( Put cotton in your ears and pebbles i...)Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost,Health

Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes.
Pull on rubber gloves.
Smear Vaseline over your glasses ,
and there you have it: instant old age.
-Malcolm Cowley

Hormone Replacement Therapy popularly known, as HRT is a means of replacing the sex hormones estrogen and often progesterone for post-menopausal women.

The two major female hormones estrogen and progesterone control the female reproductive system and have an effect on many systems and tissues throughout the body. They play a role in building and maintaining bone strength, keeping the skin and hair healthy, maintaining healthy blood cholesterol levels, and influence behavior and brain function. As hormone production declines at menopause, women suffer from Hot Flushes and Night Sweats and are more prone for Osteoporosis and Heart disease.

Hormone Replacement Therapy is treatment with prescription hormonal medications to restore a woman's declining hormone levels. Therapy with hormones provides relief from menopausal symptoms and was known to reduce the risk of osteoporosis and heart disease. But recent studies have also indicated a possible link of HRT with increased risk of heart attack, stroke and breast cancer putting this treatment under a scanner.

The History of Hormone Replacement Therapy

Estrogen has been used to treat the symptoms of menopause for years, beginning in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the mid-1970s, medical studies found that postmenopausal women who used estrogen therapy alone had a significantly increased risk of uterine cancer. Then researchers found that adding progestin, a synthetic form of progesterone (which counterbalances the effects of estrogen) to estrogen therapy provided protection against uterine cancer. As a result, progestin w
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