A 1-cup serving of whole-wheat couscous contains 180 calories. This number accounts for 9 percent of your daily calories when you follow a 2,000-calorie diet. Couscous made from regular flour contains 176 calories per cup.
For the synthetic progestogens with effects similar to progesterone, see progestin. Progesterone (P4) is an endogenous steroid and progestogen sex hormone involved in the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and embryogenesis of humans and other species. It belongs to a group of steroid hormones called the progestogens, and is the major progestogen in the body.
Progestogen is a steroid hormone that acts like progesterone, a hormone that prepares the uterus for pregnancy. Progestogen is used in oral contraceptives and to treat gynecological disorders. Contraceptive pills may contain estrogen and progestogen, or only the latter. Progesterone is a naturally produced progestogen that prepares the uterus to accept a fertilized egg. Progestogen is a steroid hormone that acts like progesterone, a hormone that prepares the uterus for pregnancy.