For women as they enter middle age and beyond the combination of changing menstrual cycles and hormone levels often leave you feeling overwhelmed. Many symptoms begin to leave you wondering if you will lose your mind and body.
You begin to have self-doubt and anxiety: loss of self-confidence and insecurity: your body starts to soften and sag with the wrinkles and lines that appear on your face: your hair blows and starts falling: sex becomes unattractive and routine.
Is this all familiar? As a woman if you suffer from the above physical and emotional problems, you are not alone: this is a normal scenario.
For men there is a similar condition known as Andropause, which is also a major turning point: your memory starts, your sex drive drops, your muscles become tired and you start packing on fat.
So do you need to accept these changes? Is this the beginning of the end for men and women?
Of course not! With the right knowledge and the right actions there is no reason why you can't surf through middle age and stay strong, sexy, healthy, energetic and with a positive outlook on living well in the years ahead.
By monitoring your hormone levels and using the latest, safe and effective therapies to improve your hormone levels, you can navigate this time in your life without interruption.
What Is Your Hormone?
Estrogen, Progesterone, Cortisol, DHEA, Testosterone, HGH
Hormone imbalances in both men and women can be created in many ways, which can be wildly different between any two. Let's take a look at the list of symptoms and signs of hormone imbalance or deficiency to see if you might be a candidate for hormone replacement therapy: Please answer yes to the following symptoms list.
Do you have any of the following symptoms ?:
Flash / Flash Night
Sleep without sleep
Change of Difference / Change of Menstruation
Unwanted hair growth
Lose Muscle Tone
Weight Loss / Weight Loss
Hair loss
Low / Low Sex Orgasm Control
Poor / Foggy Thoughts
Skin Thinning / Blinking Boost
Joint Pain & Nausea
Animal chunks
Migraine headache
Depression
Anxiety
Emotional instability or mood swings
Loss of bones
If you answered "Yes" to 2 or more in the list above you might have a hormone imbalance.
Further to this initial symptom checklist, the next step you need to take is to actually measure your hormone levels accurately to determine exactly what is low and how far.
Hormone Exam
The best way to measure hormone levels is through your saliva. Blood and urine tests have been used frequently for hormone testing in the past, however, they are not accurate for testing active hormone levels, such as saliva, which are very accurate, easy to do from your home, and do not involve needles. The saliva test is also the only effective way to monitor topical hormone supplementation.
The biggest advantage of saliva testing is that it can measure the level of hormone active or biologically independent. Blood serum tests only measure the level of total or bound hormones, while saliva picks up a small portion of the hormone that is active or uninfected.
It is a free or non-binding active hormone that works and benefits your body and cells, rather than the hormones that are bound or stored, which are not useful to your body. So why do you want to measure this blood level?
Traditional medicine has relied heavily on blood tests for most people without questioning its effectiveness. However, there is strong scientific evidence to support the notion that saliva tests are much more effective than blood tests for hormones since 1983.
The saliva test only measures the free hormone, and it is the free hormone that affects your body. The saliva glands act like filters and filter blood proteins, allowing us to measure hormones directly.
Most hormones are bound to the carrier protein and cannot be accessed by the target organs (heart, brain, etc.). Knowing the levels of hormones that are not released or active is important to determine if treatment is needed, and how much hormone is needed.
If some of your hormones are low, then you should consider increasing them using next-generation hormone replacement therapy.
Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy
Bio-identical hormones are safe and effective because they are the right biochemistry as your body's natural hormones. It's far from the synthetic hormone that has been used for years. An example of the synthetic hormone PremPro was commonly given to menopausal women in the 1980s-90s was found to increase the incidence of cancer, heart disease, stroke and blood clotting in the lungs (2002 World Health Initiative study, and 1996-2001 Million Women Study UK).
The drug is a combination of Premarin (a synthetic estrogen derived from a pregnant horse) and Provera (a synthetic progesterone called progestin) and it has been approved by the FDA to treat hormone imbalances in women. When news of a health problem occurred with this drug in 2002, a large number of women abandoned it.
In the following year (2003) breast cancer rates in the United States dropped 7% dramatically (Reported by MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas).
This is strong evidence that synthetic hormones are best avoided at all costs.
Bio-identical hormones (derived from natural plants) on the other hand have been found in studies to be much safer than synthetics because your body recognizes them as its own hormones. They are the exact replica of the hormones produced in the pituitary, ovaries, adrenals, thyroid and testicles.
Bio-identical hormones can lead to dramatic improvements in your health and reversal of many age-related signs and symptoms.
It is important to first get an accurate assessment of the levels of free hormones in your body, and this can only be done by using a saliva hormone test. Following the test, your doctor can advise you on what types of bio-identical hormones your body needs for optimal health.
Hormones can have a huge impact on your health - if they are too low your health will deteriorate and you may feel like you are living in hell.
It is in your interest to see your hormones before your health declines dramatically. Prevention is a lot easier than cure.
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