Hormone therapy plays a critical role in regulating vital bodily functions and addressing hormone deficiencies that can severely impact quality of life. As leaders in the field of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Elite Hormone Therapy understands the profound effects that imbalanced hormones can have and the life-changing benefits of timely treatment. Whether you are experiencing unpleasant menopause symptoms, struggling with low testosterone, or battling other hormone-related disorders, Elite Hormone Therapy has the knowledge and experience to get your levels optimized safely and effectively.
Hormones act as chemical messengers within the body, coordinating complex processes that control growth, reproduction, metabolism, cognition, and more. Some key hormones include:
Imbalances in any of these important hormones can result in sometimes debilitating symptoms that greatly reduce one’s vitality and quality of life.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) involves supplementing the body with tiny amounts of hormones to make up for deficiencies and restore optimal balance within the endocrine system. It can effectively alleviate troublesome symptoms and enable patients to feel healthy, energized, and youthful again.
Elite Hormone Therapy specializes in all forms of HRT, including:
As seasoned hormone therapy specialists with decades of combined experience, the practitioners at Elite Hormone Therapy understand the complexity of hormonal balance and how to safely optimize levels using cutting-edge protocols. We stay current on all the latest research and techniques and develop customized treatment plans designed to meet each patient's unique needs.
In addition to our expertise, Elite Hormone Therapy sets itself apart by:
Optimal hormonal balance is essential for sustaining energy levels, emotional stability, lean muscle mass, restful sleep, a healthy libido, peak cognitive performance, robust immunity, and so much more. Deficiencies can truly disrupt every aspect of a person's vitality and wellbeing.
Some symptoms and consequences associated with key hormonal imbalances include:
Low estrogen levels - Hot flashes - Night sweats - Vaginal dryness - Unpredictable periods - Bladder control issues - Accelerated bone loss - Heart palpitations - Increased cholesterol
Low testosterone levels - Low sex drive - Erectile dysfunction - Depressed mood - Mental fogginess - Fatigue - Loss of muscle mass - Weight gain - Thinning bones
Low thyroid levels - Constant fatigue - Difficulty losing weight - Poor concentration - Chronic pain or stiffness - Heavy periods - Constipation - High cholesterol - Swelling or puffiness
Decreased vitality from hormonal disorders often snowballs over time, leading to cascading effects like:
Clearly, achieving hormonal balance is absolutely essential for both short and long-term wellness. The practitioners at Elite Hormone Therapy have helped hundreds of patients optimize their hormone levels, resulting in dramatically elevated energy, stable moods, improved concentration, healthy libido, stronger memory, enhanced physique, and an overall greater zest for life.
The first step is gaining clarity around your specific hormone levels through diagnostic testing. Elite Hormone Therapy utilizes top-quality labs and the most advanced assays to garner a detailed snapshot, assessing:
Understanding the exact state of your hormonal environment provides invaluable insight for developing a tailored treatment plan. Testing also establishes baselines to track progress over time. Elite Hormone Therapy will order labs at ideal times related to circadian rhythms for optimal accuracy. We then carefully evaluate the results versus healthy ranges based on age, sex, menstruation phase, and other individual variables.
Follow up testing occurs periodically to ensure hormones are optimizing at ideal rates to reduce symptoms without overshooting into unhealthy territory. Elite Hormone Therapy also monitors key biomarkers during treatment like cholesterol levels, PSA counts, metabolic markers, blood cell composition, and bone density to ensure safety.
After assessing hormone levels, Elite Hormone Therapy works closely with each patient to select ideal treatment modalities customized to their needs. A cornerstone option is bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).
Bioidentical hormones have a chemical structure identical to hormones naturally produced by the human body. This allows receptors to recognize them and utilize them seamlessly to restore balance within intricate cellular feedback loops. BHRT is extremely effective with very few side effects compared to synthetic hormone drugs when skillfully dosed.
Elite Hormone Therapy offers a complete range of bioidentical hormones including estradiol, estriol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA and more. These can be administered via patches, gels, pellets, oral tablets, vaginal suppositories and other modalities to cater to patient needs and preferences.
While balancing hormones with BHRT and other pharmaceutical options provides immense relief from deficiency symptoms, Elite Hormone Therapy also emphasizes important lifestyle interventions that support the entire endocrine system holistically. Our practitioners offer guidance around:
Nutrient Optimization - Consuming key amino acids, vitamins and minerals needed to facilitate hormone production, balance blood sugar, reduce inflammation and nourish glands.
Stress Reduction – Curtailing high cortisol levels through sufficient sleep, relaxation practices, fulfillment at work, positive social connection and more to support optimal endocrine function.
Detoxification – Reducing toxin exposure from poor diet and environment that disrupt delicate hormonal feedback loops. We provide guidance around strategic detox protocols.
Fitness Regimens – Incorporating muscle-building and fat-burning activity which drives beneficial hormonal cascades and helps balance insulin, the master fat storage hormone.
Elite Hormone Therapy recognizes that true hormonal optimization arises from a multidimensional approach combining hormone modulation, nutrition shifts, stress reduction, strategic detox, increased fitness and other interventions targeted to the root causes of imbalance for each unique patient. Our integrative programs have achieved unsurpassed restoration of energy, mental clarity and overall vitality.
Women face distinctive hormonal challenges at various life stages that can severely compromise quality of life when imbalances arise. Elite Hormone Therapy offers specialized care to address women's needs related to fertility, menstruation, pregnancy, post-partum phases and menopause.
Many reproductive issues like irregular menstruation, infertility and miscarriages stem from hormone dysregulation involving estrogen, progesterone and other key messengers. After assessing deficiencies, Elite Hormone Therapy provides thoughtful bioidentical hormone balancing to pave the way for conception and healthy embryo/fetal development.
