Celebrate Without Gaining Weight - Five Tips To Burn Holiday Calories

Dr. Enrique Jacome

Did you stuff yourself silly on Thanksgiving and enjoy an extra piece of pie? It’s OK to indulge a little on the holidays. But now you’re wearing those second helpings on your hips with a belly that’s starting to look a lot like Santa, and there are still plenty of parties ahead.

According to the Calorie Control Council, Americans consume up to 4,500 calories in one sitting with a typical Thanksgiving meal. The council’s exercise converter shows that it would take 15 hours of skiing to burn off those calories that are the equivalent of seven Big Macs!

Finding the balance between holiday merrymaking and healthy eating is challenging for most people at this time of year. Slipping in a few good habits in between those yummy egg-nogs will help you avoid any major holiday weight gain without feeling totally deprived.

One study in the journal Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise shows that 45 minutes of early morning exercise helps reduce food cravings and keeps your metabolism fired up all day.

Obesity experts also claim that starving yourself all day before the holiday bash won’t reduce the calories. Arriving hungry usually results in sugar binges, which can lower your immune system. Eating balanced meals in between the festivities will help prevent common seasonal illnesses like colds and flu while helping you stay trim.

Here are some suggestions that can help so you can have your holiday cake and eat it too without packing on the pounds:

• Eat before the feast: arrive half full so you don’t overload on the junk
• Use smaller plates: studies prove this reduces food intake
• Follow the 3-bite rule: enjoy a taste or two of that dessert but don’t eat the whole thing
• Day on, day off: if you overloaded yesterday, take a day off and eat healthy food tomorrow
• Balance your hormones: testosterone supports carbohydrate metabolism and builds muscle

The Calorie Control Council offers many tips and resources for preventing holiday weight gain, plus makeover recipes for common holiday foods at http://www.caloriecontrol.org. For more information on hormonal balance and weight issues, visit http://www.sottopelletherapy.com/category/weight-loss.

Sources

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19092692

http://www.caloriecontrol.org/articles-and-video/feature-articles/stuff-the-bird-not-yourself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120912161554.htm – Brigham Young University. “Exercise may affect food motivation.” ScienceDaily 12 September 2012

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Are Your Hormones making You Fat?

Are you struggling to lose weight even when you’re doing everything ‘right’? Are you suddenly gaining weight although your diet and exercise have remained the same? Your hormones could be to blame!

Hormones are important to all body functions and play a significant role in your ability to lose weight and maintain a healthy weight. There are many hormonal imbalances that can occur in the body including, but not limited to: elevated insulin, elevated cortisol, elevated or low estrogen, low testosterone, low DHEA, and hypothyroidism. It is important to recognize possible imbalances that may be occurring in the body and correct them in order to reach your weight loss goals.

Insulin – the fat storage hormone

Insulin has an important job. It processes the sugar in the blood stream and carries it to your cells – it’s then used for energy or stored for later use in the form of fat. Elevated levels of insulin can be caused by excess consumption of carbohydrates. A diet high in carbohydrates, such as processed foods and sugary beverages, in combination with a low protein and low fiber intake, can lead to the storage of fat, weight gain and high insulin levels. Poor diet along with lack of exercise, alcohol consumption, stress and high blood pressure can lead to chronically high levels of insulin and the development of Type 2 diabetes.

Cortisol – the stress hormone

High levels of cortisol can be harmful to your health. Studies indicate that a high stress level can contribute to the accumulation of belly fat. Cortisol levels are higher in people who suffer from conditions such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, and excessive fatigue. Not only does elevated cortisol lead to belly fat, it also increases appetite and cravings. This is why people turn to “comfort foods” when feeling significant amounts of stress! Other harmful effects of high cortisol include decreased bone density, memory loss and depression. What is the best way to combat high cortisol? Get some sleep! At least 7 hours a night. It is also important to eat a high protein breakfast and find an outlet for all that stress. Activities such as yoga, meditation or even taking a long walk can help decrease stress.

Estrogen – the reproductive hormone

Both men and women naturally produce estrogen. In men, an excess of belly fat can cause testosterone to be converted to estrogen. As a man’s estrogen level rises, so does the fat accumulation. In addition, high levels of estrogen in men can contribute to prostate cancer and heart disease. In women, both excess estrogen and low estrogen contribute to weight gain and difficulty maintaining a healthy weight. Estrogen levels fluctuate as a woman goes through phases of her reproductive life. What can be done if you suspect an estrogen imbalance? Get your hormones tested. Testing can identify if an estrogen imbalance exists and what methods of treatment would be best. Also it is important to eat a healthy diet including green tea, flax seed and chia seeds. All of these products can assist the body in processing extra estrogen in the body.

