 | Affordable Pay-As-You-Go Bioidentical Hormone Replacement and Optimization for | |
| Women and Men | ||
| Serving Northeastern Pennsylvania and nearby areas of New York and New Jersey | |
| Close to Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | |
| Follow-up by E-mail and Phone | |
| Long Distance and International Clients--Phone Consultations available, Office visit | |
| required for treatment |
Hormones are the most powerful molecules in our bodies, controlling the function, growth
reproduction, metabolism, and repair of every cell. Our bodies require optimal hormone levels,
just as they require optimal levels of essential vitanutrients: vitamins, fats, amino acids, and
minerals. Our hormone levels are generally optimal in our youthful years--our early twenties--but
some hormone levels begin to fall soon afterwards and continue to decline with increasing age.
Hormone levels decline because our glands and the parts of our brain that control our glands
deteriorate with age. This age-related hormone loss is natural, but it is not adaptive. It is
destructive. It is one of mechanisms of aging--our euphemism for the disease by which Nature
causes our deterioration and death.
Insufficient hormone levels have been shown to contribute to many of the disorders and
diseases that we suffer as we age--diabetes, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, fatigue, loss
of muscle strength, osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, cognitive decline, increased
cholesterol levels, increased belly fat, loss of libido, depression, and some cancers. Many
persons have additional non-age-related hormone insufficiencies or imbalances due to
hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, endocrine gland failure, hormone resistance, and metabolic
disorders. Women are especially affected by hormonal disorders because their complex
hormonal system is adapted to produce and feed babies; not to optimize their vitality as it is in
men. Women lose vital hormones in perimenopause and menopause, and they have a much
higher incidences of thyroid insufficiency (fatigue, aches, cold hands and feet, dry skin,
constipation) and cortisol insufficiency (fatigue, aches, insomnia, anxiety, depression,
hypoglycemia, low blood pressure, PMDD, allergies, and autoimmune diseases). Women are
being very poorly served by the prevailing approaches to hormonal diagnosis and treatment.
Conventional endocrinology grossly underestimates the importance of optimal hormone
levels. It remains disease-oriented--recognizing and treating only those severe hormonal
deficiencies caused by some identifiable disease, and providing only enough hormone
replacement to "normalize" certain tests. It accepts all age-related losses as "normal". It accepts
any hormone level anywhere within 95%-inclusive population-based laboratory reference ranges
as "normal". Conventional endocrinologists also rely on inappropriate and sensitive tests, like
the TSH level or the ACTH stimulation test. These tests cannot diagnose partial hormone
deficiencies caused by hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction--and this problem is far more
common than the thyroid gland or adrenal gland failure that they can diagnose.
In addition, extensive pharmaceutical corporation influence in medicine downplays the
importance of hormones, encourages doctors to prescribe drugs for every symptom, and
encourages the use of patented hormone-like drugs ("steroids", estrogens, progestins, etc.).
Since these hormone substitutes have caused serious diseases and disorders, physicians
believe that restoring hormones in any way is dangerous. The bulk of the evidence indicates
that restoring the proper, bioidentical hormone molecules by the correct route, and in correct
balance with other hormones, restores all the natural benefits of the hormones without the
risks that occur with pharmaceutical hormone substitutes and approaches. For instance,
transdermal estradiol does not increase the risks of blood clots and strokes like oral estrogen
tablets do. Progesterone protects against breast cancer, whereas many progesterone-
substitutes (progestins) promote breast cancer. Cortisol restoration, accompanied by DHEA,
does not have the long term negative effects of "steroids" like prednisone and Medrol. For
certain, even bioidentical hormone replacement can cause problems when given in the wrong
way, in excessive doses, or without proper balance with other hormones. However, the fact that
something can be been done wrong does not mean that it can't be done right.
We need new paradigm in endocrinology; physicians must learn "Restorative Endocrinology".
There is abundant evidence of the benefits of higher, rather than lower hormone levels within the
broad population ranges. A significant portion of the population is now suffering from symptoms
and deteriorating health due to inadequate hormone levels or hormone effects. Millions of
women diagnosed as having depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia actually have
undiagnosed thyroid, cortisol, sex hormone, Vitamin D, and iron deficiencies. The progressive
physician must become adept at recognizing partial, functional, and age-related hormone
deficiencies and at optimizing hormone levels and effects for every patient. It's really just
common sense:
Medical practice, which is now essentially a pharmaceutical disease-drug scheme, should be
based upon an entirely different conceptual foundation--that of detecting the bio-molecular
causes of symptoms and disorders, and fixing the problem by optimizing the amounts and
balance of the important molecules that are innate to the body--among them hormones and
vitanutrients. Physicians would then understand that:
reproduction, metabolism, and repair of every cell. Our bodies require optimal hormone levels,
just as they require optimal levels of essential vitanutrients: vitamins, fats, amino acids, and
minerals. Our hormone levels are generally optimal in our youthful years--our early twenties--but
some hormone levels begin to fall soon afterwards and continue to decline with increasing age.