We also address lifestyle factors like stress, toxin exposures, nutritional status and body composition that impact hormonal equilibrium. Our naturopathic doctors have outstanding success optimizing female fertility without invasive techniques. They also prevent pregnancy complications and post-partum depression through diligent monitoring and adjustment of hormone levels during gestation and after birth.
As women transition toward menopause, many experience extreme hormone fluctuations causing frustrating symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, irregular periods, loss of libido, weight gain, fatigue, trouble focusing and disrupted sleep.
Rather than recommending synthetic hormone replacement associated with health risks, Elite Hormone Therapy offers safer, more effective relief through expertly-dosed bioidentical hormones like estradiol and progesterone coupled with tailored lifestyle guidance. Our regenerative protocols substantially ease menopause symptoms allowing women to feel like their vibrant selves again.
Targeted hormone modulation also provides protective benefits during the menopause transition and beyond by supporting bone, heart and brain health. Elite Hormone Therapy monitors key health parameters to ensure optimal outcomes. Many patients describe our HRT programs as truly life changing.
Hormone therapy can help transgender individuals align their physical characteristics with their gender identity. While the effects are often celebrated, research shows hormone treatment also comes with downsides like potential mood changes, headache, and fatigue. Healthcare providers work to balance treatment goals against side effects.
Testosterone is an essential hormone for both men and women tied to libido, energy levels, lean muscle mass, fat metabolism, good cholesterol and robust bone density. Deficiencies grow increasingly common with age in both sexes.
Low testosterone often presents with symptoms like flagging sex drive, erectile dysfunction, depleted energy/endurance, emotional numbness, cloudy thinking, irritability, weight gain and feeling generally “blah”. Muscle loss and fat accumulation leads to a skinny yet flabby physique over time. The cascading effects of low vitality, strained relationships and emotional issues are also extremely unhealthy long-term.
Elite Hormone Therapy offers rejuvenating testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) involving bioidentical testosterone coupled with lifestyle optimization guidance to reverse deficiency symptoms in both sexes. Outcomes from properly monitored programs can be absolutely remarkable – both physically and psychologically.
Here are some of the life-changing benefits men and women experience when low testosterone is corrected under Elite Hormone Therapy’ medical supervision:
In most patients, subtly adjusting testosterone within healthy ranges leads to rather remarkable improvements in energy, mood, mental agility, physique and overall vitality – allowing them to truly thrive again! Lifestyle guidance also helps sustain positive momentum.
If blood testing confirms clinically low testosterone, Elite Hormone Therapy will determine an ideal starting dosage and administration method based on your health profile – usually transdermal gels or subcutaneous pellets for slow steady release. Those with acute deficiency symptoms may benefit from an initial short-term injectable surge.
Follow up blood labs track biomarkers like testosterone levels, prostate-specific antigen, cholesterol fractions, blood cell counts and more to ensure physiological responses remain in the healthy range. Dosages get adjusted accordingly over time. Many patients feel dramatically better within weeks with further improvements accruing over 3-6 months as muscle, bone, and psychology fully normalize.
We design long-term treatment regimens needed to sustain optimal hormonal balance, energy and vitality indefinitely. Like proper nutrition and fitness, HRT becomes part of your routine health maintenance plan to preserve youth, vigor and healthy aging.
There are always physiological risks when altering delicate bodily systems. But negative health impacts from HRT predominantly surfaced from poorly monitored synthetic hormone replacement in women using excessive PREMARIN and PROVERA dosages shown to increase heart attack, stroke and breast cancer risk. Elite Hormone Therapy utilizes safer bioidentical hormones at tailored levels to avoid adverse effects. We also closely track health markers with testing to ensure normal range responses.
Expanding healthcare insurance plans now recognize the legitimacy of properly administered HRT for improving quality of life. Elite Hormone Therapy works diligently with patients and their providers to garner maximum coverage. Cash pay options are also available. Please inquire for current pricing details and financing options.
Given the prevalence of lifestyle-driven suboptimal hormonal function, Elite Hormone Therapy embraces an integrative methodology for identifying root causes and applying multidimensional protocols – not just pharmaceuticals - to restore balance from every angle.
As leaders in the field of regenerative and anti-aging medicine, our practitioners have specialist certifications in functional nutrition, strength/endurance training, stress management, detoxification, and more. We provide in-depth guidance to patients around blood sugar balancing nutrition, macronutrient ratios, meal timing, strategic supplement use, dialing in fitness regimens, cultivating daily relaxation habits, reducing environmental toxin exposures that disrupt endocrine pathways, and other interventions targeted to address the drivers of hormone dysfunction for each unique individual.
Elite Hormone Therapy also offers cutting-edge modalities like pulsed electromagnetic field therapy to reduce inflammation, peptide protocols to stimulate glandular repair, intranasal neurohormone sprays that improve mood and cognition, and photobiomodulation to nourish cellular function.
To further support the actions of bioidentical HRT and empower lifestyle improvement efforts, Elite Hormone Therapy connects patients with select practitioners providing high value services here in the Laredo area, including:
Despite public perception that hormone issues are an inevitable result of aging, achieving lasting balance and energetic vitality into one’s later years is absolutely attainable. Advances in bioidentical HRT coupled with lifestyle optimization strategies focused on the foundational pillars of fitness, nutrition, stress reduction and toxin control work synergistically to sustain robust function of glands and tissues.
Through our multidimensional protocols rooted in functional and anti-aging medicine, Elite Hormone Therapy restores healthy hormonal cascades, allowing patients to feel youthful, vigorous and thriving for decades to come. We consider it a privilege to guide patients of all ages and backgrounds onto the path of lifelong radiant health.
Please reach out to Elite Hormone Therapy today at to begin your transformative journey!
