With age, we often notice mood changes, lower energy levels, and brain fog settling in. We might also experience new physical symptoms like acne, hair loss, and weight gain. When you no longer feel like yourself, you might withdraw from the people and activities that once brought you joy.
But what if you didn’t have to accept worsening mental and physical health as facts of life? The effects of time on the brain and body aren’t inevitable, and often, they come down to one root cause: hormonal imbalance.
At Cady Wellness Institute, we empower you to live a full, healthy life at any—and every—age. With Dr. Cady and our team of medical professionals, we can address the origin of your symptoms and restore balance to your body using natural hormones. With harmony restored, you can get back to doing more of what you love.
Continue reading about how our team implements bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), or book your consultation to achieve natural hormone balance in Newburgh.
Causes of Hormonal Imbalance
Typically, hormonal imbalance is a natural result of aging. As we get older, many of the body’s usual processes slow down or stop altogether. This often means that our endocrine system produces fewer hormones, including sex and thyroid hormones that influence our metabolism, sleep cycles, energy regulation, and mood.
Women in particular face significant hormonal fluctuations before and during menopause. As menstruation slows in our 40s and 50s, the body releases less estrogen and progesterone into the bloodstream. These hormones play a large role in regulating skin health, body temperature, weight distribution, sleep quality, and libido.
Medical conditions like PCOS, diabetes, and thyroid issues also create hormonal imbalances, as one or more of your hormone glands is not functioning properly.
External lifestyle factors like diet, exercise, and stress can further contribute to the operation of our endocrine glands. A sedentary lifestyle and poor nutrition affect your metabolism and body fat, which in turn can disrupt hormone production, perpetuating the unhealthy cycle. Life stressors prompt your body’s cortisol production, stimulating a “fight or flight” response that interferes with your usual metabolic rate and hormonal gland function.
Symptoms of Hormonal Imbalance
Now that we understand the possible culprits behind your hormonal imbalance, we can identify the many symptoms associated with irregular sex and thyroid hormone levels. Our highly interconnected systems often present symptoms that might not seem related, but share a root cause. These symptoms include:
- Low Estrogen: Worsening skin health, new hair loss or growth, brain fog, moodiness, insomnia, fatigue, hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain, brittle bones, discomfort during intimacy, and low libido
- Low Progesterone: Headaches, bloating, mood changes, hot flashes, low sleep quality, reduced thyroid function, and infertility
- Low Testosterone: Hair loss, increased body fat, reduced muscle mass, low endurance and energy, brain fog, depression, anxiety, hot flashes, decreased sex drive, infertility, erectile dysfunction
- Low Thyroid Hormone: Dry skin, thinning hair, swollen face, achy muscles, weight gain, constipation, memory problems, fatigue, and depression
Why Bioidentical Hormones?
When considering your treatment options, you might wonder about the difference between traditional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).
Our providers recommend natural hormone balance therapy in Newburgh, advising oral, topical, injection, or implanted pellet therapy based on your treatment goals and lifestyle.
Defining “Bioidentical”
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, or BHRT, is a science-backed approach to restoring hormonal balance. BHRT uses hormones that are chemically identical to the hormones naturally produced in the body. These ingredients originate from plants, modified in a laboratory to mimic your natural hormones for seamless integration into your system.
The Difference Between Premarin and BHRT
On the other hand, some conventional therapies are derived from the hormones found in animal urine, as in Premarin. Though effective in elevating estrogen and estradiol levels for some women, studies have also shown that systemic estrogen therapy increases women’s risk of endometrial cancer. When used in tandem with additional progesterone treatment, this risk declines.
With BHRT, Dr. Cady customizes your treatment style and dosage to adapt to your hormone levels and changing symptoms. As we approach your natural hormone balance in Newburgh, the team can also treat more than one hormone at a time, as opposed to some estrogen-only treatments. This level of personalization ensures that treatments adapt with you for lasting wellness—without compromising your overall health.
Watch Dr. Cady’s full breakdown of hormone therapy for women
Risk Reduction With BHRT
Unlike some traditional, animal-based hormone therapies, the personalized nature of BHRT enables us to tailor your treatment to fit you, not the other way around.
Some patients struggle with ongoing symptoms under a conventional therapy regimen that only treats one isolated hormone in fixed doses. So, instead, we tackle a range of hormones with BHRT and tailor your dosage as needed.
Additionally, a plant-based hormonal blend helps prevent the side effects and health risks commonly associated with comparable synthetic hormones. Synthetic options are similar to our natural hormones, but their slightly different chemical makeup can make them less effective for some people. Biomimicry fosters smoother hormone restoration so you feel all the benefits with reduced health risks.
