Hormone imbalances can negatively impact quality of life. When hormone levels fall too low or become too high, you may experience unpleasant symptoms. Getting an accurate diagnosis and pursuing treatment can help restore optimal balance.
Paying attention to signs of hormonal issues enables prompt diagnosis. If you regularly feel unusually tired, gain weight, or lose interest in activities you previously enjoyed, hormone testing can determine if a shortfall causes these changes. Measuring levels of key hormones like estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid hormone, cortisol, and DHEA reveals deficiencies.
Each hormone affects particular aspects of health. For example, low estrogen often worsens hot flashes, vaginal dryness, bladder problems, and mood changes in women. Low testosterone reduces sexual desire, contributes to erectile dysfunction, and diminishes strength and endurance in men. Identifying which hormones fall outside optimal ranges allows customized treatment.
Although hormone changes represent a natural part of aging, significant imbalances warrant proper medical care. Left untreated, hormone shortfalls raise the risk for heart disease, osteoporosis, anxiety, depression, and other major health concerns. Thankfully, restoring balance through hormone replacement therapy or other means can successfully manage deficiency-related symptoms and reduce associated risks.
Selecting an experienced hormone specialist improves your chance of successful treatment. Look for the following credentials and qualifications:
Opt for a practitioner concentrating specifically on hormone-related issues rather than a generalist. An endocrinologist or other specialist with advanced hormonal training makes an ideal choice. Those with expertise in bioidentical hormones may provide expanded treatment options.
The field of hormonal health continuously evolves, so a knowledgeable specialist stays updated on the latest advancements. Check that your doctor regularly participates in conferences, educational seminars, and similar learning forums.
Each patient presents a unique health profile, so blanket approaches seldom effectively resolve hormone imbalance. Confirm that your practitioner develops customized regimens tailored to your individual symptoms, test results, risk factors, lifestyle, preferences, and treatment goals.
Hormones interconnect in complex ways, so focusing narrowly on a single hormone often fails to optimally restore balance. Seek a “whole person” perspective considering your entire hormonal network along with related aspects like nutrition, sleep, stress, and toxins.
If hormone testing reveals a deficiency contributing to symptoms, replacing what your body fails to adequately produce can help you feel better. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) options include:
These plant-derived hormones match human hormones on a molecular level, helping your body recognize and use them effectively. Compounded bioidentical hormones adapt doses to your needs.
Pharmaceutical companies manufacture these lab-created hormones. While easily accessible, synthetic hormones seldom fully mimic natural hormones, potentially reducing effectiveness for some patients.
Pharmacies specializing in custom compounding can formulate personalized bioidentical hormone combinations in precise doses. Compounding enables optimally-matched treatment.
Set doses of commercial bioidentical and synthetic hormones provide standardization but limit personalization. If available doses fail to relieve your symptoms, compounding allows better fine-tuning.
Whether you want to alleviate unpleasant symptoms or reduce disease risks, properly addressing hormone imbalances through replacement therapy and related strategies pays dividends.
Declining estrogen/progesterone affects over 50 million American women, driving problematic symptoms like hot flashes, sleep disruption, vaginal atrophy, and bone loss. Bioidentical hormone therapy (BHT) reduces these symptoms and lowers associated health risks.
Like menopause in women, andropause stems from testosterone deficiency, but often goes undiagnosed in aging men. Restoring testosterone to healthy levels relieves erectile dysfunction, declines in muscle mass and strength, fatigue, and depression.
Too little thyroid hormone slows metabolism, triggering weight gain, fatigue, mood shifts, and more. Carefully calibrated thyroid hormone replacement balances hormone levels to resolve symptoms. Monitoring treatment avoids over-medication complications.
Stress hormones cortisol and DHEA help regulate mood, immune response, metabolism, and other essential functions. Optimizing levels treats chronic fatigue, sleep problems, anxiety, stalled weight loss, and related concerns.
Reproductive issues frequently accompany hormone deficits. Normalizing ovulation, sperm health, and sexual response through tailored hormone therapy successfully restores fertility for many couples.
When seeking hormone replacement therapy to recapture your health, vitality and enjoyment of life, entrust your care to our capable practitioners.
Our clinic focuses specifically on optimizing hormonal balance through replacement therapy, not just as an afterthought. We bring profound expertise to assessing and treating hormone deficiencies of all kinds.
From your initial call through your course of treatment, our friendly staff strives to make you comfortable by thoroughly explaining our processes, carefully listening to your needs, and answering all your questions. We treat you like family, not just another patient.
We recognize and craft treatment plans tailored to each patient’s health profile using personalized prescription bioidentical hormones through expert compounding for superior results compared to one-size-fits-all approaches.
While using bioidentical HRT to restore hormonal deficiencies, we also help patients enhance other key aspects of health like nutrition, supplements, stress management, detoxification, and fitness for optimal wellbeing.
If you aren’t fully satisfied with your progress, tell us. We’ll diligently adjust your hormone therapy, add complementary modalities, or try other avenues until you see the improvements you seek.
