What Does Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy Do?

It shouldn’t be surprising that your body makes fewer hormones as you age. As a woman gets closer to menopause, her levels of estrogen and progesterone go down. 

This change in hormones can cause a lot of unpleasant things to happen, like night sweats and mood swings. Help can come from bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.

Today with us at Mason Aesthetics And Wellness, we’ll discuss some things you must know about bioidentical hormone replacement. See how each detail of this method can help you work through the best way for your health goals. 

What Does Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy Do?

Hormone replacement therapy returns your hormone levels to normal if they have dropped or are out of balance. One of the main things that can cause your hormone levels to change is menopause.

When your hormone levels aren’t normal, it can make you feel a lot of different ways that aren’t good. This is because your hormones are in charge of many of the natural things your body does. 

If you don’t get enough, your bones and tissues start to break down, leading to problems like osteoporosis. BHRT can help with this. In this kind of therapy, hormones come from natural sources like yams or soybeans. 

In other hormone therapies, hormones from animal urine are used to balance your hormones. This treatment can also make hormones that are chemically similar to the hormones your body already makes. This helps reduce side effects and makes the change go smoothly.

What Can You Benefit From BHRT?

Hormone replacement therapy can help a lot when going through menopause and all of the uncomfortable symptoms that come with it. The advantages of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy are as follows:

Acts as Your Hormones

BHRT is as close as possible to your hormones. The treatment can also be made up in a lab and changed to fit your needs.

Improves Sexual Experience

As you get older, your estrogen levels drop. This can make your vaginal area dry and hurt when you have sex. This can make you feel bad about having sex or not want it at all. When you get hormone replacement, your estrogen levels go back up. This makes your vaginal lubrication better, which improves your sex drive.

It keeps your Nails & Hair Stronger.

When your hormone levels drop below average, it can cause problems with your hair, nails, and bones, such as hair loss and nails that break easily. 

Bioidentical hormones make your body make more proteins like collagen. This makes you look younger and strengthens your nails and hair. But while there are tons of uses, is this treatment safe?

BHRT Effectiveness & Safety

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is a safe and natural way to treat hormone imbalances in men and women as they age. The hormones used to treat people are the same as the hormones in their bodies. 

When you use bioidentical hormones, your body’s cells recognize them and know how to use them best. Bioidentical hormones are safe because, just like your own hormones, they fit perfectly into the “locks” of the cells in your body where they do their work. 

How BHRT Can Help Women

At Mason Aesthetics And Wellness, we define BHRT to help women in many ways. These hormones work like remote control and send chemical messages to tissues all over your body to tell them what to do.

As women get older and move through different stages of life, there are signs that there may be an imbalance of hormones in the body. Most women with a hormone imbalance have estrogen dominance, but it can differ for each person.

Estrogen Dominance

Most women’s ovaries start to make more estrogen and less progesterone in their early to mid-30s. This change in the right amount of estrogen and progesterone causes your body and brain to react badly. 

Estrogen Dominance, in short, means that the amount of estrogen in the body is too high compared to the amount of progesterone. To know what estrogen dominance is, you must also understand what progesterone does. 

Anytime in your age as a woman, the levels of estrogen and progesterone go up and down, like the two sides of a seesaw. When progesterone levels drop, that “side” of the seesaw hits the ground. 

This causes terrible sleep, tiredness, anxiety, heavy periods, weight gain, uterine fibroids, irritability, and even anger. When the progesterone side of the seesaw gets “stuck” on the ground, the estrogen side is “raised” compared to progesterone. 

Not necessarily because your estrogen level is high but because your progesterone level drops so low that estrogen “dominates.”

Xenoestrogens are estrogens made by humans and found in hormone-injected meats and poultry; certain pesticides, petrochemicals, herbicides, plastics, fuels, car exhausts, drugs, and phthalates, which soften plastic and get into the body, are a factor. 

Lifestyle choices are also to blame. Eating the wrong foods, not getting enough exercise, not getting enough sleep, and having too much stress can all make estrogen load and dominance worse and happen faster.

For instance, estrogen dominance is very bad for your health. Some of the signs are:

• Fatigue 
• Depression
• Low libido,
• Mood swings,
• Warm spots,
• Sweats at Night,
• Breasts that hurt or have cysts
• Weight gain
• Insomnia
• Bone loss,
• Strange bleeding,
• Bloating

Remember that estrogen is an essential hormone for a woman’s health. Still, too much of it can be harmful, causing a chain reaction of unpleasant symptoms and raising the risk of diseases that can be life-threatening. 

If estrogen is more potent than progesterone and progesterone levels are low, estrogen can harm the body. Clinicians have found a link between estrogen dominance and an increased risk of breast and uterine cancer, osteoporosis, low thyroid, and dementia if the condition is not treated.

Treatment For Men

Testosterone for men also has some great benefits to bring. If asked what can it be? Well, there can be plenty, like these:

• It builds muscle mass, strength, endurance, and the ability to handle exercise, all of which improve life. 
• It gets rid of both deep and superficial fat. It makes all lipid parameters better and lowers cholesterol. 
• It enhances healing and lean muscle mass, bone density, skin tone, and collagen. 
• It helps you think and remember better and protects the cardiovascular, neurological, musculoskeletal, vascular, and immune systems. 
• And many more.

BHRT Takeaway

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy can be an ideal solution for your hormonal worries. Never doubt to have this, especially if you are a good candidate for this treatment. Check out how Mason Aesthetics And Wellness and our team can help you more with this matter. 

You can reach us by calling our hotline or booking an appointment online. We also offer other services you may like and help you with concerns like IV Therapy and Laser Hair Removal. Check these services out today, and see you here in our clinic!