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Dioscorea villosa

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Dioscorea villosa,
n See wild yam.
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com which keeps track of frauds, myths and misleading information concerning medical products, states that dioscorea villosa, from which the wild yam based cream is supposedly made, is not a source of progesterone and in fact is may even be estrogenic.
Why Wild Yam Based Progesterone May not Benefit You by Jean Morgan / Women's issues/gender studies community
Dioscorea villosa, commonly known as wild yam, is a tuberous vine native to North America and parts of Central America.
Is Wild Yam Natures Progesterone? by Darrell Miller / Health, general community
Living under a canopy of maple, oak, pine and tulip poplar trees, Dioscorea villosa gracefully twists and turns, reaching for the dappled sunlight at the forest's edge.
Wild yam for women's health: Nikki Solomon teaches about this ... by Solomon, Nikki / New Life Journal
 
 
 
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