Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy

The Effects of Stopping Testosterone Replacement Therapy When beginning testosterone replacement therapy, the question of how long you'll need to continue the treatment often comes up. The short answer is that once testosterone replacement therapy is started, it is a treatment that will need to be continued long term. If you stop treatment, testosterone levels will fall, and you'll begin to experience the symptoms you had before treatment. Let's explore in more detail the importance of continuing testosterone replacement therapy and the effects you may experience if you stop. Why Would You Need...

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Jun 18 2021

Can Younger Men Experience ED?

Can Younger Men Experience Erectile Dysfunction?Erectile dysfunction (ED) is often an issue associated with older men. Typically, it's a condition when a man cannot get and maintain a firm erection for sexual intercourse. And while the condition becomes more prevalent in men as they age, it can affect young men as well. In fact, a recent study uncovered that at least 50% of men in their 30s have struggled with erectile dysfunction.In young men, ED can be an early warning sign of underlying health issues. By consulting your healthcare provider,...

Feb 25 2021

Can Getting Adequate Sleep Benefit a Low-Calorie Diet?

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How and Why Adequate Sleep Helps You Lose Weight Anyone who has tried to lose weight has probably been advised to follow a low-calorie diet and exercise regularly. What most people aren’t told is that sleep plays a critical role in weight loss. Quality sleep is one of the neglected lifestyle factors that has been shown in several studies to help with metabolism, food preference, and appetite.If you are working on your weight loss goals, there are a couple of things you should be doing already. Eating healthy, exercising, and getting quality sleep...

Feb 14 2021

Does Menopause Affect Your Libido?

Menopause and Libido and the Effects on Sex Drive As we age, our bodies undergo many natural changes. For women, menopause is a time when hormone levels are altered, which results in various effects on our bodies. One consequence is a change in libido and sexual function. For many women, libido is decreased. Women may find they are not as easily aroused and not as sexually responsive as they once were. Fortunately, with bioidentical hormone therapy, these effects can be reversed, restoring or even improving your prior level of sexual function...

Jan 25 2021

What is the difference between synthetic vs bioidentical medications

Synthetic Medications Vs. Bioidentical Medications Your body's hormones regulate most of your bodily functions. They serve as messengers, coordinating, and controlling various activities throughout the body. Hormones help regulate your body's processes like hunger, growth, brain function, blood pressure, libido, appetite, digestion, mood, and appetite. That's why hormonal imbalance can wreak havoc on your emotional, physical, and psychological well-being.Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can help mitigate hormonal imbalance and ease symptoms. Synthetic and bioidentical medications are two of the most commonly used hormone therapy methods. This article examines the differences between synthetic...

Jan 11 2021

How to Choose a Hormone Specialist

Why Choose a Hormone Specialist Over a Health Care Provider Have you wondered if a hormone imbalance could be making you feel unwell? Hormone imbalance can cause many unpleasant symptoms for both men and women. Have you felt fatigued, gained weight, experienced headaches, muscle or joint pain, lack of sex drive? These are just the tip of the iceberg for symptoms you might experience from a hormone imbalance. If you’ve decided to pursue hormone evaluation, you want to make sure that you receive the very best care. This guide will help...

Nov 18 2020

Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) and Metabolism

Can TRT Rev Your Metabolism to Lose Weight? It can't be repeated enough: hormones are one of, if not the most, integral aspects of biology. There are whole fields of study and research that delve into learning, at a microbiological level, how hormones affect various biological processes, physiology, health, etc. Doctors commit themselves to specialize in endocrinology to solely tend to and care for patients affected by hormonal imbalances. Repeated ad nauseum in many other articles and topics we've addressed, hormones just can't be avoided. While they may feel intangible and...

Nov 04 2020

6 Substances that Affect Thyroid Balance

What substances affect thyroid balance? Meaning of Thyroid Balance As with everything in life, finding and maintaining balance is largely instrumental in achieving success, happiness, and health. Whether it's learning to moderate how much time you invest between work and social life, family and friends, fitness and rest, or any other dichotomy, striking a healthy balance between two ends of a spectrum prevents one from prioritizing and grossly neglecting one option over the other. Just as life throws a series of balancing and juggling acts your way, our physiology also undergoes and experiences...

Oct 10 2020

Why is Sleep Important For Weight Loss?

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Adequate Sleep and Weight Loss Sleep; one of the last mysterious medical frontiers scientists strive to understand. There's a lot we do understand about sleeping — how it helps our brain clear away toxins and waste accumulated throughout the day, how it restores and maintains cognitive function, and how it allows for vital cellular repairs throughout the body — and then there are still other things that evade our full understanding; questions like, "why we dream" and "how come we evolved to sleep when it was entirely disadvantageous for our ancestors?" In...

Sep 09 2020

Symptoms of Low Libido and Sex Drive

Keeping Your Sex Drive Alive with HRT As humans, it’s hardwired in our biology to procreate. Written within our DNA is an almost primal instinct to pass on our genetic material. If you ask some evolutionary biologists the question, “What is the meaning of life?” you shouldn’t be all too surprised when they answer back, “To reproduce…”. Looking at our environment and the millions of species that occupy our world, it’s evident that reproduction drives almost, if not, all, species. Just as it’s in a lion’s, deer’s, bear’s, whale’s, penguins,...