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I finally looked up some info about the relationship between estrogen and prolactin. Someone on a medical board asked about the relationship between the two, and these are 2 of the responses he or she received:

Reply 1:
"Estrogen promotes prolactin secretion but inhibits its action on the breast (FA 2011 pg 482).

Similarly progesterone also inhibits prolictin's action on the breast. Thus during pregnancy you get increased prolactin produced but only after giving birth (when the hormones start to decrease) does that prolactin actually allow lactation.

I have written in my first aid that its the decline of progesterone specifically that allows lactation."

Reply 2:
"Pathologic correlate - hyperprolactinemic states (such as a pituitary tumor or typical antipsychotics) actually inhibit GnRH, LSH, and FSH release. Therefore it's a highly tested cause of amenorrhea."

While I was reading PM programs, I also saw some rather odd things said about prolactin and some of the herbs that increase prolactin. Ginnie claimed that prolactin increases the number of estrogen receptors, but I wasn't sure that she hadn't confused prolactin with progesterone in that case. Does anyone know if she was right? If so what's the mechanism?

IdreamofD said that she took Goat's rue in order to keep taking PM continuously like she had already been doing for months. I have no idea what she meant by that. She was already taking BC of coarse.