Hormone Love
Hormone testing and holistic support for healthy hormones and cycles
Dr Sarah is passionate about cyclical wisdom- tuning into the body's cycles and rhythms in connection to the seasons, the stars and the planets. Remember your body is WISE and made to work beautifully. Dr. Sarah offers a wide variety of support for hormonal concerns, cycle syncing, and endocrine optimization. She offers holistic tools for hormonal balance for all cycles and phases of life- fertility and preconception, pregnancy and birth, menarche and puberty, healthy periods, peri-menopause, menopause and andropause.
She has a deep passion and love for all things womb. She guides women in womb wisdom and clearing work with concerns such as irregular bleeding, fibroids, PCOS, low libido, fertility struggles and pelvic pain. She offers specialized serum, urine, and salivary hormone testing when indicated. She uses a wide range of natural therapies and modalities to help balance adrenal, thyroid, and sex hormones with herbs, supplements, energy work and bioidentical hormone therapy if desired and indicated.
Often herbs, diet, supplements and lifestyle guidance can work wonders to support cyclical wisdom and balance.
What are Bio-identical hormones?
Bio-identical hormones have the same structure and action as hormones in the human body. They come from plant sources but are considered bioidentical because of their structure and action rather than origin. Synthetic hormones differ in that they are often derived from other sources (such as horse's urine), and they have side chains added to their chemical structure so that they can be patented. Synthetic hormones often contain portions and constituents that do not mimic the physiology of human hormones. For this reason, synthetic hormone therapy can have many unwanted side effects.
Bioidentical hormone therapy is thought to be more gentle and more natural because the hormone structures and actions are much closer to our body's natural hormone structure and function, and without many unwanted synthetic preservatives and additives. All Bio-identical hormones are ordered from professional specialty compounding pharmacies and made with natural and organic ingredients wherever possible.
Goals of BHRT
- to restore hormone balance in the body
- to alleviate discomfort and dis-ease caused by the natural decrease in the body's production of hormones
- to offer gentle therapeutic relief and protection for the body
Dr Sarah offers BHRT as well as and herbal, homeopathic and supplement alternatives in her practice.
When our hormones are in balance, they have several profound effects on our bodies. This is why it is important to do thorough hormonal testing to determine the ratios of the sex hormones and adrenal hormones before attempting to balance them.
We use natural modalities such as herbs, food and supplements whenever possible to help balance hormones in both women and men and BHRT if indicated and desired.
Estrogen Balance may:
- help relieve vaginal dryness and thinning
- help balance cholesterol
- help decrease blood pressure
- improve mood, energy, memory, and cognition
- help with sleep
- help decrease bone loss
- help relieve urinary symptoms
- upregulate androgen receptors
Progesterone Balance may:
- counteract estrogen dominance
- decrease proliferation in the uterus
- stabilizes mood
- increases bone mineral density
- promotes osteoblasts
- decreases risk of endometrial cancers
- often used infertility treatment
- prescribed with estrogen or estrogen supportive herbs can have a cardioprotective affect
- help reduce hot flashes
- help reduce postmenopausal depression
- increase libido
- help balance blood sugar
Testosterone Balance may:
- increase libido
- increase energy
- help with skin elasticity and texture
- help balance estrogen dominance and androgen deficiencies
DHEA Balance may:
- increase libido
- increase energy and may help with exercise endurance
- increase bone density
- decrease cholesterol
- increase energy and cognitive function
- may enhance weight loss
- improve skin tone and texture
- help to balance blood sugar
- increase immune function
- help build lean muscle mass
Cortisol Balance may:
- help with weight loss
- improve sleep
- help manage stress
- balance blood sugar
- help in wound healing
- increase immune function
- help with hair growth
- help with optimal thyroid function
Thyroid Hormone Balance may:
- increase metabolic rate and weight loss
- improve mood
- help with blood sugar balance
- increase energy
- improve bowel function
- increase basal body temperature
- help balance adrenal and sex hormones
This page is for general information only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
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