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Natural Hormone Restoration Therapies

 

Ηormone Decline & Symptoms

In the narrow sense of the word, “Menopause” means cessation, as in the cessation of menstruation. Menopause is the period of a woman’s life that follows her last menstruation.

 

During perimenopause and menopause, hormone decline exerts severe symptoms to 80-85% of women in these life phase.

 

Women experience some, all or a combination of the following symptoms:

  • Hot flashes, Night sweats, cold sweats
  • Fast heart rate (tachycardia), bounding pulse
  • Headaches, migraines
  • Abnormal uterine bleeding, menstrual irregularities
  • Weight gain – Fat accumulation (belly fat)
  • Back pains
  • Segmented sleep, insomnia
  • Irritability
  • Εmotional disorders
  • Mood swings
  • Depression
  • Memory loss, forgetfulness
  • Inability to Concentrate
  • Lack of energy
  • Breast pain and change of shape
  • Joint pains
  • Muscle pains
  • Vaginal dryness
  • Pain during intercourse
  • Reduced sex drive
  • Frequent vaginal infections
  • Frequent urination – nocturia

What our hormones actually are?

They are chemical substances that are secreted from specific glands in the human body and they’re responsible for almost all sets of functions, organ communication and systems of the body.

 

Hormones are the ‘’messengers’’ that enhance communication among our cells.

 

They’ re secreted in the bloodstream and once they reach the ‘’target’’ tissue , activate the responsible receptors so that the desired functions occur.

 

Hormones are secreted in a rhythmic manner in both sexes. For women hormones determine the natural reproductive processes.

 

They coordinate the biological balance of the female body and emotional status in a process also known as Homeostasis.

 

Menopause, demands from the Modern woman, to live more than half of her life, in complete Hormone Imbalance. In a chaotic endocrine environment, opposite to her Survival.

 

At the end of every woman’s reproductive age, when her hormones stop producing and her body is left unprotected, a powerful question arises. “And now what?”.

 

The modern way of treating

Natural Hormone Restoration Therapies

There are plenty kinds of natural hormone restoration therapies (bio-H.R.T.), that work in different ways in order to minimize the symptoms and the health problems that may arise due to hormone imbalance that comes with menopause.

 

  • Elimination of menopause symptoms (hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, joint pains, depression, mood swings, hair loss, vaginal dryness etc.)
  • Zero side effects
  • Prevention of Osteoporosis
  • Prevention of Heart Disease
  • No synthetic substances
  • Weight managements

 

The huge hype around bioidentical hormones arises from the fact that the female body can metabolize and use them as it is designed to do with its endogenous produced hormones.

 

They act in the exact same way as the ones the body naturally produces, thus lacking side effects.

 

Micronized natural estrogens and progesterone, is a series of products that are compounded is specified pharmacies.

 

They are available in several pharmaceutical forms such as creams, pills, drops, patches, gels and vaginal suppositories.

On the contrary, synthetic hormones that are administered through HRT therapies are extremely potent with serious side effects and can be prescribed for a maximum of five years.

 

They are also inflammatory (raise of C Reactive Protein –CRP- inflammatory marker) contrary to bioidentical hormones which exhibit anti-inflammatory properties as well as anti-ageing.

 

The therapeutic prescription is selected among a hundred different protocols and is further personalized based on the patient’s individual lab exams.

 

The patient makes no alterations to her daily activities while her overall health condition and appearance is gradually improved.

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