Conditions Treated with Bioidentical Hormones Wouldn’t it be great if you could halt the aging process and the effect it has on your body? With Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT), you can do just that. While treatment with replacement hormones won’t stop you from getting older, it can reduce or eliminate the symptoms of hormonal imbalance commonly attributed to aging. Benoit Tano, M.D. is a Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy specialist in Edina Minnesota, works with patients who are experiencing decreased satisfaction in life because of problems caused by an imbalance in their hormones. The normal process of aging is the most typical cause of this, but there are also several other reasons your hormones could be out of balance. Bioidentical Hormones for Women Benoit Tano, M.D. of Integrative Immunity Health System in Edina Minnesota offers specialized Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy programs to women in the Minneapolis Minnesota area. While hormones are notorious for declining during perimenopause and menopause, they can become imbalanced at any age due to stress, lack of sleep, or poor lifestyle habits. As a result, numerous health conditions can occur and reduce the quality of life for women. Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy can greatly benefit the conditions associated with hormonal imbalances and potentially prevent other health conditions from occurring. Some of the conditions that can be treated in women with BHRT include: Bioidentical Hormones for Men Doctor Benoit Tano of Integrative Immunity Health System in Edina Minnesota uses Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy to treat numerous conditions in men that can develop as a result of hormonal decline. Because hormones control thousands of functions in the human body, imbalances can greatly reduce the quality of life and lead to numerous health disorders. While hormones can decline at any age, most men experience imbalances in their fourth and fifth decades, and as result, numerous health conditions can occur. Doctor Tano can design customized Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy programs to help men regain their health and vitality. Some of the conditions that can be treated in men with BHRT include: Low Testosterone Low testosterone, which your doctor may also refer to as male menopause, hypogonadism, or andropause, is the term used to describe the multitude of symptoms many men experience as they approach middle age. Your testosterone production actually starts declining one percent every year at age 30. Sexual dysfunction, mood problems, weight gain, and low energy are common problems associated with low testosterone that are correctable with Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy. Symptoms of Andropause By the time men reach age 70, they may have only 10 percent of the testosterone hormone they had at age 25. This explains why many men begin experiencing symptoms associated with low testosterone around age 40. Andropause is a term that describes the many physical and emotional changes that occur due to the imbalance of hormones. Testosterone replacement is essential to help you experience long-term symptom relief. Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome Your adrenal glands release the hormone cortisol in response to stress, exercise, excitement, and low blood sugar. As you age, your body has a harder time balancing your cortisol levels. This can cause unrelenting fatigue, anxiety, sexual problems, and a wide range of other symptoms due to cortisol imbalance in your adrenal glands. Hormone restoration through Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy can help speed up sluggish adrenal glands and provide you with more energy. Conditions Treated with Bioidentical Hormones Wouldn’t it be great if you could halt the aging process and the effect it has on your body? With Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT), you can do just that. While treatment with replacement hormones won’t stop you from getting older, it can reduce or eliminate the symptoms of hormonal imbalance commonly attributed to aging. Benoit Tano, M.D. is a Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy specialist in Edina Minnesota, works with patients who are experiencing decreased satisfaction in life because of problems caused by an imbalance in their hormones. The normal process of aging is the most typical cause of this, but there are also several other reasons your hormones could be out of balance. Bioidentical Hormones for Women Benoit Tano, M.D. of Integrative Immunity Health System in Edina Minnesota offers specialized Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy programs to women in the Minneapolis Minnesota area. While hormones are notorious for declining during perimenopause and menopause, they can become imbalanced at any age due to stress, lack of sleep, or poor lifestyle habits. As a result, numerous health conditions can occur and reduce the quality of life for women. Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy can greatly benefit the conditions associated with hormonal imbalances and potentially prevent other health conditions from occurring. Some of the conditions that can be treated in women with BHRT include: Bioidentical Hormones for Men Doctor Benoit Tano of Integrative Immunity Health System in Edina Minnesota uses Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy to treat numerous conditions in men that can develop as a result of hormonal decline. Because hormones control thousands of functions in the human body, imbalances can greatly reduce the quality of life and lead to numerous health disorders. While hormones can decline at any age, most men experience imbalances in their fourth and fifth decades, and as result, numerous health conditions can occur. Doctor Tano can design customized Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy programs to help men regain their health and vitality. Some of the conditions that can be treated in men with BHRT include: Low Testosterone Low testosterone, which your doctor may also refer to as male menopause, hypogonadism, or andropause, is the term used to describe the multitude of symptoms many men experience as they approach middle age. Your testosterone production actually starts declining one percent every year at age 30. Sexual dysfunction, mood problems, weight gain, and low energy are common problems associated with low testosterone that are correctable with Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy. Symptoms of Andropause By the time men reach age 70, they may have only 10 percent of the testosterone hormone they had at age 25. This explains why many men begin experiencing symptoms associated with low testosterone around age 40. Andropause is a term that describes the many physical and emotional changes that occur due to the imbalance of hormones. Testosterone replacement is essential to help you experience long-term symptom relief. Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome Your adrenal glands release the hormone cortisol in response to stress, exercise, excitement, and low blood sugar. As you age, your body has a harder time balancing your cortisol levels. This can cause unrelenting fatigue, anxiety, sexual problems, and a wide range of other symptoms due to cortisol imbalance in your adrenal glands. Hormone restoration through Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy can help speed up sluggish adrenal glands and provide you with more energy. Hormones Balanced with Bioidentical Hormones Benoit Tano, M.D. of Integrative Immunity Health System in Minneapolis uses Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy to treat numerous conditions related to hormonal imbalances. Our bodies naturally produce fewer hormones as we get older, a fact that goes unnoticed by some and turns the lives of others into sheer misery. Both men and women experience the effects of unbalanced hormones, with most people experiencing moderate discomfort from it. The imbalance can happen at any time, although it is more closely associated with hypogonadism in men and menopause in women. Common symptoms for both Men and Women include: In addition, people may experience problems unique to their gender. For men, this may include erectile dysfunction and loss of body hair while women may experience sexual dysfunction and mood instability. The best thing you can do is take stock of your symptoms and seek treatment from a doctor who specializes in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy. These hormones are derived from soy and yams, both of which are naturally occurring sources. The ingredients used in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy can’t be patented because they are created for people individually based on their presenting symptoms and genetic makeup. Bioidentical hormones closely match the molecular structure of the hormones produced by your body. In contrast, synthetic hormones are made from artificial sources. While they may offer some relief, there is also a greater likelihood of side effects. Unlike natural bioidentical hormones that are easily absorbed, your body may see synthetic hormones as a threat and put up natural defenses to protect you from them. If you’re interested in exploring a different and more promising approach, schedule an appointment with Dr. Tano, an experienced Minneapolis area Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy specialist. Types of Bioidentical Hormones Your Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy specialist Benoit Tano, M.D. may choose to use one or several types of bioidentical hormones based on your symptoms and your initial response to the therapy. The most common types of bioidentical hormones used in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy include: Estrogen: The term estrogen actually describes the functioning of estradiol, estriol, and estrone. Estrogen is primarily a female hormone produced in the ovaries, fat tissue, or adrenal glands. Men also create small amounts of estrogen in their testes. As girls go through puberty, the proper levels of estrogen help to ensure breast development and a healthy uterine lining for future menstruation and pregnancy. Estrogen in male puberty causes deepening of the voice, growth of facial hair, and muscle development. Restoring healthy levels of estrogen can improve sleep, strengthen bones, increase skin elasticity, and maintain youthfulness. Progesterone: Without progesterone, your body cannot produce the other hormones it needs. This includes estrogen, testosterone, DHEA, and cortisol. Your body produces progesterone naturally from cholesterol and then turns it into pregnenolone, which in turn helps to produce the