Who Benefits From Hormone Therapy?

Hormone therapy, an approved treatment for relieving menopausal symptoms and prevention of conditions such as osteoporosis, can provide radically important benefits to specific groups of patients.

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Hormone therapy seeks to increase specific hormone levels in the body that have dropped with age and other circumstances. Therapy is generally provided as systemic products circulating throughout the bloodstream and other body parts (as oral tablet, path, gel, etc) or as non-systemic products affecting specific areas (as cream, ring, or tablet).

Menopausal women

Estrogen treatment is facilitated to control issues such as mood swings, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, weight gain, and night sweats experienced after menopause. The benefits can include improved sleep, sexual health, and overall quality of life.

Growth hormone deficiency patients

HGH injections offer positive results such as tighter and firmer skin, stronger nails, shorter recovery time, and enhanced immunity.

Hormone imbalance patients

An excess of estrogen, dubbed estrogen dominance, can lead to frightening symptoms and conditions from endometriosis and recurrent ovarian cysts to uterine fibroids and abnormal mammograms/pre-cancer of the breast. Hormone therapy can address the imbalance that can occur from puberty to peri-menopause.

These are just some groups that can benefit from hormone therapy, which recognizes that one’s levels of the female hormone dubbed the “elixir of life” and allows reproduction to take its course can go off-track at one point. Use of hormone therapy should be individualized, and to be continued or discontinued based on joint decision-making by the patient and her healthcare provider.

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Dr. Victoria J. Mondloch is a practicing physician based in Wisconsin and has years of experience specializing in women’s health, family medicine, and preventive health and wellness that serve as the pillar of her independent practice. Learn more about these areas of medicine on this page.