Is Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) Safe?

By Dr. Holly Lucille

As a Naturopathic Doctor I have been taught to think about health and healing in a very comprehensive, holistic manner. In fact, the science that drives my thought process is that of Vitalism.

Vitalism states that our bodies have an inherent self healing mechanism and are brilliant and built to stay in balance through the harmonious efforts of many interrelated systems and are constantly working on our behalf to take care of us.

As a practitioner of this style of medicine, I am challenged to listen and ask deeper questions when I am involved with a patient who has become entirely out of balance and therefore symptomatic. Symptoms are the body’s way of telling us that something needs attention. I have to understand where there might be “obstacles to cure,” where there might be some excess, some deficiencies and then work with the body in order to achieve a state of health.

This brings me to the issue at hand, hormones… and of course hormone replacement therapy, or “HRT”. The topic has almost reached celebrity status with genuine confusion and concern regarding what is being talked about! I have been extremely perplexed at the whole notion of replacing hormones. I ask … where did they go? Which hole did they fall out of? Did a woman leave them at a party one night and wake up the asking “oh my … has anyone seen my hormones?” Our bodies have exactly what they need to make all the hormones we need at any particular stage in a women’s life. When there is trouble hormonally, it is more about restoring function rather than replacing it!

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