CATEGORY: Stuff in the ‘Hormone Replacement’ Category


FAQs: How Do Testosterone Pellets Affect Other Diseases and Conditions, and Vice Versa

Fear of the unknown may be the greatest threat to your current quality of life, and your future health. Do testosterone pellets cause breast cancer? No. Testosterone pellets improve the immune system function so you can fight all types of[...]
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The questions people ask that have not tried testosterone or estrogen pellets.

Questions and concerns from people who are considering hormone replacement using pellets. Both men and women have questions about our testosterone and estradiol pellets.  I have compiled a group of the most important questions that patients ask before they have[...]
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Our Most Frequent Questions about testosterone pellets for women

Female hormone replacement using testosterone pellets.   Most of the questions we at BioBalance Health® get about pellets come from our female patients.  This is partially because women are more interested in the way hormones work, and we have three[...]
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Our Most Frequent Questions…about Uterine bleeding while on Estradiol Pellets

“I am post-Menopausal, so why do I have uterine bleeding?” Q: Why do I have to take Progesterone every night? Post-menopausal bleeding is one of the side effects of any estrogen replacement therapy, including estradiol pellets. We can prevent break-through[...]
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Our Most Frequent Questions…about laboratory test

"Why do I need so many lab test at BioBalance Health?" Dr. Maupin answers this question and more. Q: Why do I need so many tests to replace my testosterone and or estradiol with pellets? We order these tests for[...]
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Hashimoto’s Disease – The What, Why, and How.

Hashimoto’s Disease is an autoimmune disease in which your own immune system attacks your thyroid gland. There are several types of Hypothyroidism, and Hashimoto’s Disease is one of the types I see quite often in private practice. Hashimoto’s Disease is[...]
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Autoimmune Disease is one of the Top 10 Causes of Death in Women.

How replacing your testosterone can help treat autoimmune disease. Autoimmune disease is one of the top 10 causes of death for women. The rate of growth of this group of diseases in women over the last 19 years is rapid. [...]
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What to do when your doctor wants you to stop your hormone therapy.

The most likely cause of hair loss is low thyroid, followed closely by medications. I will give your PCP the benefit of the doubt that he or she doesn’t know anything about hormones, but that does not excuse him/her from[...]
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What to say when your primary care doctor questions your use of Bio-Identical Hormones.

Pellets are mysterious to most doctors and drug reps, so they just tell patients they are “dangerous” or useless to scare patients from using them. Primary doctors who practice general medicine, generally don’t know anything about hormones and or worse[...]
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The Death of Title IX, and the End of Women’s Equality

The decision to make women compete against biologic men is an uneducated, unscientific decision. Title IX is a Federal Civil Rights Law passed as part of the Education Amendment of 1972.  It is now in jeopardy of being reversed in[...]
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