Many women manage to go through the menopause quite easily with very few symptoms or no symptoms at all. Others, can have lots of problems. The main problem that most people complain of is hot flushes, with or without, night sweats.

However, there are a host of other symptoms that women can feel. These include things like -

• irritability
• depression and anxiety
• poor sleep, putting weight on
• sexual dysfunction
• lack of libido
• feeling unloved, etc.

Many women now take bioidentical hormones to relieve their symptoms.

The conventional treatment for the last three decades has been Hormone Replacement Therapy and drug companies have pushed this until 2002, when studies revealed that it was not all that it was supposed to be. All the studies were carried out on drug company pills that were not bioidentical.

Conventional HRT often comes from oestrogens which were sourced from pregnant mares' urine (Premarin), and progestogens (Provera and Primolut) which are made to be close to Progesterone but had an effect far different from Progesterone. The drug company pills had patents so that money could be made from them.

You cannot have a patient in a natural substance - hence, drug companies have not promoted bioidentical hormones, as there is less profit.

Read more about Bio-identical Hormones -

• Hormone Imbalances
• Oestrogen Dominance in Pre and Postmenopausal Women
• Postmenopausal Women
• Measuring Hormone Levels
• Types of Oestrogen
• Comparison of Progesterone and Progestogens (Progestins in the USA)
• Men's Health - Andropause