry which can be used by the body to manufacture progesterone, alleviating the symptoms of hormonal imbalance. The Resolve is quickly absorbed and mediates the transfer of the wild yam nutrients, enzymes and plant sterols to the cell walls where they are naturally utilized according to the woman?s individual needs. The transdermal method of delivering these nutrients to the body was chosen because the components are not chemically altered through the absorption process, as they are when orally ingested in a capsule or droplet form.

As previously stated, there are no drugs or hormones added to the Resolve. Many yam creams on the market today contain an unapproved drug/hormone called USP progesterone, which is often misleadingly marketed as "natural" progesterone on product labels. Calling USP progesterone "natural" makes it sound like it is grown in a garden, or something equally benign. Women do not realize they are using a drug that has been synthesized in a laboratory or that it can have detrimental side effects. It is considered an unapproved drug product that has yet to be proven safe and effective for its intended use. In fact, the FDA states that until it is proven safe, women should assume that USP ("natural") progesterone can have the same contraindications as any other type of hormone replacement drug.

Skin creams containing wild yam extracts have been in use for many years, as the wild yam is a natural source of precursor chemistry to a woman?s natural hormones. Mexican Wild Yam is particularly rich in a sterol known as diosgenin. The effect of diosgenin in the body is thought to be as a phyto-progesterone acting at progesterone receptor sites. There are no studies to demonstrate this, nor do we know if the diosgenin in the body is transformed through enzymatic reactions into actual progesterone or used in some other way by the body. However, the experience of thousands of women tells us that something of a hormonal nature is taking place within the body.

You might think of Resolve as a type of "vitamin" for the endocrine system. It supplies the body with plant sterols, plant enzymes and diosgenin (a phytoprogesterone that is also a sterol) which helps a woman?s body make progesterone in the levels she would naturally make. Plant sterols are similar to human sterols (such as cholesterol) and there is some evidence they act as adaptogens in the body. Enzymes work as catalysts in conversion processes, and diosgenin is thought to stimulate progestinal activity within the body. A woman cannot overdose on Resolve as she is only giving her body building blocks it can use to help her make her own progesterone - safely and naturally. Any amount in excess of what her body needs will be broken down and excreted.

To better understand how a nutritional cream can stimulate a woman?s natural chemistry, let?s take a look at a simplified version of the biosynthetic pathway a women?s body takes when making hormones:

Cholesterol >>> To >>> Pregnenolone
To --------------------------- To
___DHEA _____________Progesterone
To --------------------------- To
___Estrogens__________Corticosteroids

As you can see, the body uses acetate (a product of the breakdown of sugar and fat in the body) to make cholesterol and then uses cholesterol to make pregnenolone. Pregnenolone is a precursor to many of a woman?s hormones. Once she makes pregnenolone her body must use it to satisfy two pathways. Down one pathway she will make DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) and then her estrogens. Down the other pathway she will make progesterone and from progesterone her corticosteroids. If a woman?s body does not have what it needs to satisfy both pathways she will always satisfy the DHEA/estrogens pathway before beginning the progesterone pathway, thus most healthy women suffering from hormonal imbalance will have adequate amounts of estrogens, but be lacking in progesterone.

Another important thing to note is that the body is constantly communicating with itself. The endocrine system involves multiple sources of stimulation and many levels of feedback. If a synthetic progesterone (including USP/natural progesterone) product is supplemented it comes in directly at the progesterone level. Over time the body will assume that the other steps taken before progesterone is made have been completed and the body?s system of feedback and communication begins to go awry - possibly interfering with the body?s production of DHEA and estrogens. There is also no evidence that the body can use any type of synthetic hormone to manufacture the next hormones it needs. The body?s own progesterone is the only thing it can use to make its corticosteroids. It can?t use a synthetic progesterone to make them. Corticosteroids play a part in mineral balance and sugar control, and are our natural "feel good" anti-depressant, pain-relieving, and anti-inflammatory hormones. No woman wants to impede her body?s ability to make those! Supplementing with a synthetic progesterone can help for the short term, but long term use can have damaging side effects.