Hormone imbalances occur when hormone levels become too high or too low, causing unpleasant symptoms. Imbalances often develop due to aging, stress, poor nutrition, toxins, infections, lack of exercise, obesity, chronic inflammation, genetics, or other diseases. Diagnosing and treating hormone deficiencies early is critical for supporting optimal health, preventing chronic illness, and enhancing quality of life.
The major hormones that become imbalanced, especially as we age, include estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, thyroid hormones, melatonin, cortisol, growth hormone, and insulin. Imbalances in these key hormones underlie many common symptoms and health conditions.
Fortunately, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) can safely and effectively restore optimal hormone balance. Second Spring Hormone Clinic specializes in personalized BHRT programs to relieve symptoms, prevent future illness, slow aging, enhance wellbeing, and help patients feel their best again.
Bioidentical hormones are structurally identical to the hormones produced naturally in the body. They are derived from plant sources and customized to match each person’s hormonal needs through compounding.
In contrast, synthetic hormones have slightly different structures and can produce unpleasant side effects. The body recognizes bioidentical hormones as natural, binding to receptors efficiently and metabolizing them normally. This makes BHRT the superior choice for truly individualized therapy.
Identifying and addressing hormone deficiencies early is crucial for supporting long-term health and may help prevent chronic diseases like osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes, and dementia. Assessing hormone levels regularly enables timely treatment and optimization.
The first step is obtaining the right lab tests, such as blood tests, saliva tests, urine tests, body composition tests, and risk assessments. Second Spring Hormone Clinic collaborates with top local labs to provide comprehensive testing. We evaluate how your results compare to optimal ranges based on age, gender, menopause status, and other individual parameters.
Customized replacement therapy is prescribed using FDA-approved “bioidentical” hormones - including estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA - to restore optimal balance. These natural formulas are designed to perfectly match your body’s needs.
Monitoring labs and modifying doses over time ensures you always receive the right amount of each hormone. We also provide supportive treatments like customized nutrition plans, targeted supplements, stress management techniques, and referrals to specialists. Our integrative approach addresses root causes of imbalances while alleviating current symptoms.
Key takeaway: Getting the right lab tests to evaluate hormone levels is the critical first step in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Second Spring Hormone Clinic collaborates with top area labs, interprets results thoroughly, and develops personalized treatment plans using bioidentical hormones.
Bioidentical hormone therapy effectively treats hormone deficiencies and imbalances related to:
Both men and women can benefit. We see excellent results using bioidentical HRT to address hormone-related symptoms and reduce future disease risks at any age.
It's never too early or too late to balance your hormones!
Bioidentical hormones are not necessarily safer or more effective than synthetic hormones for menopausal symptoms. However, some women report preferring them because they more closely mimic the body's own hormones. More research is still needed to fully understand the risks and benefits compared to traditional hormone therapy.
Correcting hormone deficiencies and optimizing levels offers life-changing health improvements:
- Reduces hot flashes, night sweats - Minimizes fatigue, restores energy - Improves sleep quality - Enhances mental clarity and focus - Balances mood, eases anxiety/depression - Increases muscle mass, strength - Reduces abdominal weight gain
- Strengthens bones, prevents osteoporosis - Reduces risk of heart disease - Lowers diabetes and dementia risk - Slows skin aging - Supports neurological and immune health
- Improves self-confidence and vitality - Enhances libido and sexual health - Contributes to healthy aging - Allows active lifestyle through later decades - Optimizes physical and cognitive ability
In short - you can feel like your healthiest, youngest self again!
Declining estrogen is a hallmark of perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause. Low estrogen underlies hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, lowered libido, fatigue, mood changes, memory issues, and accelerated aging.
Likewise, falling progesterone causes similar estrogen-deficiency symptoms and prevents adequate estrogen binding at receptors. Imbalances between estrogen and progesterone magnify unpleasant effects.
Bioidentical estradiol and progesterone creams can restore optimal hormone balance by directly supplementing lowest levels. Getting the ratios right is key - we often observe an overemphasis on estrogen therapy without addressing progesterone deficiency.
Estradiol and progesterone therapy alleviates menopausal symptoms, stabilizes mood, normalizes sleep, improves sexual health, enhances skin quality, supports bone density, and reduces heart disease and dementia risks.
Ongoing monitoring helps calibrate doses to keep estrogen and progesterone levels stabilized in their ideal ranges long-term. We also address lifestyle factors - like improved nutrition, stress reduction, and targeted supplementation - that support natural hormone balance.
Remember: Balancing estrogen and progesterone is essential for relief of menopausal symptoms and long-term health!
Andropause is the gradual decline in testosterone and its downstream hormones that accelerates significantly for men over 50. Low testosterone causes fatigue, reduced muscle mass, weight gain, low libido, erectile dysfunction, mood disorders, poor concentration, and loss of vitality.
Testosterone therapy effectively and safely alleviates low testosterone symptoms when customized properly to each patient’s needs. We utilize topical gels, creams, and patches containing bioidentical testosterone to restore youthful hormone levels.
With treatment, most men enjoy renewed energy, easier weight management, enhanced sex drive, better erections, improved mood, sharper mental acuity, and an increased sense of wellbeing. We also address lifestyle factors and supplement needs that support healthy testosterone balance long-term.
Key takeaway: Bioidentical testosterone therapy can safely and effectively reverse symptoms of andropause to help men feel their best again. We personalize treatment based on each patient's needs through ongoing fine-tuning.
The butterfly-shaped thyroid gland controls metabolism via hormones T3 and T4. Low thyroid function causes fatigue, stubborn weight gain, constipation, muscle weakness, hair loss, dry skin, impaired memory, depression, and heavy periods. Over time, heart disease and dementia risks rise.
