BHRT in Glenview

The role hormones play in your body weight is multifaceted, influencing your metabolism, appetite, and body fat distribution. Therefore, if you’ve found it difficult to lose weight despite managing your diet and exercising more, that stubborn weight might not be a reflection of your habits. We can utilize BHRT in Glenview to restore balance to your internal systems, helping you burn fat and build muscle mass more efficiently.

But the effect also goes both ways—after all, the body is far more interconnected than many people truly realize. Adipose tissue, or body fat, contains enzymes that convert androgens (male hormones) into estrogen. Therefore, excess body fat has the potential to elevate your estrogen levels. When we streamline your weight loss journey, such as through BHRT and medical weight loss, we can then naturally lower your estrogen levels to restore a more harmonious balance.

Every patient is unique, so we encourage you to schedule a discovery call and learn more about how BHRT and other wellness services could benefit you.

It’s very possible! In a straightforward sense, women with low estrogen often experience vaginal dryness and painful intercourse, which can lead them to withdraw from intimacy. Similarly, men with low testosterone levels can face erectile dysfunction and a low sex drive. By bringing your hormones back into their optimal balance, we can resolve these symptoms and help restore your libido.

But there’s even more to it. BHRT in Glenview has numerous benefits, helping you feel more energized, have healthier hair, lose more body fat, increase muscle mass, and more. By feeling better physically, you can be more confident in yourself, too, helping reignite the spark between you and your partner. Therefore, we do often include BHRT as part of our libido treatment!

Hormones can become imbalanced for a variety of reasons, including:

• Age: Hormone production naturally declines with age. While men experience a steady, gradual decrease in testosterone production as they get older, often called “andropause,” women go through menopause, and their estrogen and progesterone levels decline more suddenly.
• Certain medical conditions: Diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome, thyroid disorders, autoimmune diseases, and obesity can impact your hormone levels, often creating imbalances that contribute to your symptoms.
• Medications: Hormonal birth control and steroids can both disrupt the body’s natural hormone production.
• Stress: Chronic stress keeps hormones like cortisol at elevated levels beyond what your body is equipped to sustain, which can throw off the production of other hormones.
• Poor diet: Without a proper supply of nutrients, the body can’t produce the necessary hormones to keep your systems running smoothly. A diet high in processed sugar and saturated fats is also associated with inflammation, which disrupts the function of hormone-producing glands.
• Smoking: The chemicals released when smoking interfere with your endocrine glands and affect the production, transportation, and function of hormones.

This is not an exhaustive list, either. Your body’s hormone levels are a delicate thing, and at Heal n Cure, we recognize how easily they can be disrupted. When we consider whether BHRT in Glenview can benefit you, we start by getting to the root cause of your concerns and explore the various avenues to re-establishing that internal harmony.