What Are Hormones?

Hormones are specific proteins produced by the human endocrine glands: pituitary, adrenals, thyroid, testes, and ovaries. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is generally limited to estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, growth hormone, and thyroid.

In health, all hormones are individually and wholly integral participants in the maintenance of cellular function and homeostasis. Hormone levels undergo continuous daily variation, changing in response to our environment, thought processes, stress levels, exercise and food intake. Environmental toxins, food additives, antibiotics, other medications, and pollutants also significantly affect hormone balance.

Hormones and Aging

Hormone levels decrease naturally during the aging process. As levels decline, problems with health maintenance and questions of age management arise. The diminution in hormone levels that occurs as a result of aging may also be compounded by existing disease, genetics and environmental factors.

Hormones and Age Management

Age Management focuses on using bioidentical hormone therapies to treat hormone loss related to aging, environmental factors, lack of fitness, and inappropriate diet, providing supplementation therapies for hormonal deficiencies as a first-line therapeutic response to treatment of age-related symptoms, improving quality of life, preventing and delaying chronic illnesses, and maintaining wellness.