Hormones for Perimenopause and Menopause

Hormones have gotten a bad rap. Ever since the major study in the 1990s called the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) revealed that prescription hormones were responsible for increasing the risk of heart disease, cancers and dementia women stopped using them in droves.

More Than Just Hot Flashes: The Full Spectrum of Menopause Symptoms

But then they were left to suffer symptoms of menopause and perimenopause including sometimes severe hot flashes, depression, insomnia, loss of libido, weight gain and anxiety.

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Hormones for Perimenopause and Menopause

An important detail of the WHI was that the hormones used were synthetic and sourced from pregnant horse’s urine. To help women, doctors like myself started to use bioidentical hormones – sourced from yams and soy and identical to our own hormones, much unlike the horse pee stuff. Women have a safer and incredibly effective treatment for symptoms that can really affect quality of life. We’ve seen much research that has shown the safety of these hormones and I am confident more women would be open to them once they experienced the effects.

”I can help women navigate the complicated world of hormone replacement therapy.

I have made it my mission for years to right the wrong done to women because of bad research, shortsighted guidelines, misplaced fear, lack of medical courage and the sexism and misogyny that underlie medicine. Have I said enough? No. Let me go on.

I am a certified menopause practitioner from the Menopause Society. I have also obtained further education in the prescription of Bio-Identical Hormones for both women and men to treat PMS, PMDD, PCOS, Acne, Perimenopause andMenopause. My training has involved A4M and Dr. Ron Brown MD Gynecologist.

I’ve taught hundreds of doctors and healthcare providers on the expert prescribing of hormone replacement therapy giving them the confidence to do what is needed to be done – rescuing women from the glacial pace medicine insists it needs to move, leaving most women in the cold.

I find it very important to have thorough and honest and evidence based dissions wipatients on the pros and cons of hormone treatment and other popular treatment options like herbal therapy and acupuncture.

Bioidentical hormones review

Below is a review on bioidentical hormones for your further reading. Also you can find questionnaires that can help determine if you have a problem in perimenopause.

Review on Bioidentical Hormones

A Comprehensive Review of the Safety and Efficacy of Bioidentical Hormones for the Management of Menopause and Related Health Risks

Daily Menopause Diary

This handout is made available by the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research, University of British Columbia.

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