June 29, 2017
The conversation about hormones is raging around the country, in households and in the healthcare fields. Mainstream medicine addresses hormones in the setting of synthetic hormone replacement therapies and treatments for diseases like cancer, thyroid, diabetes, prostate cancer and pituitary abnormalities. Alternative doctors see hormones as the fountain of youth.
Media trails behind unsuccessfully attempting to clarify the muddy waters of the world of hormones so few understand.
I will try to help shed light into the overall issue of hormones, how they affect our lives, identifying symptoms of hormonal imbalance and safe methods of treatment with an eye for balance and honest, unbiased reporting.
Understanding Hormones
Hormones are agents of change. Hormones are invisible to the naked eye, they are manufactured by specialized cells in specific organs in our bodies and they float throughout our blood stream affecting the action of every cell in our body and helping or ruining our lives depending on their balance, quantity, strength and body’s reaction.
Hormones are made in the ovaries, testes, adrenals, pituitary, pancreas, brain, thyroid, parathyroid, hypothalamus and other areas still not known to science.
By hormones I mean: estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, insulin, thyroid, cortisol, adrenaline, dopamine, serotonin and others either labeled as hormones or neurotransmitters. They are all hormones.
When our hormones are in balance we are young, healthy, radiant, fertile, wrinkle free and excited abut the possibilities life can offer. Young people with healthy hormone balance have low incidence of heart disease, cancer, arthritis or other chronic illnesses.
Hormone levels that have declined or out of balance produce and contribute to chronically ill, dried up, sexually disinterested, overweight and fatigued people. In fact when you have no hormones, all you get is an old person.
So if, hormones are great for you in your 20s and keep you beautiful and healthy, then why would anyone debate their usefulness and desirability as we age?
Of course we would all benefit from a little hormone support as we age and in fact those of us who do, find aging a lot more fun and certainly trouble free. So, why doesn’t every doctor in the country prescribe hormones that are safe to the aging or hormonally challenged?
Why Are Bioidentical Hormones a Secret or a Threat to Mainstream Medicine?
Well, to answer that question we need to look at the pharmaceutical industry.
While everyone in both mainstream academia and alternative circles agrees that we all need hormones and hormones are crucial to youth and health, drug companies are reluctant to improve our health with natural methods of hormonal supplementation.
Why would they be reluctant to give us a safe alternative to keeping us out of harm’s way? Enter bioidentical hormones.
Bioidentical hormones are molecularly identical to the chemical formula of hormones that our bodies make when we were young and healthy. Anything that occurs “naturally”, made by Mother Nature and not tweaked by human hands, cannot be patented. In business terms that translates into no dominion or ownership over the product, because everyone can use it without paying a fee to the owner.
To drug companies, who are only interested in making a profit, having no patent means not making enough money. So bioidentical hormones are undesirable to the drug companies. Forget about the fact that they have been around since Adam and Eve and have been safely used by millions of people.
Enter Synthetic Hormones
Synthetic hormones are hormone impostors. Odd shaped molecules, which have been tweaked to look totally different from Mother Nature made hormones, become the desirable option for drug companies because they can own a patent on them.
Billions are spent on marketing them, supporting academic research and eliminating the bioidentical hormone distinction in the physician and public consciousness. End result: a patented product with no competition, a billion dollar industry and many sick people who need more and more drugs and procedures.
Back to Bioidentical Hormones
Supplementation of natural, bioidentical hormones have been used as an effective method of treatment for more than 30 years and there have been no reports of cancer or other side-effects. The fact that our bodies recognize bioidentical hormones as their own and do not react to them negatively is significant to you and me since care about staying healthy and well for as long as possible.
To summarize the facts:
1.Hormones in balance are good for us. They keep us healthy, young and free of disease.
2.Only bioidentical hormones can help achieve the above goal due to their similarity to our own hormone structure.
3.Synthetic hormones are created to provide financial profit for big drug companies, not to help us feel healthy and well.
4.As we age and our hormone levels decline or become imbalanced, we can help boost our hormone levels safely and naturally by supplementing with bioidentical hormones.
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I had complete hysterectomy in 2012 ( I was 41 yrs old) and have been experiencing the effects since then. Shortly after I had painful abdominal cramps, unlike menstrual-felt more like gas cramps-but there was no gas. this lasted a year or longer. I tried to ignore it & it eventually dissipated. I have since then experienced weight gain & changes in my skin tone & texture, as well as my enthusiasm and energy level. Hot flashes are occurring frequently. My GYN recently gave me RX for antidepressant, which I’m reluctant to take & haven’t yet…so I look into your therapy. I wonder how you derive/manufacture these “natural” hormones–also what is the cost? Thank you, Pam
Dear Pam,
Thank you for your questions. They symptoms you are experiencing are common after a hysterectomy because now you are not producing the estrogen, progesterone and testosterone you need. You are right not to take the antidepressant – it won’t correct the underlying cause of your symptoms which is hormone decline and imbalance. Antidepressants are dangerous, addicting drugs with many negative side effects. Here is an article that helps explain this: http://makeshift-worm.flywheelsites.com/2017/07/myth-antidepressants-are-the-best-treatment-for-hot-flashes/
Here is a good article that explains what happens to your hormones after a hysterectomy: http://makeshift-worm.flywheelsites.com/2017/07/what-happens-to-your-hormones-after-a-hysterectomy/
Dr. Hotze is hosting a complimentary Wellness Summit tomorrow morning at The Westin Galleria Hotel. It is a great opportunity to get more information about hormone imbalance and the benefits of bioidentical hormones. If you would like to attend, please register here: http://makeshift-worm.flywheelsites.com/summit We hope to see you there!
If we may be of service to you, please contact our Wellness Consultants for a complimentary consultation at 281-698-8698. They can go over the pricing plan with you.
To your health,
Hotze Team