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Should You Or Should You Not Be Using Bioidentical Hormones?

There is certainly a lot of interest being shown in bioidentical hormones, especially in regard to their effect on treating menopause symptoms. But, what is still not clear about these hormones is just how safe and effective they really are. In fact, these hormones are derived by customizing formulae to ensure that a variety of hormones can be produced that must be identical, in a chemical sense, to those hormones that have been naturally produced by the human body.

The reason why trials of bioidentical hormones had to be stopped was that women that were using these hormones seemed to have an increased risk of developing among other things breast cancer and heart diseases as well as strokes and even blood clots. Of course, it must be stressed that these risks were not great by any stretch of imagination; but they did raise concerns and these concerns were serious enough to force discontinuation in the further use of these hormones.

To understand more about whether these hormones are in fact safe and also effective you will need to read up on what the experts have to say and for this you will have to find out what the North American Menopause Society or NAMS has to say. According to the NAMS these hormones can certainly provide users with a few benefits but at the same time there are also a few worrying risks to take into account as well.

This is why it pays to find out what some experts have to say on the subject and one trusted source on whose information you can rely on is the organization called the North American Menopause Society (NAMS). This organization says that there is reason to believe that the hormones in question can be beneficial to users but they have also attached a rider which is that the use of such hormones is not absolutely safe because there certain risks involved that can end up marring your health.

This worry that the chemically produced hormones might contain contaminants is one of the main reasons why NAMS has not given its nod for users to go ahead and purchase these hormonal products.

Hormones that have been produced in the labs and which contain chemically identical properties are obviously well suited for treating women’s menopausal problems. However, there could be some confusion in regard to what exactly the term ‘bioidentical’ really means because it can also be used to refer to describe certain treatments that require making use of customized compounded hormonal mixtures. Furthermore, the term can also mean having to adjust the dose of medication to ensure that achieving a certain specific level of hormones in the body.

Some people even get confused by what is really the meaning of ‘bioidentical’ because it can mean different things. For example it could mean that you have to adjust your medication’s dosage in order to achieve a certain hormonal level in the body.

So, it will be in your best interests to pay heed to what major organizations such as The Endocrine Society, United States Food and Drug Administration and American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have to say about these hormones.

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