It’s All about Achieving Your Correct Hormonal Balance

There is some ongoing controversy about the difference between natural and synthetic hormones and everyone seems to be interested in discussing it. However, the primary focus should always remain on how best to achieve your natural hormone balance. Hormones are naturally produced in our bodies. They affect the body's growth and development, metabolism, mood, reproduction and sexual function.

Having the correct hormone balance in the body is what becomes MOST important, as a slight imbalance may create major issues. The production of hormones reduces or changes as the body ages, necessitating a need for hormonal balance correction with the use of bio-identical hormones. This is usually known as bio-identical hormone replacement therapy or BHRT.

Natural hormones are derived from plant sources such as yams, the natural hormones are molecularly identical to the natural hormones produced in the body. The success comes in the specialization of compounding customized medicinal and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to match a patient's specific need. This requires a close cooperation between the pharmacist, physician and the patient.

The symptoms resulting from hormonal imbalance within the body can manifest in many unpleasant and different forms. Some of these are insomnia, anxiety, hot flashes, red flush on the face, loss of sex drive, lack of concentration, rapid and unexpected weight gain, lethargic depression, night sweats, memory problems, cyclical headaches and irritability. Working together BHRT specialist physicians and compounding pharmacists can determine via your saliva, blood and urine what hormones are deficient or excessive within your body and formulate bio-identical hormone treatment that specifically addresses your ever changing conditions.

Many women at the age of thirty-five, begin to require some form of bio-identical hormone supplementation. These could be testosterone, estrogen, thyroid and progesterone. It is applicable to post-menopause and pre-menopausal women equally. Natural plant sources are used for sourcing of the bio-identical hormones that the body finds biologically identical to both female and male hormones. Although plants do not make human hormones, the compounds made by plants have very similar hormonal effects. These are more commonly known as phyto-hormones.

These natural hormones help to re-balance the hormone levels in a natural and safe way. In bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, every man or woman is considered different and the balance of hormones in the body is the key to a successful therapy.