Bioidentical Hormones in Women's Health ♀👭🏻

Name: Bioidentical Hormones in Women's Health ♀👭🏻
Uploaded: 2024-02-08T13:00:03+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short spoken excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok about bioidentical hormone replacement in women. The speaker contrasts older synthetic…

8 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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A short spoken excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Charles Mok about bioidentical hormone replacement in women. The speaker contrasts older synthetic hormone products (e.g., Prempro) with newer bioidentical hormones that match the body’s own hormones, and asserts that testosterone is the primary hormone in women (followed by estrogen and progesterone) while noting testosterone replacement was uncommon.

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We started realizing the advent of what we would call bioidentical hormone replacement, which would be hormones that are pretty much identical to what our bodies were making. So Prempro was a synthetic version of a hormone, and the hormones we're using now are actually hormones. The main ones would be testosterone. That's the main hormone that a woman has. Even though we think of testosterone being a male hormone, woman has about 10 to 20 times more testosterone than estrogen. So testosterone primary, estrogen secondary, and progesterone tertiary. And the testosterone replacement wasn't that common.