What is Hormone Management?
Hormones are chemical messengers that regulate many daily bodily functions, including blood sugar, blood pressure, growth, fertility, sex drive, metabolism, sleep, digestion, and immune function.
A hormonal imbalance can cause mood swings, anxiety, weight gain, and sleep disturbances and has been associated with cardiovascular disease. Some hormonal imbalances are temporary, while others are chronic. Hormone management is used to treat these symptoms.
Balancing hormones can be vital to feeling optimal as they play a pivotal role in our health and wellness and can have a major impact on mood and anxiety. Our brain can typically adjust to high or low hormones, but this becomes an issue when your hormones begin to change frequently.
If you are experiencing symptoms that are interfering with your sleeping and eating, impairing your concentration, memory, and ability to work, or having significant effects on your relationships, it may be time to seek help.
Our Approach
The doctors at Lake Oswego Health Center can help balance your hormones with diet changes, botanical medicine, or bio-identical hormone management (see more about treatment below).
We use blood, saliva, and urine lab testing to create a full picture of how your hormones are being metabolized to create a full picture of hormone metabolism to design treatment programs that help you feel better, faster.
Hormone Imbalance Symptoms and Treatment
Symptoms you may be experiencing—and associated treatments—include:
- PMS: There are a variety of treatments to improve cramping, breakouts, tender breasts, mood swings, and heavy cycles which include nutrition changes, nutraceuticals, prescriptions, or local injections.
- Menopausal Symptoms: Symptoms can include hot flashes, night sweats, trouble sleeping, weight gain, brain fog, fatigue, vaginal dryness, pain with intercourse, low libido, decreased muscle mass, and hair loss. Botanical formulas, bio-identical hormones, and nutrition guidance can make a significant difference quickly. Women often feel better within 5–10 days. Thorough lab testing is very important, and we find it is often not performed.
- Low Testosterone, Andropause, and Low T: Men also experience hormone changes. We see men in their 30s with significantly low testosterone levels. Optimizing testosterone often results in weight loss, improved energy, mental clarity, better drive and motivation, and better strength. This can be supported with herbs and testosterone injections. Many environmental chemicals affect hormone levels. We work to improve internal hormone levels while adding external testosterone sources when needed. Again, thorough lab testing is important, and we offer that at our clinic.
- Thyroid: See Autoimmune and Thyroid Treatments page.
- Low Cortisol and Hormone Metabolism: We offer comprehensive testing, including a DUTCH hormone panel to help evaluate your endocrine system thoroughly. (the DUTCH panel is a group of validated tests that provide a complete evaluation of sex and adrenal hormones, including metabolites). Is your weight off? Are you overly fatigued in the morning? Ask about testing options.
Personalized Hormone Treatment
Hormone testing is only the first step. Once we evaluate your hormone levels and metabolism, we create a personalized treatment plan based on your unique needs and symptoms.
Depending on your results, recommendations may include nutrition and lifestyle changes, targeted supplements, botanical medicine, bioidentical hormone therapy, or prescription medications when appropriate.
Our goal is to restore hormonal balance, improve energy, support healthy aging, and help you feel your best.
Support Your Hormone Health
In addition to personalized treatment recommendations, we offer high-quality, practitioner-recommended supplements designed to support hormone balance, adrenal health, thyroid function, metabolism, and overall wellness.
Keep Your Hormones in Balance
If you’re experiencing mood swings, anxiety, weight gain, fatigue, or other symptoms of hormone imbalance, our team can help identify the root cause and create a personalized treatment plan.
