Synthetic and natural hormones are not necessarily compatible. For some conditions they go together, but you really need to know what you can, and can’t, do and you need an expert to help.
Many women take the contraceptive pill, and not just for contraception, so are you potentially damaging your health?
Women do get confused between the synthetic progestins in the Pill and the natural hormone progesterone. This article helps to explain why it’s important to know the difference.
Many women at menopause use the contraceptive Pill or Coil to help control heavy bleeding. The synthetic hormones these contain are not the same as the natural hormones and have very different effects.
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.
The Pill has been associated with health risks before, but it is more dangerous for overweight women due to the synthetic progestin (artificial progesterone) it contains.
Birth control needs to be both effective and risk-free but modern methods rely on synthetic hormones such as progestins that mimic the effect of bioidentical natural progesterone, but that can have serious side effects.
Can synthetic hormones help or is it bioidentical natural progesterone that really works?
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