“Menopause is the most widely mismanaged health problem in America.”
I couldn’t agree more with Dr. Diana Schwarzbein’s statement in her Menopause Power Webinar Series. It is ridiculous how women (and men) are suffering needlessly.
Dr. Schwarzbein disagrees with the current misguided standard of care, and she is on a mission to educate women. . .who can then help educate their health care providers.
Here are some points from her series that you might want to take note of:
Menopause is the permanent loss of the sex hormone system.
Improperly treating or ignoring menopause increases a woman’s risk for diseases such as heart attacks, osteoporosis, cancer, and diabetes.
Treat the cause of menopause, not just treat the symptoms.
Restore the missing hormone(s) using bioidentical hormones in a bioequivalent delivery system.
Insulin is restored in type I diabetes. Thyroid hormone is restored in hypothyroidism. Estradiol and progesterone, the sex hormones lost in menopause, need to be restored when treating menopause.
The current misguided standard of care is this: Use hormone drugs in the lowest dosages for the shortest amount of time to treat the symptoms.
The current standard of care fails to:
Acknowledge that menopause is a lifelong condition.
Recognize that menopause increases the risk for degenerative diseases of aging.
Treat both the cause and the symptoms and restore hormone balance.
The principles of Hormone Balancing Therapy (HBTx TM) include:
Restore hormone balance with bioidentical hormones.
Give in a bioequivalent manner.
Combine with appropriate lifestyle changes.
Key terms of HBTx:
Bioidentical Hormones – have the same chemical structure as the hormone being restored; they are different than hormone drugs because these drugs do not share the same chemical structure as the hormones they replace.
Bioequivalent Manner – mimics the way the body formerly produced and delivered the missing hormones.
Subsequent articles will cover more information HBTx and the meaning of bioidentical and bioequivalent. To obtain more information on Dr. Schwarzbein’s webinar series, go to http://www.schwarzbeinprinciple.com/pgs/home.html.
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