A safer type of hormone therapy
04/05/22 • 12 min
If you're going to take hormone therapy, it's safer to take hormones that are identical to human hormones. In other words, hormones that are body-identical or bioidentical. The concept of bioidentical used to be controversial but is now conventional and mainstream.
In this episode, Lara discusses hormone therapy including:
- why the concept of bioidentical was controversial when it didn't need to be
- oral micronized progesterone for heavy periods, mood, sleep, and perimenopausal migraines, and
- some facts about body-identical estrogen (four uncontroversial things and one controversial).
Links:
- The crucial difference between progesterone and progestins
- Cyclic progesterone therapy for PCOS
- The central role of ovulatory disturbances in the etiology of androgenic polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—Evidence for treatment with cyclic progesterone
- Blog post with a list of body-identical brand names
- Online workshop: Metabolic health and vitality for women over 40
If you're going to take hormone therapy, it's safer to take hormones that are identical to human hormones. In other words, hormones that are body-identical or bioidentical. The concept of bioidentical used to be controversial but is now conventional and mainstream.
In this episode, Lara discusses hormone therapy including:
- why the concept of bioidentical was controversial when it didn't need to be
- oral micronized progesterone for heavy periods, mood, sleep, and perimenopausal migraines, and
- some facts about body-identical estrogen (four uncontroversial things and one controversial).
Links:
- The crucial difference between progesterone and progestins
- Cyclic progesterone therapy for PCOS
- The central role of ovulatory disturbances in the etiology of androgenic polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—Evidence for treatment with cyclic progesterone
- Blog post with a list of body-identical brand names
- Online workshop: Metabolic health and vitality for women over 40
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Transcript
Here's a simple fact. If you're going to take hormone therapy, it's safer to take hormones that are identical to human hormones. In other words, hormones that are body-identical or bioidentical. The concept of bioidentical used to be controversial but is now conventional and mainstream.
Welcome back to the podcast. I’m your host Lara Briden, a naturopathic doctor and author of the books period repair manual and hormone repair manual.
It’s autumn here now in Christchurch, New Zealand
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