FACTS
Fact: As women and men age, a shift in hormonal
balance is inevitable. Hormonal imbalances can foster many
unpleasant - and sometimes dangerous- side effects.
Fact: Most of the traditional medical community
continues to think that the distress associated with hormone
imbalances is unavoidable. This thinking is dead wrong.
Fact: The ovaries are the female body's source of
reproductive life. The ovaries also produce the sex hormones,
e.g. estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. The interaction
of these hormones plays a vital role in maintaining the body's
optimum health and functions. Hormonal production will
decrease with age and the ratios of all three of these
hormones will change over time. Hormone balancing means that
the body is helped to maintain the optimum ratio of all three
sex hormones.
Fact: As a woman ages, her progesterone levels are
the first to decline; in fact, progesterone levels drop 120
times more rapidly than estrogen. As progesterone levels drop
and estrogen becomes the dominant hormone within a woman's
system, symptoms emerge.
Fact: Estrogen dominance has the potential to be
very dangerous to the body. The unpleasant symptoms of
estrogen dominance can include PMS, weight gain, breast health
issues, hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain, breast health
issues, osteoporosis, memory loss, premature aging,
depression, mood swings, and decreased sex drive. Of greater
concern, estrogen dominance can cause a predisposition for
uterine or endometrial cancers, heart attack, stroke, and
Alzheimer's.
Fact: When unpleasant symptoms associated with
hormonal imbalance begin to occur, the medical community and
the female healthcare consumer are still relatively uninformed
when it comes to considering human-identical progesterone
replacement as an initial treatment of choice.
Fact: The majority of the medical community
continues to regard the symptoms of hormone imbalance, and
particularly menopause, as an estrogen deficiency disease.
Consequently, when a woman with menopausal symptoms enters
most physicians' offices, she will usually exit with a
prescription for some form of synthetic estrogen replacement,
such as Premarin.
Fact: Synthetic hormones do not have the same
molecular structure as the hormones produced by the ovaries.
Consequently they do not exactly fit the body's hormone
receptor locks. This "bad fit" can trigger many harmful
reactions within the body. Clinical studies and medical
research as shown that synthetic hormone replacement has been
linked to an increase risk of heart disease, stroke, breast
and uterine cancer, endometriosis and Alzheimer's disease.
Fact: Human-identical hormones do have exactly the
same molecular structure as the hormones produced by the
ovaries. As a result, they function within the body as a "key"
that exactly fits for the body's hormone receptor locks.
Because the body recognizes the molecular structure of the
human- identical hormones, adding them into the human system
will not trigger side effects.
Fact: Every woman suffering from the symptoms of
hormonal imbalance can potentially benefit from a regimen of
human-identical hormones but ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL. A
complete and individualized hormone profile is needed to
determine the levels of each of the three sex hormones, e.g.
estrogen, progesterone and testosterone, before a physician
can develop an individualized program for correcting their
patient's hormone imbalance through human- identical hormone
replacement.
Fact: There is such a thing as "male menopause", or
andropause. As they age, men will also have a change in their
hormone levels that can impact them physically, mentally and
emotionally. Men suffering from hormone imbalances are also
candidates for an individualized program of human-identical
hormone therapy.
Fact: Today, no one has to suffer from the symptoms
associated with hormone imbalance. Human-identical hormone
therapy offers physicians and healthcare consumers a safe and
effective option for successful treatment of the health issue
as well as elimination of the unpleasant symptoms.
As a woman enters her
mid-thirties and until she is in her late forties, she can be
said to be pre-menopausal. A woman in this lifecycle is in her
middle reproductive years. It is during these years that the
balance of hormones produced by the endocrine system first
begins to shift. Progesterone, the "feel good" hormone, is the
first hormone to decline and drops 120 times more rapidly than
estrogen.
