Hormone Replacement Therapy Atlantis Medical Wellness Center

What is Hormone Replacement Therapy?

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is simply the balancing of your hormones in your body to optimize your health. This applies to both Men and Women. HRT has had a rocky road of mixed signals from the medical community over the last few decades. Simply put, when done properly HRT is safe, effective, and allows for the prevention of multiple disease processes in both men and women. There is good medical literature supporting the use of proper HRT. Formal evaluation and treatment to optimize results is key. (See the link on Everything is Normal). Understanding the difference between synthetic hormones and bioidentical hormones is important in proper HRT. This is where Atlantis stands out in your care.

Hormones are messengers that communicate with the cells of the body. They are an essential part of the functional metabolic process of living. Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid, dehydroepiandosterone (DHEA), insulin, melatonin, growth hormone, and Vitamin D are some of the major hormones in our bodies. Hormone production declines as we age, suffer disease, and expose ourselves to toxins or trauma. Some people have a rapid decline in certain hormones at a younger age but are unaware and under-diagnosed. When this happens the aging process accelerates.

Relatively healthy individuals who follow an optimal diet and supplementation plan may still suffer from undiagnosed hormonal imbalance symptoms.

We recognize it is important to evaluate each individual from a holistic and functional perspective. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), like many other medications, must be prescribed with experience and care. A complete and proper evaluation may find a simple underlying hormone issue. Treatment may help decrease cholesterol levels, decrease the need for diabetes medications and prevent diabetes altogether, help with weight loss, increase bone strength, decrease risk of Alzheimer Disease and improve:

More and more physicians agree synthetic hormone replacement therapy is fraught with problems. Bio-identical hormones, or hormones that are natural and are exactly the same as the hormones we make in our bodies, are much better than the synthetic hormones. At Atlantis Medical Wellness Center, we practice bio-identical hormone replacement therapy because we want to give you the safest and most optimal treatments available. We base ALL our treatments on good science and evidence-based medical literature. Nutrition plays a POWERFUL role in hormone health and must be addressed as well. This is an INTEGRATIVE process to your functional care.

There are many myths associated with HRT. Here are four common myths about hormone replacement therapy:

At Atlantis Medical Wellness Center, we value you as an individual. We will work with you to learn your goals for hormone replacement therapy and strive to create a treatment plan that will meet your needs. Our functional and integrative approach by our experienced professionals will work to provide you with treatment while making you as comfortable as possible in our center. If you live in the Maryland, Virginia or Washington, DC area, call us at 301-476-4760 to schedule your initial hormone replacement therapy consultation.

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