Balancing the hormone and the use of Bioidentical hormone is the essential part of hormone therapy to prevent side effects like cancer, blood clots etc. Bioidentical hormone means the hormone is of the same composition as it would be a natural hormone in your body when body was able to produce the hormone. Synthetic hormones are not the same composition as your natural hormone produced by the body. No one worries about the cancer caused by the hormone when the person is young. Bioidentical hormone has the similar composition as the hormone produced by the body. Estrogen has 400 functions in the body, including the following:
- Stimulates the production of choline acetyltransferase, an enzyme which prevents Alzheimer’s disease
- Improves mood, increases concentration, enhances energy, improves sleep
- Aids in the formation of neurotransmitters in the brain such as serotonin which decreases depression, irritability, anxiety, and pain sensitivity.
- Weight gain can be prevented because it increases metabolic rate, improves insulin sensitivity, regulates body temperature
- Helps maintain muscle & prevent muscle damage, maintains the amount of collagen in the skin, decreases wrinkles
- Reduces risk of cataracts, protects against macular degeneration
- Help maintain the elasticity of arteries, dilates small arteries, increases blood flow, inhibits platelet stickiness, decreases the accumulation of plaque on arteries
- increases HDL by 10 to 15%, decreases lipoprotein (a), enhances magnesium uptake and utilization, acts as a natural calcium channel blocker to keep arteries open and also reduces homocysteine
- Reduces the overall risk of heart disease by 40 to 50%
- Maintains bone density, helps prevent tooth loss
- Decreases risk of colon cancer
- Increase sexual interest
Hormone response is as unique to each person as their own fingerprints. Hormone replacement should not be considered without a thorough understanding of how the body’s entire hormone interacts with each other.