other hormones. It is integral for strong brain functioning, regulating blood sugar, having a healthy libido, and regulation the production of thyroid hormones. Balancing progesterone with Bioidentical Hormones can prevent estrogen dominance and maintain the essential functions of progesterone. Testosterone: This primarily male hormone is also present in smaller amounts in women. Both genders experience the effects of too little testosterone, including weight gain, hair loss, fatigue, depression, and low sex drive. In addition, men with unbalanced testosterone levels may experience unwanted breast growth. Restoring testosterone to healthy levels with Bioidentical Hormones can improve libido, muscle tone, and energy. Pregnenolone: This hormone controls the function of many others, including estrogen and progesterone. During the natural course of aging, you may lose up to 60 percent of the pregnenolone your body needs to sustain energy. It is also responsible for memory and alertness. An unbalanced level of pregnenolone contributes to depression, fatigue, and stress. Balancing pregnenolone can protect the nervous system and balance moods. Thyroid: The thyroid is a tiny gland in your neck that controls all of the functions of your adrenal system. When your body produces too much or too little thyroid hormone, you may experience weight gain, depression, fatigue, cold sensations, hot flashes, and many other unpleasant symptoms. Balancing thyroid hormone can help to promote weight loss, balance body temperature, and improve moods. Bioidentical hormones are one form of therapy for menopausal symptoms. Winfrey, who turns 55 this month, writes in February's edition of O, The Oprah Magazine that she felt "out of kilter" and had "issues" for two years that she suspected were hormonal. Upon a friend's recommendation, Winfrey went to a doctor who specializes in hormones. Winfrey writes that the hormone specialist told her that her "hormonal tank was empty" and gave her a prescription for bioidentical estrogen. "After one day on bioidentical estrogen, I felt the veil lift," Winfrey writes. "After three days, the sky was bluer, my brain was no longer fuzzy, my memory was sharper. I was literally singing and had a skip in my step." Winfrey isn't recommending bioidentical hormones for every menopausal woman. Instead, she urges women to "take charge of your health" and says it's time to "start the conversation" about menopause and bioidentical hormones. The February issue of O, The Oprah Magazine delves into the root of this problem and possible fixes, and Oprah is taking the discussion even farther. "We're opening a national conversation about hormone replacement therapy," she says. "This is about your hormones being out of whack, and you don't even know—we haven't had a language to talk about it yet." What are bioidentical or natural hormones? Bioidentical hormones are an exact chemical match to hormones naturally occurring in the human body. These chemicals are extracted from the yam and soy plants. They are synthesized to be identical to the molecules of the hormones naturally produced by women and men. The body recognizes the bioidentical hormones from these plants exactly like it would the hormones produced from the testes or ovaries. It is important to know that the absorption pathway can make a difference in the effectiveness and the side effects depending on whether the hormones are taken by pill or topically, as a cream or patch. The body does a better job if the bioidentical hormones are taken topically. Are they FDA approved? Custom made mixtures of bioidentical hormones are not approved by the FDA because they are chemically synthesized from a natural plant source and the molecules have not been altered. The pharmaceutical companies cannot patent natural plant chemicals, but chemicals that are altered in molecular structure can be patented. Chemists must first alter the hormones in order for a patent to be obtained and profits made by the drug companies. These synthetic hormones, which are purposefully different from the yam or soy plant chemicals, are known as Premarin, Provera and Prempro. They are approved by the FDA because they are fixed, not individually tailored. Bioidentical hormones offer people the opportunity to have their hormones balanced for them specifically. How do bioidentical hormones differ from synthetic hormones? The human body can metabolize bioidentical hormones naturally because once the chemical has been taken from the yam or soy plant it is processed in a way that its molecular structure is completely identical to that of the androgen hormones; estrogen and progesterone. Bioidentical hormones provide people with the option to have their hormone supplements individually tailored to fit their unique biological system. Synthetic hormones are mass-produced and have stronger side effects than those of a bioidentical nature. Since they are mass-produced there is no way to individually tailor the amounts. Synthetic hormones are made from the progesterone of plants or the estrogens of animals and are not identical to the hormones found within the human body. What distinguishes synthetic hormones from bioidentical hormones is the molecular structure. The synthetic hormones have an extra covalent bond. The body doesn't recognize or metabolize the synthetic hormones normally and the body may treat them as toxins. ACNE BE GONE
