Hormone Therapy: When to Stop? 🤔

Part 8 of 9 -- Dr. Lisa Lilienfield of the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine talks about hormonal functions and balancing as an essential part of health. In this segment, Dr. Lilienfield reponds to patients' questions about using hormone replacement therapy and other medications to treat osteoporosis and osteopenia. She also discusses pelvic floor dysfunctions and lists some of the risk factors for taking hormone therapy for menopausal symptoms. Often patients suffering from chronic pain, illness, or fatigue have been living with hormonal imbalances that have never been properly diagnosed. She discusses hormone therapy, the current research on hormone replacement, the side effects of hormone reduction as people age, and some of the laboratory testing used to explore whether a hormonal imbalance is causing or contributing to a condition. Dr. Lilienfield also discusses the use of synthetic as well as bio identical hormones in hormone replacement therapy.