S3 Ep164: Is Bioidentical Always Best?

Many, if not most women and clinicians believe that bioidentical estrogen is always best when it comes to post menopause hormone therapy. This comes from the premise that bio-identical estrogen is completely natural and therefore safer and more effective than other forms of estrogen.  Except that is not necessarily true.
  
In this myth-busting episode, I discuss:

• Why words and terms need to have precise meanings
• The difference between HT, HRT and MHT
• The three general categories of estrogen
•     Synthesized
•      Conjugated
•     Bioidentical
• How the term bioidentical came to be
• Four myths about bioidentical estrogen

             Bioidentical estrogen is completely natural 
             Bioidentical estrogen is safer than other forms of estrogen
             Bioidentical estrogen is more effective than other forms of estrogen
             Bioidentical estrogen is less likely to cause breast cancer than other forms                of estrogen. 

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Lauren Streicher, MD is a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and the founding medical director of the Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause and a Senior Research Fellow of The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University. She is a certified menopause practitioner of The Menopause Society. She is the Medical Director of Community Education and Outreach for Midi Health. 

Dr. Streicher is the medical correspondent for Chicago’s top-rated news program, the WGN Morning News, and has been seen on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NPR, Dr. Radio, Nightline, Fox and Friends, The Steve Harvey Show, CBS This Morning, ABC News Now, NBCNightlyNews,20/20, and World News Tonight. She is an expert source for many magazines and serves on the medical advisory board of The Kinsey Institute, Self Magazine, and Prevention Magazine. She writes a regular column for The Ethel by AARP and Prevention Magazine. 

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