Hormone levels decline because our glands and the parts of our brain that control our glands
deteriorate with age. This age-related hormone loss is natural, but it is not adaptive. It is
destructive. It is one of mechanisms of aging--our euphemism for the disease by which Nature
causes our deterioration and death.
Insufficient hormone levels have been shown to contribute to many of the disorders and
diseases that we suffer as we age--diabetes, atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, fatigue, loss
of muscle strength, osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, cognitive decline, increased
cholesterol levels, increased belly fat, loss of libido, depression, and some cancers. Many
persons have additional non-age-related hormone insufficiencies or imbalances due to
hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, endocrine gland failure, hormone resistance, and metabolic
disorders. Women are especially affected by hormonal disorders because their complex
hormonal system is adapted to produce and feed babies; not to optimize their vitality as it is in
men. Women lose vital hormones in perimenopause and menopause, and they have a much
higher incidences of thyroid insufficiency (fatigue, aches, cold hands and feet, dry skin,
constipation) and cortisol insufficiency (fatigue, aches, insomnia, anxiety, depression,
hypoglycemia, low blood pressure, PMDD, allergies, and autoimmune diseases). Women are
being very poorly served by the prevailing approaches to hormonal diagnosis and treatment.
Conventional endocrinology grossly underestimates the importance of optimal hormone
levels. It remains disease-oriented--recognizing and treating only those severe hormonal
deficiencies caused by some identifiable disease, and providing only enough hormone
replacement to "normalize" certain tests. It accepts all age-related losses as "normal". It accepts
any hormone level anywhere within 95%-inclusive population-based laboratory reference ranges
as "normal". Conventional endocrinologists also rely on inappropriate and sensitive tests, like
the TSH level or the ACTH stimulation test. These tests cannot diagnose partial hormone
deficiencies caused by hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction--and this problem is far more
common than the thyroid gland or adrenal gland failure that they can diagnose.
In addition, extensive pharmaceutical corporation influence in medicine downplays the
importance of hormones, encourages doctors to prescribe drugs for every symptom, and
encourages the use of patented hormone-like drugs ("steroids", estrogens, progestins, etc.).
Since these hormone substitutes have caused serious diseases and disorders, physicians
believe that restoring hormones in any way is dangerous. The bulk of the evidence indicates
that restoring the proper, bioidentical hormone molecules by the correct route, and in correct
balance with other hormones, restores all the natural benefits of the hormones without the
risks that occur with pharmaceutical hormone substitutes and approaches. For instance,
transdermal estradiol does not increase the risks of blood clots and strokes like oral estrogen
tablets do. Progesterone protects against breast cancer, whereas many progesterone-
substitutes (progestins) promote breast cancer. Cortisol restoration, accompanied by DHEA,
does not have the long term negative effects of "steroids" like prednisone and Medrol. For
certain, even bioidentical hormone replacement can cause problems when given in the wrong
way, in excessive doses, or without proper balance with other hormones. However, the fact that
something can be been done wrong does not mean that it can't be done right.
We need new paradigm in endocrinology; physicians must learn "Restorative Endocrinology".
There is abundant evidence of the benefits of higher, rather than lower hormone levels within the
broad population ranges. A significant portion of the population is now suffering from symptoms
and deteriorating health due to inadequate hormone levels or hormone effects. Millions of
women diagnosed as having depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia actually have
undiagnosed thyroid, cortisol, sex hormone, Vitamin D, and iron deficiencies. The progressive
physician must become adept at recognizing partial, functional, and age-related hormone
deficiencies and at optimizing hormone levels and effects for every patient. It's really just
common sense:
- Aging is Nature's way of killing us.
- The loss of hormones with aging hastens our deterioration and death.
- Optimal hormone levels are vital to our health and vitality.
- The disorders and diseases caused by partial hormone deficiencies are well-known
and serious. - Balanced bioidentical hormone optimization prevents and treats these disorders and
improves quality of life. - The scientific evidence indicates that balanced hormone restoration does not cause
harm.
Medical practice, which is now essentially a pharmaceutical disease-drug scheme, should be
based upon an entirely different conceptual foundation--that of detecting the bio-molecular
causes of symptoms and disorders, and fixing the problem by optimizing the amounts and
balance of the important molecules that are innate to the body--among them hormones and
vitanutrients. Physicians would then understand that:
- Restoring optimal hormone levels is essential preventative medicine.
- Restoring optimal hormone levels is essential to the treatment of all diseases.
- Restoring optimal hormone levels is essential to our Quality of Life!
Hormone Restoration for
Health and Quality of Life
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Feb 1, 2007
Feb 1, 2007
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