Hormone Replacement Therapy
The Benefits of Healthy Hormone Levels in Women
Healthy hormone levels in women are essential to improve overall health and quality of life.
Hormone levels manage most of what happens in your body, from when you want to eat to how you feel to whether you’ve recently become someone who constantly feels hot at night when trying to sleep.
Hormone levels change naturally throughout your lifetime.
While you can influence them through lifestyle changes to a certain extent, these changes will happen as you age regardless.
Many women start experiencing more extreme symptoms of this hormonal shift during perimenopause (the precursor to menopause).
What Is Perimenopause?
Perimenopause is a time that precedes menopause (when the period stops).
It typically begins in women between 40 and 44 and is characterized by significant high and low estrogen levels, among other hormonal imbalances.
What Are the Symptoms of Perimenopause?
The hormonal highs and lows that women experiment during perimenopause may lead to some uncomfortable and unusual medical conditions:
• Irregular periods (shorter or longer cycles, usually with shorter periods)
• Night sweats (even in a cool room)
• Hot flashes or feeling hot in a cool room
• Mood changes
• hair loss
• Brain fog / Trouble concentrating
• Vaginal dryness and itchiness
• Pain during intercourse
• Trouble sleeping
• Headaches
• Achy joints
• Changes in sex drive
• Frequent urination
• Hormonal weight gain
A Moderate to severe perimenopause experience can impact your family life, career, and ability to enjoy yourself socially. This can continue for five to seven years.
Menopause is considered to have officially begun when you haven’t had a period for 12 months, by around age 51.
What Is Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)?
BHRT is the therapeutic use of human-made hormones biologically as your natural hormones.
This is possible because hormones have a consistent chemical structure.
For example, one form of estrogen is called estradiol.
Whether the estrogen is produced by you or in a lab, it will have the same chemical structure.
BHRT hormones come from plants and are then modified to precisely match your hormones and balance your hormone levels.
Yes, plants have hormones too.
BHRT for perimenopause primarily contains three hormones in the right amounts for your body: estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.
BHRT can treat many hormone-related conditions like insulin resistance and fibromyalgia.
Perimenopause is not a disease. But many do benefit from this therapy, which you can receive in patches, injections, creams, gels, pills, or pellets.
What Are the Benefits of BHRT for Perimenopause?
BHRT can improve hormone levels in those experiencing moderate to severe symptoms of hormone imbalance.
It’s important to mention that everyone’s different, and many factors can influence changes in estrogen, progesterone, and other hormone levels.
However, BHRT can be part of the solution with these potential benefits.
1. Readily Accepted by Your Body
Because the hormones are bio-identical, your body receives them and uses them as it would hormones your own body created. It can take about ten days for the body to adjust, and it can take up to six months to realize the full benefits you’ll get from BHRT.
2. Fewer Hot Flashes / Night Sweats
Both of these occur when estrogen levels drop to extreme lows.
Without estrogen to regulate it, the hypothalamus overreacts to slight changes in room temperature.
BHRT can reduce the hypothalamus’ reactiveness, returning it to its normal hormone levels.
3. More Effective Stress Management
Hormones impact how you react to stress and how stressed you feel.
Inability to effectively manage high levels of stress can lead to mood swings from anger outbursts to wallowing in self-pity.
BHRT can support healthy stress management.
These may improve if you’re experiencing depression or anxiety related to abnormal hormone levels.
4. Better Sleep
Changes in estrogen, progesterone, and other hormone levels wreak havoc across the body and menstrual cycle.
Increased stress levels coupled with other hormonal imbalances and night sweats may make it hard to fall asleep or stay asleep. BHRT may help.
5. Reduce Hormonal Weight Gain
Increased stress levels and lack of quality sleep can cause hormonal weight gain, which often hits you from all sides.
You have low energy, so you don’t feel like exercising. Then you feel hungry more often.
Hormone imbalances also cause you to retain water and store fat in your mid-section.
On top of this, the mental fog can make it hard to focus on maintaining healthy eating habits, so you may not make the most beneficial selections.
As you gain weight, you feel more achy and lethargic, creating a vicious cycle.
BHRT can break this cycle, allowing you to re-establish or tweak your healthy lifestyle to lose stubborn hormonal weight gain and keep it off.
6. Reduce Sexual Symptoms
Estrogen has many roles in the body, one being lubrication.
Lack of vaginal lubrication can cause vaginal dryness, itchiness, and pain during sex.
BHRT can restore moisture balance, so the vagina looks and feels younger and healthier.
7. Reduce Joint and Bone Decline
The degradation of joints and demineralization of bones happens naturally as we age.
While BHRT does not restore bone and joint health, it can reduce the rate at which these decline, reducing the risk of osteoporosis.
Contact Us at Renew Health and Wellness
Every lady will experience hormone imbalance differently. And we’ve only shared some of the many benefits of normal hormone levels.
Yes, there are more. If the way you’re experiencing it is negatively impacting your enjoyment of life, then it’s time to talk to someone about BHRT.
At Renew Health and Wellness, you can take a hormone test to determine if perimenopause may be contributing to your experience.
We’ll share with you how Bioidentical Hormone Replacement (BHRT) may be able to help in your situation and help you experience the benefits of BHRT.
