Bioidentical Hormones

Bioidentical hormones are hormones that have an identical molecular structure to human hormones. That's why they can be more effective than HRT (hormone replacement therapy) prescribed by the medical profession.

Since medical HRT products contain synthetic hormones, they can have debilitating side effects as well as increase the chances of serious health problems such as cancer. Bioidentical hormones will not create such side effects because the body recognizes them as natural substances.

There can be many symptoms of hormone imbalance and HRT can make these symptoms more acute and bioidentical hormones will not do this, but can help to correct the problem naturally.

Hormones are your body's natural chemical messengers. They travel via the bloodstream throughout the body and affect every process that takes place in the body such as:

1. Physical growth and development

2. Metabolism - how your body harnesses energy from the nutrients you eat.

3. Reproduction

4. Sexual function

5. Mood

The endocrine glands in the body make and regulate hormones. These glands are the pituitary, pineal,thymus, thyroid, adrenal glands and pancreas. Men also produce hormones in their testes and women produce some hormones in their ovaries.

Hormones are very powerful and it requires only a tiny amount to cause big changes in the body. That's why too much or too little of a certain hormone can be serious and cause the many different symptoms of hormone imbalance. That's also why any hormone therapy should use bioidentical hormones - to avoid negative side effects.

Early Puberty Caused by Synthetic Hormones

One in a hundred girls now show some signs of puberty by the age of 3, and the average age of puberty in the industrialized world has dropped from 15-16 down to 8-10 years old. This has frightening implications for their future health. That's also why so many young girls look like fully developed women before they are emotionally and mentally prepared to deal with it. Why is this happening and how can we avoid the disastrous and dangerous side effects that come with it?

Every female over the age of 12 should consider supplementation with a natural progesterone cream. Virtually every female living in an industrialized country is at high risk of estrogen dominance (resulting in sypmtoms of hormone imbalance) because of exposure to xeno-estrogens. Xeno- estrogens, which are mostly petroleum-based synthetic estrogens are now present in massive amounts in our environment, especially in the food chain, and also in the water supply and the plastics packaging industry.

These xenoestrogens are considerably more potent than estrogen made by the ovaries and when high levels of these estrogens (natural or synthetic) are not regulated by sufficient amounts of natural progesterone, this leads to continuous, unrestrained cell stimulation. This can lead to the following problems:

1. Excess estrogen - the only known cause of endometrial cancer

2. Increased risk of breast cancer

3. Osteoporosis

4. Increased risk of autoimmune disorders such as lupus

5. Fibrocystic breasts

6. Fibroid tumors

7. Depression and irritability

8. PMS symptoms such as cramping and bloating -- in addition to depression and irritability

9. Menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats

10. Low sex drive

11. Increased body hair and thinning scalp hair

12. Thyroid problems

13. Increased body fat

14. Increased blood clotting

15. Migraine headaches

16. Irregular blood sugar levels

Synthetic Hormones Affect Male Fertility

And, finally, xenoestrogens have been strongly implicated in declining male sperm production and the increase in testicular cancer and prostate cancer.

The simple answer to all this is to balance estrogen naturally - with bioidentical hormones. Natural progesterone is the only way the body can balance these excess estrogens, whether these estrogens are real or synthetic. Bioidentical hormones, in the form of natural progesterone, can help you to avoid the symptoms of hormone imbalance mentioned above.

Progesterone is a natural substance, and so it cannot be patented. The pharmaceutical companies have to modify it slightly, so they can qualify for a patent, since no one is legally permitted to patent a natural substance.

They create a new molecule called medroxyprogesterone that does not exist in nature in order to take out this patent. This artificial progesterone is what most doctors prescribe and this slight modification is what can cause negative side effects since the body does not recognize it as a useful substance.

Since the body does not recognize it as natural, it can result in the negative symptoms we listed above.

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