Hormone Replacement Therapy To Alleviate
Menopausal Symptoms
Author: David Sanders

If you have not yet experienced menopause then the terms
hormone replacement therapy may sound foreign to you. As the
terms suggest, HRT or hormone replacement therapy is a
treatment aimed at easing the symptoms of menopause by hormonal
replacement.

Menopause is that period in a woman's life when the body is in
the process of changing and these changes are manifested
through various symptoms like hot flushes, mood changes,
depression, insomnia and night sweating.

A woman in menopausal stage can opt for hormonal replacement
therapy is she wants to alleviate the many symptoms of
menopause. Hormonal replacement therapy has been found
effective in treating menopausal women who became depressed.

There are sectors who believe that hormonal replacement therapy
can be used to treat other complications arising from female
menopause like diabetes, osteoporosis and heart ailments.

However, some women experiencing menopause do not go for
hormone replacement therapy because of the possible side
effects of the said treatment. There are those who believe that
women taking hormonal replacement therapy have high risks of
developing breast cancer. Hormonal replacement therapy has also
been blamed for blood clot formations resulting to heart
disease.

There are experts, including Dr. John Lee, who believe that
hormone replacement therapy expose menopausal women to greater
health risks than if they were not taking the therapy. The risk
of getting cancer is one of the reason s why most women
experiencing menopause opt for natural and alternative
treatments for the many symptoms of menopause.

During menopause, the production of a woman's estrogen and
progesterone levels become erratic. These hormones play
important roles in maintaining the proper functioning of a
woman's body like bone strengthening and blood cholesterol
level maintenance.

During menopause, the production of these hormones decline and
this causes bone problems and other ailments. Hormone
replacement therapy can bring back the proper levels of these
hormones in women and can prevent the risk of getting various
menopause-related diseases.

While estrogen replacement has been found effective as a
treatment for many years, medical research has shown that it
increase a woman's chances of getting breast and uterine
cancer. This led the way to the addition of progestin to
hormone treatments.

Women who eat the proper food and lead healthy lifestyles are
the ones who are most probably able to experience menopause
normally, even without hormone replacement therapy. For those
who are thinking of availing of this therapy, it is important
to talk this over with their doctors as the latter can give
them the pros and cons of getting HRT.


About The Author: The author is a regular contributor to the
Hormone Info Center http://www.hormoneinfocenter.com where more
hormone replacement information is freely available.