Before any treatment or therapy can be provided, it is critical that our doctor and health care team understand your unique symptoms, goals, and needs.  Each patient goes through an in-depth family history and consultation process, followed by a physical examination to understand the best next steps.

Our InBody biometric scanner measures over 20 unique variables that reveal your baseline level of health, fitness, and performance.  This unique scan allows us to track your progress throughout the journey on a weekly basis.  This regular and ongoing measurement tool assures that your program is working and gives us the exact knowledge we need to alter your program easily and quickly if needed.

The lab work we order for our patients goes WAY beyond the basic panel doctors who do not specialize in HRT order.  By seeing more in-depth and unique aspects of your blood, we can confidently prescribe you the medication regimen that will be perfect to get your hormone levels Optimized.

When it comes to HRT, there are lots of medications that can be used to help you Live Optimized.  By analyzing the information learned from your first 3 Pillars, we’ll have all the information we need to create the very best, most customized plan possible for you.

To help our patients Live Optimized through Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) in Westminster & Wheat Ridge, there are multiple hormones that are evaluated for treatment.  The first to be checked are those most commonly imbalanced and that when treated, can show remarkable changes within just a few weeks to a couple of months of starting care.  Here is an overview of the most common hormones we check at FitMD and what those hormones do to help your function at your best:

Estrogen is present in both males and females but in females, the levels are much more dominant as this hormone is responsible for female sexual reproductive health.  There are (3) types of estrogen with one (Estrone) present only after menopause.  Imbalances in estrogen can cause many symptoms that relate to sexual health, weight gain, emotional health, and skin health.

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG) is used in males to assist with natural testosterone production.  When included as part of a testosterone replacement therapy protocol, HCG is injected (3) days following testosterone is taken by the patient.  This allows testosterone levels to remain consistent throughout the week…the testosterone injections introduce external testosterone, and the HCG stimulates the body to create its own testosterone.

Gonadorelin, like HCG, is used to assist males in the natural production of testosterone.  Gonadorelin is an alternative to HCG and is administered by injection.

Progesterone works in tandem with estrogen to maintain reproductive health in females.  This hormone is released by the ovaries and is closely tied to a woman’s menstrual cycle and during pregnancy.

Testosterone, while present in low levels in women is the dominant sex hormone in men.  This hormone has a direct impact on sexual health, muscle mass, bone mass, fat mass, and even emotional health in both men and women.

Thyroid hormones are a group of hormones produced by the thyroid gland.  These hormones regulate metabolism, which is the body’s ability to break down food, convert it to energy, store vs. burn fat, and regulate temperature.

As part of a complete Westminster or Wheat Ridge HRT program, one component that patients can benefit greatly from is a specific usage of a specialty protein called Peptide Therapy.  Peptides are molecules that signal cells within the body to perform very specific actions.  Some of these actions include things like muscle growth, the reduction of inflammation, the breakdown of visceral fat (weight loss), and anti-aging processes.