“When Oprah, Robin McGraw and Dr. Christiane Northrup started a national conversation about hormone replacement therapy (HRT), they struck a nerve with women all across the country. “We heard you loud and clear,” Oprah says. ‘You’re sick and tired of feeling awful.'”
“Dr. Northrup, author of The Wisdom of Menopause, helped navigate the HRT maze, breaking down the basics of menopause, perimenopause and bioidentical versus synthetic hormones. ”Bioidentical’ means it matches exactly the molecular structure of the hormone that your own body produces,’ she said. ‘[Synthetic hormones are] made from horse urine and are natural for a horse, but they’re synthetic for a human body. … It has completely different effects, [but] many women do well on these.'”
