They shift the emphasis from HRT to natural ways of encouraging the body to balance and heal itself. They focus on dietary, nutritional, and lifestyle changes supplemented by therapies such as acupuncture, herbs, and homeopathic remedies that have been shown to be effective. Natural therapies avoid side effects and the risks of prescription hormone replacement. Alternative treatments have been shown to enhance the effects of HRT by reducing dosage requirements, thus alleviating the health risks associated with HRT or even eliminating some side effects. In some women they have been shown to eliminate the need for HRT altogether.
Alternative therapies tend to work very slow.
So, it may take weeks or months to see any effect. It also needs serious commitment on the part of the patient to stay with the therapy.