Women Fitness Magazine
Is Hormone Replacement Therapy a good option to stop yourself from looking old? A heavily botoxed woman, sitting in the chair in front of me, has a question that is difficult to answer. She is menopausal and wants to know if undergoing a Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) would help her look younger. The pendulum of HRT has swung through the ages — few decades back doctors used to recommend it to everyone and now they fear HRT could lead to cancer, reducing this practice to disrepute. Nevertheless, it must be kept in mind that several studies have suggested that HRT has a beneficial effect on the skin, particularly in response to skin thickeners and collagen content. The largest multicentre study, NHANES 1, a study conducted on 3,825 women who underwent HRT found one third fewer wrinkles than in their counterparts and that their collagen content of skin was significantly high. Collagen is the substance responsible for skin elasticity. Studies with various modes of hormone replacement such as skin application of estrogen, with vaginally applied progesterone and estrogen with vaginally applied progesterone have also been conducted. The findings suggested that skin aged from sun exposure and skin protected from such exposure, both benefited significantly. Although a majority of publications consider the influence of HRT on the skin to be positive, some studies have shown that HRT does not benefit skin and collagen level. Plant estrogens were discovered as early as 1926. Phytoestrogens, the plant estrogens, are present in large proportion in Asian diet, and is one of the main reason Asian women suffers less symptoms from menopause. A European study, done on 234 women over 12 weeks, in which they were made to apply plan estrogen on skin, suggested that phytoestrogen decreases skin dryness and roughness by 32.9 per cent and [...]
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