The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a first-of-its-kind pill to treat postpartum depression
Postpartum depression is a serious mental health condition that involves the brain and affects your behavior and physical health
Implicated endocrinological changes include variations in estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, oxytocin, and allopregnanolone—a progesterone derivative ( 6
The researchers found no relationship between progesterone levels in the second or third trimesters and the likelihood of developing postpartum depression
, the rapid decrease during the postpartum period, or the increase over the course of the luteal phase of the menstrual
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