What are bioidentical hormones?

Bioidentical hormones are a natural alternative to synthetic hormones. Based on your physician's recommendation, you can customize plant-derived hormones to address your unique needs.

You may find that the synthetic hormones are not meeting your needs because they are only available in a certain form or dosage. Customization can occur in the form in which they are administered including: gels, creams, capsules, troches (a small lozenge), or sublingual drop. Customization can also occur in the dosage of the bioidentical hormones.

"Bioidentical hormones" is a term that means different things to different people. To scientists and healthcare providers, it means hormones identical to those produced by the human ovary. For estrogen, it's 17-beta-estradiol. For progestogen (needed for women with a uterus who use estrogen to protect the uterus), it's progesterone. There are several FDA-approved products containing these two hormones.

Symptoms of Bioidentical

Your ovaries produce natural hormones such as Estrogen. When reaching menopause, they decrease estrogen production; in this way, starting the menopause symptoms.

Three levels of approaches for treating menopause symptoms can be considered for balancing hormonal levels: You should always start with the least risky approach and go on to riskier approaches only if necessary. It is worth trying the lowest level safest approach first, and moving up to the next level only if that fails.

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