Hormone Replacement Therapy(HRT)-AZABU SKIN CLINIC,Tokyo,Japan

Having the correct levels and ratios of hormones in your body ensures that juvenescence and health are optimized and maintained. Unfortunately, hormone production declines naturally with age. However, it is now possible to reduce the effects of aging and disease by actively increasing hormones to youthful levels with Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). HRT enables you to maintain not only your health and beauty but also your appearance. A combination of oral medication, injections and topical medication helps restore youthfulness – physically, mentally and functionally.

Having the correct levels and ratios of hormones in your body ensures that juvenescence and health are optimized and maintained. Unfortunately, hormone production declines naturally with age. As you can see the graph below , hormone production of 20’s gradually begins to decline, and in 40’s and early 50’s, it declines rapidly. Irregular lifestyle and dietary habit, such as lack of exercise, stress, extreme fatigue and sleep deprivation makes more declination of hormone production.

Estrogen is one of the female hormones and called estradiol, estrone, estriol. By replenishing estrogen (estrogenic hormone), it helps improve cognition, mental instability, menopausal syndrome such as insomnia, skin conditions, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer, dryness and atrophia of vagina , and osteoporosis prevention.

Progestin is one of the female hormones which is secreted by the ovary. This hormone is essential for pregnancy, and helps relieve premenstrual syndrome (PMS), swelling and headache caused by period. It is effective for controlling symptoms of uterine bleeding by estrogen, enhancing effectiveness of estrogen by balancing with progestin. It also helps reducing risk of osteoporosis, heart disease, uterus cancer, breast cancer and migraine as well as improving menopausal syndrome, sexual desire and lowering percentage of body fat. It might induce sleepiness as a side-effect.

DHEA is a steroid hormone which exists the most in the body and produced by brain and adrenal cortex. DHEA is changed to testosterone, estrogen and progesterone in the body and they are a precursor substance of sex hormone. It helps prevent obesity, diabetes and heart disease. It also involves in weight loss, muscular strengthening as well as improvement of memory skill, cognition, knowledge and sexual desire.

Chemical suffix: Somatotropin HGH is produced in the pituitary gland and absorbed into the liver by the blood stream, and converted to various growth factors. HGH adjusts the metabolism of protein, electrolyte and carbohydrates, and controls fat combustion. It is secreted during the hours of sleep and affected by exercise, stress, emotion and a crash diet. This hormone controls recovery and the growth of tissues.

Testosterone is a major male hormone. It is secreted by the testis and adrenal gland. It helps maintain sexual desire and energy as well as restore a mental balance. When the testosterone declines, it causes various symptoms such as deficient in virility, declining of bone and muscle, increasing percentage of body fat, depression, male erectile disorder, high-blood pressure, cardiac disease, menopausal symptoms(andropause). For women, it helps to improve sexual desire, skin condition, bone density and skin’s elasticity.

Thyrloid is secreted by the thyroid gland, and involved in the development of organs and metabolism. When Thyrloid declines, it causes hypothyroid, fatigue, chill, weight gain and constipation.