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Bio-Mimetic Hormone Replacement Therapy for Menopause Symptoms

  • Posted on October 20, 2009 at 3:46 am

In the last century, medical practitioners and women alike are used to talking about bio-identical hormone replacement therapy in menopause medicine. While this is a good sign, the problem can be found in the terminology itself. In the real sense, you cannot replace your hormones. Instead, hormones can only be copied.

The newest trend is the use of multi-phasic rhythmic dosing of bio-mimetic hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) with the use of natural hormones in a bio-mimetic manner. In the United States, more than two million women are using this type of treatment for menopause symptoms. In the words of the author T.S. Willey, “natural hormones are not bio-mimedic unless the body can recognize them as hormones, and they are not considered restoration unless what has been lost is truly restored.”

A registered pharmacy system was created though, in the absence of the standards of legitimacy and availability, and is ready for testing and study.

In addition, a University of Texas study shall be carried out; the Bioidentical Hormones on Trial, or B.H.O.T. The primary goal of the research will be to examine clinical outcomes and quality of life indicators of patients receiving BHT at 10 to 12 primary care provider’s practices.

In addition, the findings will help generate a standard of BHT administration patterns and dosage.

It is important to note that regardless of their participation in the study, the respondents will not receive a change in clinical care. Quality of life, symptom relief and impact of BHT on physical health such as breast, endometrial and cardiovascular measures are among the outcomes that will be monitored in this research.

Furthermore, the results of the study will be presented nationally and internationally, and they’ll be submitted for publication in different women’s and medical journals. Results will be used in designing a prospective, randomized clinical trial with the aim of standardizing BHT dosing and administration patterns.

Among the main objectives of the study are: (1) to evaluate the quality of life indicators of the patients who are currently receiving bioidentical hormone replacement therapy at 10-12 practices of primary care providers (2) to check the effectiveness, safety and overall quality of life of subjects who are using 1 among 3 dosing patterns (3) to monitor the women’s laboratory results (4) to track the adverse effects experienced by the respondents in relation to BHT and (5) to assess the compounding pharmacies’ compliance to the standards.

Understanding Menopause Dryness

  • Posted on October 19, 2009 at 9:49 am

Regardless of awomen’s age, a lady has the potential to experience dryness. Frequently the onset of the symptoms are fast and customarily affect all sorts of women, in any case to whether they are premenopausal, postmenopausal, or menopausal. More than eighty p.c of all women just entering menopause go thru the experience of menopause dryness. Commonly, plenty of the women impacted by dryness are between the age of 40 and 65.

Dryness within the gonads is one of the most common signs of menopause experienced by girls. More than fifty % of women continue experiencing menopause dryness after the completion of menopause. Many of those who have not experienced dryness within the gonads, may think about the condition as nothing less than anuisance, however, the entire experience may turn out as devastating to some. Menopause dryness has the potential to destroy a girl’s sex life.

In addition, some women feel, as they are inadequate or feel guilty. At this time however things have changed fantastically. No longer, a lady has to feel badly about something that she is not ready to control. Many different sorts of treatments are available so that the woman andman can enjoy sex.

Vaginal dryness also referred to as vaginal atrophy happens when the levels of estrogen decrease within agirls’s body, while they’re going thru the process of menopause. Estrogen is one of the important hormones within a woman for the health and elasticity inside the vagina. In addition, it aids the mucus surfaces located at the mouth of the uterus in the production of lubrication, which helps to keep the are of the vagina strong, soft, and wet, while serving to protect from infections and bacteria.

When there’s less estrogen within the body, then there is less mucus produced by the vagina, therefore making the environment one thatis dry and thin, among other stuff. One of the most common symptoms of menopause dryness is unpleasant intercourse, as well as itching. Additionally, the weakening of the walls of the vagina can cause sex becoming insufferable.

Usually, the best way to treat menopause dryness involves increasing the amount of sex in some circumstances. The reason for this refers to the stimulation of the mucus glands, so making the vagina wet. Regularly, lubricants work well to help with making intercourse less unpleasant and to a certain degree enjoyable. Also, there are moisturizers that work well to alleviate the dryness too. If all else fails, many find that estrogen treatment eases a lot of the Problems associated with persistent vaginal dryness.

Visit signsofmenopause.org to know more about first symptoms of menopause

Avoid Prescription Treatments and Restore Your Youth the Natural Way

  • Posted on October 19, 2009 at 4:30 am

For many women, it is extremely difficult and disruptive to their life when they go though LA menopause but it is a complicated decision whether or not to begin LA hormone replacement therapy with so much conflicting information that is circulated regarding the safety of using such therapy on a long-term basis. Luckily, there are a number of other effective options that work naturally to help alleviate the horrendous symptoms that women experience.

One such alternative therapy is a bioidentical progesterone cream that is all natural and derived from plants. This seemingly miraculous cream contains plant phytoestrogens which reduce the intense symptoms and discomfort and without the side effects associated with synthetic chemically derived therapies. This cream is so safe that you can get it without obtaining a prescription from your doctor because there have been no reports of adverse side effects reported by women using bioidentical progesterone cream. Unlike synthetic, natural bioidentical ones are what the body wants for the female body to operate like when it was younger , so supplying proper bioidentical progesterone can meet this requirement.

