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Considering Bioidentical Hormone Therapy?
If you’re considering bioidenticals, there ten important tips the women of VibrantNation.com think you should know.
The controversy surrounding hormone therapy for midlife women continues. According to the New York Times, one full decade after the Women’s Health Initiative launched its $625 million study to examine the risks and benefits of menopause hormones, supplements and low-fat diets—the issues surrounding women’s perimenopausal and menopausal health appear more unsettled and confusing than ever.
But just because the issues are complex doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be paying attention. Get the facts about the risks and benefits of Bioidentical Hormone Therapy in this free special report from Vibrant Nation.
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The Women’s Health Initiative is a landmark study that originally recruited more than 160,000 women as research subjects, including 26,000 for hormone research in particular. Scientists fully expected the study’s results to be predictable, including that hormones could prevent chronic illness in women, including heart disease. But the findings have consistently surprised us.
The confusing, whipsaw effect of these study results has led some midlife women to losing confidence in menopause studies altogether. Fearing harmful side effects, they now refuse to even consider hormone replacement therapy.
One Vibrant Nation blogger put it this way: “There are such serious health risks to all these estrogen-based hormone replacement products. I remember way back when we were told that HRT was perfectly safe. Then breast cancer rates soared, strokes occurred. Now women are once again being told that these creams and vaginal pill inserts are ‘perfectly safe.’ Why should we believe the drug companies yet again? And for what? Not at 60. No thanks.”
But some medical experts warn that this reaction may deprive some midlife women of their best option for treating the debilitating symptoms of menopause. So, what do you need to know?
In Considering Bioidentical Hormone Therapy? What Every Woman Over 50 Should Know, you’ll discover:
- If you should even be considering bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.
- Why you might choose bioidentical HRT vs. traditional HRT treatment.
- Why “bioidentical” does not mean “risk-free.”
- What factors should you consider to balance skepticism about biodentical HRT and its risks with the potential for menopause relief.
- Whether your insurance is likely to cover the costs of your bioidentical hormone therapy.
- What other vibrant midlife women — who’ve been there — think you should know
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“The important thing to remember is that one size does not fit all,” says Dr. Holly Thacker
“Every medicine—prescription as well as non-prescription—carries potential risks as well as potential benefits. All treatments have to be individualized and periodically assessed,” explains Dr. Holly Thacker menopause specialist and author of the Vibrant Nation Health Guide, Recognizing and Treating Menopause Symptoms.
“We have a history in the U.S. of wanting to believe that if we take a pill, we can prevent bad things from happening to us, and of wanting to take those pills before the evidence comes in,” Dr. Andrea LaCroix said in the New York Times. “The fact that women are frustrated by the twists and turns the Women’s Health Initiative has taken, and possibly more skeptical about the drug industry, may be a good thing.”
Women concerned about menopause health should insist that doctors make recommendations based on scientific evidence, rather than allowing drug companies or marketing hype to dictate patients’ health care choices. Of course, this is a lesson that many members of the Vibrant Nation community learned long ago.
At VibrantNation.com, the leading online community for women over 50, women just like you gather every day to connect and share advice on all the different issues that matter most at midlife—including the agonizing question of whether to use biodentical hormone replacement therapy for menopause relief! Now, you can benefit from their wisdom by downloading this free special report where we’ve collected the community’s best advice on the subject: Considering Bioidentical Hormone Therapy? What Every Woman Over 50 Should Know
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