Menopausal women seek alternative to hormone therapy

Miserable in menopause, Elizabeth Alsgaard pondered an awful choice: Drenching hot flashes or hormone therapies that might raise the risk of cancer.

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I don't understand why anyone would view a bioidentical hormone any safer than a pharmacy hormone. A hormone is a hormone, gotten from horses urine, yams or black cohosh, it is still a hormone. If our bodies change as we age to have less estrogen, and we know that adding more estrogen causes cancer, it seems ill advised to use more of a "bioidentical" hormone than you would estrodial.