AFTER OPRAH AND DR. PHIL FEATURED BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES ON THEIR SHOWS........
women all over the country said "I want to feel like myself again!”
Trubalance Healthcare brought Suzanne Somers - NY Times Best Selling Author, Women's Advocate, Health & Wellness Entrepeneur to Toronto last Oct 2009. She spoke to a large audience of consumers, and medical professionals at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on Bio -Identical Hormones and her Instant #1 NY Times Best Selling Book - "Knockout: Curing Cancer"
What Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)?
If you have heard of the controversies surrounding conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the billion dollar commercial menopausal industry, if you’re unsure what it all means for you, then TruBalance Healthcare can help.
We understand the medical terminology and can explain the complexities of the debate surrounding menopausal hormone therapies. With our highly educated physicians and compounding specialists, we will give you unique insights which will bring you up-to-date and advise you concerning alternatives to HRT. Above all, we will explain that one size does not fit all with hormone therapy. It is very percise to the patient whether male or female.
If you’ve heard the “buzz” on Oprah and Dr. Phil about BHRT offering an alternative to synthetic hormones but you are unsure if natural hormones are the answer for you, then please call us and we will recommend a physician in your area. BHRT can give life enhancing benefits to both men and women.
Natural Hormones vs. Synthetic Hormones
The term "natural" hormones simply means that these hormones are chemically the same as the ones the human body produces. They are also called "bio-identical" or "human iso-molecular." "Synthetic" hormones refers to those manufactured with a chemical structure that is foreign to the human body but mimics some hormonal activity. These chemical differences can mean that synthetic hormones act differently in your body and produce substantially different effects. We recommend and use only natural hormones in our custom prescription formulations.
How Do I Get My Current Doctor To Get Me On Natural Hormone Therapy / Bio Identical Hormones? You have a choice of what type of hormone therapy you take. If your physician is not offering this choice to you, then it is up to you to take responsibility for educating yourself on a healthy lifestyle. If your physician is not trained in BHRT then suggest to them to take a course on BHRT. This will not only help their patients but enhance their practice.
Why Do Bio-Identical Hormones Need A Prescription?
Natural hormones can only be obtained from a compounding pharmacy. Compounding or formulating a customized dosage for an individual person is a function a compounding pharmacist performs only with the permission of the physician. All of the ingredients may not be prescription, however anything that is compounded must be prescribed to the patient via prescription.
Where Do These Types Of Hormones Come From?
Natural hormones are obtained from sterol analogues found in many varieties of plants, primarily soybean and yam. The estrogen and progesterone powder is transformed chemically from the plant into the human bio-identical hormones.
What Type Of Delivery System Is Best Suited For Me?
Hormone balance is so individual therefore the way you take hormones is customized to each individual person.
ie: TRANSDERMAL - (Through the skin) or TRANSMUCOMAL (via vaginal tissue). Products miss the liver so doses can be smaller and are less likely to metabolize into "bad" hormones.
Oral - Products taken by mouth must pass through and be broken down by the liver. Oral delivery metabolizes differently and requires higher doses. Talk to your doctor about dosage.
Taking various basic ingredients, the pharmacist puts together, or compounds the medication in the correct proportion, formula's, and suspensions (i.e. pills, creams, ointments) prescribed by the physician.