Testosterone – the sex hormone

Increased stress (high cortisol levels), abdominal fat and aging all contribute to low testosterone levels. Low levels of testosterone can lead to conditions such as depression, obesity, heart disease, loss of muscle tone, decreased stamina and decreased libido. Simple hormone testing can identify a low level of testosterone. When levels are corrected, it has been shown to decrease body fat and improve stamina, muscle mass and libido. A healthy diet in lean protein, as well as weight-bearing exercise can help naturally increase testosterone levels.

DHEA – the mother of all hormones

There is much talk these days about DHEA, but what exactly is it? DHEA is a precursor hormone secreted by the adrenal glands that can be converted into testosterone or estrogen in the body. DHEA levels typically hit their peak in our 20’s and then naturally decline as we age. DHEA is responsible for many important functions including the body’s ability to burn fat and keep it off. Low DHEA levels can be detected in hormone testing. Correcting an imbalance can improve libido, energy and weight loss.

Your thyroid gland

The thyroid gland is responsible for producing hormones that regulate the body’s metabolic rate, heart and digestive function, muscle control, brain development and bone maintenance. The thyroid gland can become overactive (hyperthoyrodism) or underactive (hypothyroidism). Thyroid conditions can be quite dangerous and cause many unpleasant symptoms. For patients suffering from hypothyroidism, weight gain is a common side effect. Thyroid conditions can be safely treated with medication.

Get your levels checked

Hormones play a significant role in your health, including weight loss and weight management. A simple blood test is the first step in understanding your hormonal health. Sottopelle doctors are experts in the field of bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. We offer safe, natural and effective methods for both men and women. In addition, we offer Medi-Weightloss, a supervised weight loss program that works and has helped patients lose weight. We understand how hormones impact your health and that weight gain and hormonal imbalance are often interrelated. 

Guest Blog Author SottoPelle Dr. Mirabile

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Breast Cancer – The Testosterone Connection

Dr. Enrique Jacome

The statistics certainly appear intimidating, but don’t let breast cancer scare you this Halloween month! A diagnosis is not a death sentence, and October is designated as Breast Cancer Awareness Month to help women become pro-active in better prevention and detection of the disease.

Let’s look at some data and then at some steps you can take to fight back.

Breast cancer by the numbers:

• One in eight women will be diagnosed with the disease
• A woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every 3 minutes
• One woman dies every 13 minutes from breast cancer
• More than 250,000 women with the disease are under 40
• Men can get breast cancer and 1 in every 1,000 men are diagnosed each year
• There are approximately 3 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S.

For Dr. Gino Tutera, these statistics posed an incentive to research the role of bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) in breast cancer prevention. Dr. Tutera developed a customized form of BHRT in pellet form delivering the precise dosage of hormones that each individual needs to restore the body’s natural physiological balance.

In his research, he discovered the role of bio-identical testosterone pellet therapy in helping to prevent breast cancer. While still widely regarded as a predominantly male hormone, testosterone is essential for women to maintain their normal physiology. Yet this scientific fact remains largely ignored.

“Around age forty, there is an increase in fibrocystic disease of the breast,” Dr. Tutera explains. “It coincides with women losing 50 percent of their testosterone production. Testosterone therapy helps decrease over-activity of cells in the breast and if you decrease cell proliferation, you cut down on the occurrence of cystic disease.”

According to Dr. Tutera’s 10-year breast cancer study*, the restoration of normal testosterone levels for women at risk for – or suffering from – breast cancer can make a significant difference in prevention of the disease. Maintaining proper levels of testosterone offers a lifesaving alternative for breast cancer patients who see not only a higher level of survivability, but also a lower chance of recurrence.

“Breast cancer patients are uniformly subjected to the usual treatment of no hormones whatsoever, which actually shortens the life span,” says Dr. Tutera. “Through testosterone replacement with SottoPelle, we have the capability to help patients get their quality of life back.”

In addition to maintaining your hormonal balance and obtaining regular mammograms, here are some simple lifestyle approaches that can help you ward off the disease:

1. Stay active and keep your body moving! That’s right… just 10 hours of exercise each week can lower your risk by 30 percent.
2. Eat a healthy diet of whole foods with plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.
3. Drink less alcohol and fill up on more water. According to several recent studies, limiting alcohol consumption reduces a woman’s risk of developing the disease.
4. Conduct monthly breast self-examinations.This represents one of the simplest and easiest preventative steps you can take.
5. Maintain a healthy weight – New research suggests that larger skirt sizes go hand in hand with greater risks for developing breast cancer.

