How are the bioidentical hormones made?
As there is no practical way of extracting bioidentical hormones from nature scientists have developed a way to produce these hormones from a plant source. Bioidentical hormones such as the three estrogens, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA and cortisol are all synthesized from a hormone precursor extracted from either soy beans or wild yam called diosgenin. We prefer to use Soy derived diosgenin as it is considered by many to be of superior quality when compared to yam. Diosgenin has a molecular structure very similar to all these closely related hormones. Once the diosgenin has been extracted from the soy beans and purified its molecular structure is then modified in order to convert it into the appropriate hormone. By this stage the hormones are absolutely free of any chemicals found in soy beans so if you are allergic to soy these hormones should not pose any problem at all. Once the appropriate hormone has been made it is purified to a pharmaceutical grade purity and then micronize