[AbiDrew85]

Actually you're right, and that's WHY it's a necessary hormone as well. And it's also why conventional wisdom is, as usual, wrong about the cause of pear shape. Progesterone does not need to be counterbalanced to continue to increase the width of the hips, while estrogen does need to be balanced by progesterone in order to grow breast. So it's P dom, not E dom, that causes pear shape. E dom is more likely to just cause greater fat deposit all over and make you apple shaped.

ok, I might learn something new and important here! if you don't mind abi, what is the conventional wisdom about pear shape, just estrogen dominance, when in reality it's progesterone dominance? I wasn't aware there could be a progesterone dominance. what do you think about the progesterone therapy website and the author's claims over there?

It seems accurate, as far as it goes. There was a doctor, I don't remember his name, who was really big at prescribing progesterone when estrogen was high, and his site is actually where I originally saw both forms of female imbalance. It seems estrogen dominance is far more prevalent, but progesterone dominance DOES occur as well.