"What You Should Know About Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)"

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Hormone replacement Therapy (HRT) is a menopausal treatment prescribed by your medical practitioner. HRT comes in two forms:Birth Control Pills as Hormone Treatment TherapyWhen a woman is in peri menopause a doctor may suggest birth control pills - particularly if you are having problems with very heavy, frequent or unpredictable menstrual periods. Birth control pills will make your periods more regular and may also help with menopause symptoms like hot flashes. However, birth control pills can mask the arrival of menopause. If you are taking the pill for menopause symptom relief, you can stop taking it for awhile and see if you start having regular menstrual periods again. This can become a problem if you are already taking the pill as a contraceptive. Estrogen Replacement TherapyOf course, for menopause your doctor may also suggest that you take the most commonly prescribed medication for balancing hormones and menopause symptom relief, hormone replacement therapy or HRT. Hormone replacement therapy usually involves taking a combination of estrogen plus progestin. HRT can be taken in many forms: pills, skin patches, creams, or vaginal inserts depending on the woman. HRT may relieve the symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes and help reduce bone loss, but hormone replacement therapy does have its risks.

Risks of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Health problems can stem from having too much estrogen without the corresponding (or opposing) progesterone. Studies have shown that estrogen with progesterone in proper levels won't cause breast cancer, but estrogen unopposed will cause breast cancer. Estrogen tells cells to "multiply." Progesterone tells the cells to "stop and get on with their appointed job." Without progesterone, estrogen will have free reign and begin to tell the cells to continue to multiply, and they won't stop until they are told. Synthetic hormone replacement therapy won't help this situation because the body only recognizes bodily identical hormones in order for them to be of use. Anything else will be stored in the fat cells, indefinitely. The medical solution for taking care of the unopposed estrogen is to take out a woman's ovaries. But if the ovaries are removed you take out the main source of progesterone, so a woman will have low to no progesterone to stop the natural function of estrogen. So estrogen happily tells the cells to continue to multiply. However, the medical solution is to prescribe synthetic estrogen and progestin (which is not the same as progesterone), and this will only cause more problems: more estrogen and synthetics will now be stored in the fat cells.The medical community continues to prescribe synthetic estrogen and PROGESTIN (not the same as progesterone) even in light of new studies demonstrating the risks of this form of menopause treatment.AAHHHH! I don't need to watch horror shows, I read medical information!Please consider learning more about the alternatives to menopause relief......