You may seriously want to consider such a treatment option if you have any or a combination of the following concerns: anxiety, allergies, foggy brain, weight gain, depression, dizziness, endometriosis, dry skin, fibrocystic breasts, hair loss, and headaches, less libido, osteoporosis, or urinary tract infections. These are the typical symptoms associated with menopause and hormone imbalances, and they are caused in major part by the incorrect relationship between your body’s progesterone and estrogen levels.

Simply put, there are two female hormones (estrogen and progesterone) that co-exist in a very fragile balance – every little change in their relationship will have a great impact on your overall well-being. Many factors, such as age, nutrition, stress, ovulation, and exercise, can influence the amount of hormones that your body produces on a monthly basis.

Our hormones begin falling off starting with perimenopause when hormones drop you back to the same range that a girl went through at the time when she was younger — that time between adrenarchy and puberty. While menstruation is still experienced – regular or at fairly regular intervals – women are actually no longer ovulating during that time. This means that the woman cannot be pregnant anymore.

This case is almost the same as the experience of a girl at the time that her reproductive system is developing as a teenager. The adrenal glands, for example, try to jumpstart your brain to make your ovaries work and when that happens, you’re capable of producing sufficient estrogen that’s generated by a basketful of eggs.

Some 20 years later, once a woman is in middle age, she has just enough estrogen to make a real thin lining in her uterus but not enough to peak. During perimenopause, her periods are shortened, and this is when her breasts seem lumpier, and often times, her mind gets foggy. A woman is said to be in peri-menopause when she doesn’t peak estrogen with regularity. It is basically the loss of this rhythm during perimenopause that prompts the destruction of the rest of her eggs. The remainder of the eggs are used up, with the extreme action of FSH. Indeed, in this stage, hot flashes are observed – because that’s precisely how her system shuts down for good. On some occasions, it can take up to ten years to go through the entire process before going through menopause.

Menopause is defined as the cessation of menstruation for 12 consecutive months, in clinical terms. Menopause marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years, and this normally occurs naturally around the age of 52 when her ovaries stop producing estrogen, and there are no more fertile eggs. Also, the clinical diagnosis of menopause is finding in the blood work an FSH level higher than five.

Today, with hormone replacement, women can stop the aging process and need not experience the indications of hormone imbalance and menopause. But she can only try to fool nature by covering the fact that she’s missing eggs if the hormones are replaced in the exact way as that they would be generated in youth – in exactly the amounts and the rhythm in which they would occur when she was younger. This is the principle behind rhythmic, bioidentical hormone therapy. It’s not static dosing, but dosed in a rhythm with different amounts of estrogen and progesterone during the month. Women using this rhythmic cycling also will get their periods again, just like when they were in their prime.

Women taking rhythmic bioidentical hormone replacement therapy are raging about how good they now feel. No more sleep deprivation due to hormone-related insomnia and hot flashes. Say goodbye to depression and brain fig. The skin’s youthful glow is also restored. And more often than not, women who had experienced the dreadful symptoms of menopause are now saying that they got their lives back.

The real “fountain of youth,” that is what rhythmic bioidentical hormones are actually all about.

The figures above best explains why a large percentage of women are experiencing the symptoms of menopause today. If you are one of the over 40 million women feeling discomfort from menopause, then you should know the facts.

So what is menopause? To define, it’s the cessation of the menstrual cycle for a period of 12 consecutive months. Menopause marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years, and usually happens naturally around age 51 or 52 when the ovaries stop producing estrogen.

There are several women, however, who experience menopause immediately – this occurs when their ovaries are surgically removed. Regardless of the time of the experience, menopause indeed has a great impact on women’s health, mental state of mind and quality of life.

It was in 2003 when the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) frightened women and doctors alike with the recommendation of not taking hormones. Several women don’t know the real facts about the WHI. Those women above 65 years old who are taking PremPro and Premarin, for instance, were found to have experienced cardiovascular diseases, cancer and osteoporosis – these results were comprehensively discussed, no less. Good thing, however, that bioidentical hormones were not included in this study.

