Hormone Replacement Therapy: 

For women, Menopause is a moment in time for a woman where the menstrual cycle ends 12 months after their last monthly period. It is a normal part of aging when women reach their late 40s to early 50s. While it’s a natural process, Menopause can introduce some unpleasant symptoms and ailments. Your body’s production of hormones starts to decrease, bone density will change, and hot flashes or chills may occur. HRT could be beneficial to you as it could nurture your body back to functional levels

Our body relies on a variety of hormones, which are proteins that circulate in our body and act on different tissues to maintain regular bodily functions. In reproductive health, the key hormones are estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone. However, there are other hormones, such as thyroid hormones and prolactin, that we consider if you're experiencing menstrual issues. These hormones naturally fluctuate based on their function, and some women may need replacement at specific points in their lives. For instance, in the fifth decade of life, when our ovaries stop producing our main reproductive hormones, men can choose to replace estrogen and progesterone to alleviate menopausal symptoms.

Bioidentical hormones are hormones created to mimic the structure of natural hormones. Because they use the same chemical structure as the hormones naturally produced by the body, the body recognizes, processes, and eliminates bioidentical hormones in the same way it treats natural hormones. For estrogen, this means using estradiol and estriol. Immortelle Integrative Health uses only bioidentical hormones. Whether or not you are prescribed bioidentical hormones from a compounding pharmacy or a pharmaceutical company will depend on your symptoms and needs.