What risks are associated with hormone replacement?

After reading many of our posts on Bioidentical Hormones, you may be thinking bioidentical hormones are risk free.

Unfortunately, they aren’t. The same risks associated with the synthetic hormones can be extrapolated to bioidentical hormones. However, limited studies already suggest that bioidentical hormones cause fewer side effects and risks than synthetics.

You may have heard that hormone therapy causes breast cancer. It doesn’t

Hormone therapy may accelerate the growth of pre-existing breast cancer, but patients taking hormone therapy are actually diagnosed at an earlier stage of disease when compared to those not taking hormone therapy.

If you want to know the exact risks for both synthetic and bioidentical hormones, here they are:

Cardiac Event: 7 new cases/10,000 women (26% increase)
Breast Cancer: 8 new cases/10,000 women (23% increase)
Stroke: 8 new cases/10,000 women (41% increase)
Pulmonary Embolus: 8 new cases/10,000 (200% increase)
Blood Clot: 18 new cases/10,000 (213% increase)
Alzheimer’s Dementia: (200% increase)