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Safety and effectiveness is what women want in their menopausal therapies. Yam cream is a hormone therapy for the signs and symptoms of menopause . Yams contain a plant progesterone. More accurately, phytoprogesterone , there are no actual human progesterone in a product that only contains a yam source of progesterone. Thus, a yam cream is not technically a bioidentical in the sense of bioidentical for humans, but it is a natural hormone in one sense, and that term bioidentical gets extended to these products by some people. The term wild yam, is the common name for a plant that is more accurately called the Dioscorea villosa. It can be cultivated, and the creams are no t t ypically made from plants foraged from the wild.   The yams also contain plant saponins which may be able to affect sour ability to produce estrogen. In menopause, it's not likely that a yam cream will help the production of estrogen from an ovary that has essentially run out of eggs and run out of the abilit...

In a 1993 New England Journal of Medicine study, that has not yet been updated, a small trial of postmenopausal women who had recurrent urinary tract infections were studied using estriol, compounded, vaginal cream. These women were suffering greatly, and had about 6 or more infections per year. The estriol cream in this study was not compared to non-compounded creams, but to placebo. In this study the women treated with the vaginal compounded estriol had fewer than one infection per year! Estriol used vaginally in another study, showed that menopausal women treated with the estriol cream responded very quickly to clear up symptoms of dryness and irritation, although in this study they didn't conclude anything about urinary tract infections. When treating urinary tract infections it is important to remember that many factors, including, sex, medications, condoms, and overall health can affect how you feel. So when considering choices, for most women, as the American College of Obs...

Hormone therapy can be prescribed in so many forms. There are pills, implants, creams, patches, gels, shots, vaginal rings just to name a few routes of administration. Further more hormone therapy can be of so many compounds: not just estrogen, but testosterone, progesterone, adrenal hormones all may be in the mix of what is prescribed. Most pharmaceutical companies produce hormone replacement therapy that is from synthesized chemical sources, but some also have produced hormone therapies from natural ingredients, such as the yam. Hormone therapy is very tightly regulated when it comes to standard prescriptions therapy that women are used to, but it is also possible to have your gyno write a dosage and formulation that is specifically mixed for you. Most all these mixed products are made from plants such as the yam or soy. This is what is known as bioidentical and also compounded therapy. Compound therapies may be necessary for a very few women, and these formulas have undergone a ver...