Healthy hormone levels in women are essential to improve overall health and quality of life.
Hormone levels manage most of what happens in your body, from when you want to eat to how you feel to whether you’ve recently become someone who constantly feels hot at night when trying to sleep.
Hormone levels change naturally throughout your lifetime.
While you can influence them through lifestyle changes to a certain extent, these changes will happen as you age regardless.
Many women start experiencing more extreme symptoms of this hormonal shift during perimenopause (the precursor to menopause).
What Is Perimenopause?
Perimenopause is a time that precedes menopause (when the period stops).
It typically begins in women between 40 and 44 and is characterized by significant high and low estrogen levels, among other hormonal imbalances.
What Are the Symptoms of Perimenopause?
The hormonal highs and lows that women experiment during perimenopause may lead to some uncomfortable and unusual medical conditions:
• Irregular periods (shorter or longer cycles, usually with shorter periods)
• Night sweats (even in a cool room)
• Hot flashes or feeling hot in a cool room
• Mood changes
• hair loss
• Brain fog / Trouble concentrating
• Vaginal dryness and itchiness
• Pain during intercourse
• Trouble sleeping
• Headaches
• Achy joints
• Changes in sex drive
• Frequent urination
• Hormonal weight gain
A Moderate to severe perimenopause experience can impact your family life, career, and ability to enjoy yourself socially. This can continue for five to seven years.
Menopause is considered to have officially begun when you haven’t had a period for 12 months, by around age 51.
What Is Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)?
BHRT is the therapeutic use of human-made hormones biologically as your natural hormones.
This is possible because hormones have a consistent chemical structure.
For example, one form of estrogen is called estradiol.
Whether the estrogen is produced by you or in a lab, it will have the same chemical structure.
BHRT hormones come from plants and are then modified to precisely match your hormones and balance your hormone levels.
Yes, plants have hormones too.
BHRT for perimenopause primarily contains three hormones in the right amounts for your body: estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.
BHRT can treat many hormone-related conditions like insulin resistance and fibromyalgia.
Perimenopause is not a disease. But many do benefit from this therapy, which you can receive in patches, injections, creams, gels, pills, or pellets.
What Are the Benefits of BHRT for Perimenopause?
BHRT can improve hormone levels in those experiencing moderate to severe symptoms of hormone imbalance.
It’s important to mention that everyone’s different, and many factors can influence changes in estrogen, progesterone, and other hormone levels.
However, BHRT can be part of the solution with these potential benefits.
1. Readily Accepted by Your Body
Because the hormones are bio-identical, your body receives them and uses them as it would hormones your own body created. It can take about ten days for the body to adjust, and it can take up to six months to realize the full benefits you’ll get from BHRT.
2. Fewer Hot Flashes / Night Sweats
Both of these occur when estrogen levels drop to extreme lows.
Without estrogen to regulate it, the hypothalamus overreacts to slight changes in room temperature.
BHRT can reduce the hypothalamus’ reactiveness, returning it to its normal hormone levels.
3. More Effective Stress Management
Hormones impact how you react to stress and how stressed you feel.
Inability to effectively manage high levels of stress can lead to mood swings from anger outbursts to wallowing in self-pity.
BHRT can support healthy stress management.
These may improve if you’re experiencing depression or anxiety related to abnormal hormone levels.
4. Better Sleep
Changes in estrogen, progesterone, and other hormone levels wreak havoc across the body and menstrual cycle.
Increased stress levels coupled with other hormonal imbalances and night sweats may make it hard to fall asleep or stay asleep. BHRT may help.
5. Reduce Hormonal Weight Gain
Increased stress levels and lack of quality sleep can cause hormonal weight gain, which often hits you from all sides.
You have low energy, so you don’t feel like exercising. Then you feel hungry more often.
Hormone imbalances also cause you to retain water and store fat in your mid-section.
On top of this, the mental fog can make it hard to focus on maintaining healthy eating habits, so you may not make the most beneficial selections.
As you gain weight, you feel more achy and lethargic, creating a vicious cycle.
BHRT can break this cycle, allowing you to re-establish or tweak your healthy lifestyle to lose stubborn hormonal weight gain and keep it off.
6. Reduce Sexual Symptoms
Estrogen has many roles in the body, one being lubrication.
Lack of vaginal lubrication can cause vaginal dryness, itchiness, and pain during sex.
BHRT can restore moisture balance, so the vagina looks and feels younger and healthier.
7. Reduce Joint and Bone Decline
The degradation of joints and demineralization of bones happens naturally as we age.
While BHRT does not restore bone and joint health, it can reduce the rate at which these decline, reducing the risk of osteoporosis.
Contact Us at Renew Health and Wellness
Every lady will experience hormone imbalance differently. And we’ve only shared some of the many benefits of normal hormone levels.
Yes, there are more. If the way you’re experiencing it is negatively impacting your enjoyment of life, then it’s time to talk to someone about BHRT.
At Renew Health and Wellness, you can take a hormone test to determine if perimenopause may be contributing to your experience.
We’ll share with you how Bioidentical Hormone Replacement (BHRT) may be able to help in your situation and help you experience the benefits of BHRT.
