Risk factors are connected to hormonal imbalance.
A study undertaken in 2009 at Stanford University in California found that women who take HRT for more than five years double their risk of suffering breast cancer for every 12 months they spend taking it.
POF occurs generally in women under 40 when the ovaries aren’t working properly and so few, or no, hormones are being produced by the body. Now a small study done in Scotland has found that young women with ovarian failure would benefit from taking natural bio-identical hormones.
