Hormonal therapy is the therapy that is used for reversing the excessive male hormone productions in human body. Main purpose of using hormonal therapy is to treat hormone-related issues such as acne and hair loss. Hormonal therapy uses daily administration of anti-androgen drug for controlling the free flowing androgens in the body.

Excess of male hormones leads to enlarge oil-producing glands. Increased sebum leads to acne; a person gets prone to inflammatory acne due to excessive sebum production.

Androgens and Estrogens are present in both male and female body, but it’s just that males have increased naturally occurring androgen whereas women have more naturally occurring estrogen.

Generally women dealing with acne have increased level of free androgens in their blood. The main aim of hormone treatment is to minimize the free flowing androgens. This is because the contact of androgen with oil producing glands results in immediate overproduction of oil.

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