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All you need to know about Hormone Replacement Therapy. In our last videos, we covered how to start an MTF transition, and as we promised, in this video we will explain to you what is Hormone Therapy and what are the necessary requirements to undergo such a therapy. 

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), otherwise called menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) or postmenopausal hormone therapy (PHT, PMHT), is a type of hormone therapy which is utilized to treat side effects related with menopause in women. These side effects can incorporate hot flashes, vaginal decay and dryness, and bone misfortune, among others, and are caused by lessened levels of intercoursehormones in the menopausal period. The primary hormonal solutions utilized in HRT for menopausal indications are estrogens and progestogens. A progestogen is typically utilized in the mix with an estrogen in ladies with flawless uteruses in light of the fact that unopposed estrogen treatment is related to endometrial hyperplasia and growth and progestogens keep these dangers. 

The 2002 Women's Health Initiative (WHI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found dissimilar outcomes for all reason mortality with HRT, observing it to bring down when HRT was started before, between age 50 to 59, yet higher when started after age 60. In more established patients, there was an expanded frequency of heart attacks, and stroke, and breast cancer although a reduced incidence of colorectal cancer and bone fracture and bone fracture. Some of the WHI discoveries were again found in a bigger national investigation done in the UK, known as the Million Women Study (MWS). Because of these discoveries, the number of ladies taking HRT dropped precipitously. The WHI prescribed that ladies with non-careful menopause take the most reduced plausible dosage of HRT for the briefest conceivable time to limit related dangers.