How We Establish What Your Balance Looks Like
Everyone’s hormones balance differently. At Cady Wellness Institute, your hormone consultation starts with a discussion about your mental and physical health concerns, as well as your medical history. Dr. Cady and his team listen carefully to understand your treatment goals.
Along with assessing your symptoms, we also conduct a saliva or blood test to confirm your hormone levels.
Once we understand which hormone levels are low, Dr. Cady recommends a BHRT treatment plan that suits your lifestyle and addresses your health concerns.
Restoring your natural hormone balance in Newburgh is a constant work in progress as your body changes and adapts to the renewed hormone levels. That’s why we continue to review your symptoms and test results in subsequent appointments to ensure your dosage is meeting your needs.
Types of Therapy
Our expert medical practitioners can administer your hormone therapy orally, topically, via injection, or through implanted pellets. Some patients prefer the convenience of hormone pills, while others want more time between implantation appointments.
- Oral Hormone Therapy: We prescribe custom-formulated pills to relieve your symptoms of hormonal imbalance. When taken as directed, this is a convenient method of hormone replacement.
- Topical Hormone Therapy: You apply a personalized cream, gel, or spray to the skin, allowing the hormones to soak into the dermis. Some patients prefer this noninvasive hormone delivery.
- Injection Therapy: Available for male patients only, Dr. Cady administers custom hormone injections twice per week to maintain optimal testosterone levels.
- Hormone Pellets: Dr. Cady makes a tiny incision in the fatty tissue of the buttocks, where he inserts rice-sized hormone pellets under the skin. These pellets gradually release bioidentical hormones, fully dissolving after 3 to 5 months for women and after 4 to 6 months for men.
Benefits of BHRT
As we achieve your natural hormone balance in Newburgh with BHRT, we can finally put to rest years of misdiagnosis and questions. That means no more feeling run down and looking for answers from doctors who tell you that “nothing is wrong with you.”
Together, we can restore your hormones to optimal levels—not just average. Because you deserve to live life to the fullest, not sit on the sidelines another year.
Taking Control of Menopause
Many women going through menopause find relief from hormone-related symptoms with BHRT. Your custom treatments can address reduced levels of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and thyroid hormone to help you rediscover a sense of well-being and a zest for life.
With balanced hormones, menopausal patients can enjoy improved skin clarity, healthier hair, renewed bone density, enhanced energy levels, a stronger libido, balanced moods, and more. Once we regulate the metabolic rate, some women undergoing BHRT also experience weight loss and restored muscle mass.
Though the exact effects you feel from your hormone therapy depend on your specific health concerns and treatment plan, most patients report feeling more like themselves and ready to take on the day with BHRT.
Defying Andropause
Men going through andropause, or an age-related decline in hormones like testosterone, similarly enjoy renewed vitality with natural hormone balance therapy in Newburgh.
As we gradually restore your testosterone, luteinizing hormone, and follicle-stimulating hormone according to your unique treatment plan, you should steadily feel mentally clearer, more energized, stronger, and more like yourself.
Maintaining the Effects of BHRT
With renewed energy levels and endurance, many patients feel capable of intense physical activity again. Heightened exertion and mobility further accelerate any weight loss experienced during BHRT, and an active lifestyle supports the lasting function of your endocrine glands.
Dr. Cady typically recommends that BHRT patients maintain this activity in tandem with a balanced diet to continue seeing and feeling the results of hormone replacement. He may also suggest nutritional supplements or mental health treatment to further support the body and mind as you restore equilibrium.
Invest in Your Wellness With BHRT
Gone are the days of struggling in silence and searching for answers. With BHRT, you can feel like yourself again and enjoy life at any age, without the guesswork.
At CWI, your health and well-being are priceless. We have witnessed hormone therapy restore quality of life for countless patients, and we believe you are worth this investment in yourself. And we’re not just saying that. Read about how BHRT helped one patient feel like herself again:
“I feel very fortunate that Evansville offers the caliber of health professionals at Cady Wellness that you would normally find in a larger city. Dr. Cady is a wizard at prescribing the correct medications, hormone replacements, and supplements. Every 4 months he checks your blood to make sure the numbers are where he thinks they should be. I’ve been seeing Dr. Cady [for] around 3 years, and would definitely recommend Cady Wellness to anyone who would like to ‘feel better.’” – Kathy M.
Our expert physicians and medical staff don’t believe in just throwing a cookie-cutter prescription at you and wishing you luck. We’re here with you every step of the way to ensure you achieve natural hormone balance in Newburgh. Because you deserve to thrive, not just live.
Restore Balance With Cady Wellness Institute
Don’t settle for the hand life has dealt you. With hormone therapy, you can reclaim control of your mind and body to age at your own pace.
Schedule your consultation for natural hormone balance therapy in Newburgh and start your journey to holistic wellness.
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