Wellness Corner

The past year has been a year filled with concerns and media attention to the wellness issue of hormone replacement therapy. Some people are concerned that HRT is always bad for your health. Others say that HRT can be a great way to ease the symptoms of aging associated with menopause. And still others say that the idea of hormone replacement therapy is great but that the chemicals currently being used aren't so good.

Those who fall in to the latter camp tend to be fans of the idea of bio-identical hormones. These are hormones that are derived from natural substances, such as plants, and are chemically tailored in order to provide the patient's body with hormonal changes that counteract the natural hormonal changes which may be wreaking havoc in their systems.

Bio-identical hormones, as their name would suggest, have to be altered in order to exactly match the hormones of the patient's body. This is frequently done by the type of niche pharmacy that we discussed in yesterday's post.

Learn more about bio-identical hormones here.

Question of the Day: Do you believe that there's a health difference between synthetic HRT and bio-identical hormones?

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