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are most often mixed into a fragrance- and dye-free cream that absorbs readily into the skin and is usually applied daily, although your practitioner may choose a different frequency of application for you based on your levels and symptoms.
What about cancer risk? The concern with hormones and risk of cancer centers largely around estrogen supplementation, or hormones that can convert into estrogen by various pathways. First, it is important to know there are many types of estrogen. Estradiol, the form most often tested, is prevalent before meno- pause. Estradiol is much less potent than estrone, the form of estrogen that becomes dominant after menopause. Estrogens promote blood vessel growth, and when a malignancy has started to grow and recruits blood vessels, an increase in estrogen can be like adding fuel to the fire. For this reason, it is important to talk to your doctor about your individual risk factors, and to work with an experienced practitioner if you decide that hormone replacement is right for you.
Bioidentical hormone replacement is
the safest way to do this for several reasons. First, estrone is a form of estrogen that is not prescribed in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, but notably, it is found in the popular prescription drug Premarin. Additionally, estrogen is seldom prescribed without progesterone, which balances the actions of estrogen. Often people will be far more depleted in proges- terone than estrogen, and when hormones are tested the progesterone:estrogen ratio
is taken into consideration when deciding which hormones to replete and in what doses. Third, your doctor will monitor your hormone levels periodically to ensure that balance is being maintained. Even if you only replace one hormone, you should have all hormone levels tested at regular intervals, since each of the hormones affect one another.
How else can hormone imbalance be addressed?
Along with supporting your body’s in- trinsic hormones directly with an extrinsic supply like hormone replacement therapy, your own physiology can, and should, be supported during this process. For example, when we are treating adrenal fatigue, it is important to address the cause of the ad- renal fatigue. We discuss things like stress management, proper nutritional support for your adrenal glands, adaptogenic herbs, stabilizing blood glucose, neurophysiologic repatterning to retrain your own response to stress triggers, and reducing overall oxi- dative load on the body.
This might include modalities such as nutritional counseling, since a higher glycemic load will stress the adrenal glands as they fire every time your blood glucose level crashes in order to protect you. When the adrenal glands release cortisol, glucose is supplied to your bloodstream from the liver. When someone eats higher glyce- mic meals, blood glucose levels will rise quickly, and as your body uses or stores this extra fuel, the glucose levels will come crashing down a few hours later, leading to cortisol release, which again raises glucose
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