Understand:
If you've bought two locks of the same brand, the same model, and you install them on two doors, side by side... mysteriously, the key for one of them is missing. does not run, If you try to “force” it, it won't open the lock of the other, even though both keys are extremely similar (especially for the layman, the “non-key expert”). And if you try to "force" it, you'll end up spoiling the lock!
With hormones, it's the same: the receptors are specific, and the fit of each hormone to its receptor affects its action on that particular cell (where it is acting). If the molecule that fits into the receptor is only “similar” to the corresponding hormone, but not the same, the fit is defective, and the effects of that molecule will naturally and logically be different!
Is that clear?
That's why, when necessary, I only prescribe bioidentical hormones. If nature made a hormone one way, who am I to “replace” it with “something similar” and think that everything will be fine?
*There are people on social networks and in the media in general giving their opinions on the subject of “hormones”, but who seem to know nothing about it, or are out of date, or full of prejudices: don't be misinformed by people like this - it's your health that could be harmed!
This is just my humble opinion... well-founded, as always.
Learn more here about hormones in general, including isomolecular hormones (also called bioidentical hormones):
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