Bioidentical hormones are a safer and more effective treatment of hormone imbalance than synthetic hormones. Synthetic hormones have foreign compounds that the human body does not recognize. For example, synthetic estrogen is produced from a pregnant horse’s urine and there are horse estrogens in this medication, which is harmful to the human body. Synthetic hormones act as toxins to the human body because their different chemical structure does not bind to the cell receptor and does not get broken down (metabolized) properly.
Because bioidentical hormones are the same molecular stucture as the hormones produced by the human body, they exactly bind to the receptors of the cell and are properly metabolized. Bioidentical hormones do not have the same side effects as synthetic hormones.