Hormone Balancing for Women The essence of who you are, how you think and feel is wrapped up in the balance and symphony of your complex hormonal state. Throughout your life as a woman, the ebb and flow of your hormonal changes from week to week or year to year will dictate how much quality of life is available to you. Hormonal balance controls your bone density, your weight and its distribution, your emotional options, your metabolism, reproduction, how well your mind works and your desire.
Can hormones be balanced?
Can there be hormonal bliss?
Can therapy be done safely?
Does it require drugs?
Do hormones always have to be replaced?
All very appropriate questions. The many controversies and varied opinions within the medical community leave women often stranded in confusion and fear. Standard hormone replacement therapy was called into serious question with the results of the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative Trial. This study, aimed to demonstrate synthetic hormones would benefit post-menopausal women, did the opposite. The study compared menopausal women without any hormone replacement, to menopausal women prescribed synthetic hormones.
Breast cancer, heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease rates were substantially increased in the women administered the pharmaceutical synthetics. In response, millions of women and their physicians, abandoned hormone restoration.
This study and others like it are important and instructive. They illuminate the problems associated with synthetic hormone use, the danger of not monitoring levels and the issues related to the route of administration. The obvious question is, are there better options and alternatives?
- Synthetic hormones are structurally and molecularly different than the hormones your body produces and recognizes. These structurally altered hormones act differently on the intended receptors. They are more difficult for the body to break down and are known to metabolize into hazzardous molecules. There are no safe, structurally different, synthetic, non bio-identical hormones.
- The estrogens used in these studies were prescribed to be taken orally and absorbed through the intestinal tract directly into the liver. High hormone concentration in the liver stimulates abnormally high hepatic production of inflammatory signaling proteins, clotting factors responsible for accelerated cardiovascular disease and subsequent alterations of metabolism. In addition, various hormone binding proteins are stimulated in an attempt to reduce the high hormone levels. This causes other hormones to be bound leading to functional deficiencies and serious imbalances.
- Synthetic progestin substitutes for human progesterone was used in these studies, not progesterone. Progestins block natural progesterone’s access to the progesterone receptor, creating a functional progesterone deficiency state. Consequently, progesterone’s ability to beneficially balance estrogen becomes severely hampered. This leads to multiple dangerous hormonal imbalances in many tissues leading to increased risks of serious diseases and disease states. Virtually all oral contraceptive pills are similarly designed. Progestins have many negative anti-progesterone affects contributing to many negative affects identified in the WHI study and others.
- Another problem identified by the WHI trial’s design, common in conventional medical practice, was no lab testing to define treatment need or follow up measurements to ensure proper hormonal levels and balance. Women in these studies, as in standard conventional medical practice, were likely overdosed in estrogens and imbalanced leading to further risk and toxicity. As well, without testing, some women may have been under dosed without appropriate testing confirmation.
The goal of our interventional hormone restoration is physiological balance of your hormone needs. When hormone supplimentation is necessary to restore balance, we recommend and prescribe human identical hormones to help control symptoms of deficiency and restore imbalance. It is remarkable to see the power of self healing when hormone deficiency diseases states are rebalanced with human identical hormones prescribed and followed with monitored levels, delivered in safe, effective manners.
HORMONES DEFINED
The final effect of any hormone is the balance of all of your hormones. No hormone acts by itself. It is a symphony that is either in harmony or discordant.
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- The peri-menopausal years
Perimenopausal problems frequently begin 10-15 years before menopause. Increasing variations of pulsating estrogen, along with falling progesterone levels can impact...
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- The menopausal years
Natural cessation, or the slowing down of menstrual periods, typically occurs between ages 49 – 52, on average. Once...
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" Women have an innate sense of spirituality. An ability to attune to the wisdom within themselves and the larger whole that has been systemiatically ignored by medicine"
Joan Borsyenko, Ph.D. Minding the body, Mending the Mind
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