I was waking up at 4 am every night and not able to get back to sleep. My skin was itchy and dry, I was losing hair on my legs and my eyebrows, and I just didn't have the drive I needed to perform at work. Taking bioidentical estrogen, progesterone and a little testosterone helped me feel like myself again. I have been on HRT with compounded hormones for 20 years now. When my thyroid levels started to fall lower, I started compounded thyroid and I am also feeling better. I have an allergic reaction to synthetic progesterone and become terribly irritable. Could never take birth control pills. And when I was given synthetic thyroid at the hospital after a total hip implant, I was talking so fast, that the physical therapist had to ask me to stop talking!! My quality of life would be dramatically compromised without compounded products. Please redo the research and learn the truth. See above