Bioidentical Hormone Therapy
Estrogen
Estrogen can protect a woman against many of the diseases of aging. Post menopausal women on estrogen feel better and stay healthier.
BENEFITS OF ESTROGEN - WHAT IS ESTROGEN
Benefits of Estrogen Supplementation:
- Protects against heart disease
- Protects against stroke
- Decreases cholesterol
- Prevents and or lowers incidence of Alzheimer's disease
- Improves memory
- Decreases symptoms of menopause
- Prevents osteoporosis by slowing down the process
- Improves vaginal dryness and eliminates bladder problems
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Hormones - Estrogen
Estrogen is the primary female hormone and was the first hormone commonly replaced. It has been prescribed for over forty years to women suffering from symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, insomnia, vaginal dryness, bladder problems, difficulty concentrating and anxiety. With time, many of these symptoms diminish.
Unfortunately, the disease processes, such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's only increase in the absence of estrogen.
Women using estrogen have seen favorable changes in muscle tone, wrinkles, hair texture and sex drive. Multiple studies illustrate that estrogen should not simply be used as a treatment for menopause, but rather as a life-long therapy for the deterrent of age related diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease and depression.
Possible Side Effects:
Side effects with estrogen usually only occur with estrogen dominance – there is no progesterone to counter balance or the progesterone level is too low in comparison to the amount of estrogen. Estrogen dominance can result in mood swings, depression, breast swelling, fibrocystic breast tissue, craving for sweets, sleep disturbances, uterine fibroids, weight gain, acne, and water retention.
Administration:
Estrogen is best administered in the natural form as a Biest or Triest preparation. Biest contains 1.0 mg of estadiol and 0.5 mg of estriol supplied as a capsule, cream, or sublingual.
Frequently Asked Questions:
- How is natural estrogen different from Premarin? Premarin is derived from the urine of pregnant mares. It is comprised primarily of horse estrogen's that are not bio identical to the estrogens human make. The different forms of estrogen mentioned above are bio identical to what your body already makes causing less side effects and better results.
- Will I get any breakthrough bleeding? Not usually, but sometimes your doctor may have to adjust the dosage of estrogen and progesterone. Breakthrough bleeding can occur if you forget to take your progesterone. Be sure to contact your physician if this happens.
- My doctor told me that soy and other herbs are a natural way to combat menopause, is this true? Although they may have phytoestrogens, the estrogens are not high enough to combat osteoporosis, heart disease, and other diseases of aging.
Additional Information:
Estrogen is produced in the ovaries and adrenal glands. Men also produce estrogen through a conversion of testosterone, although this is an extremely small amount. There are three types of estrogen found in a female's body, estrone, estradiol and estriol. The levels of all of these hormones fall dramatically at the onset of menopause.
The rapid bone loss after menopause has been attributed to the decline in the production of estrogen, which is essential for bone growth. In addition the loss of estrogen results in the development of heart disease, which is the number one killer of both men and women.
Postmenopausal women on estrogen have a 70% decrease in mortality from heart disease. Natural estrogen has also been shown to lower total blood cholesterol and raises HDL, the good cholesterol. Not only does natural estrogen protect vessels of the heart, it also protects vessels of the brain and may protect against Alzheimer's disease.
There is no doubt that estrogen can protect a woman against many of the diseases of aging and that post menopausal women on estrogen typically feel better and stay healthier. Unfortunately, most of the estrogen that is prescribed to women is in the form of a synthetic estrogen or an estrogen that is not natural to the human body. Because of this, many women develop side effects as well as cancer. A healthy trend these days is to avoid the synthetic estrogens that have been used for years and prescribe natural estrogens.
Human receptor sites were designed to accept the natural estrogen and not a synthetic analog that not only causes adverse symptoms but also can be linked to cancer formation. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine proved by meta analysis that long term use of synthetic estrogens increases the formation of breast cancer.
In Europe, most research trials have shown that natural estrogen, especially when taken in conjunction with natural progesterone, protects against breast cancer similar to the way it protects against uterine cancer. In addition, the use of estriol, which is a weak estrogen, has been shown to lower the incidence of breast cancer. This article was first published in the Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, which indicated that there was enough presumptive and scientific evidence accumulated to prove that estriol is the safer estrogen as it has been shown to actually decrease the incidence of breast cancer.
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