Approximately 3 million breast cancer survivors are living proof that this disease can be beaten. More than 98 percent of cases survive due to early detection. There is hope!

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The FDA Tightens Up On Runaway Synthetic Testosterone Treatments

Dr. Enrique Jacome

It has been the biggest craze since Viagra. Low T is everywhere – even on the cover of Time. These days men can just walk into the gym or a storefront and ask for a synthetic testosterone injection with an unknown dose from some generic source. 

We shudder every time the endless TV commercials appear for synthetic pills, gels, injections creams and other topical testosterone treatments in unspecified doses. But on September 18, the runaway testosterone train came to a sudden halt as FDA medical advisers concluded that new safety measures were in order. Check out the news reports on this that we have posted below for your convenience. 

The advisory panel posed concerns that over 25 percent of the men currently taking these products have been administered testosterone without proper lab work to warrant any treatment. These men also lack individual dosing or post-treatment follow-up to monitor their symptoms and health, often resulting in heart attacks. 

As a result, the FDA has imposed new regulations to manage the use of these generic synthetic testosterone drugs. The FDA advisory came exactly one month to the day after Time magazine featured its “Mano-pause” cover story about the booming synthetic Low T business. 

Another report on Fierce Biotech, a daily online monitor for the drug industry, explains the story behind the facts, with last-ditch scrambles by drug manufacturers to salvage their Low T wares in the face of new FDA regulations. 

According to Dr. Gino Tutera — the founder of SottoPelle Therapy, a system of individually tailored bio-identical hormone pellets — good medicine is about safeguarding human health instead of imposing such serious health risks to millions of people. 

“Everyone doesn’t wear the same shoes size,” Dr. Tutera explains. “Back in the early 90′s, I realized that there is no one-size-fits-all hormone for everyone. Each patient is uniquely different and must be treated as an individual.” 

The science of pellet hormone therapy is based on precise doses of bio-identical hormones instead of synthetic ones. But what exactly does this mean and how do pellets work? 

A bio-identical hormone is one whose molecular structure contains the exact biochemical structure as the human hormone itself. And think of the pellet, about the size of a grain of rice, inserted under the skin as a reservoir that sits in your body awaiting the signal to release the necessary amount of hormone. 

The pellet’s release of hormone is controlled by the heart rate. Therefore, as long as the patient’s heart is beating, the secretion of hormone is continuous and will vary according to the patient’s needs. The body therefore controls the release of continuous hormone, naturally increasing or decreasing the amount of hormone released according to the body’s needs. 

In addition to right kind of natural hormone, safe and effective hormone therapy requires the following criteria: 

Proper testing with thorough analysis and diagnosis 
Customized doses based on each individual’s patient’s needs 
The hormone needs to be replaced in the exact ratio in which the body produces it to create the maximum physiologic protection 
The delivery system must replicates the secretion pattern of the organ being replicated, i.e., the ovary or testicle 

Pellet hormone replacement is one of the most researched forms of hormone delivery, starting in the 1930′s in Austria and continued after that by Dr. R Greenblatt from the University of Georgia Medical College. The clinics he established have been using pellets continuously ever since. 
Dr. Tutera subsequently developed the system of customizing doses for each individual patient to create a safe, effective pellet method that has restored good health and happiness to so many patients. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/health/testosterone-drugs-fda.html?_r=0 

http://blogs.wsj.com/pharmalot/2014/09/18/fda-panel-says-testosterone-drugs-need-more-study-and-reduced-use/

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Weight Loss, Testosterone And Hormone Replacement - Hormone Secrets For Shedding The Pounds - Part 1

Dr. Enrique Jacome

You’ve tried everything to lose weight. From crash diets and pretzel-shaped yoga poses to all those tabloid tricks and even starvation. Your medicine cabinet is crammed with bottles of coffee bean extract and the latest Dr. Oz quick fix. Yet the stubborn pounds remain glued to your hips.

Every day new patients come into my office wailing about their weight. They eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly and still can’t shed the pounds. What’s wrong with this picture?

Can you blame your hormones for those love handles? Can hormone replacement therapy help you lose weight.

In most cases, the answer is yes! Hormones control your metabolism and where you store your fat, and numerous studies prove the connection between hormones and weight loss. Extra weight on the hips, belly and thighs is often a sign of hormonal imbalance, such as a testosterone deficiency or a drop in female hormones like estrogen. And that can cause the scale to tip in the wrong direction.

While other factors such as low thyroid, insulin resistance, high blood sugar and cortisol levels, insufficient sleep and leptin resistance all affect weight loss, they are often related to hormonal imbalance itself and therefore keep many people trapped in a vicious circle.

