Your hormones intercommunicate to promote your everyday bodily functioning, including hunger, mood, metabolism, and sexual desire. When hormone levels in the body fluctuate, it can seriously impact your well-being and health. This is when most people begin using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to give their bodies the required hormones. Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) is earning more reputation as a natural remedy for men and women with a hormone imbalance.

This article will provide information on what bioidentical hormones are, the conditions they’re used for, the time it takes for them to give results and who would be a suitable candidate for BHRT.

What Are Bioidentical Hormones?

Hormones regulate various functions of the body and are vital to appropriate body processing. When these hormones drop to lower levels or fluctuate in the body, basic processes, like metabolism, cognitive performance, maturation, and digestion, are influenced. Hormone therapy is a method to restore or stabilize hormonal levels in the body.

Traditional hormone therapy and BHRT differ in the way that BHRT uses natural elements as a base to make hormones that are analogous to the ones present naturally in the body. Traditional hormones are made up of entirely artificial materials.

Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is derived from the cacti, wild yams, and soybeans and engineered in a lab to replicate human hormones such as progesterone, testosterone, cortisol, etc. These plant-based hormones can treat both males and females who produce less than normal levels of hormones or who have a hormone imbalance.