Ever heard of estriol? And, YES....anyone taking hormones should be BALANCING their hormones, including all the different kinds of Estrogen.....and be tested, regularly....I take VERY little estriol....more DHEA and Pregnenelone and Progesterone....
Luckily I have one of the premier hormone docs....and this article may be of interest to you....http://www.tahoma-clinic.com/hotflashes.shtml
What I know is.....I would as I said be in a wheel chair or dead without them.
Um, yes I’ve heard of estriol. It’s made out of estrone (either directly, or via estradiol), and is naturally made by those precursors travelling through the liver, where the necessary enzymes for the conversion are found. The question is, why would anyone need to take estriol directly unless, she had a defect or deficiency in the enzymes that convert estrone and estradiol to estriol? In the absence of clear evidence that the body is unable to produce the proper balance on its own, even when an ample supply of precursors are provided, I think it makes a lot more sense to just take the precursors.
There *are* various conditions in which the body is unable to convert precursors into the needed array of hormones. Some are genetic defects in enzymes and others involve damage to key organs that produce certain of these enzymes. For example, people with kidney failure often lose the ability to convert vitamin D from dietary and/or sunlight sources into its active form (calcitriol) because the kidney is no longer able to produce a key enzyme needed for that conversion process. For those people, direct supplementation of calcitriol is needed. But it would make no sense at all (and potentially be very dangerous) to take calcitriol to correct a calcitriol deficiency, when your body is perfectly capable of converting dietary vitamin D to calcitriol, and just needs to be provided with adequate amounts of dietary vitamin D.