If you're going to take hormone therapy, it's safer to take hormones that are identical to human hormones. In other words, hormones that are body-identical or bioidentical. The concept of bioidentical used to be controversial but is now conventional and mainstream.

In this episode, Lara discusses hormone therapy including:

• why the concept of bioidentical was controversial when it didn't need to be
• oral micronized progesterone for heavy periods, mood, sleep, and perimenopausal migraines, and
• some facts about body-identical estrogen (four uncontroversial things and one controversial).

Links:

• The crucial difference between progesterone and progestins
• Cyclic progesterone therapy for PCOS
• The central role of ovulatory disturbances in the etiology of androgenic polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—Evidence for treatment with cyclic progesterone
• Blog post with a list of body-identical brand names
• Online workshop: Metabolic health and vitality for women over 40