June 14, 2008

Menopause Health: Hormone Replacement Therapy Facts

If you are debating hormone replacement therapy, you’re not alone because women everywhere are looking for answers. According to the US Census Bureau, there were an estimated 78.2 million baby boomers, as of July 1, 2005, and over 47 million of them are women experiencing discomfort from menstruation to menopause, and loss of libido.For those who still do not use any Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), the idea of anti-aging and bio-identical hormones has become intriguing. A myriad of products on the market make the right choice difficult.People have become accustomed to talking about bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) in menopause and anti-aging medicines versus synthetic big pharmaceutical products like Prempro from Wyeth. Bio-identical hormone products are usually created from natural sources of plant hormones which match the chemical structure of hormones produced by the human body. The premise is that the body can’t distinguish created bio-identical hormones from the ones the female ovaries produce naturally.The term bio-identical has basically become a catch all phrase for anything that is not a synthetic hormone. Bio-identical hormones can only be truly accurately bio-identical if the hormones for replacement mimic, not only those found in the body, but the natural biological process too.In other […]

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