Tuesday, December 18, 2012

No more suffering: Hormone therapy for menopausal women

Menopause is the permanent end of menstruation and fertility in women, and occurs 12 months after the last menstrual cycle. For most women, the onset of menopause is usually marked by hot flashes, mood swings, and sleep disturbances which can be unbearable.

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This is why bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is gaining popularity among women who do not want to suffer any longer from the discomforting symptoms of menopause, explain physicians such as Dr. Rachna Mehra. BHRT uses supplemental doses of hormones that have a chemical structure identical to the hormones that the human body naturally produces.

For some menopausal women, hormone therapy is the answer to their quest for regaining balance back into their lives. This was certainly the case for Oprah Winfrey , who admitted back in 2009 that menopause caught her “off guard.” In O magazine, she recalled how a hormone specialist told her that her “hormonal tank was empty” and gave her a prescription for bioidentical estrogen.

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“And after one day on bioidentical estrogen, I felt the veil lift,” Winfrey wrote. “After three days, the sky was bluer, my brain was no longer fuzzy, my memory was sharper. I was literally singing and had a skip in my step.”

Indeed, bioidentical hormones worked wonders for Winfrey and for other women, too. BHRT significantly reduces symptoms associated with drop in hormone levels before, during, and after menopause, including hot flashes, memory loss, weight gain, and depression. In addition to symptomatic relief, bioidentical hormones protect the brain, heart, blood vessels, bones, skins, hair follicles, and muscles from decline.

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Visit this website to know more about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.

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