When women over forty consider health care, the focus and goals - in partnership with a primary health care provider - should be wellness and hormone balance. Specifically this means: 1) relief from perimenopausal/menopause symptoms without increasing your risk of diseases and; 2) guidance to prevent diseases such as osteoporosis, heart disease, breast cancer and other diseases.
There's range of treatment options – both conventional and natural - that women can consider to address menopause symptoms as well as reduce risk for disease. They are:
- Diet, exercise, lifestyle, stress management
- Nutritional supplementation
- Botanical therapy
- Compounded bioidentical hormone preparations
- Pharmaceutical company bioidentical hormone preparations
- Non bioidentical HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy)
- Non-hormonal pharmaceuticals
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