Happy Hormone Cottage Celebrates Anniversary with Five Offices in Five Years

KETTERING, Ohio (PRWEB) August 19, 2014

Five years ago, Happy Hormone Cottage CEO Lyn Hogrefe rented a small, stone building in the heart of Centerville, Ohio as a place for women to share their health stories and learn how to achieve a hormonally-balanced life.

But the forum morphed into an education and medical business when the concept caught fire with women who questioned their doctors assertions that hot flashes, lack of sexual desire, weight gain, and sleeplessness were normal aspects of aging.

A 30-year educator who underwent an emergency hysterectomy at the age of 49, Hogrefe didnt have a business plan-- much less an idea-- that Happy Hormone Cottage would grow into a successful business with five offices in five years.

She just wanted to help women by sharing what she learned about bioidentical hormones. This is a passion, said Hogrefe. I never translated it in writing to a business plan because to me it was never a business. I just wanted to help women. HHC grew organically from demand. I just happen to fill a niche of women helping women.

Hogrefe listened as women as young as 20-somethings told her of perimenopausal and menopausal symptoms that escalated into adrenal and thyroid problemsand shared with them that a healthy diet, exercise, and Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) could alleviate or even eliminate their symptoms.

Hormones are to women like water is to plants, said Hogrefe. When your hormones are depleted or out of balance, your health is compromised. You wilt. Thyroid, adrenals and sex hormones are all linked. We can help women monitor and maintain their hormone balance.

Women began to feel better, so they told their friends and inner circles, who told their friends and inner circles. Five years later, Hogrefe has a necklace of five offices along the I-75 corridor strung from Dayton to northern Kentucky that have helped more than 5,000 women get tested, treated and feel better. HHC offices are in Piqua, Vandalia, Kettering and Mason, Ohio and Crestview Hills, Kentucky.

Women from as far away as Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama have driven or flown to Ohio to meet with a Happy Hormone Cottage consultant and nurse practitioner Angela Rothstein.

This tells me that women are not satisfied with conventionally-trained doctors current standard of care that supports a big pharma agenda, said Hogrefe. Women are questioning doctors who tell them their hormone levels are within normal range when they know they feel awful. What is normal for each woman is unique to her. We listen to women, validate their feelings about their health and help them get tested, treated and better.

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Happy Hormone Cottage Celebrates Anniversary with Five Offices in Five Years