Understanding Hormone Therapy

Hormones are not drugs.

They are natural substances that are vital to your health. As you age, your hormone production progressively decreases – which leads to, and accelerates the aging process and the onset of age related diseases.

Natural Home Replacement Therapy restores your body to its youthful levels of hormones – and doctor prescribed doses of Natural Hormones never exceeds what your body has already been accustomed to in its younger years. Dr. Connie Odom of Metro MediSpa in Wilmington NC is specially trained in the Medical Specialty of Longevity Medicine – and will create a program tailored to your unique physical requirements.

After you receive a complete physical examination and laboratory evaluation, Dr. Odom will prescribe hormones to restore your youthful levels. Additionally, Dr. Odom will also make recommendations as to proper diet, exercise and nutritional supplementation as important components of your Natural Hormone Replacement Therapy Program.

Bio-Identical vs. Synthetic Hormones

The sad truth is that only synthetic hormones can be parented. As a result, drug manufacturers have created synthetic hormones that attempt to mimic natural hormone function – yet are structurally different enough from natural hormones to be patentable. Such synthetic hormones often produce many desirable effects, but more often than not, also produce undesirable or negative side effects – such as bloating, headaches, fatigue, weight gain and possibly cancer.

Bio-Identical hormones, by contrast, are either those substances that have existed in our bodies since conception, or are substances that are structurally identical to those our bodies naturally create. Clearly, natural hormones possess the identical structure and function as substances created by our bodies – ant produce all the desirable effects without any of the undesirable or negative side effects associated with synthetic hormones.