Women’s Hormone Therapy
Hormone Optimization
Hormone Replacement Therapy is one of our core or primary services offered because it is often the basis for everything else we do. Our approach to your wellness is based on the simple premise that there are two things required for our cells/bodies to function properly. These two elements are energy and biochemicals or bioregulators. Energy will be discussed on other pages like under regenerative medicine. Things like vitamins, minerals, prostaglandins and enzymes can all function as biochemicals in our bodies, but hormones are our primary bioregulators. These vital substances vary significantly with age, can be influenced by many factors both inside and outside of our bodies and are integral for almost every function in our body. We find dramatic health improvement for almost all conditions when we optimize a patient’s hormones to work synchronously.
Female Hormone Replacement
As women, some hormonal changes are natural, but outside factors and underlying health conditions can also influence these changes, which then creates hormonal imbalances. These hormonal imbalances produce undesired signs and symptoms that can hinder your daily life and well-being. Symptoms of an imbalance look different for everyone, both physically and emotionally. Whether your imbalance is caused by stress, poor nutrition, perimenopause, or an underlying health condition, recognizing your signs and symptoms is the first step to seeking treatment and getting back to living the life that you deserve.
Get back to living again with our Hormone replacement therapy.
Our certified women’s health providers are experts at the difficult task of optimizing or balancing your unique hormone profile. There is a delicate and intricate balance of the three hormones estrogen, progesterone and testosterone in the female body. These three bioregulators vary with age and even fluctuate significantly with menstrual cycles. Thus, you must seek out a professional that has extensive training in treating these hormone imbalances. While most clinics offer only one form of hormone replacement, at Premier U, we have three options at our disposal to ensure that we use the method that will be the easiest for you to use while also yielding the best results. These three methods are oral, creams or oils and pellets. Again, no two patients are the same, and we pride ourselves on our individualized treatment for each patient. That being said, we typically have superior results with creams/oils, especially as our first intervention. This allows us to customize the exact ratios of the substances and gives us different options for timing and absorption.
Hormone Replacement Therapies at Premier U
Below is a summary of the 3 methods we use for female hormone replacement therapy.
Oral Forms of Hormones
This is the easiest of all administration types. However, there are several drawbacks. Some of the hormones are not readily absorbed orally or can be hard on the liver if larger doses are needed. Additionally, there is no way to control the dispersion rate with these, meaning they can be used up in a matter of hours leading to peaks and valleys in hormone levels.
Hormone Creams and Gels
This is our most preferred administration method. The application is very patient-friendly. As discussed earlier, this method gives us the most treatment options with a virtually infinite number of percentage ratios available. These creams are readily absorbed and can be modified into oils to change absorption rates as well as to make them more natural and free of solvents. All of our patients start with some version of this method along with oral administration.
Hormone Pellets
The advantage of the pellet system is that they are typically inserted painlessly and last for 3 months at a time. This means not having to remember to take a pill or rub in a cream every day. The major drawback of this method is that there is no way to change the amounts or dose of the hormones on a regular basis.