The WHI was set up to address the most prominent causes of death, disability, and impaired quality of life in postmenopausal women. It was an organized attempt to amend the inequities in women’s health research and therefore provide practical information to women and their doctors. The research was focused on how synthetic hormone replacement therapy, dietary patterns with calcium and Vitamin D supplements could assist in the prevention of heart diseases, cancer and osteoporosis. These three diseases were the main focus of the study because they become more common in menopausal women.

In 2003, there were approximately 9 million women who are still taking a particular form of Premarin. One of them is PremPro. The other one is Premari-, meaning PREgnant MARes’ UrINE or PMU for short. Both of these forms are synthetic hormones.

The release of the WHI results had an impact on the above-mentioned statistics. There was a decrease of 25 percent of the roughly 12 million women taking PMU based medications in 1999.

Around 1/3 of the 55 million post menopausal women in the United States are on synthetic estrogen replacement therapy (ERT), or hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Interestingly, only 49% – rather than the high 79% in 1999- of those are currently using PMU based products.

Despite these figures, it’s still observable than several women do not fully understand hormone therapy – for those who are afraid of HRT, however, the idea of natural bio-identical hormones has intrigued them a lot. And with so many products available, even that has become confusing. The fact that the government is regulating all bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) remedies adds to all this confusion.

The great thing is, women should no longer have to perplexed about hormone replacement therapy. Interestingly enough, several women have gotten used to taking BHRT in menopause medicine. There’s a confusion in the use of the terms, though, because hormones are not really bio-identical. Natural hormones are not bio-identical unless the body can recognize them as hormones, and they’re not considered restoration unless what has been lost is truly restored. In large part, they can only be mimicked, and will never be identical. Furthermore, they can’t be replaced, rather, they can be restored. And in order for hormone therapy to be truly accurate, it should be rhythmic, or biomimetic.

What’s the difference between biomimitec hormones and bio-identical hormones? Biomimetic hormones are taken from natural sources, and mimic in the body the natural undulating rhythms of the hormone blood levels in a normal menstrual cycle. Undulating, as defined, is the tendency of causing something to move in a smooth, wavelike motion.

Bio-identical hormone products are usually formulated from plant sources to match the chemical structure of hormones produced naturally by the human body. The premise is that, technically, the body can’t distinguish bio-identical hormones from the ones the female ovaries produce; however, different forms of human-produced hormones are recognized differently by cells. So it makes sense that bio-identical hormone results might also be different.

For bio-identical hormone compounds to be authentically the same, biologically, as human hormones, they should be presented Biomimetically. A great part of recognition at the receptor cites depends on presentation, i.e. serum levels and timing, as well as molecular structure.

Biomimetic hormone restoration therapy is accurate, it is biomimetic and mimics the up and down rhythms of hormone blood levels in a normal menstrual cycle. Note that it’s not bio-identical, but biomimetic.

What is the rhythm? The rhythms of the body are governed by a master clock that works much like a conductor. Cues from light signals are taken (partly to be in-sync with the 24-hour day) and depending on the time of the day, a section of the body is activated while another is quieted down. Indeed, the body somehow ebbs and surges at the command of that master clock.

The circadian clock that our cells follow is actually one 24-hour rotation of the planet. For 28 days, the moon tracks the repeating of that cycle – and so does your body. Among all the patented bio-identical hormone products available, only one makes use of the natural rhythm in establishing the proper doses of estradiol and progesterone. To restore the hormone levels of youth, topical creams have to be applied in varying amounts throughout that 28-day cycle.

The latest treatment for women in menopause is multi-phasic rhythmic dosing of bio-mimetic hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) using natural hormones in a bio-mimetic way. Over 2 million women in the U.S. utilize customized hormones for menopause symptoms.

Another projection: by 2030, there’ll be 57.8 million baby boomers and 54.9% of them will be women. That year, boomers would be between ages 66 and 84. Thanks to the relief of the rhythm of Biomimetic Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT), hopefully they will all live more happily.