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Hormones are tiny chemical messengers that are secreted into the bloodstream from glands. They regulate activities of vital organs throughout the body. Some familiar hormones include estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, cortisol, thyroid, insulin, DHEA, and melatonin. Hormones stimulate many life-sustaining processes throughout the body to promote health, mental and emotional harmony, growth, reproduction, healing, immune defense and repair.
As we age past forty, many hormone levels naturally start to decline. The National Institute on Aging (NIA) instructed several major U.S. universities to study the relationship between aging, lowered hormones and the development of disease. They determined that insufficiencies of hormones were major contributors of the diseases of aging. Worldwide research of the past twenty years also confirmed their conclusions: There are tremendous health benefits of hormone replacement therapy during the aging process.
The current emphasis of Western medicine is to diagnose and treat diseases. Many diseases, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and Alzheimer's disease, are blamed on the "natural" aging process. Conventional medicine has never treated aging as a disease and so has never tried to prevent these health consequences when related to aging. Current research allows us to look at aging itself as a significant factor in the development of disease. We are changing our medical thinking about whether diseases that occur with aging are really normal and acceptable. What we now know is much of the deterioration of aging is preventable with hormone replacement therapy.