Estrogen therapy refers to the use of hormones called estrogen to treat certain health conditions. It is usually prescribed to women who have low levels of estrogen, typically during menopause or after removing the ovaries.
Estrogen therapy helps reduce symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, and vaginal dryness. It can also improve bone density and lower the risk of osteoporosis.
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For adults with low estrogen levels, the use of
estrogen therapy for osteoporosis is an excellent choice.
When you understand the role of estrogen in the body, the benefits
of estrogen therapy become clear.
Many women who gain weight when
using estrogen therapy often suffer from estrogen dominance which further lowers critical testosterone levels.
By contrast, women
receiving estrogen therapy had a smaller increase in cortisol and showed no decrease in working memory function.
The sooner you have bone density checked, the sooner you can
begin estrogen therapy for osteoporosis prevention.
Your article says that estrogen dominance can block the liver from converting T4 to T3, but it seems that my conversion is now worse when I am no longer
using estrogen therapy.
Data from a massive study called the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) show that
estrogen therapy taken for 7 years doesn't increase a woman's risk of breast cancer.
The present study shows that the inhibition of these microRNA molecules or
estrogen therapy in combination with an overexpression of the estrogen receptor can cause aggressive neuroblastoma cells with MYCN activation to mature into neuron - like cells which behave more like normal cells.
Other possible treatments
include estrogen therapy and an anti-fungal drug, ketoconazole, which is available under several brand names.
Participants who received
estrogen therapy also received progesterone because giving estrogen alone can increase the long - term risk of uterine cancer, Baskaran noted.
«This could be very applicable for women suffering from hot flashes or depression for
whom estrogen therapy is really counter-indicated,» says neuropharmacologist Roberta Brinton of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the new work.
«This study provides a foundation for future studies to evaluate the value of psycho - social interventions, such as cognitive therapies, to lessen the effect of major life events, as well as the use of
estrogen therapy during perimenopausal and menopausal stressful times.»
This hypothesis is corroborated by animal studies showing that angiogenesis was negatively influenced by estrogen loss in oophorectomized animals (290),
whereas estrogen therapy induced collateral and microvascular remodeling in a similar animal model (291).
Vaginal estrogen therapy may also be used in women who have breast, cervical or ovarian cancer, and medical consultation must be sought for proper advice on its risks and benefits.
Intake of calcium must be combined
with estrogen therapy to further decrease * rates of bone loss as estrogen may help increase * the absorption of calcium in the gut.
However different studies have shown that only
exogenous Estrogen therapy may be beneficial while the other hormone put the body to a higher risk of complications.
Analysis of several studies on the effect of combined progestin -
estrogen therapy indicates that progestins do appear to improve bone density, but their use is accompanied by a long list of unacceptable potential side effects.
Low
dose estrogen therapy is best prescribed by physicians, especially to help with vaginal dryness, extreme dizziness symptoms (which is rare), and hot flashes that nearly cripple some women.
«Preclinical studies suggest a possible benefit of
estrogen therapy when combined with exercise to increase strength and performance and to prevent the loss of muscle mass, but the role of estrogen in muscle mass is not yet clear for postmenopausal women,» says Dr. JoAnn Pinkerton, executive director of NAMS.
This means that women spent small fortunes
on estrogen therapy for Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding without realizing that they were wasting their time and money.
Prior to the WHI, the accepted view among physicians was that
estrogen therapy reduced a woman's risk of developing cognitive impairment.
In male dogs, testosterone injections are used to treat urinary incontinence but are generally less effective than
estrogen therapy in female dogs.
Prescription medications
include estrogen therapy and a class of drugs called sympathomimetic agents (Phenylpropanololamine).
To measure the effect
of estrogen therapy on working memory under stress, Ycaza Herrera recruited 42 women with an average age of 66 from the USC Early versus Late Intervention Trial with Estradiol led by Howard Hodis, a professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a coauthor of the new study.
Previous studies of postmenopausal women have suggested the beneficial effect of
estrogen therapy on muscle mass and function.
Half of the postmenopausal women had been on estradiol, a type of
estrogen therapy, for approximately five years, while the others had received a placebo.
«It's not the first time something in large epidemiological datasets just didn't work out clinically,» Ferris says, noting that statin medications, anti-inflammatory drugs, and
estrogen therapy have all failed to live up to their initial promise in preventing or treating Alzheimer's.
They also may lower your risk of breast cancer.That bone - strengthening mineral is more important than ever now, so increase calcium to 1,500 mg daily if youre postmenopausal and not on
estrogen therapy; keep it at 1,200 mg per day if youre on estrogen.