What Bio Identical Hormones Are

Dr. Christensen explains what bio identical hormones are and how they work in our body.

Hi! I am Margaret Christensen. I am a Board Certified Obstetrician Gynaecologist. However, I do not practice Obstetrics anymore, and I do not deliver babies anymore, and I do not do any hospital medicine anymore. Right now I dedicated my practice to integrated and holistic approaches to women’s health: h. How to create health rather than treat disease. Bioidentical hormones are hormones that look exactly like our own bodies would make. So unlike synthetic hormones which you would findght, for example, iand birth control pills or in fertility drugs or in traditional synthetic hormone replacement therapy, those are molecules where we have taken the identical human hormone and we have attached something to it in order to be able to patent it. The problem with doing that is it actually creates a disturbance in the metabolism and breaking down of the hormone in the body, and often times it is the breakdown products which can be more toxic. So, we were evolved over millions of years of times with our own hormones, and if you are going to take hormones, you would want to take something that is bioidentical like the body would make itself, and you would want to also give it in just small quantities in physiologic doses, t. The same amounts the body would make. T and that way our bodies have wisdom to know how to use it, how to break it down, and how to process it. So, you tend to have less side effects and less of some of the health risks that you could perhaps with the more synthetic hormones. Now the caveat there, however, is that you have to know what you are doing and how to use those. Because you can do just because it is bioidentical does not necessarily mean it is going to be good for you, especially if you are giving it in large quantities and if you are not treating the whole person and creating balance to the whole person because hormones are influenced by many, many different body systems, and you have to be able to support all of them in order to create a balance.