Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy for Women

Menopause is the time in a woman's life when the ovarian production of estrogens, progesterone, and testosterone declines. The average age of menopause onset is 51, plus or minus several years. Medically, it is defined as the time in which a woman ceases to menstruate for a period of 12 months. While this properly describes the event, the process can begin up to 10 years earlier (called perimenopause).

Long before a woman's periods have stopped, she has already noticed a change. Her periods become shorter in duration and she notices a loss of energy, a decrease in strength, and a loss of libido. Her mood is altered and she may be more agitated, depressed, apathetic and forgetful. These are all symptoms of menopause, the loss of estrogens, progesterone and testosterone.

Suzanne Somers has brought the subject of bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, known as BHRT, into the spot light. In her books, The Sexy Years and her most recent, Breakthrough, she describes how bio-identical hormones have helped her achieve amazing anti aging results and relieved her menopausal symptoms.

Everyday, millions of women suffer uncomfortable disabling symptoms associated with the hormonal imbalance of pre-menopause and menopause. This hormone imbalance may be causing you to feel depressed, anxious, fatigued, sexless, generally ill...or just feeling under the weather.

Many women do not have access to the health care needed to get better and thrive. This is where Preventative Aging & Wellness can help you, by offering treatments that combine the essential bio-identical hormone medications, diet, nutritional supplements, and exercise. We provide individualized treatment plans, based on thorough test results that support women who are suffering the symptoms of menopause, whether due to age or a hysterectomy, adrenal fatigue, and\or thyroid disorders by using bio-identical hormones to live the best life possible.

There are approximately 4,900 women in the US that enter menopause each day and the average woman spends 1/3 of her life in the menopausal stage. Preventative Aging & Wellness is relaying the good news that hormone losses and imbalances are correctible and is why we have developed a proactive customized approach that has proven successful in supporting women’s health, making them feel healthier and younger than they have in years.

Hormone Testing for Women

At Preventative Aging & Wellness, we will determine your unique bioidentical hormonal needs through a very thorough evaluation of your symptoms using blood tests, saliva tests, and/or urine tests. We will also draw your blood right in our office to save you time and we will send it directly to the lab for you, which is included in our services. In order to maintain optimal hormonal balance in the future, after starting bioidentical hormone therapy, we will monitor and re-evaluate on a continual basis to ensure your levels are optimum.

Initial Tests Include:

• Lipid Panel - Measures the various cholesterol components
• Complete Blood Count – Measures the various blood cells in your body
• Comprehensive Metabolic Panel – Evaluates your organ’s and electrolytes
• Ovarian Hormones - What makes you a woman
  • The Estrogens (Estradiol, Estriol, Estrone), Progesterone, and Testosterone.
• Adrenal Hormones - Your immune system, your energy level, and your ability to handle stress
  • Cortisol – the stress hormone
  • DHEAS– Affects the immune system
• Thyroid Hormones - Your metabolism
  • TSH – Thyroid Stimulating Hormonev
  • Free T3 – The active thyroid hormone
  • Free T4 – The inactive thyroid hormone
  • Reverse T3 - Blocks Free T3
• Growth Hormone (hGH)
  • Insulin Growth Factor 1 (IGF1)

Treating Hormonal Imbalance in Women

Preventative Aging & Wellness will treat each patient based on their own individualized test results which will determine the correct dose of each hormone needed. We will replace the exact hormones that are missing or low with the body's appropriate bioidentical hormones. We do not only strive to raise your hormone level up to a “normal range”, but keep working with you to achieve an “optimal range”.  Bio-identical hormones may be replaced by several methods:  pellets, creams, and gels.   After treatment, Preventative Aging & Wellness will follow up with every patient closely, taking the time to re-evaluate your symptoms and laboratory tests to optimize your results.