by Jessamine Sothard | Jun 8, 2023 | Blog, Hormone Health
Hormones are complicated! This is true in everyone, but especially in women between menarche (the onset of menses) and menopause (the cessation of menses). Hormones fluctuate daily and are influenced by a host of factors. Your well-being relies on a complex balance...
by Jessamine Sothard | May 4, 2023 | Blog, Hormone Health
Severe pain during menstruation, bloating, and painful intercourse shouldn’t be accepted as normal. Women experiencing these symptoms could have endometriosis, a condition affecting about 10% of females of reproductive age. Despite its prevalence, endometriosis can be...
by Jessamine Sothard | Apr 6, 2023 | Blog, Hormone Health
Up to five million women in the U.S. have Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), but this condition remains frustratingly difficult to diagnose and treat. Interestingly, you don’t even need to have cysts on your ovaries to have the syndrome! One study found that 70% of...
by Jessamine Sothard | Mar 17, 2023 | Blog, Hormone Health
A healthy testosterone level is important for a healthy libido, YES, but testosterone plays a number of other important roles in our health that may surprise you. For instance, did you know that women produce it, too? It is not just a male sex hormone,...
by Jessamine Sothard | Feb 21, 2023 | Blog, Hormone Health
One of the keys to feeling great and being optimally healthy is to have balanced hormones. I didn’t learn a lot about hormonal health in medical school. I was taught that hormones aren’t usually the problem and when they are, synthetic hormones are the answer. I...
by Jessamine Sothard | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog, Hormone Health
It depends on who you ask. When medical practices bill insurance companies for patient visits, they need to include codes (called ICD-10 codes) to denote what is wrong with the patient. There are 68,000 codes to choose from, yet there is no code for adrenal...
