Four steps to rebalancing your hormones:

Hormone imbalance? Get rebalanced and feel normal again!

1. Follow these four steps and you will be on your way to feeling better immediately! No more hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, or weight gain.
   
2. Test your hormone levels, now. Test your levels before you begin any natural hormone replacement therapy and after six months of therapy to see the progress made.
   
3. Take hormone supplements only for areas that you are low in and/or are missing altogether. For example, if your estrogen levels are normal, please do not take a phyto-estrogen supplement.
   
4. Take only biodentical hormones. This is important. Only take hormones that your body naturally produces. A good choice would be Sarati's natural progesterone cream or Estro-All, a phyto-estrogen cream.
   
5. Eat well and eat often. Get plenty of rest and drink lots of clean water and take a daily multiple vitamin.

Which test is better, Saliva test or blood test?

The Saliva test kit is more affordable, and more accurate than a blood test. The advantage of a saliva test kit is that it allows for the hormone levels to be tested accurately because saliva contains only the unbound biologically active hormones. Where as a blood test is unable to test the biologically active hormones.

In addition, saliva test kits are often times much more affordable than a blood test, which includes a visit to the doctor's office. Saliva test will test the absorption rate of transdermal natural alternative therapies, such as natural progesterone cream and Estro-All, a phyto-estrogen supplement.  

What are biodentical hormones?

Biodentical hormones are hormones that are derived from natural plant sources such as soybeans, licorice, black cohosh or yams. They are then synthesized in a lab to be molecularly similar hormones that our bodies produce.

Examples of synthetic hormone replacement therapies would be the following:

Estrogen : Premarin, Prempro (a combination of estrogen and progesterone)

Progesterone : Provera, Amen or any medroxyprogesterone acetate. Norethindrone, norgestrel and norgestimate.

Examples of bioidentical hormone replacement therapies would be the following:

Estrogen : Estro-All, a unique combination of phyto-estrogens with natural progesterone cream

Progesterone : Natural Progesterone cream with 960mg of natural progesterone.

Testosterone : Testosterone may also help increase a woman's libido.

DHEA : DHEA PLUS now D-35, 15mg of DHEA, 5mg progesterone and 3 mg of pregnenolone.

Suggested Reading and Products

Lee, Dr. John " What your Dr. May not tell you about Menopause." and " What your Dr. May not tell you about PreMenopause"

Ahlgrimm, Marla R.Ph. " The HRT Solution"

Somers, Suzanne" The Sexy Years"