Hormone treatment: harm or benefit?

Many diseases and problems with the psychological state may result from inadequate production of hormones in the body. If hormones are not enough, then you need to add them - tactic is simple. Who are the doctors first suggested this idea, is not known. But hormones are now widely used in medicine, it is a fact.

Treatment is aimed at replacing the missing hormones in the body, called " Hormone replacement therapy ". A powerful impetus to the development it has received in the period from 60 to 80 years of the last, twentieth century, though the beginning was laid much earlier. First illness, which doctors experimentally treated with hormones was diabetes .

By the end of the twentieth century Hormone Replacement Therapy   It is widely spread in the West. Especially in the field of women's health as a way to combat the unpleasant symptoms of menopause. In addition, a number of these hormones treated disease. Thus by growth hormone somatotropin doctors struggled with dwarfism. Against hypothyroidism administered in the form of treatment hormones   thyroid gland. In cases of Addison's disease prescribed cortisol and aldosterone.

Hormones: harm or benefit?

About hormonal treatment   There are two common and conflicting opinions. In one case, hormones   considered an absolute boon, especially for women, it is hard going through a period of hormonal changes in the body - PMS and menopause. In another hormones   referred to as the cause of uncontrolled completeness and instigators of certain diseases.

Well, distrust of hormonal drugs is justified. At the time, it was, for example, found that hormones   increase the likelihood of breast cancer in women because in general stimulate the growth of cells in the body, and including cancer. And when using hormone replacement therapy after menopause increases the risk of thrombosis and embolism.

But, according to experts, this was due primarily to the fact that hormonal drug,   women who were appointed a few years ago, were "heavy" products with a low degree of purification. While modern drugs are much more perfect: they are made according to the latest biochemical technology and contain a low concentration of hormones.

Excess weight. It is no secret that during menopause, many women begin to rapidly recover. The reason is just the lack of sex hormones produced in the body. Hormone replacement therapy   helps women to keep fit, but if hormone treatment   It starts late, when the process of obesity in the body is already running, they are really able to speed it up. That is the conclusion US doctors came after numerous studies.

Furthermore, it was shown that   Hormone Replacement Therapy   improves survival in women with coronary heart disease. As to the cancer risk, then it cope combined estrogen-progestin preparations.

Carefully, hormones!

Not all doctors are supporters hormonal treatment . One reason for alertness of physicians - with a dose of uncertainty.

The fact that the level of hormones in the body - vacillates. In the body of any person of their number varies in different life periods and under different conditions, especially in women. AND hormonal treatment   It requires a very careful and balanced approach. The physician must appoint a course of hormones to the patient based on individual characteristics, and make it very difficult. In fact, you need to assign a daily dosage of hormones is that amount which is lacking - for such a piece of work must be a very long and detailed study.

What generally happens in practice? Patients hormones   appointed in average doses. That is, we can assume that sometimes people take hormones more than their body really needs. Actually, the human body - a self-regulating system: too much it just does not assimilate and prints out. Therefore, the risk of overdose hormones in fact minimal. Complications can arise only if the work of the internal systems for any reason (for example, because of a serious illness) suddenly fails.

The problem is that the hormonal drugs, like any drug eventually occurs and addictive organism ceases to respond to the usual doses. In addition, the chronic administration of drugs triggered the principle of negative feedback - used to getting hormones from outside the prostate begin to "lazy" and stop anything at all on their own produce. But this problem is characteristic of medicine in general: it happens with almost any drug, not only with hormonal treatment.

Pros hormone

Thanks to hormones in medicine appeared such a direction as anti-aging   - Rejuvenation of the body. Helping patients to restore hormonal balance, physicians actually give them a "second youth", because the result of such a treatment becomes appearance that gets lost the freshness and the high tone and well-being. During anti-aging   therapy is prescribed the minimum dose of hormones that bring hormones corresponding to the upper limit of age norm. This dose is calculated individually, based on the results of the patient survey versatile.

Begin anti-aging   therapy for 5 years before menopause. In the West, according to doctors, the procedure after 10 years will be as usual and mass as vaccinations.

Hormone treatment: expert advice

- Go to hormone therapy should be used as a last recourse - if other methods are ineffective.

- When hormone therapy is very important to choose the right medication.   Hormonal treatments   share on plant hormone agent, bioidentical hormones and synthetic analogues of natural hormones. The most effective of them - synthetic substitutes. But taking them, you run the risk of their own to suppress the production of hormones in the body. The golden mean in the hormonal treatment - bioidentical hormones.

- Note that with gastritis, ulcers and diseases of the upper gastrointestinal tract to take hormone pills are not recommended. Preferably injectables, hormonal patches quickly absorbable and special pills that need to be put under the tongue.

- Hormones does not necessarily take a lifetime. For example, to eliminate disturbances klimaktercheskih enough 2-3 years. Lifetime appointment of hormones is only advisable when a woman to remove one or both ovaries.

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