Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for transgender and transsexual people replaces the hormones naturally occurring in their bodies with those of the other sex. Some intersex people also receive HRT, either starting in childhood to confirm the gender they were assigned, ...Hormone Replacement Therapy
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If you have not yet experienced menopause then the terms hormone replacement therapy may sound foreign to you. As the terms suggest, HRT or hormone replacement therapy is a treatment aimed at easing the symptoms of menopause by hormonal replacement.
Hormone replacement therapy or HRT is used to supplement the body with either estrogen alone or a combination of both estrogen and progesterone. This is normally done during and after menopause.
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Bioidentical hormones were first used for menopausal symptom relief in the 1930s, after Canadian researcher James Collip developed a method to extract an orally active estrogen from the urine of pregnant women and subsequently marketed it as the active agent ...
For transwomen, taking estrogens causes among other changes: * The growth of breasts, with concomitant enlargement of the nipples. * Redistribution of body fat. * Thinning of skin. For male-to-female transgendered people, HRT often includes antiandrogens in addition to the ...
Several contraindications to androgen therapy exist. An absolute medical contraindication is pregnancy. Relative medical contraindications are: * androgen sensitive epilepsy, * migraines, * sleep apnea, * polycythemia (elevated red blood cell count) * cardiac failure, renal failure, or severe hypertension ...








