The answer to that is “Yes!” Advances in Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) have produced safe and effective results which replicate exactly what our body creates. The natural hormones our body produces are now readily available online and from your doctor. Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) is the safest, and most effective way to help those who are experiencing an imbalance in age-related hormone deficiency. Once restored to their normal balance low hormone levels through the use of natural bioidentical horomnes, many men and women feel younger and more vital than they have in years.
Bioidentical HRT can also help solve another common hormone imbalance problem, namely Estrogen Dominance. It is important that we not confuse BHRT with synthetic hormone replacement therapy, which research studies has shown raises risks of life-threatening disease. The way these two replace hormones in our bodies are quite different in the effects they have.
Natural hormones are produced by both sexes. Although not normally known women’s bodies produce testosterone as well as the more common estrogen and progesterone and men produce progesterone and estrogen but in lower amounts than women, but their functional role as natural hormones in maintaining balance in the male body is just as important.
Within our body, natural hormones travel through the blood stream to target specific hormone receptor sites. They attach to their specific receptor sites called “relative binding affinity” (RBA). The hormone binding process is site-specific; for example, a receptor site for progesterone will not recognize estrogen or testosterone. All the natural hormones our body produces will fit perfectly with its specific RBA.
Like the natural hormones the body produces, bioidentical hormones fit our receptor sites precisely. Derived from plants (soybeans or wild yams) these bioidentical hormones exactly match the molecular structure of human hormones. Making them not only effective, but also safe. Since they duplicate the identical structure and function of our natural hormones, the body recognizes and knows, exactly what to do with them.
When it comes to synthetic hormones the chemical structure does not match that of the hormones produced by the human body and so the hormones do not fit well with the site receptors. This is where the dangers occur! Your body doesn’t recognize synthetic hormones like it does bioidentical hormones (it’s like forcing a piece of a jigsaw puzzle into the vacant space using a hammer) and the effects can be very harmful and have even caused deaths in the past.
