Hormonal imbalance can come from a host of factors including stress, poor diet, genetics, puberty,
oral synthetic estrogens (that may suppress your own hormone function), environmental toxins, not breaking down food properly in the gut and more.
Not exact matches
When I counsel a woman about taking hormone therapy, I recommend bioidentical
estrogen and progesterone, including transdermal estradiol and
oral progesterone, but with an important caveat: I assume that the risks of bioidentical hormone therapy are the same as
synthetic until proven otherwise.
Premarin (the
synthetic form of
estrogen, formulated from the urine of pregnant horses) and Provera (the
synthetic form of progesterone, used for
oral contraception, which is counterintuitive as natural progesterone is required for conception) are the most commonly used elements in hormone replacement therapy (HRT).