Hormonal Health

Hormonal Health:

**These packages do not include primary care or membership services

PMS/PMDD, cramps, bloating, irregular painful periods, emotional rollercoasters, fibroids, and breast tenderness are NOT NORMAL 

Let’s hear about an option other than synthetic hormones and anti-depressants

If you are dealing with heavy, painful, or irregular periods, fibrocystic breasts, swelling, migraines, weight gain, hair loss, mood swings, anxiety, depression, insomnia, low libido, infertility, or acne – likely there is a significant hormonal imbalance.  

Our environments today with pesticides and xenoestrogens, stress levels, and poor nutritional diets – have led to an epidemic of hormonal chaos – yet women are told this is normal and the only answer are synthetic hormones that further exacerbate their own hormonal imbalances.

Let’s get to the root of the issue: your environment, foods that are throwing your system out of order, nutrients and vitamins you are missing which your hormones depend on, and a closer look at your hormonal levels.  We also strongly recommend the Gut Restoration package (usually first) to properly address hormonal health.

Your 3 Hormonal Systems Have to Be in Balance Together:
            1. Glucose (Insulin & Glucagon)
            2. Adrenal (Stress & Sex hormones) & Thyroid
            3. Ovarian/Testicular (Estrogen/Progesterone/Testosterone)

Estrogen Dominance:

Estrogen Dominance is found when estrogen is inappropriately high relative to progesterone levels.  

Symptoms:

  • Irregular, heavy, or painful periods
  • PMS 
  • Mood swings
  • Depression
  • Symptoms of hypothyroidism (reduced cellular uptake despite normal thyroid levels)
  • Swelling/Water retention
  • Breast swelling and/or fibrocystic breasts
  • Headaches/migraines
  • Weight gain
  • Hair loss
  • Reduced libido
  • Sugar cravings
  • Fatigue

Aside of a host of monthly or continuous symptoms, estrogen dominance/progesterone deficiency can also increase the risk of breast cancer, high blood pressure, and fibroids.

This imbalance usually arises from a diet high in sugar and processed carbohydrates, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, low fat diet or imbalanced fat diets, stress, anovulatory cycles (you can have regular periods without ovulating), and toxins/xenoestrogens.

 

Peri-Menopause:

Most women enter this stage in their 40s with some entering in their 30s.  Most are familiar with menopause, but little attention is paid to this critical prior stage.  We would like you to pay special attention to this period, as this is the time you should correct hormonal imbalances, focus on getting your health optimal, and give special attention to your adrenals.  Your adrenals will be stepping in during menopause and continuing hormonal production at functional but lower levels than your reproductive years.  Whether you choose to consider hormonal replacement therapy or not, your body should be prepared to transition into menopause without the rollercoaster of symptoms women often suffer through.  

Tests Often Used:

Labcorp Bloodwork: 

If recently extensively tested, we usually do not need to repeat this. For labs that have not been tested, we either apply your insurance when submitting lab orders or for those of you with high deductibles or without insurance, we offer heavily reduced lab rates.

DUTCH:

We use the Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones (DUTCH) in conjunction with bloodwork, and sometimes with salivary cortisol testing to get a comprehensive assessment of sex and adrenal hormones and the metabolic pathways your body is showing preference to.  We are also able to assess melatonin production via urine metabolites.

Hormonal Health Package:

  • Four tele-visits with personalized hormonal treatment plan
    • Includes: 2 visits with Dr. Haque & 2 visits with NP Shelton
    • Initial visit: 90 minutes virtual appointment time + 120-240 minutes of pre and post visit case review and plan building as needed
    • Follow Up visits: 45 minutes virtual appointment time + 60-120 minutes pre and post visit case review and plan building
  • Testing (highly recommended but not always required; Costs of tests are directly billed by the conducting lab – insurance can be applied for these)
  • A super-bill can be provided which you can submit to your insurance
  • Initial visit: $550 – can be scheduled now
  • Follow Up visits: $300 each – offered as package only 
  • The initial visit fee is due prior to the first appointment. If you would like to continue with the rest of the package and we find that our care matches your needs, the rest of the payment is due before the second visit.
  • Package expires after 18 months from the initial visit regardless of whether visits were taken.  We do not provide refunds if visits were not used.  


Functional Package Email Service Policy:

We welcome our patients to email us anytime with questions, concerns, and/or supplement inquiries.  However, if email frequency exceeds 4 messages in between visits, or for more complex inquiries that require the provider to review your medical chart and provide an in depth response, it is our policy to charge $50 with our response.  If it is appropriate, we may request that you make a follow up visit instead.

Please do not message for any urgent or emergent concerns – seek immediate medical attention via your primary care, urgent care, or emergency room as appropriate. These packages do not include urgent or emergent care services.


**We do not prescribe hormones in this package. Bio-identical hormone therapy can be helpful in some circumstances, but requires continued follow up and monitoring 

These packages do not include primary care or membership services.  Please have a primary care provider for  acute and primary care services. We closely work with you as consultants and guidance in preventive, nutritional and functional medicine to help address the root causes of chronic health concerns. 

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