Synthetic Hormones - Huh, What Were You Thinking?

For women ages 35 to 55, the reality, and the very real discomfort and pain, of aging is becoming more and more noticeable each and every day. The changes in a woman's body, whether mental, physical, or emotional, stem from the body no longer producing the amount of hormones it did in the past. For women noticing the beginning of the aging process, these hormones that are in decline may include:

o Estrogen
o Progesterone
o Testosterone
o Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)

The deficiency in these hormones in women, as well as men less prevalently, can lead to a whole host of health problems, body changes, and other symptoms that many to most people find extremely uncomfortable. Typically, these symptoms will be chalked up as simply part of the aging process, however, the aging process can be greatly slowed, if not altogether arrested, and doctors have been doing so for over fifty years. Unfortunately, as this article relates, one of the most common methods of hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, using synthetic hormones to replace depleted natural hormones only exacerbates the harm done to a women's body. Today, bioidentical hormones, or BHRT, is a safe and effective alternative to the battling the aging process using dangerous synthetic hormones, or SHRT.

For women seeing the first signs of aging, the symptoms may seem only mildly inconvenient initially, but unfortunately, these symptoms and minor complaints will only progressively get worse over time. In fact, some lethal diseases that are potentially prevented, if not at the very least delayed in onset, by bioidentical hormones are the direct result of lacking hormones in a woman's body stemming from the aging process. Some of the initial symptoms appearing in women facing declines in their body's natural hormone levels typically will include:

o Inability to sleep through the night
o Hot flashes
o Emotional irritability
o Depression
o Aching bones and muscles
o Wrinkles
o Vaginal dryness
o Hair thinning or loss
o Decreased sex drive
o Memory loss
o Incontinence
o Chronic fatigue

The symptoms mentioned above, generally appearing gradually and in combination with one another, will prompt a woman to seek the counsel of their physician. Though these symptoms can truly turn a woman's life unmanageable, especially the inability to sleep, hot flashes, and ensuing depression, there are much more sinister side affects of the aging process as well. If left untreated by hormone therapy, woman experiencing the aging process make themselves much more vulnerable to other serious diseases of aging including:

o Osteoporosis
o Parkinson's disease
o Arthritis
o Diabetes
o Hypertension
o Heart disease
o Cataracts
o Glaucoma

For a woman's comfort and overall health, many doctors have turned to hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, as a means of rectifying the hormone loss associated with aging, and in turn, the aforementioned symptoms. Unfortunately, the prevailing information ascribed to by both woman and even their doctors is wrong when it comes to hormone replacement therapy, as this article will now further explain.