Understanding BioIdentical Hormone Replacement
DON'T JUST NORMALIZE YOUR HORMONES, OPTIMIZE THEM
Optimal is where you feel and perform your best. If you no longer feel in your prime, or are suffering from decreased libido, low energy, weight gain, moodiness, or a lack of mental clarity, hormone deficiencies may be responsible. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) can help you return to feeling your best, like your younger self again.
Safeguarding and improving your health is worth every possible effort. Dismissing treatable symptoms not only decreases your quality of life, it can greatly impact your general health and wellbeing.
At Verve Health, our personalized protocols use an innovative approach, optimizing various hormones including testosterone, thyroid, DHEA, estradiol, and progesterone. For many women, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT) just works.
We achieve optimal results for our patients by listening to your symptoms and goals, conducting and reviewing comprehensive sets of laboratories, and then creating an individualized plan tailored specifically to you with our evidence-based protocols.
Patient pays the BHRT monthly subscription fee, labs, and hormones or medications prescribed.
Benefits of Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Improves well-being
Improves energy
Improves strength & endurance
Improves skin texture
Increases collagen and skin thickness
Maintenance of muscle mass leading to maintained metabolism
Decrease in visceral (abdominal) fat
Decrease in wrinkles, fat deposition and cellulite
Improves clitoral sensitivity
Improves sexual function
Improves body composition
Improves bone density
What to Know?
Find Out Where Your Levels Are
Here at Verve, we use your experience and the results from your blood work
Pre-menopausal Women: Initial labs approximately $175-$200
Testosterone panel (free, total, SHBG), DHEA-Sulfate, Thyroid panel (TSH, Free T3, Free T4), CBC, CMP, Lipid panel, Hemoglobin A1C, 25-Hydroxyvitamin D (D2, D3).
Menopausal Women: Initial labs approximately $200
Testosterone panel (free, total, SHBG), DHEA-Sulfate, Thyroid panel (TSH, Free T3, Free T4), CBC, CMP, Lipid Panel, Hemoglobin A1C, 25-Hydroxyvitamin D (D2, D3), FSH, LH, Estradiol, Progesterone.
Follow-up Labs are drawn approximately 2-3 months after initiating hormones, the cost is between $90-120 depending on what hormones you are taking. Thereafter labs are drawn annually, unless you are titrating up a hormone dose. For example, estradiol levels are more often until your body reaches the optimal level and symptoms subside.
