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Home / Hormonal imbalance / Is your doctor helpless when it comes to your hormones?

Is your doctor helpless when it comes to your hormones?

If you’re suffering from hormonal imbalance, your symptoms can be confusing, overwhelming — even scary at times. You would probably be glad to have a doctor who understands and can fix everything.

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Unfortunately, many women still tell us how difficult it is to find a physician who understands women’s hormonal issues — before, during and after menopause.

When it comes to feeling better and taking control of your health, you — and your doctor — should feel hopeful rather than helpless. To help you sort through your options, it’s important to understand what you can and can’t expect from conventional healthcare providers when it comes to your hormonal health.

Why the conventional approach is ill-suited to hormonal imbalance

Just as every woman is unique, so is her hormonal balance. Understanding and effectively treating hormonal imbalances requires a whole-body approach, rather than looking at your health as a set of independent issues. This is especially true with hormones, which are all interrelated. As a result, an imbalance in one can lead to a series of other problems, including weight gain, irritability, lack of libido and more serious health issues.

The holistic approach we have advocated for so many years is very different from what you’ll see in today’s medical system, which at times can seem hopelessly out of touch with the care that real women need. Here are just a few examples:

  • Medical practitioners may still regard menopause as a disease that they need to treat, manage, or “fix.” This perspective can make it difficult to discuss concerns about menopause, which is much more complicated than simply resolving one issue.
  • Managed care and financial considerations have forced some practices to rely on yes/no lab tests and 6-minute office visits, rather than allow the holistic approach to tests and diagnosis that is necessary to understand the complexity of hormonal imbalance. We still hear the myth that because women’s hormones fluctuate unpredictably, even wildly, they can’t be understood or diagnosed. This is probably left over from the past (hopefully!), when anything considered a “female complaint” was dismissed out of hand.
  • Conventional doctors may have limited or out-of-date training in endocrinology (unless this is their chosen field), and are unlikely to have kept up to date on the latest science on hormonal balance.

The impact on you

For one or many of the reasons above, your practitioner may not have the time, interest or ability to guide you through the complexities of your individual situation. In fact, many conventional practitioners focus on your estrogen levels. But fluctuations in progesterone and testosterone also cause symptoms of hormonal imbalance, as do unusual ratios between all of your sex hormones. Finally, insulin levels, thyroid function and your adrenal health are related to your sex hormones too.

No wonder the “one size fits all approach” such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or antidepressants usually isn’t your best option to resolve symptoms of hormonal imbalance! We believe that starting with the least invasive method makes the most sense for almost all women. Our philosophy is that you are the expert when it comes to your body, and that with our approach you can naturally guide your body back into balance so you’ll experience relief from all your symptoms – along with many other health benefits!

If you don’t feel like you’re getting the care you want from your doctor, don’t be afraid to look for a new one who takes a more open approach to holistic solutions to hormonal imbalance. Having a trusted medical partner will make all the difference in finding the solutions that are right for you.

Published October 24, 2013 - Last Updated October 29, 2018Filed Under: Hormonal imbalance

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