Practitioner Course

Progesterone: New Thoughts Masterclass

Dr Felice Gersh shares her new thinking that she has developed over decades of practice and research, aiming to change the way practitioners understand and talk about progesterone.
Format

Online Course
6 lessons

Availability

12 Months OR Subscriber Pass

Duration

2 hours total

Presenter

Felice Gersh

About this course

Progesterone has not had the attention it deserves. Most clinicians, and most patients, think of it primarily in terms of pregnancy and uterine protection. Dr Felice Gersh spent more than 25 years delivering babies and became convinced early in her career that without optimal hormones, a woman simply cannot be optimally healthy. In this six-part series she shares her new thinking that she has developed over decades of practice and research, aiming to change the way practitioners understand, prescribe, and talk about progesterone. Dr Gersh is a board-certified obstetrician-gynaecologist, Medical Director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, and Affiliate Faculty at the University of Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine.

This series is her most comprehensive presentation on progesterone to date. It covers the full picture: the basic science, the menstrual cycle, the history and clinical controversies, what low progesterone means for long-term health, the significance of its metabolites, and the evidence for how and when to prescribe it in menopausal women. Dr Gersh is direct, well-referenced, and willing to challenge standard practice. Whatever you think about progesterone now, she expects you will think differently by the end.
What you receive:
  • A personalised certificate of completion including continuing education hours
  • Clear protocol explanations from some of the world's top practitioners
  • Clinical pearls for improved practice results
  • Access to your audio and video recordings via the App Store
  • A downloadable PDF of the presenter’s slides
  • Links to all referenced research papers and useful clinical handouts
  • Access to the community hub where you can get answers to your questions

From this course you will learn

  • Why progesterone is essential for every organ system in the female body, not just the uterus and not just during reproductive years
  • The critical relationship between oestradiol and progesterone, and why giving progesterone without adequate oestradiol is physiologically counterproductive
  • Why cyclical fluctuations in hormone levels are not a problem to be flattened but a biological necessity for receptor function
  • How the Day 21 progesterone peak activates tumour suppressor genes, supports bone growth, and exerts anticancer effects, and why anovulatory cycles silently raise long-term disease risk
  • Why natural progesterone is protective against breast cancer and why the evidence from the Women's Health Initiative has been misapplied for decades
  • What allopregnanolone is, how it acts on the GABA-A receptor, and why producing too much of it through oral progesterone is associated with memory impairment, weight gain, and receptor damage
  • Why oral progesterone converts up to 90% of the dose to metabolites in the liver, delivering subphysiologic levels of actual progesterone while flooding the brain with supraphysiologic allopregnanolone
  • The pharmacokinetic case for vaginal progesterone as the preferred route of administration, and how to discuss this practically with patients
  • Why continuous daily progesterone dosing leads to receptor downregulation and is associated with worse cardiovascular and neurological outcomes than cyclic regimens
  • How to think about dosing oestradiol during the progesterone phase of the cycle to maintain adequate vascular protection
  • Why women who have had a hysterectomy still need progesterone, and how to make that case clearly

What's in this course

Your Presenter

Felice Gersh MD

Felice Gersh, M.D. is a multi-award winning physician with dual board certifications in OB-GYN and Integrative Medicine. She is the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of Irvine, a practice that provides comprehensive health care for women by combining the best evidence-based therapies from conventional, naturopathic, and holistic medicine.

For 12 years, she taught obstetrics and gynecology at Keck USC School of Medicine as an Assistant Clinical Professor, and she now serves as an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the University of Arizona School of Medicine. Felice is a prolific writer and lecturer who speaks globally on women’s health and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed medical journals. She is the bestselling author of the PCOS SOS series and her latest book, Menopause: 50 Things You Need to Know.
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