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Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement
Therapy
Hormone Replacement Therapy is most often used for menopause.
Typical symptoms of menopause may include hot flashes, vaginal
dryness, low libido, weight gain, irritability, moodiness and
sleep disturbances. Yet any woman who has experienced
endometriosis, PMS, weight gain, low libido or fibrocystic
breasts may also need to contact their pharmacist or physician.
 Women
have traditionally used synthetic estrogen therapy to treat
menopausal symptoms and to help protect against osteoporosis.
Another option for women needing hormone therapy may be the use
of bio-identical hormones rather than synthetic ones.
Compounding pharmacists are meeting the needs of peri-menopausal
women through the use of plant-derived hormones that are
biologically identical to those naturally occurring in women.
No
two women are alike, of course, and the value of bio-identical
hormone replacement therapy is that it can be adapted to fit
your individual body and hormone levels. In fact, hormones can
be made in a variety of strengths and dosage forms including
capsules, topical creams and gels, suppositories and sublingual
troches or lozenges.
With the help of a doctor and compounding pharmacist, a woman
can start and maintain a bio-identical replacement regimen that
closely mimics what her body has been doing naturally for years.
In an effort to educate and inform our local communities about
our bio-identical hormone replacement therapies, we had a
commercial made for insertion on our local cable networks.
The commercial, produced by CableOne for LongLines cable, is
completely animated and features the cartoon woman on the left
side of the page. You can view the commercial on your
computer by clicking on the cartoon figure. It's a 2MB
download and will open with Windows Media Player or any player
capable of playing a WMV file. |
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