Not every women suffers from the identical clusters of symptoms during her change of life, but the most common and serious that may be remedied are recurring night sweats, hot flashes, urinary incontinence, uterine fibroids, vaginal dryness, skin conditions including acne, severe mood swings, depression, low libido, osteoporosis, hair loss, infertility, insomnia, anxiety, bone loss and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. This type of cream is very pleasant to use because there is no need to worry about synthetic products, the formula is not oily and does not leave a residue on the skin, and most women can afford it since just a small container will usually last about two months.

The reason why progesterone cream applied to the skin is used by the body more effectively than artificial or synthetic drugs is because in progesterone deficient women, much of the progesterone can be taken in by the body tissues initially. Different women will require different doses but eventually, progesterone levels return to normal. While most women are fortunate to notice results within just a few days it does take a little longer for others.

Studies have shown that that trans dermal or skin application allows it to be absorbed easily and faster without having oral medications become deactivated by liver enzymes. Most people do not realize that only a small percentage of any medication or supplement is really absorbed by the colon and made available to help the rest of the body. Extremely important Information of which you should be aware is that while undergoing bioidentical progesterone therapy, you must avoid synthetic estrogens and progestins. Failing to head this warning will cause the treatment to not be as effective. Long-term, chronic exposure to extraneous sources will cause the estrogen receptors to be over stimulated and is a known carcinogen and fibroid tumor stimulator. Unfortunately, these harmful agents that have made their way into every corner of our environment include pesticides, detergent, shampoo, plastics, carpet, paint, herbicides, and fungicides just to name a few.

Why Bioidentical Hormones Should Be Rhythmic by T.S. Wiley

  • Posted on October 17, 2009 at 3:36 pm

I usually answer that because I’m old and I didn’t want to feel like it and I probably did not want to look like it and it was common sense to me that a watershed moment is when your hormones fall off and after that everything is, you’re geriatric. So, with the thought of taking hormones myself, I wanted to investigate the big thing in the room which is all the time cancer, breast cancer for women and decide if in fact, taking hormones would allow any risk and I was surprised that the decision arrived, it lead to less risk, taking enough hormones.

If I had believed the stories that has been going around, nothing could convince me to take bioidentical hormones since a high level of estrogen leads to high health risk for women that can even lead to death. Women are susceptible to breast cancer, even you. There is nothing beautiful about this disease and that holds true for the past 15 years. I was certain by thinking through it, if estrogen is high risk to women, all young women will end up dead.

If this chemical is hazardous to young women then it would result to becoming more dangerous to all pregnant women. I was convinced the estrogen didn’t do it. So, I checked into hormones and the truth was that synthetic hormones seemed to contain side effects. A study wasn’t made on bio identical hormones that came out of plants.

So, my option was bioidentical but not only was it essential what you took, which kind you took, yet also how you took it. So, the more I studied endocrinology, the more obviously I concluded that you should take it in a rhythm the way one produced it. The identical manner type 1 diabetics take insulin as they would have produced it when they eat.

Women must take bio identical hormones as they would have produced it when they were young and most of the side effects oddly doesn’t happen.

T.S. Wiley on Standardization: The Wiley Protocol Bio-Identical Hormones

  • Posted on October 17, 2009 at 5:29 am

Before and after the female health initiative, I think doctors had a general agreement of what they will give to women like the pharmaceutical product Prempro. But I’m sure they suspected that there’s some harm when they did not see great results.

So, then they went into bioidentical hormones and this template for bio-identicals until the protocol was the standard of care. A tiny bit of estrogen everyday and some progesterone occasionally chucked in for the second 1/2 the cycle or even estrogen and progesterone in small amounts everyday like Prempro was a daily mix and I think the doctors went with that because it appeared like the standard of care might be safe.

A turnkey system was what I tried to create in the Wiley Protocol. The Wiley custom comes prepackaged. Color coded for compliance. The doctors have a clinical practice axioms manual with symptoms and answers in it. The pharmacies that work with us also can have that manual. The pharmacist and doctor both agree on the answer if a lady calls in with questions.

When I gave evidence before the Senate, the govt. objected in the study of bioidenticals because there is not any point, so i did this standardization of packaging and dose modification so it could be studied. There are countless ways. Anything can be made by any pharmacist. There’s nothing they would say. They won’t charge anything and doctors, for the most part, would make it up as they’re going along unless they stuck to the template that made Premarin and Prempro.

Doctors let me know it’s very simple due to that, so I did all these so they can study it. They know what they’re recommending. They know what’s being taken by the woman. They know what results to expect and that’s science. That’s the way science is supposed to be done. Variables should be zero.

If we can find a doctor at the conference who is out there and wants a chemist, I mean we made it extremely simple at the site, TheWileyProtocol.com, you’ll be able to find a doctor and a physician, a doctor can find a drugstore to work with. Standardizing the entire process makes sure that the studies in Santa Barbara and the University of Texas mean something.

Well, I believe every girl wishes to recollect they merit an answer about what’s safe and effective and if your health practitioner can’t tell you something is safe and effective, do your own homework.