Let me explain this further.

The body can’t maintain its normal systemic functions without proper hormonal balance. Simply relying on a crash diet when your hormones are out of balance means that your system cannot derive much benefit.

You can take all the best supplements and do all the exercises in the world and you still won’t lose weight. It’s like pouring high quality oil on a cracked engine; the car still isn’t going to run.

There needs to be more emphasis on the physiologic restoration that hormones provide rather than just the relief of menopausal symptoms since weight loss is a multifaceted issue and slow process. Maintaining a normal physiologic state by balancing the hormones will help to maximize your weight loss efforts.

Don’t give up! With proper lifestyle changes, monitoring of your hormone levels and the use of precise doses of bio-identical hormones custom-compounded to suit your body’s specific needs, you can start to see the scale swing back to normal.

Here are 5 effective steps you can take right now to promote weight loss:

• Stick to a low-fat, low-carb diet with as much fresh food and produce as possible.
• Avoid refined sugars and starches and processed food
• Bump up your low-fat protein intake. Turkey, eggs, beans and shellfish are good choices.
• Find some time each day to exercise. Just 30 minutes a day in 10-minute spurts of high-intensit intervals will do wonders for your waistline and speed up the weight loss.
• Get a full night’s sleep. Studies show that proper rest is critical to maintain a healthy weight since the body produces metabolic hormones during sleep. Anything less than 7.5 hours per night can disrupt the hormones that affect your appetite and fat-burning capacity.

Next we’ll talk about testosterone and the pivotal role it plays in weight loss. While it helps convert fat into lean muscle, keep in mind that hormones alone are not the magic bullet to shed those pounds. Instead, I recommend a balanced lifestyle approach while balancing your hormones with the SottoPelle natural approach to safe, effective hormone replacement therapy using bio-identical pellets.

View our hormonal imbalance symptoms checklist at http://www.sottopelletherapy.com to see if you’re a candidate for hormone replacement therapy. Keep up your ongoing weight loss efforts and remember: You don’t have to live with it!

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Tame Those Hot Flashes Today With Hormone Pellet Therapy

Dr. Enrique Jacome

They appear out of nowhere and rise without any warning. A sudden sensation of overwhelming warmth and uncomfortable heat sweeps across the head and upper body, often accompanied by embarrassing redness and flushing in the face, neck and chest. Other symptoms include a rapid heart rate, profuse nighttime sweating, palpitations and even chills.

Here come the dreaded hot flashes!

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, approximately 75 percent of women struggle with this personal “global warming” when they enter their menopausal years and brace for “the change.” As estrogen and progesterone levels fluctuate and start to plummet, women experience a steady increase in these hot flashes that can occur several times a day.

While the cause remains under debate and is attributed to a wide variety of factors, from thermoregulation of the hypothalamus to sudden changes in circulation due to estrogen deficiency and other hormonal imbalances, everyone agrees that they can make one’s life miserable. But who needs hot flashes when the summer temperatures are already over 100? We hear a lot of humor about hot flashes, often referred to as “power surges,” but any woman who is experiencing them will report that they are no laughing matter.

Sleepless nights, inability to focus, intense waves of debilitating tingling plus rashes and irritability disrupt women’s everyday lives. While most resources tell women to avoid caffeine and get more rest, insomnia triggered by hot flashes keeps them reaching for coffee and colas to get through the day. That, in turn, contributes to the hot flushes keeping them awake at night in a vicious circle.

What can you do right now to find quick relief?

Some immediate ways to minimize hot flashes include:

• stress reduction and relaxation techniques
• keeping the bedroom cooler at night
• avoiding caffeine, alcohol, nicotine and other stimulants will also help to alleviate the symptoms
• maintaining a healthy lifestyle with good diet and exercise

While these can certainly help to provide some relief, natural hormone replacement therapy using bio-identical estrogen and progesterone can eliminate hot flashes altogether.

SottoPelle® bio-identical hormone pellets work with your body’s natural rhythms quickly, safely and effectively. SottoPelle® Therapy is custom-dosed for your individual physiology to balance your hormones and prevent hot flashes without synthetic drugs. For over 25 years it has helped thousands of men and women enjoy renewed vitality and improved health without any side effects.

View the hormonal imbalance symptoms checklist at http://www.sottopelletherapy.com/ and take our simple hormone assessment at http://www.sottopelletherapy.com/self-assessment.

Don’t forget that men get hot flashes too. So don’t blame it on global warming or the summer heat. Get your hormone levels checked with a simple lab test and get immediate relief with SottoPelle®bio-identical hormone pellet therapy.

