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When Should Women Initiate Hormone Replacement Therapy?

When Should Women Initiate Hormone Replacement Therapy?
As you age, you're destined to eventually experience menopause.

During this process, your hormones can get out of whack and cause a handful of unpleasant symptoms.

These symptoms include weight gain, thinning hair, mood swings, vaginal dryness, night sweats, insomnia, and hot flashes.

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is commonly used to combat these symptoms, but many women are beginning to experience hormonal therapy failure, causing symptoms to reemerge.

Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is a form of therapy that focuses on menopausal symptoms. BHRT copies the hormones that are lost and puts them back into your body, giving it the name, "bio-identical."

Synthetic hormone replacement therapy involves using medication that contains primarily estrogen and the synthetic form of progesterone to come close to the hormones found in your body.

How do you know when you should initiate HRT?

Listen in as Douglas Lord, MD, discusses HRT and when a woman should consider implementing it.
Featured Speaker:
Douglas Lord, MD
Douglas LordDr. Douglas Lord is Nava's Medical Director, and one of the first physicians to join the Nava Health & Vitality Center where he has helped develop and implement the Nava Method™—Nava's proprietary approach to total body wellness. In his role at Nava, Dr. Lord is responsible for maintaining Nava's innovation and for creating the best experience for clients by ensuring they have access to the newest and best advances in integrative wellness.

Dr. Lord's traditional medical career began in 1970. He received his MD from Loma Linda University Medical School in 1966, followed by a rotating internship at Washington Adventist Hospital and Residency at George Washington University Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was Board Certified in 1972 with the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and holds his medical license through the state of Maryland.

Career highlights include esteemed positions at Washington Adventist Hospital as OB-GYN Department Chairman, Director of Education for Family Practice Residency, and Medical Director OB-GYN house staff. He has also served on the Executive Committee and Finance Committee at Washington Adventist Hospital and has had his own private OB-GYN practice since 1970. More recently, he has served as a Visiting Professor for University of South Florida's CME's on new methods of contraception, Proctor for Navasure Edometrial Ablation, Affiliate Faculty for George Mason's Nurse practitioner training program, and Faculty member at National Norplant.
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