| There are a lot of baby boomers living in the United | | | | therapy (BHRT) remedies that are being sold. |
| States who are females. In fact, in 2006, the oldest of | | | | Women no longer need to be confused about |
| the baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 | | | | hormone replacement therapy. People have become |
| began turning 60 years old. There were an estimated | | | | accustomed to talking about bio-identical hormone |
| 78.2 million baby boomers, as of July 1, 2005, and 50.8 | | | | replacement therapy (BHRT) in menopause medicine. |
| percent of them were women. That means according | | | | But this terminology isn't truly accurate because |
| to projections 7,918 people turned 60 each day in | | | | hormones are not really bio-identical. Natural hormones |
| 2006, or about 330 every hour. (Source: US Census | | | | are not bio-identical unless the body can recognize |
| Bureau) | | | | them as hormones, and they are not considered |
| This is the main reason why there are so many | | | | restoration unless what has been lost is truly restored. |
| women today who are experiencing menopause | | | | They can be mimicked, but they are not identical. |
| symptoms. If you are one of more than 40 million | | | | Furthermore, they cannot be replaced, rather they can |
| women feeling discomfort from menopause, then you | | | | be restored.And in oder for hormone therapy to be |
| need to know the facts. | | | | truely accurate, it must be rhythmic, or biomimetic. |
| Just exactly what is menopause? It can be defined as | | | | How how do biomimetic hormones differ from |
| the cessation of menstruation for 12 consecutive | | | | bio-identical hormones? Biomimetic hormones are |
| months. Menopause marks the end of a woman's | | | | derived from natural sources, and mimic in the body |
| reproductive years, and usually occurs naturally around | | | | the natural undulating rhythms of the hormone blood |
| age 51 or 52 when the ovaries stop producing | | | | levels in a normal menstrual cycle. Undulating means to |
| estrogen. | | | | cause to move in a smooth wavelike motion. |
| A women can experience immediate menopause at | | | | Bio-identical hormone products are usually formulated |
| any age when her ovaries are surgically removed. But | | | | from plant sources to match the chemical structure of |
| in either case, the symptoms of menopause affect | | | | hormones produced naturally by the human body. The |
| women's health, mental state of mind, and quality of life | | | | premise is that, technically, the body can't distinguish |
| for the remainder of her lifetime. | | | | bio-identical hormones from the ones the female |
| It was the year 2003 when the Women's Health | | | | ovaries produce; however, different forms of |
| Initiative (WHI) scared women and doctors alike with | | | | human-produced hormones are recognized differently |
| the warning not to take hormones. Most women don't | | | | by cells. it makes sense that bio-identical hormone |
| know the real facts about the WHI. The results | | | | effects might also be different. |
| comprehensively discussed cardiovascular disease, | | | | For bio-identical hormone compounds to be |
| cancer and osteoporosis in women over 65 years-old | | | | authentically the same, biologically, as human hormones, |
| on PremPro and Premarin only. Bio-identical hormone | | | | they must be presented biomimetically. A great part of |
| therapy was not part of the WHI study. | | | | recognition at the receptor cite depends on |
| The WHI was established to address the most | | | | presentation, i.e...serum levels and timing, as well as |
| common causes of death, disability, and impaired | | | | molecular structure. |
| quality of life in postmenopausal women. It was an | | | | Biomimetic hormone restoration therapy is accurate, it's |
| organized attempt to correct the inequities in women's | | | | biomimetic and mimics the up and down rhythms of |
| health research and therefore provide practical | | | | hormone blood levels in a normal menstrual cycle. |
| information to women and their doctors. The WHI | | | | That's Biomimetic - not bio-identical. |
| focused on synthetic hormone replacement therapy, | | | | What is the rhythm? The body's rhythms are |
| dietary patterns plus calcium and Vitamin D | | | | governed by a master clock that works much like a |
| supplements and their effects on the prevention of | | | | conductor. It strikes up one section of the body's |
| heart disease, cancer, and osteoporosis. The reason | | | | orchestra as another quiets down, taking its main cue |
| being because the incidence of these three diseases | | | | from light signals in order to stay in sync with the |
| increases after a woman reaches menopause. | | | | 24-hour day. Our body's hormones surge and ebb to |
| Approximately nine million American women were still | | | | this maestro's wand. |
| taking some form of Premarin in November of 2003. | | | | What is known as the circadian clock in our cells |
| One of them is PremPro. Another one, Premarin® | | | | measures one 24 hour spin of the planet. For 28 days |
| means Pregnant Mares' Urine (PREgnant MARes' | | | | the moon tracks the repeating of that cycle - and so |
| urINe); PMU for short. These are both synthetic | | | | does your body. There is only one patented bioidentical |
| hormones. | | | | hormone product on the market that uses this natural |
| Then the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) results came | | | | rhythm of nature to establish the proper doses of |
| out. There was a reduction of 25 percent of the | | | | estradiol and progesterone that mimic the natural |
| approximately 12 million women taking PMU based | | | | hormones produced by your body. The topical creams |
| medications in 1999. | | | | and their amounts vary throughout the 28 day cycle to |
| About a third of the fifty-five million post menopausal | | | | restore the hormone levels of youth. |
| women in the United States are on synthetic estrogen | | | | The latest treatment for women in menopause is |
| replacement therapy (ERT), or hormone replacement | | | | multi-phasic rhythmic dosing of bio-mimetic hormone |
| therapy (HRT). Of these women, about 49 percent | | | | replacement therapy (BHRT) using natural hormones in |
| currently use "PMU" based products, which is down | | | | a bio-mimetic way. More than two million women in the |
| from a high of 79 percent in 1999. | | | | U.S. use customized hormones for menopause |
| There are still many women who do not understand | | | | symptoms. |
| hormone therapy, and for those women who are | | | | In the future there will be 57.8 million baby boomers |
| afraid, and still do not take any Hormone Replacement | | | | living in 2030, according to projections; 54.9 percent |
| Therapy (HRT), the idea of natural bio-identical | | | | would be female. That year, boomers would be |
| hormones is becoming more intriguing. And with so | | | | between ages 66 and 84. Thanks to the relief of the |
| many products on the market, even that has become | | | | rhythm of Biomimetic Hormone Replacement Therapy |
| confusing. Plus the government continues to try to | | | | (BHRT), hopefully they will all live more happily. |
| regulate all of the bio-identical hormone replacement | | | | |