A number of methods available for treating menopausal symptoms are considered 'natural'. They include maintaining a healthy lifestyle through diet, exercise and stress reduction; the use of herbal medicines like dong quai, black cohosh and licorice; and the use of phytoestrogen (plant) products, which contain flavones. While many women find these natural therapies helpful, they are not the same as natural Hormone Replacement Therapy (NHRT).

Even though natural therapies are healthy choices and sound practices, it is important to remember that diet and exercise do not raise hormone levels. The only way to truly impact hormone levels is to take hormones. Natural HRT - the practice of supplementing declining hormone levels with natural, bio-identical hormones.

For many years conventional HRT has consisted of a standard prescription of hormones - most commonly 0.625 mg of Premarin® (animal-derived) and 2.5 mg of Provera® (synthetic). Premarin is a combination of estrogens derived from the urine of pregnant mares. With the majority of its hormonal components not native to the human body, Provera (Medroxi Progesterone Acetate) is synthesized in the laboratory from natural progesterone, and then modified for reasons of product patenting.

As women seek education about options available to them as they enter menopause, and as their demand for more natural products increases, a ripple effect has been created throughout the pharmaceutical industry. Many women are demanding this more natural form of hormone replacement. The fact that you are replacing the structural identical hormone in your body makes a lot more sense then placing a synthetic hormone, which has never been seen into your body in mature. Evolution through thousands if not millions of years evolved our hormones to be precisely the way they and no matter what the pharmaceutical companies due I find it hard to believe they can improve nature.

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