Bioidentical Hormone Replacement

As we age, our hormone production decreases. Many men and women suffer from side effects due to this loss or decrease, such as fatigue, memory fog, low libido, hot flashes, night sweats, and weight gain. Many studies show that Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) can help decrease visceral fat, insulin resistance, and anxiety/depression, as well as improve energy, mental capacity, muscle strength, libido, sense of vitality, and quality of sleep. BHRT has also been shown to help lower cholesterol and triglyceride levels and improve skin, hair, and nail health.

Bioidentical hormone therapy uses hormones that are molecularly identical to the hormones naturally produced in our bodies, which include thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, vitamin D. Since pharmaceutical companies cannot patent natural or bio-identical hormones, their products are synthetic and are not the same structurally as the hormones we have in our bodies. Synthetic hormones clinically act very differently from bio-identical hormones. There are numerous studies that show adverse side effects from synthetic hormones. BHRT is not synthetic and poses less harmful side effects and long-term risks. They can be in pill, cream, injection, or pellet forms.

• Increased energy and overall sense of well-being
• Improved body composition with an increase in lean muscle and lower body fat composition
• Decrease in hot flashes and night sweats
• Improved sleep
• Prevention of dementia
• Improved mental clarity and focus
• Decreased risk of heart disease, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other serious health conditions
• Increased sex drive and performance
• Maintaining bone density and strength
• Many studies of natural hormones show a reduction in the risks of several types of cancer

Hormone optimization is the science of optimizing hormones that are no longer adequately being produced by our body. Many of the symptoms of aging come from deficiencies in many of the hormones our bodies once produced in abundance.

We hope that you will experience improvements in your symptoms beginning within the first few weeks of treatment. You should give our program at least six months to see significant benefits. Your body may need that time to heal and rebuild enough for you to see optimal results. You should continue therapy as long as you want to optimize your health and well-being.

Most patients start to notice changes in hormone levels around their mid-thirties. It is never too early for an adult to begin a strong nutraceutical program in association with a healthy diet and exercise. A patient would be a candidate for hormone optimization once the body begins to lower its natural hormone production. Absolute Wellness and Aesthetics uses blood tests and clinical assessments to help determine where you are deficient and how best to help you.

If you elect to stop the program, you will not experience any accelerated aging symptoms. Once you stop our program, your body will return to aging at its normal rate. You will have benefited during the time you are on our program but may slowly see a return of your prior symptoms.

In the past few years, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) with hormone pellets has emerged as the favored, most effective, and most bioidentical method to deliver hormones to both women and men. This is not a new treatment as hormone replacement therapy using pellets has been a successful practice in the United States, Europe, and Australia since 1938. The pellets contain either testosterone or estradiol which are derived from natural plant sources and are chemically identical to our own body’s natural hormones. The pellets are made at specialized compounding pharmacies and can be tailored to each individual patient’s needs. Oral, injectable, and transdermal forms of hormones will often provide roller coaster levels of hormones as they get absorbed then wear off before the next dose.

Once inserted, pellets release sustained and continuous physiologic hormone levels. Studies show that BHRT with hormone pellets is superior to other forms of hormone replacement for the maintenance of bone density as well as for improvement in sleep patterns, energy, mood, sense of well-being, and libido. BHRT pellets deliver consistent levels of hormones which usually last for a 3-5 month period for women and a 4-6 month period for men. They gradually dissolve on their own and do not need to be removed. Studies show that when compared to conventional hormone replacement therapy, bioidentical hormone pellet therapy offers superior relief of symptoms related to menopause and andropause.