Correcting hormone imbalance naturally is the key to a better night's rest.
A recent study showed insomnia to be the number-one most severe complaint of women going through menopause. An imbalance of hormones is to blame, and with that in mind hormone replacement therapy is used as a treatment to help postmenopausal patients get a good night's sleep again.
According to the study, published in the April issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, 95 percent of menopausal women surveyed suffered from sleep loss — and they rated that sleep deprivation as their most severe menopause symptom, even more severe than the night sweats, irritability, memory loss or hot flashes that often accompany menopause.
Hormone imbalance is also behind the female libido loss, vaginal dryness and other sex problems many of the middle-aged menopause sufferers, treated in many medical offices. In some women, these symptoms can lead to depression.
And the ill effects of menopause can continue long after the in-your-face symptoms abate: menopause can accelerate osteoporosis — resulting in a greater risk of large-bone fractures — and hasten the onset of coronary artery disease.
But there's good news: hormone levels are relatively easy to replenish.
So to help post menopausal patients some much-deserved menopause relief, a regimen of menopause treatment based upon hormone replacement therapy was developed. The hormones used with the same molecular structure as those found naturally within in the human body, leading to a more balanced hormone profile.
The benefits of hormone replacement therapy are:
1. Improved energy and memory
2. Decreased fat and cholesterol
3. Improved skin texture
4. Control over your health
5. Improved sex life
The natural way for menopause sufferers to beat their insomnia,and the best way to minimize to minimize all the short- and long-term health implications of menopause, is hormone replacement therapy using hormones with the same molecular structure as our own.
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Dr. Kalitenko, I think it's difficult for women going through menopause to judge whether their symptoms are significant enough that hormone replacement therapy is called for. Conflicting studies and media reports encourage us to be cautious about even small risks with HRT. I appreciate your weighing in on the symptoms and the benefits.
October 14, 2008 - 9:13amThis Comment
Excellent point!
October 15, 2008 - 2:00pmIn my post I'm talking about bioidentical hormone replacement, not conventional HRT. The problem with conventional HRT is that women's body does not know what to do with semisynthetic or synthetic hormones, how to get rid of them properly. The result -- byproducts, which may be linked to cancer ( I'm talking about 4 OH estrone ). In contrast bioidentical hormones are chemically identical to our own hormones and our body knows what to do with them: natural estrogen in human's body is metabolized to 2 OH estrone which is OK.
The reason why conventional HRT has this problem is because in the US it is not possible to patent the substance which occurs in nature. Therefore in order to get a drug which can be patented, drug companies have to modify the natural molecule.
I'd like to know what you think about this matter.
Should you have further questions please let me know.
Cordially,
Sergey Kalitenko, MD
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