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Hormone Replacement for Menopause - Is it Safe?

What Do You Need To Know About Hormone Replacement Therapy?

Hormone replacement for menopause or simply 'hormone replacement therapy' (HRT) is the most studied and effective form of treatment for menopause symptoms, especially hot flashes and night sweats. Scientists have yet to unearth a more effective remedy for menopause symptoms. Hormone replacement therapy gives the body the estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone it desires in order to improve the profound mind-body shifts that occur during menopause and perimenopause.

In the months or years leading up to perimenopause and menopause, you might start experiencing the effects of hormonal fluctuation such as hot flashes, anxiety, weight gain, low libido, vaginal dryness, and insomnia. When you decide that you want to reduce these symptoms, healthcare providers can prescribe bioidentical hormones, or hormone therapy. The main hormone often discussed in HRT for menopause is estrogen. However, progesterone and testosterone must be included in the hormone replacement discussion. But what is Hormone Replacement Therapy?

Hormone replacement therapy shouldn't be complicated or scary. It simply restores the estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone that women gradually start producing at lower levels as they age. HRT is an incredibly effective, natural remedy for your menopause symptoms. But our societal norms stigmatize aging and menopause. Even the discussions about hormonal fluctuations are considered taboo. Additionally, because some outdated research continues to get amplified on the internet, there is unnecessary fear associated with taking control of your menopause journey and trying hormone replacement therapy.

It is estimated that only one in four, or 25%, of the women who could/would benefit from hormone replacement therapy, will actually try it. We understand. After reading some of the false reports about HRT we recognize how women might be scared by hormone therapy when they hear these inaccurate, negative reports. Talking to friends, older relatives and reading these antiquated journal articles only make the fears more real.2

It doesn't have to be this way, but the disinformation continues. Winona aims to help you make choices that reflect your hopes - and not your fears.

Hormone Replacement for Menopause - How Is It Safe?

A very common question women have is whether or not hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause is safe. The short answer is that hormone replacement for menopause is extremely safe for the majority of women. If this is true, why is there so much scary stuff out there regarding the risks of HRT? The answer is, 'it's complicated.' To understand where all the false information about the risks of menopause HRT comes from, we must look at the history of the use of hormone therapy.

Before 2002, hormone replacement was recommended for almost all women from the time they approached menopause until the day they died. Scientists believed that hormone replacement therapy was good for everyone, and for the entire second half of their life. In retrospect, we were probably overusing hormone replacement.

In 2002, the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study results were released and turned everything that we thought we knew about hormone replacement therapy completely upside down. The WHI study reported that like most medications, there are risks and benefits to hormone replacement therapy and we should be careful who we prescribed it for.

We still agree with this summary. But, the Women's Health Initiative's additional results made huge headlines and, unfortunately, caused panic among post-menopausal women. People became very afraid of hormone replacement therapy because of the idea that adding back your body's natural estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone hormones carried a risk. This huge overreaction to the WHI study caused hundreds of thousands of women to suffer needlessly from unjustified fear of HRT for decades.

When the data from the WHI study was examined critically, it turned out that the actual risk of something bad happening (a poor medical outcome) from the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medicines was only 19 out of 10,000 women. That is not zero, but a very small risk. Not only was the risk small, but the hormones that were used are now considered 'old fashioned' and out-of-date. Winona does not sell those hormones.

Since the WHI study was conducted, there have been much safer types of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone hormones developed that have a much lower risk. At Winona, we do not offer the 'old fashioned' hormones used in the Women's Health Initiative study.

We use only the safest hormones available. Furthermore, the old WHI study only used oral forms of progesterone and estrogen hormones (tablets). Today we offer new delivery systems, like patches and creams, that offer an alternative way of getting your hormones that can further decrease any risk in some women. Winona offers all of these methods: creams, patches, and tablets.

So, even when women were taking these older hormones, the risks associated with hormone replacement were low. Today, 30 years since the beginning of the WHI, we use great screening and safer choices of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone hormones. The risk of using these new hormones is extremely low.

The knowledge scientists have gained over the past six decades, together with advances in research techniques, have allowed us to develop more personalized hormone strategies to prevent and treat conditions when our bodies create less estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.1 Shipped by Winona's private pharmacies, it comes as a pill or cream.

Winona provides estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone that is chemically identical to the kind made by women's ovaries, and is described as 'bioidentical.' Hormones' job is to bind to and stimulate receptors that are found inside most human cells. In your body, these bioidentical hormones will bind to receptors and signal the same effects in your body that you were able to produce before perimenopause and menopause. These bioidentical compounds are originally produced from plant hormones.

Hormone replacement for menopause can profoundly improve one's quality of life and prevent diseases including cancers, stroke, heart problems and so much more. It is a shame that so many women have missed out on this huge benefit due to fears that come from a misunderstanding of the actual scientific data. Let's change the future, and change what menopause looks like!