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Hello mommy . . .
Do you ever heard about
natural hormone replacement therapy? That
is an idea whose time has come. It's the latest
most up to date approach to fight the aging process.
Natural hormone replacement therapy also known as bioidentical hormone therapy, it
offers the chance for aging men and women to live longer, healthier and more
enjoyable lives.
What is it? How it
work? Can antiaging through natural hormone balancing actually work?
Aging mommy will try to answer that
quuestion and give you a good
overview of just what natural hormone therapy is about and how it can help you.
Our hormonal system is like the rest of the
body, it doesn't work as well when we get older. This causes a drop in many of
the hormones our bodies need to run properly and be healthy. Hormones are kind
of like chemical messengers that attach to our cells and provide instructions
that tell the cells what to do. Hoemonal system like a software for our bodies.
Without this programming provided by our hormones, our bodies don't function
properly and we lose our health.
Natural hormone replacement therapy can
supplement the hormones that have declined as we age and help prevent the
negative effects of having low levels of important hormones. This is well
established in medical science, but there is some controversy over just how
this should be done.
Is that any problems with synthetic
hormones?
Prior to the introduction of natural hormone
replacement therapy, doctors used synthetic hormones to supplement those that
were declining in the body. These hormones were not identical at the molecular
level to what our bodies actually produce, and so they caused some dangerous
side effects, such as breast cancer, and heart disease.
These synthetic hormones were made in a way
that they could be patented by drug companies and sold for more money. Because
a natural molecule cannot be patented, the drug companies would alter the
molecule just enough to be able to get a patent on it.These alterations are
what caused the side effects, and once it became know that synthetic hormones
(especially synthetic estrogens) caused these problems, doctors stopped using
them.
Bioidentical hormone therapy is done by
doctors using hormones that while they are synthetically prepared, are
identical to what your own body makes. For this reason they do not produce the
side effects that patented hormones do.
Unfortunately the drug companies have created
a disinformation campaign to discredit natural hormone replacement therapy
because it competes with their products. They know that many people have
gravitated to natural hormone therapy, and thus they are losing market share to
these natural products.
Natural hormone balance using bio identical
hormone replacement, is in fact safer. It has been used in Europe for many
years and has a good safety record there. In addition, the therapy protocol for
these natural hormones is done differently as you will see. This treatment is
done by specially trained doctors who are knowledgeable about natural hormone
replacement. They use blood and saliva testing to determine the levels of a
person's hormones, and which ones are out of balance.
Then the doctor creates a customized
prescription that is sent to a special pharmacy called a "compounding
pharmacy." These pharmacies create a custom blend of hormones according to
the doctor's prescription. This customized hormone preparation is unique to
each patient, and contains only the hormones that are needed in the precise
amounts to achieve the right balance for that patients body.
The patient returns to the doctor for follow
up tests to see how they are responding to the therapy and the doctor adjusts
the customized hormone preparation according to the results of the tests that
are done. This process is a way of precisely balancing a person's hormones so
they are brought back into the normal range for optimal health. Natural hormone
replacement therapy can come in several forms, such as: transdermal creams, pellets implanted under the skin, capsules or pills that are taken internally.
What benefits can be expected from this natural
hormone replacement therapy?
Natural or bio identical hormone replacement therapy can alleviate age related
hormonal problems of us. Here is a description of what bioidentical hormone
therapy can do: increased energy, uplifting mood, preventing
hot flashes, improved
sleep, memory improvement, eliminating vaginal dryness, less
body fat / better muscle tone, diminishing winkles, improved
sex drive, preventing
loss of bone density,
lowering breast cancer risks, lowering risk of heart disease, and other
benefits.