Your hormones play a huge role in how you feel. If you think back to your teenage years, you can confirm that’s true. But the weight of changing hormonal levels doesn’t dissipate with age. In fact, as you get older, it can become an increasingly pressing issue.
This is true for women during menopause, but it’s also true for many men. As levels of certain hormones drop with age, you could face a whole host of unwelcome symptoms.
That’s why Robert Grafton, MD, and our team provide bioidentical hormones. With this specialized kind of hormone replacement therapy, we can replenish the hormones your body isn’t naturally making enough of on its own.
Visit us at PSI Medical Group in Wixom, Michigan, and we can tailor a plan to help you feel your best.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) provides you with the hormones you need to feel better.
It’s gained popularity as a treatment to help women during menopause. HRT can reintroduce the hormones your body has slowed down on producing.
As your system makes less estrogen and progesterone, you may notice such symptoms as hot flashes, mood changes, and headaches. With HRT, your body gets more estrogen and progesterone to offset the menopausal changes and ease the resulting symptoms.
Hormone replacement therapy isn’t just for women. As men age, their hormone levels drop, too. Specifically, the body produces less testosterone. This can lead to muscle mass loss, fatigue, and the loss of facial and body hair.
Fortunately, HRT can step in, supplementing the testosterone your body’s no longer making and reducing these unwelcome changes.
Because it gives you a way to directly combat the hormonal changes that come with age, HRT helps women and men with other symptoms of hormonal imbalance, too. Those include:
All of this said, not all HRT is created equal.
Here at PSI Medical Group, Dr. Grafton and our team offer bioidentical hormones. These come from plants, rather than animal products like the urine of pregnant horses. These hormones are specifically designed to precisely mimic the hormones that your body naturally creates.
To create hormones that are bioidentical to your own hormones and supplement what your system is no longer creating, we start with evaluating you. Lab work lets us see where your current hormone levels are and what you need. Then, we create a tiny pellet of the bioidentical hormones.
We implant this pellet just under the surface of your skin. This releases a steady stream of hormones into your system, easing and ideally reversing the unwelcome changes you’ve been experiencing.
To see if bioidentical hormone replacement therapy could be right for you, call us at PSI Medical Group in Wixom, Michigan, or book your visit through our convenient website scheduler today.