Optimizing thyroid hormones revs up metabolism to alleviate these symptoms. With properly monitored treatment, most patients enjoy renewed energy, easier weight loss (especially abdominal fat), mental clarity, balanced mood, healthier skin, hair and nails, and regulated menstrual cycles.
We identify thyroid dysfunction through blood tests and physical evaluation. Bioidentical thyroid hormones - T3 & T4 - are prescribed to restore optimal levels, along with supporting nutrients like iodine, selenium, zinc, and vitamin D. Follow-up testing helps calibrate dosing.
Remember: Check your thyroid if you have inexplicable fatigue, stubborn weight, or other low thyroid symptoms! Treatment can give transformative relief.
The adrenal glands produce key hormones that allow us to handle daily stresses while regulating sleep, energy, inflammation, immunity, mood, blood sugar, renal function, digestion, libido, and weight.
Chronic overwork and uncontrolled stress wears down adrenal function over time, resulting in exhaustion despite adequate sleep, tendency for anxiety/depression, muscle tension, salt/sugar cravings, lightheadedness on standing, stubborn upper body fat, low libido, disrupted sleep, skin issues, frequent colds or infections, and brain fog.
We identify adrenal burnout through exam, labs, and risk evaluation. Treating root causes - like overwork, poor sleep, blood sugar spikes, micronutrient deficiencies, food sensitivities, and gut problems - allows the adrenals to start recovering. Bioidentical adrenal hormone creams, adaptogenic herbs, targeted nutrients, stress-balancing activities, and lifestyle optimization accelerate restoration to full adrenal health.
The bottom line: Supporting exhausted adrenals through comprehensive treatment eases many unpleasant symptoms to help you feel resilient again!
Growth hormone (GH) activates regeneration, repair, and youthful functioning on the cellular level. In our 20s, ample growth hormone maintains lean muscle mass, strong bones, smooth skin, robust immunity, healthy inflammation balance, sharp cognition, good cholesterol levels, optimal renal function, steady energy, restful sleep, sexual vitality, and resilience to stress.
By the time most adults reach their 40s-50s, GH levels have declined significantly, resulting in weight gain (especially abdominally), thinning and wrinkling skin, flagging libido, fatigue, mood changes, poor sleep quality, joint discomfort, weakened immunity, and susceptibility to eye and heart problems.
Bioidentical human growth hormone (Humatrope) can safely restore youthful levels to alleviate undesirable effects of GH decline. With properly monitored Growth Hormone Replacement Therapy, most patients enjoy fat loss, muscle gain, skin improvements, better cholesterol, stabilized blood sugar, renewed energy, balanced mood, restfulness, and an overall heightened sense of wellbeing.
Key Takeaway: Restoring depleted growth hormone levels regenerates cellular function to help you look and feel decades younger again!
The hormone insulin allows cells throughout the body to utilize glucose for energy. Over many years, factors like chronically high blood sugar, inflammation, stress, pollutants, nutritional deficiencies, genetics, weight gain (especially abdominal adiposity), and aging cause cellular insulin resistance.
Cells allow less and less glucose transport, forcing the pancreas to produce more insulin in an effort to overcome resistance. Eventually the pancreas’ insulin-releasing beta cells may tire out. This cascade ultimately leads to chronically high blood sugar levels (prediabetes) and type 2 diabetes.
Along the way, insulin imbalance also causes fatigue despite good sleep, increased hunger and sugar cravings, difficulty losing stubborn weight, brain fog, blurred vision, hormonal issues in women, high Triglycerides, metabolic syndrome, fatty liver, PCOS, and more extensive cardiovascular damage over time.
Catching insulin resistance early and addressing lifestyle factors - improved nutrition, activity, sleep, and stress reduction - can often reverse developing imbalance naturally. However, some patients benefit from short-term medical therapy with bioidentical human insulin or therapeutics to efficiently reset cellular insulin sensitivity and prevent progression to diabetes.
We screen patients for insulin resistance and intervene appropriately based on each individual’s metabolic health status and needs. Nutritional therapy, activity modification, targeted supplementation, stress modulation, proper sleep habits, medication options, and ongoing lab testing all help create sustainable balance.
The takeaway: Optimizing insulin sensitivity is crucial for metabolic wellness, maintaining healthy blood sugar, preventing disease, supporting other key hormones, and feeling your best long-term!
We take time listening to your unique health history and goals, evaluating symptoms, assessing risk factors, and reviewing comprehensive lab testing to understand the root causes behind your hormone imbalances. This enables truly customized therapy targeting your specific deficiencies and needs for transformative results.
We work closely with top local compounding pharmacies utilizing only highest-quality bioidentical ingredients to formulate your personalized creams, gels, pills, and other treatments. This precision dosing gets your hormones balanced correctly and comfortably.
In addition to hormone optimization, we provide tailored fitness, nutritional, and stress management protocols addressing lifestyle contributors for sustainable balance and optimal aging. Our team of nurses, nurse practitioners, nutrition specialists, and referring doctors work synergistically to help you actualize full wellness potential.
Hormone levels fluctuate monthly, seasonally, and across the lifespan. We recheck labs and recalibrate dosing at the right frequencies to keep your regimen optimized over months and years for peak health throughout life’s changes. This commitment to continual care is unique.
Balancing key hormones – estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, melatonin, growth hormone, thyroid – enhances cellular repair, regeneration, and function for youthful aging inside and out. BHRT helps you look and feel decades younger!
Bottom line: Our skillfully personalized programs, high-quality compounding, integrated team approach, and continual monitoring help patients enjoy transformative revitalization and optimal aging with bioidentical HRT!
