By Dr. Luis Dominguez In Regenerative Medicine Therapy, Women’s Health
Understanding The Truth About Bioidentical Hormones
If you are looking for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in Hallandale Beach, you may wonder, is it better than typical hormones? The answer is yes!
It is the preferred method of prescribing hormone replacement therapy for women. Yet there are still a lot of myths and misconceptions about bioidentical hormones.
First, let’s understand a little bit more about hormones. Hormones are your body’s chemical messengers. They are made mainly by the glands of your endocrine system. Hormones influence, control, or regulate just about every biological process in your body.
“Here are many different kinds of hormones, but the ones you are most familiar with are probably the sex hormones, testosterone in men and estrogen and progesterone in women.“
You most likely are familiar with these hormones – particularly women – because these are the ones that can cause issues when they are low or out of balance.
Women, in particular, are well aware of how fluctuations in their female hormones impact moods and physical health during regular menstrual cycles.
Women become even more accurately aware of the effects of hormone imbalances as they approach and enter menopause. As women get close to the end of the childbearing years, estrogen levels drop significantly, which can lead to a glut of unpleasant symptoms.
Hormone replacement therapy has been the treatment of choice for women to relieve the most debilitating symptoms of menopause, such as the all-too-familiar hot flashes, night sweats, sexual health issues, and mood swings.
Over the past few decades, hormone replacement therapy, or HRT for women, has become somewhat controversial. But women need to understand that the introduction of these hormones has cleared up many of those previous concerns.
So, what exactly are bioidentical hormones? It is a complete duplicate of the naturally occurring hormones produced by your body. As opposed to synthetic hormones, it has the same molecular structure as the hormones produced by your body.
Which means they are used and absorbed much more quickly than synthetic hormones. Since hormones — in the case of bioidentical estrogens, for example — are exact duplicates of the hormones a woman’s ovaries would make, they offer more effective symptom relief than synthetic hormones with fewer risks and side effects.
It is all-natural and derived from plant sources. Estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone are the most commonly used hormones. There is a common misconception that the FDA does not approve bioidentical therapy. This is not the case.
For women, bioidentical hormone therapy is the most effective treatment option for relieving the typical symptoms of perimenopause and menopause in women. They also need to understand that bioidentical hormone replacement doesn’t only have benefits just before, during, and post-menopause. Hormone imbalances can happen at any time in your life.
Whenever they do, bioidentical hormones are the safest and most effective treatment to bring you back to an even keel and optimal health.
That is why at NuLife Institute at Oasis Spa, we design our bioidentical hormone treatment programs for women to optimize the levels of all of the critical hormones and not just those typically lost at menopause.
You may need testosterone therapy, HGH therapy, or both depending on your symptoms.
At NuLife Institute, we realize that not all patients experiencing age-related hormone decline are the same.
Unlike some other facilities, we never take a cookie-cutter approach to hormone replacement but tailor your program to your unique needs, goals, and lifestyle.
Our medical director, Dr. Luis Dominguez, has used his unique, customized approach to help thousands of patients reverse the clock on aging and enjoy a whole new lease on life. Dr. Luis Dominguez has applied his inquisitive mind and passion for evidence-based Integrative Medicine to focus on utilizing a whole-body approach that provides life-changing results.
If you would like to learn a little bit more about the many life-changing benefits of bioidentical hormones, Contact us today at (954) 890-1000, or follow this link for a complimentary consultation with our hormone specialists to help you live your life to the fullest!