Women's Bioidentical Hormone Safety

Is Hormone Replacement Safe?

We not only want to alleviate the suffering of menopause and give a woman her energy and femininity back, but we want to do it in a safe manner. It is of no use if the side effects of the treatment are worse than the disease.

Many people (including physicians) erroneously associate hormone replacement therapy with the medications used in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study from 2002 that led to the wholesale cessation of hormone replacement by many doctors due to the findings that the drugs that were being used were leading to blood clots, strokes and breast cancer increases in the test subjects. The medications that were used were estrogen and progestin (not progesterone). The synthetic progestin led to the problems associated with the hormone replacement. When estrogen alone was evaluated there was a decrease in breast cancer, heart disease, stroke and dementia. There was no change in mortality compared to controls.

A French study of 54, 548 women for 3 years put on different forms of hormone replacement found little to or no increase in risk in breast cancer when estrogens were used alone or with extended release progesterone.

The answer to the problem of safety is to use an estrogen and progesterone that is exactly like the ones found in your body. Bio identical.

Bio identical hormones have been studied extensively and found to be safe.