abhormonetherapy

  So you’re tired all the time. Maybe the night sweats hit out of nowhere, your mood swings harder than it used to, and your doctor mentioned something about hormones but didn’t really explain it. Sound familiar? That’s basically how most people end up researching bioidentical hormone therapy in the first place — not because they read some wellness blog, but because their body just... stopped cooperating one day. What Bioidentical Hormone Therapy Actually Means Bioidentical hormone therapy, or BHRT if you want the shorthand, uses hormones that are chemically identical to the ones your body already makes. Not similar. Identical. That’s the whole point of it. Your body can’t tell the difference between the estrogen or progesterone it produced at 25 and the bioidentical version made in a lab, because the molecular structure is the same. This is different from older-style hormone treatments that used synthetic versions or hormones derived from animals (yes, some of that stuff literall...