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Learn More about Bioidentical Hormones:
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is
a method used to help treat the symptoms of menopause, and other
hormone imbalances. Although bioidentical hormones are not FDA
approved, they are being used more and more throughout the world
everyday. The FDA declared that since bioidentical hormones are
considered to be natural, regardless of their source, they
cannot be patented. Therefore, there are no huge drug
companies out there really profiting off the use and sale of
bioidentical hormones.
Bioidentical hormones, sometimes referred
to as natural hormones, are hormones that are molecularly
identical to the hormones that we produce naturally in our
bodies. Hormones and steroids are taken from plants and animals
and altered to a state of identical molecular structure, then
put into a form that can be taken by the patient, by way of
creams, oral supplements (pills), vaginal insertion, or
injections.
The plants that are used for the extraction of the hormones are
soy and yams, while the animals are pigs or horses. Although
these hormones are altered to a molecular identical state as the
hormones we produce, bioidentical hormones cannot be considered
completely natural due to the fact that they are altered in a
laboratory. Most women are worried about the source of the
hormones more than the bioidentical hormones itself, due to the
fact that synthetic hormones, which have been around for years,
have been found to carry some health risks
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