As described in Suzanne Somers\u2019 book The Sexy Years<\/i><\/b>, the state-of-the-art in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for women suffering from the symptoms of menopause is the administration of bioidentical estrogen, testosterone and progesterone. But why has bioidentical hormone therapy, or BHRT, become the preferred choice over traditional hormone therapy using synthetic hormone medications?<\/p>\n
A Bioidentical Hormone<\/i> is defined as a hormone that is identical in molecular structure to the hormone produced by your body. These hormones are obtained from sterol analogues found in many varieties of plants.<\/p>\n
Fountain of Youth MD physicians think it is a crime that some people still believe that it is a woman\u2019s duty to quietly suffer the miseries of menopause. We know that treatment of hormone imbalance in women\u2014whether it is low estrogen, progesterone, thyroid, growth hormone, or other\u2014improves the quality of life for most women and helps reduce the potentially serious medical conditions that accompany these hormone-deficiency states, such as obesity, diabetes cardiovascular disease and dementia. Hormone decline and the mis\u00e8res that follow do not<\/i><\/b> have to be part of normal aging anymore!<\/p>\n
Many women diagnosed with depression, low sex drive, weight gain, hot flashes and pre-menopausal and menopausal symptoms who failed previous mainstream medical treatments improve with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.<\/p>\n
Potential Benefits of bioidentical hormone therapy: <\/b><\/p>\n Bioidentical hormone therapy, also known as \u201cnatural hormone replacement therapy\u201d is safe, effective and relatively free from side effects in comparison to synthetic hormones such as Premarin, Prempro, Provera and Estratab.<\/p>\n One of the many appeals of bioidentical hormones is that they are natural. This allows our bodies to better utilize them and results in fewer side effects than synthetic horse-derived hormones, which are chemically altered compounds that are very strong, not molecularly identical to the hormones produced by the human body, and thus tend to produce more side effects than bioidentical hormones.<\/p>\n The natural, compounded bioidentical hormone medications offered by Fountain of Youth MD can be customized to serve each individual woman\u2019s needs\u2014a quality that\u2019s impossible with mass-produced synthetic hormones.<\/p>\n Every day millions of women suffer from uncomfortable and potentially disabling symptoms associated with the hormonal imbalances of pre-menopause and menopause. These low hormone states may be causing you to feel depressed, anxious, fatigued, sexless, generally ill\u2026or spending most of the time feeling like your get up and go has got up and went.<\/p>\n\n