Hormone Info

Check the following hormone imbalance symptoms to see if you experience: anxiety, allergies, foggy brain, weight gain, depression, dizziness, endometriosis, dry skin, fibrocystic breasts, hair loss, and headaches, suppressed libido, osteoporosis, or urinary tract infections. These indications are primarily caused by the aberrant relationship between the levels of progesterone and estrogen in your body - and are typically associated with menopause.

Here's how it works ... The two female hormones, estrogen and progesterone, co-exist in a very delicate balance, and any variations of that balance can have an impact on your health. The amounts of these hormones that the woman's body produces every month can change, depending on factors including age, nutrition, stress, exercise or ovulation or the lack of it.

Our hormones start falling off starting with perimenopause when hormones drop you back to the same range that a girl went through at the time when she was younger -- that time between adrenarchy and puberty. While menstruation still happens - regular or at fairly regular intervals - women are possibly no longer ovulating during that time. This means that the woman cannot be pregnant anymore.

This instance is almost the same as the experience of a girl at the time that her reproductive system is developing as a teenager.} At that time, her adrenal glands were trying to jump-start your brain to turn on your ovaries, and once the ovaries kicked in, she had sufficient estrogen generated by a full basket of eggs.

Some 20 years later, once a woman is in middle age, she has just enough estrogen to make a real thin lining in her uterus but not enough to peak. During perimenopause, her periods get shorter, and this is when her breasts seem lumpier, and more frequently, her mind gets foggy. A woman is said to be in peri-menopause when she doesn't peak estrogen with regularity. The destruction of the rest of a woman's eggs are essentially due to the loss of rhythm during the perimenopausal phase. The remainder of the eggs are used up, with the extreme action of FSH. Indeed, in this phase, hot flashes are experienced - because that is exactly how her system shuts down for good. In some occasions, it takes a decade before menopause is reached.

Clinically, menopause is defined as the cessation of menstruation for 12 consecutive months. Occuring at the age of 52, usually, menopause signals the end of a woman's reproductive years since the ovaries stop producing estrogen and there are no more fertile eggs. Also, the clinical diagnosis of menopause is finding in the blood work an FSH score that's above five.

Today, a woman can put a halt on the aging process and not experience the indications of hormone imbalance and menopause with hormone replacement. But the extent at which she can fool nature (covering the fact that she no longer has eggs) is only to some extent - if the hormones are replaced exactly as they would be generated in youth, in the exact amounts and a certain rhythm. This is the premise behind rhythmic, bioidentical hormone therapy. It is not static dosing, but dosed in a rhythm with different amounts of estrogen and progesterone during the month. Interestingly, women who use this rhythmic cycling would experience menstruation again.

Women taking rhythmic bioidentical hormone replacement therapy are raging about how wonderful they now feel. Hot flashes and insomnia are no longer a problem. No more brain fig or depression. The skin's youthful glow is also restored. And more often than not, women who had experienced the dreadful symptoms of menopause are now saying that they got their lives back.

Rhythmic bioidentical hormones could certainly be the real "fountain of youth."