What is a bio-identical hormone?

Bioidentical hormones are hormones that are identical to our hormones that circulated in our body when we were younger and even now, though in lesser amounts. And there lies the problem. They are hormones that are exact copies of endogenous (from inside our body) human hormones, including estriol, estradiol, progesterone, as opposed to synthetic versions with different chemical structures or non-human versions, such as Premarin.

Bioidentical hormones are also referred to as “natural” hormones, but that might be confusing, because even though they are identical to our own hormones in structure and function, they started out as hormones from a Yam. Yes a yam, but different side branches to the hormone present naturally in a yam were removed synthetically to create a hormone identical to ours. While other hormones referred to as natural, such as the Conjugated Equine (horse) Estrogens or Premarin are produced naturally by horses, collected in their urine and given directly to you as a horse’s estrogen. They left all those nasty horse “side-chains” attached them and therefore the hormone is nothing like your hormone but is identical to a horse’s. Well good for the horse and bad for you as the horse has numerous compounds in the preparation, that are definitely foreign and potentially harmful to the human body (i.e. equipollence).

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