Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Many women and men are seeking health ways to deal with menopause and andropause and, after much research, have decided to use bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to deal with the symptoms they are experiencing. Other women, I have spoken to, having read a little about the Women’s Health Study in 2002 have decided not to use hormones at all and suffer through the symptoms of pre-menopause and menopause. They will suffer the sleepless nights, the unnecessary weight gain, the night sweats, the hot flashes. Surely, this detracts from their quality of life.
I spoke with one woman who told me the heat in her house does not go higher than 17 degrees Celsius because she has been suffering from hot flashes for seven years. She says she does not travel south in the winter anymore because it is too hot in the Caribbean. She said that she had tried some herbal remedies but they take time to work and she doesn’t keep taking them. She refuses to take anything with the word “hormone” in it and refuses to even learn about bioidentical hormones. I feel sorry for her because her quality of life has decreased so much. Seven years of hot flashes would drive anyone insane.
The knowledge is out there, and one only has to read any new book on antiaging, speak with any doctor who has any knowledge on hormones and it is a well known fact now that most women and men need to use some sort of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to achieve any kind of quality of life as we age. I spoke very recently with a leading Toronto gynecologist, Dr. Douglas J. Gare, who confirms that hormone supplementation is necessary.
So many doctors in the United States are currently providing health services to women and as women demand more and more natural treatments to cure them, they are demanding bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) to treat their symptoms. Slowly doctors in Canada are catching on. However, it is still difficult to find a doctor to prescribe bioidentical hormones, and monitor your hormone levels in Canada. One of our readers sadly reported she could not find any doctor in Saskatchewan to prescribe her bioidentical hormones. She will have to travel to another province or even to the United States to get bioidentical hormones to treat her symptoms. Other readers are also writing us to ask which doctors provide this service but are covered by O.H.I.P. Regretfully, there are only a few that are not charging extra for this service. If you check out our Doctors Canada page, you will find that we have been placing the word “O.H.I.P.” after the doctor’s name.
Please email us at inquiries [at] pureageless [dot] com, if you are lucky enough to have found a doctor who prescribes bioidentical hormones and they are not listed on our pages. We will update our bioidentical doctors’ page for other women and men who desperately need to find a bioidentical doctor to help treat their symptoms.
We continue to update our pages with the names of doctors who can prescribe bioidentical hormones. We always advise women who are seeking a doctor to check with their local compounding pharmacy for the names of doctors who will prescribe bioidentical hormones. Compounding pharmacies are one of our best sources of information for this.
Keep fighting for your rights to use bioidentical hormones as a natural bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and stay healthy in the New Year!
Anti-aging Conference on June 27th at the University of Toronto
Guest speaker Dr. Hertoghe, from Belgium….. world renowned bioidentical specialist will be speaking about women in perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause.
Advance Tickets at http://www.uofttix.ca or call 416-978-8849.