Women are ruled by their hormones, but how do you know if yours are in balance?
Not all women are able to have oestrogen, depending upon their hormone history. However phytoestrogens are quite different.
A woman’s hormonal health changes throughout her life from puberty to post menopause. We can’t control the way our body changes at these various stages, but we can take some simple steps to retain maximum lifelong hormonal health.
Despite safer, and effective, natural options many doctors still offer women no alternative to traditional HRT, but there are other choices that you can make.
Many women are on the Pill for contraception and later in life to control heavy bleeding. The risks are clear but bioidentical hormones can help.
Women are ruled by their two main hormones: progesterone and oestrogen, but with the rise of synthetic hormones in the Pill, Coil and HRT do you know the difference why you need bio-identical hormones and not their chemical equivalents?
Following on from Dr Shirley Bond’s recent article on whether men can be oestrogen dominant, The role of estrogen in ‘feminizing’ men has been well established but now it seems it play another, more sinister role.
One in five men in Britain die from a heart attack, compared to just one in seven women. New research shows that it is our hormones that make the difference.
Dr Dach scrutinises the evidence on bio-identical hormones and their safety in the first of a 3 part series.
What is hormone testing, how does it work and could it help you?