Menopause - hormone therapy?

• In order to alleviate menopausal symptoms, women often use hormone therapies.
• Despite many years of research, there are no valid results that confirm the positive effects of hormone therapies on hair growth.
• The Thiocyn Haarserum a promising opportunity to counteract hair loss*.

The menopause is characterized by a continuously decreasing estrogen production of the organism. Especially after the menopause Make men's symptoms noticeable in almost every second woman. Hormone therapy should be relieved of the symptoms and the quality of life of women is to be improved. Despite decades of research, the effect of hormone therapies: there is no valid data as to whether the symptom of hair loss can also be treated by taking hormones.

Compensation by hormones

Hormone preparations are prescribed a good third of the women over 50 years to alleviate occurring complaints during menopause such as hot flashes, sweating or dizziness. The organism's hormone metabolism are so complex that the hormones used must be repeatedly questioned during therapy. Do the symptoms take off? Are the women satisfied with the treatment and the results? Are there any change or side effects? In practice, the principle has established itself in recent years: as few hormones as possible, as much as necessary.

Scientific knowledge

The basis of hormone therapy at the beginning of menopause is blood, saliva or urine tests, thanks to which the level of certain sex hormones can be determined. Hormone defects are recognized compared to reference values. Then the question arises: Does it even make sense to treat certain symptoms of menopause with hormones? The S3 guideline for hormone therapy in peri and postmenopause The German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG) wants to help doctors and women to make decisions. It is about an estimate of benefits and risks as well as clarification as to whether hormones are effective for certain symptoms of menopause.

When do hormones work?

Three examples:

1. Heat flashes can be treated most effectively with estrogen; The therapy is orally.

2. In vaginal atrophy, d. h. Dilution of the genital tissue, systemic hormone therapies with tablets or local estrog therapies improve symptoms in the form of suppositories or creams.

3. With hormone therapy, effective primary prevention of osteoporosis and their fractures can be operated. After oral or transder painters, fewer broken bones occur in women with a high risk of fracture, says the guideline.

When does hormones not work?

The guideline with regard to a variety of symptoms could not recognize a consistently positive effect of hormones. Three examples:

1. Quality of life. In women who are treated with hormones, both positive and negative effects on the quality of life can be recognized.

2. Urinary incontinence. Oral hormone therapy can increase the risk of the occurrence of urinary incontinence or worsen existing incontinence.

3. A mitigation of skin aging processes cannot be demonstrated by hormone therapy.

Can hormones stop excessive hair loss?

For women who are looking for opportunities to possibly stop their excessive hair loss during menopause with hormone therapy, the guideline of the DGGG does not make any statements. There is also no other study that could provide evidence that excessive hair loss during menopause with additional hormones must generally be stopped and new hair growth should be stimulated.

A few years ago, doctors and their patients still had reason to assume that with the prescription of anti -Bab types, many menopausal symptoms - including hair loss - could be treated successfully. As a result of possible side effects, one gradually moves away from this practice.

In August 2013, the European Medicines Authority EMA, for example, decided on the further approval of anti -Bab types with cyproteronacetate (CPA). Since there is apparently no proven benefit in the case of androgenetic hair loss, products with CPA are no longer approved.

An attractive option: thiocyn hair serum

The problem for women with increased hair loss during menopause: You have to hope that hormone therapy against your menopausal symptoms will also have a positive effect on hair growth - which is rather unlikely. On the other hand, women who "only" suffer from increased hair loss will not be prescribed hormone therapy. The natural, the body's molecule thiocyanate is a very attractive option in this dilemma. Special care Thiocyn hair serum with patented Thiocyanate activity is a way to stabilize the disturbed cell metabolism on the hair root and to normalize the hair cycle*-without interfering with hormonally controlled metabolic processes. The result: less diffuse hair loss* and miniaturization of the hair, an improved hair density - without any known side effects.