Are you tired all the time?

Have you lost your sex drive?

Do you have trouble sleeping?

Do you wake up feeling exhausted?

Are you irritable a lot?

Do you feel panicked?

Do you feel occasionally depressed?

If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may be experiencing hormonal imbalance. After the age of 35, hormones begin to drop in both women and men. As more and more scientific studies are now showing, there is a direct and profound impact of hormones on how we feel – day and night.

Each of our hormones affects us in specific ways. When estrogen drops, for example, we often feel sad, sentimental, hopeless, powerless and depressed. A lack of progesterone makes us feel anxious, irritable, even panicked. When testosterone drops in men and women, thinking becomes more difficult, our sex drive reduces and more weight gain is noticeable with a loss of muscle tissue. Just imagine – if these are only three of our fifteen major hormones – what impact the other hormones may have on our wellbeing.

For the last twenty years, our staff has successfully helped patients with hormonal imbalances through our experienced approach. We start with evaluating hormonal levels in our patients and, when necessary, supplementing with bio-identical hormones. We also look at your medical history, brain chemistry, family medical history, and how your symptoms are affecting your life.

Next, we evaluate how your hormone imbalance is potentially affecting the other hormones in your body, since hormones exist in a complex and dynamic feedback system and each and every one has a partner hormone. For instance, estrogen is a growth hormone. It stimulates cell growth, which is why it can be a concern for cancer risk since cancer is uncontrolled cell growth. Its counter-balancing partner is progesterone. Progesterone slows down cell growth, helps mature new cells, and rids the body of excess cells. From understanding your specific hormone issues, we will evaluate the options to effectively address and develop a customized approach for you. For men, this may include workup for prostate cancer hormone therapy.

Finally, we help support a patient’s metabolism to provide a strong foundation for their hormone balances. Based on your hormonal profile, we provide specific and ongoing nutritional advice and education, dietary suggestions and encourage appropriate lifestyle changes. For example, if you don’t have enough specific nutrients for stage one and two liver detoxification, the body’s estrogen will often convert into a different estrogen pathway and can cause increased cancer risk. As part of our approach, we provide ongoing assistance to track and monitor your progress, including three and six month check-ups, and help you develop improved lifestyle changes to support your new hormonal changes.