How Does Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy Work?

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Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy or BHRT is the use of the same or matching molecular hormones utilized for replacement treatment. This treatment is also known as bio-identical hormone therapy and natural hormone therapy. A bio-identical hormone isn’t any form of simulation, replica or synthetic, but consists of pure plant-based substances such as soy which have the same molecular structure of that of human structures.

Since these are bio-identical, it significantly means that the human body recognizes these essences or substances are the same as human hormones and utilizes them in the same way it will use the natural body hormones. Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy even if sounds like a fresh or new concept, it dates back to 1930s. Many document statistics and medical journals could be found on BHRT when hormones were initially utilized to ease from menopausal symptoms.

How Does Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy Work?

The human hormone act as messengers that convey chemicals in the blood, and in turn they affect many things from energy, appetite, mood, weight, metabolism as well as behavior. With age, your body hormonal system is likely to become inefficient as well as imbalances that result in mood disorders and waning immunity and leads to menopause. With Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, hormones directed to the body through pills, creams, gels, and tablets.

These substances once directed to your body. It extracts the needed chemicals, passes them in your liver which turns it into estrone and releases into your bloodstream to be utilized as hormone replacement. Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy is an alternative type of therapy and which in many cases proves to be straightforward, free of the hassles, affordable as well as don’t have any harmful effects. Its advantages, as well as the effect, could last up to six months.

The Benefits of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy

BHRT has lots of benefits when compared to synthetic products trying to obtain similar results. An essential benefits of BHRT are:
Minimizes the Risk of Breast Cancer
In many journals published in Maturitas, Postgraduate Medicine and Alternative Medicine Review, supportive proof has been carried to light that bio-identical progesterone is better suited to hold back the effects of cancer cells and its reproduction or relapse. The use of bio-identical hormones doesn’t have the risk of breast cancer if compared to synthetic counterparts.
It Aids to Enhance Circulation
A lot of journals also state that this therapy has a remarkable effect on the blood vessels because it has almost no harmful effects on blood lipids or vasculature and doesn’t allow for blood clots in your body if compared to the artificial products that often leave provocative blood clots upon administration.
Get Rid of Signs of Menopause
Alternative Medicine Review states that Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy offers relief in menopause-related signs like sleep disorders, mental cognition and mood swing. Where the artificial equivalents are likely to augment the risk of dementia, this natural alternative, offers a no side effect relief from these symptoms. For more information about Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, please feel free to call us at 281-292-3030

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Anne Marie Ponce de Leon

Medical Director

About Anne Marie Ponce de Leon

Anne Marie Ponce de Leon MD is a proud native Houstonian. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Houston Baptist University with a double major in Biology and History. For medical school, she attended the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (recently renamed McGovern Medical School). She began her family practice training at Tufts University Medical School in Boston, MA, but subsequently returned to Houston where she completed her residency at the Memorial Southwest Family Practice Program.

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