What is Menopause

Menopause is the time in a woman’s life when the ovarian production of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone begins to decline. Although menopause is medically
defined as the time in which a woman stops menstruating for a period of 12 months, the onset can occur up to ten years before that. While each woman is different, it usually occurs between the ages of 35 and 55.

We recommend that all women should have their hormone levels checked by the age of 40. Before a woman’s period stops, she will notice a change. Her periods will become shorter and she will have a decrease in energy, strength, and libido. Her moods will change: she may be more agitated, depressed, apathetic, and forgetful than normal. Weight gain especially in the abdomen and thighs is common as hormones begin to change.

How Do We Treat Menopause

Since most of the symptoms of menopause are related to declining hormones, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is an effective way to manage menopause. HRT can be used to treat hot flashes, vaginal dryness , sleeplessness, and irritability. HRT can also provide cardiovascular benefits such as protection against premature heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. If started early, HRT can also help prevent osteoporosis

Physician’s Weight Control and Wellness Centers

offers individual treatment plans based on the patient’s symptoms, physiology, and lab results.

What are Bio-Identical Hormones?

Bio-identical hormones are derived from plant sources and are modified to the exact human hormones. Bio-identical hormones from a compounding pharmacy are different than hormones from pharmaceutical synthetic hormones..

Bio-Identical vs Synthetic Hormones

Are Bio-Identical Hormones Safe?

Synthetic hormones are usually more potent than human hormones. Synthetic progestins such as Provera do not match the body’s chemistry and can inhibit
ovulation, suppress the body’s own production of progesterone, and actually
aggravate a woman’s symptoms rather than eliminate them. Many women

become irritable, more emotional, and experience headaches, fluid retention, weight gain, facial hair, and acne with synthetic progesterone. Most women feel better when they substitute the bio-identical progesterone for Provera.

Studies show that women have an increase in breast cancer when using high doses of synthetic estrogens. In contrast, bio-identical estrogen used in postmenopausal women are actually 10-20 times lower in strength than synthetic estrogens in birth control pills.

TESTOSTERONE

Hormone Balance for MEN and WOMEN

Are You Tired?

Lack Energy?

Losing Strength?

Low Sex Drive?

Erectile Dysfunction?

Depressed Mood?

Grumpy?

YOU MAY NEED TESTOSTERONE REPLACEMENT