Bio-identical Hormone Therapy

What is Bio-identical Hormone Therapy?
As men and women grow older, the body stops making hormones, which can have devastating repercussions and impact your overall health. For women, menopause has traditionally been a sign of this hormonal decline.

In the past, the established treatment was to replace what’s been lost, by using synthetic hormones. However, over the past few years, bio-identical hormone therapy has emerged as an alternative to traditional hormone therapy. As a result, an estimated two million women have found a respite from the unpleasant merry-go-round of menopause.

Bio-identical hormones are designed to chemically replicate a woman’s natural hormones. Some bio-identicals are ingested as medication, while others are inserted as supplements or can be administered as creams rubbed into the skin.

In order to gain the full benefit of bio-identical hormone therapy, it is highly recommended women also exercise, follow a proper diet, manage their stress and take vitamin supplements. This regimen can slow down cellular degeneration, allow tissue regeneration and delay the aging process. Faithfully following this routine results in improved energy and vitality.

Functional Medicine & Bio-identical HRT

Simply put, functional medicine empowers women. It allows for highly individualized therapies that build health and enhance performance – particularly within the hormone, immune, digestive and detoxification systems.

When women align with a functional medicine practitioner, they’re given a unique set of tools to restore their health. By focusing on patient education, self-reliance and responsibility, functional medicine provides everything you need to take charge of your own wellness. When coupled with bio-identical hormone therapy, a functional medicine approach allows women to successfully combat the deterioration that comes with aging.

With its roots in holistic healing, functional medicine combines laboratory assessments with individual metabolic typing to identify the underlying causes and conditions of common health complaints. Armed with reliable internal information and an integrated tool kit to restore hormonal health, you’ll have everything you need to treat illness.

A functional medicine expert will guide you along this path, offering you custom-tailored bio-chemical therapy and total lifestyle information to restore your physiological, psychological and structural balance. By concentrating on the physiological processes, environmental inputs and the genetic predispositions influencing one’s health and disease, the root cause of a problem is treated rather than the symptoms.

What Issues Can Hormone Replacement Therapy Solve?

Here’s a partial list of what a functional approach to hormone replacement therapy can resolve:

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