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about estrogen replacement therapy and osteoporosis as requested.
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He was writing in the wake of new revelations
about estrogen replacement therapy that showed that the benefits of estrogen had been vastly overstated.
Not exact matches
More discouraging news
about hormone
replacement therapy for menopausal women appeared in June: Women taking Prempro, the most widely prescribed pill containing both
estrogen and progestin, are more likely to develop Alzheimer's and to have early breast tumors that go undetected by mammograms.
Many women are concerned
about taking
estrogen orally — hormone
replacement therapy or HRT — after a 2002 study suggested a strong link to breast cancer, but doctors have widely divergent opinions
about that.
When we recommend hormone
replacement therapy, we're looking to improve your overall hormonal balance — treatment for perimenopause isn't just
about estrogen levels.
What you can do, and what to look out for Short of taking
replacement hormones or low - dose birth control pills to even out your
estrogen levels, there isn't much you can medically do
about your shifting hormones.
However, if you're still experiencing problems with weight gain, we recommend reading more
about ERT (
estrogen replacement therapy), a treatment for hormonal imbalances we often recommend.
Edit 2017: Recently, after learning
about new research and working with even more women, I'm finding that plant - based phytoestrogens may promote ER beta activity, which can lower estrogenic potency in the body as a whole, thereby decreasing the risk for certain cancers (this is not true of synthetic
estrogen, like that in hormonal birth control or
estrogen replacement therapy).
Measurement of free T4 and T3 provides more accurate information
about hormonal status of patient than total T4 and T3 (bound and unbound) especially for those who are on
estrogen replacement therapy or birth control pills, have impaired thyroid hormone conversion and show unresolved symptoms of underactive thyroid.
In this last recorded talk on CD, before his death, Dr. Lee covers many different areas of interest
about natural hormone
replacement therapy, including progesterone and
estrogen's effects on the body, what causes hormone imbalances and how to restore balance, why saliva hormone level testing is so important, and the politics of medicine.