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
04/05/22 • 12 min
Lara Briden's Podcast - A safer type of hormone therapy
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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