Bioidentical Hormone
Replacement Therapy
Putting Your Body Back In Balance
Feel Like Yourself Again: Personalized Hormone Replacement Therapy
If you’ve been feeling off with low energy, poor sleep, mood changes, weight gain, or a drop in motivation, you don’t have to struggle silently. Hormonal imbalances can quietly affect nearly every aspect of how you feel day to day, often leaving you frustrated and without clear answers. Left unaddressed, declining hormone levels, particularly in women, can contribute to more serious health risks including cardiovascular and metabolic disease, bone density loss, and cognitive decline.
Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) offers a personalized, medically guided approach to restoring balance, helping you regain energy, improve mental clarity, and feel more like yourself again.
Don’t settle for feeling “not quite right.” Schedule your consultation today to see if hormone replacement therapy is right for you.
What is Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy?
As men and women age, hormone levels decline. This causes significant changes in the body, including low energy, weight gain, difficulty sleeping, and loss of libido.
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is administered to help alleviate these symptoms and maintain optimal hormone levels.
Benefits of Hormone Therapy at thriveMD
- Thorough testing to formulate an optimal regimen
- Personalized programs specifically tailored to you
- Maintain healthy hormone levels to alleviate symptoms
- Manage the effects of perimenopause and menopause
- Increased energy and libido
- Improved sense of well-being
- Reduced risk of cardiovascular and metabolic disease
- Maintain bone density and muscle mass associated with aging
- Improve cognition, including brain fog, while reducing future neurological disease risk
- Reduced risk of diseases associated with aging
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Benefits of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy:
Estrogen
Contrary to popular belief, both women and men create estrogen. In women, estrogen, along with progesterone, plays a key role in mood, sexual development, ovulation and lactation after pregnancy, and prevention of heart and metabolic disease. In men, when estrogen levels are low or unbalanced, the risk of stroke and heart disease soars.
Strengthens:
- Muscle Tone
- Skin Smoothness
- Hair Texture
- Sex Drive
- Bone Density
- Cardiovascular Functioning
- Hormone Levels
Deters:
- Osteoporosis
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Heart Disease
- Metabolic Disease
- Hot Flashes
- Mood Swings
- Sleep Disturbances
- Muscle loss
- Vaginal Dryness/Itching/Burning
Progesterone
This hormone is the lifelong partner of estrogen – women produce progesterone after they ovulate to prepare the lining of the uterus for pregnancy. Estrogen and progesterone are synergistic hormones that balance each other, helping to promote optimal female health.
Boosts:
- Bone Growth
- Healthy Heart Functions
- Mood & Sense of Well-Being
Prevents:
- Water Retention
- Bloating
- Mood swings
Testosterone
Though it’s often thought of as a male hormone, testosterone is a vital sex hormone in both men and women. For both sexes, it plays an important role in puberty, and then begins to decline steadily after age 30. Maintaining optimal levels of testosterone is vital for both sexes throughout their lives.
Enhances:
- Sex Drive
- Energy
- Bone Density & Formation
- Muscle Strength & Growth
- Mood & Sense of Well-Being
- Sleep Cycle
Lowers:
- Risk of Cancer
- Risk of Heart Disease
DHEA
DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone) can be a powerful antioxidant with age-resisting capabilities. That’s why it’s often called “the mother of all hormones.” It’s the primary building block from which our bodies makes estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone hormones that make us feel and look good.
Improves:
- Immune Response
- Sex Drive
- Metabolism
- Emotional Stability
- Memory
- Cognitive Functions
Decreases:
- Body Fat
- Blood Pressure
- Cholesterol Levels
Thyroid
The thyroid hormone is critical for almost every bodily function. It regulates such things as your body’s metabolism, temperature, and nervous system. Healthy levels have been shown to decrease the risk of coronary artery disease as well as help maintain energy and provide mental clarity and focus. In addition, the thyroid hormone plays an important role in the integrity of hair, skin, and nails.
Improves (Signs of Underactive Thyroid):
- Fatigue
- Loss of Motivation
- Dry Skin
- Hair Loss
- Cold Intolerance
- Weight Gain
Improves (Signs of Overactive Thyroid):
- Heart Palpitations
- Weight Loss
- Anxiety
- Heat Intolerance
- Insomnia
- Fatigue
- Trembling Hands
- Muscle Weakness
Melatonin
Melatonin regulates the circadian rhythm and plays a key role in healthy sleep cycles. Melatonin is also known to be a powerful antioxidant and potential anti-cancer agent, because it’s one of the greatest free radical scavengers in the body.
Improves:
- Sleep Patterns
- Immune System
Pregnenolone
Research shows the pregnenolone can help prevent aging-related mental decline. It’s also a necessary building block for creating DHEA.
Improves:
- Memory
- Mental Clarity
What is the BHRT Treatment Process?
- Consultation to review your medical history and discuss the benefits of BHRT.
- Blood testing to evaluate your current hormone levels.
- Follow-up consultation to review results and create a personalized treatment plan.
- Hormone prescriptions are written, and patient compliance is reviewed.
- Begin hormone therapy.
- Repeat blood testing to ensure optimal hormone levels.
- Follow-up visit to evaluate results and make adjustments if needed.
To schedule your hormone evaluation, contact us today.
Meet Our Providers
thriveMD is proud to offer exceptional service by leading practitioners in the field of regenerative and longevity medicine. Their extensive and diverse experience in multiple areas of medicine allows them to quickly adopt newer, ever-evolving, technology-rich treatments to identify and treat health concerns using the most advanced therapies available today.
Learn more about our doctors who are dedicated to helping patients not just feel better, but stay healthier, longer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Take the first step toward feeling your best.
Is hormone replacement therapy safe?
Yes. Bioidentical hormones are designed to closely match the hormones naturally produced by your body.
Unlike many synthetic hormones, bioidentical hormones do not introduce foreign substances that may create unwanted by-products. They have become an increasingly popular option for treating hormone deficiencies and relieving symptoms while supporting long-term health.
Studies suggest hormone optimization may help reduce the risk of age-related conditions such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive decline.
What about the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study?
In 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) reported findings that linked hormone therapy with increased risks of stroke, heart disease, breast cancer, and pulmonary embolism.
These results dramatically changed prescribing practices.
Since then, additional research has shown the findings were heavily influenced by the age of the participants, many of whom were well beyond menopause. Experts now recognize that hormone therapy should be individualized, and that benefits often outweigh risks for appropriately selected patients, particularly when treatment begins closer to menopause.
Hormone therapy is not intended to be a “fountain of youth,” but rather a personalized medical treatment based on each patient’s unique health profile.
What are the risks of hormone therapy?
Heart Health
Some early studies suggested testosterone therapy increased cardiovascular risk. However, many subsequent studies have demonstrated beneficial cardiovascular effects when testosterone is appropriately optimized.
Prostate Health
Current research has not shown an increased risk of prostate cancer from testosterone replacement therapy.
Research by Harvard urologist Dr. Abraham Morgentaler and others suggests testosterone therapy does not increase prostate cancer risk in appropriately selected patients.
What happens if I don’t treat hormone issues?
Untreated hormone deficiencies can contribute to increasingly serious health concerns over time.
These may include:
- Cardiovascular disease
- Metabolic disease
- Bone density loss
- Cognitive decline
Take the Next Step in Your Healing Journey
With the right care plan tailored to your body and goals, real, lasting improvement is possible. If you think you may be a candidate for hormone replacement therapy, contact us today.