Natural Hormone Replacement - Sans The Usual Side Effects

Hormones play a vital role in the development of both male and the female bodies. Any imbalance in them can entirely change or alter the direction of a healthy life and can turn into a miserable one. There are three primary hormones: Testosterone, a male hormone which is also found in the females and which is responsible for imbuing physical strength, bone density and other characteristics.

The Estrogen and Progesterone which are female hormones (a little quantity of them is also found among men) and are basically responsible for primary and secondary sexual functions. For instance, the children diagnosed with rare hormone deficiency may become midget, or in the case of the elders, the hormonal imbalance can bring life threatening problems such as osteoporosis, dementia and other cardiovascular problems. Although hesitantly, but surely enough, most of the doctors prescribe the use of synthetically prepared hormones as counter measures against Andropause or Menopause (in case of women). But there have been a lot of clinical studies that suggest that the use of synthetic hormones may lead to prostate cancer, testicular cancer and other life threatening problems.

Although the hormonal imbalance affects the lives of both men and women, as compared to the men, the hormonal imbalance in women is more glaringly evident especially after the onset of the Menopause. The natural hormone imbalance is the condition which starts after the cessation of the monthly ovary production cycle, which starts from 40 to 50 years (depending upon the overall health of the woman). The associated symptoms and disorders are summarized into one single term PMSD or post menstrual stress disorder.

For years, the physicians have been trying to find out the best and the most ideal ways to restore the hormonal imbalance and now the hard work of decades is bearing fruit in the form of bioidentical hormones or simply the natural hormones. By these we simply refer to those hormones which have a similar molecular structure to the ones being produced inside the human body. Although they still are being replicated within a laboratory but still, their origin can be different such as they can be extracted from the plants or from horse's urine.

The advantages of natural hormone replacement are many but the most obvious of them all is that these have very little or low side effects. This is because of the fact that whereas the synthetic hormones are one-size-fits-all type, the natural hormones can be custom compounded according to the specific needs of the patients. This is not only a good thing for the patients but it also relieves the health care provider of a lot of worries.