Hormone replacement therapy is a treatment that is designed to restore the hormones that you’ve lost over time. Hormone replacement therapy typically involves quick and easy injections of estrogen (and progestogen in some cases.) When women enter their menopausal years, their hormones sharply decrease. About 80 percent of all women experience difficult symptoms as a result of hormone depletion during menopause. There can be a number of unpleasant side effects of menopause, but there is an excellent solution in the form of hormone replacement therapy. Here are five reasons to consider hormone replacement therapy.

What Can Hormones Do for Me?

Hormone replacement therapy can help restore not just normal hormone levels, but also normal life. The difficult effects of menopause can be greatly reduced or even eliminated with hormone replacement therapy. All of the following benefits are possible with hormone replacement therapy:

#1: Anti-Aging Benefits

Many women notice that they seem to age more rapidly as they move into menopause. This can include all of the following problems.

  • Dry skin
  • Lines and wrinkles
  • Reduction in skin elasticity
  • Thinning hair
  • Limp and dull-looking hair
  • Weak fingernails that split easily
  • Tendency to gain weight more easily
  • Increased tendency towards osteoporosis

This change in appearance can have a severe negative impact on self-esteem, but hormone replacement therapy can help. During hormone replacement therapy, the body produces more collagen. This helps prevent facial volume loss, and it can also fill in lines and wrinkles. Collagen also helps improve the condition of hair and nails.

Women who begin a regular hormone replacement therapy program often notice a dramatic improvement in their overall appearance. It’s possible to look and feel years younger without any surgery at all through hormone replacement therapy.

#2: Mood Enhancement

One of the most common effects of menopause is a change in mood. Many women experience dramatic mood swings, often quite unpredictable ones. It’s also quite common for women to experience severe depression in the menopausal years. This depression is the physical effect of reduced female hormones, and it can also be the emotional effect of noticing changes in the body and mind.

Hormone replacement therapy can greatly improve mood, allowing you to feel normal again. Many women say that hormone replacement therapy allows them to feel like their former self again. If you begin hormone replacement therapy early enough, this can mean that you won’t have to suffer the mood swings and depression that many women experience during their transition into menopause.

#3: Better Sleep

When hormones decrease, it’s common to experience sleep disturbances. This may include the following issues.

  • Night sweats
  • Difficulty in falling asleep
  • Difficulty in staying asleep
  • Lack of restful sleep

When your estrogen levels decrease, you may also become more vulnerable to other environmental factors that can cause sleep problems. Hormone replacement therapy allows your body to return to its normal sleep schedule. You can have the same quality of sleep that you had before menopause, and this can have a positive impact on all areas of your life. You’ll feel better during the day and have an improved mood when you’re properly rested.

#4: Increased Libido

Decreased libido is one of the problems most commonly associated with menopause. The lack of hormones in the body can have swift and dramatic effects on the libido. Many women say that their interest in sex sharply declines or even vanishes completely. This is a normal result of hormone depletion, but fortunately, it’s not something you have to live with.

Hormone replacement therapy can return libido levels to normal. This is a huge benefit not only to menopausal women, but to their partners as well. In fact, for some women, hormone replacement therapy may even be instrumental in saving their relationship. If hormone replacement therapy is started as soon as the hormone levels start to decrease, you may be able to completely avoid changes in the libido.

#5: Improved Focus

A lack of focus is quite common during menopause. Many women refer to this as “brain fog.” When brain fog occurs, you might find it difficult to focus on projects at work or at home. You might even forget things that you would never have forgotten before menopause. For example, you might forget the names of people you know or misplace your keys only seconds after putting them away. Brain fog can be not just frustrating but also embarrassing for menopausal women, but hormone replacement therapy can help.

The ovarian hormones directly affect brain function. They play a crucial role in learning, memory, synapses’ function and even neuron growth. Hormone replacement therapy allows you to have healthy and normal levels of ovarian hormones, which means that your brain function can return to its pre-menopause levels once again.

Why Ageless Pensacola?

The Ageless Pensacola team can give you rapid relief through hormone replacement therapy. Many patients begin to experience the benefits discussed above in as little as a few days. Contact us any time to learn more about how hormone replacement therapy can benefit you!