{"id":113,"date":"2020-10-29T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/?p=113"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:08:26","slug":"hormone-therapy-not-just-for-menopause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/hormone-therapy-not-just-for-menopause\/","title":{"rendered":"Hormone Therapy: Not Just for Menopause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hormone replacement therapy has changed drastically over the past decade. Today, it&#8217;s all about personalization: Medications are tailored to individuals \u2014 there&#8217;s no more one-size-fits-all treatment. Physicians and compounding pharmacists work together with both men and women to ensure that their medications are specific to their body and their needs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called compounded bioidentical hormone therapy \u2014 cBHT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Compounded<\/em> because it&#8217;s made just for you, like a tailored suit.<\/li>\n<li><em>Bioidentical<\/em> because it&#8217;s identical to your body&#8217;s natural hormones, like estradiol, progesterone, testosterone and DHEA<\/li>\n<li><em>Hormone therapy<\/em>\u00a0because your body (like many people&#8217;s!) isn&#8217;t making enough of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>cBHT has been used for decades and improved a lot of lives! And if you think it&#8217;s just about menopause, you might be surprised at some of the other conditions cBHT is used for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Infertility<\/li>\n<li>Postpartum Depression<\/li>\n<li>Premenstrual Syndrome<\/li>\n<li>Female Sexual Dysfunction<\/li>\n<li>Vaginal Dryness<\/li>\n<li>Osteoporosis<\/li>\n<li>Chronic Fatigue<\/li>\n<li>Fibromyalgia<\/li>\n<li>Endometriosis<\/li>\n<li>Andropause<\/li>\n<li>Hypothyroidism<\/li>\n<li>Hypoadrenalism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>cBHT is a highly customizable medication that your compounding pharmacist will prepare especially for you (with a prescription, of course). And not only will the hormones be created just for you, so will the dosage form. There are a lot of options, so be sure to talk to your prescriber and your compounding pharmacist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oral\/vaginal capsules<\/li>\n<li>Topical creams or gels<\/li>\n<li>Sublingual (under the tongue) lozenges\/troches<\/li>\n<li>Suppositories<\/li>\n<li>Oral suspensions<\/li>\n<li>Injections<\/li>\n<li>Pellets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remember: The patient-prescriber-pharmacist triad is critical when making cBHT decisions! Make sure you have open and honest discussions with your health care practitioners!<\/p>\n<p>Already using compounded hormone therapy? Share your story! The FDA is considering restricting or even eliminating cBHT, and we want to show how many lives it&#8217;s changed for the better.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.a4pc.org\/cbhtandme\">Click here to go to A4PC.org\/cbhtandme and let us know what cBHT has meant for you<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hormone replacement therapy has changed drastically over the past decade. Today, it&#8217;s all about personalization: Medications are tailored to individuals \u2014 there&#8217;s no more one-size-fits-all treatment. Physicians and compounding pharmacists work together with both men and women to ensure that their medications are specific to their body and their needs. It&#8217;s called compounded bioidentical hormone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p3rx.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}