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What is Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Hormone replacement therapy is a medication prescribed by a doctor and hormone specialist that helps manage some of the unwanted effects or frustrating symptoms of aging. Hormone therapy for men is typically testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), which helps replenish naturally declining levels of testosterone. TRT can have immediate and dramatic effects on a man’s quality of life. For women, hormone therapy can be a bit more complicated but generally includes estrogen support and management. As females get older and enter perimenopause and menopause, they start to notice symptoms that can drastically affect their everyday lives.
Bioidentical hormone therapy helps lessen and reverse these symptoms, helping women feel and look like their younger selves again. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) uses hormones that come from natural plant compounds, which are identical in molecular structure to the ones produced in your body. They function in the exact same way as your natural hormones. Bioidentical hormones are a more natural and safer alternative than synthetic hormones created in a lab.
Hormones affect everything from your metabolism to your cognitive function to your mood and sexual function. Balanced and optimal hormone levels are crucial for maintaining good health throughout life because hormones play such an important role in our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Hormones are chemical messengers that impact virtually all of your body’s systems and functions. They are secreted directly into the bloodstream in microscopic amounts from the endocrine glands. This is why it only takes a very small amount of hormone to cause major changes in the body and why it’s so important to keep a close eye on your hormone levels as you age (ideally under the care of a dedicated hormone doctor).
Hormone replacement therapy of the past included the use of manufactured hormones created in a lab from synthetic sources, which often came with unwanted side effects and health risks. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) only uses bioidentical hormones derived from natural plant-based sources to help safely balance and optimize hormone levels in men and women. Hormone specialists are doctors, physician’s assistants, or nurse practitioners who have expertise in diagnosing, treating, and preventing the symptoms, side effects, conditions, and illnesses related to your body’s hormones. They have taken additional training in functional medicine, and their goal is to get to the root cause of any issues you are experiencing and naturally get your body functioning at its best.