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Consuming Gluten While Having Celiac Disease Could Lead To Early Menopause

Dr. Enrique Jacome

Celiac disease, which occurs when your body cannot tolerate a protein called gluten found in products containing wheat, barley and rye, most often causes gastrointestinal disturbances and abdominal pain. However, the condition also can cause severe nutritional deficiencies that have a wide-ranging effect on the rest of your body, including on your hormones. Because of this, women with celiac disease suffer from early menopause more frequently. They also suffer from related infertility. If you have celiac disease, you may be able to protect yourself against early menopause by following a gluten-free diet strictly.

Incidence 
Approximately one in 100 Americans has celiac disease, but because people with the condition may not notice symptoms for years, the majority of those people don't know they have it. When you have celiac disease, consuming gluten-containing grains causes an immune system reaction that destroys the lining of your small intestines. Your intestinal lining helps you absorb nutrients from your food, and once it's destroyed, you often become malnourished. Because your reproductive system relies on vitamins and other nutrients to function, it often can't function properly in people with celiac disease. In many cases, women with undiagnosed celiac disease have undiagnosed amenorrhea, or missing periods. This can lead to early menopause.

Menopause
Menopause -- when you stop having periods and lose the ability to bear children -- normally occurs between the ages of 45 and 55, with an average age of 51. When you enter menopause, your body's production of the female hormones estrogen and progesterone slows dramatically, and your ovaries stop producing monthly eggs. Women with celiac disease suffer from premature menopause, with menopause occurring prior to age 40, more often than other women, especially if they continue to consume gluten. Even if they don't enter menopause before age 40, their periods end earlier, on average, than those of non-celiac women.

Research
In a study published in 2010 in the medical journal "BMC Gastroenterology," researchers looked at reproductive life disorders in 62 Italian women with celiac disease, including the age of menopause when compared to control subjects. Two-thirds of those women reported menstrual cycle disorders, and many said that they had experienced those menstrual problems before gastrointestinal symptoms appeared. In addition, many reported experiencing menopause at an earlier age than the control group.

Considerations
In many cases, menstrual cycle disorders correct themselves once you receive a celiac diagnosis and begin following the gluten-free diet. In addition, following a gluten-free diet may help protect you from early menopause. If you've already gone through menopause, it's possible but unlikely that you'll begin menstruating again once you get diagnosed and stop consuming gluten. In all cases, though, you need to adhere to the diet strictly; cheating, even occasionally, causes ongoing inflammation and damage in your small intestines, which can lead to continuing nutritional deficiencies and place you at risk for additional medical conditions, including osteoporosis.

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A Woman's Helping Hand As She Ages

Dr. Gino Tutera

As a woman’s body ages, it can often use some extra help. Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is an excellent choice to help provide assistance as Mother Nature comes a calling later in life. Our advanced hormone replacement therapy using pellet implantation has been around for over seventy-five years. It is a safe, effective and convenient. No more need to remember a gel or cream that can be dangerously transferred from you to your loved ones, such as children or even your pets. The best part is you also won’t have to remember a hormone pill every day.

Our pellet implants deliver a low dosage of hormones to your body 24/7. The body determines how much or how little hormones you need and when you need it. A pellet can last from three to six months, a far cry from the frequent daily application of estrogen creams or gels. Our qualified physicians use an exact science to determine how much hormones your body will need to function at its top level.

Beyond menopausal symptoms, hormonal imbalance in a women will upset the normal functions of many internal organs. This imbalance sets the stage for many aging-related diseases. With our over twenty years of experience, we have seen many patients with a variety of symptoms. We work tirelessly to find solutions that women need to achieve hormonal balance & live fulfilling lives. Just because you are getting a bit older but that doesn't mean you need to lose your youthful spirit. We want to see you age graciously and comfortably. 

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Does Menopause Cause Anxiety?

Dr. Enrique Jacome

Which came first – the hormonal imbalance or the anxiety? Sounds a lot like the chicken and the egg question, doesn’t it? While many different conditions can trigger anxiety, recent studies indicate that stress goes hand in hand with menopause and andropause.

Panic attacks often strike perimenopausal women the hardest as their hormonal changes fluctuate dramatically. But other factors can contribute to the anxiety generally associated with menopause.

Depression, poor concentration, muscle tension, irritability, fatigue, insomnia and sleep disorders are all anxiety-related and symptomatic of menopause. However, many women wonder if their life circumstances or their hormones are to blame.

Sue, a 47-year-old working mom, has a full share of anxiety between her job as an office manager and her duties at home. She often experiences extreme fatigue and finds it difficult to concentrate on her work. Despite her exhaustion, she has trouble falling asleep. She wakes throughout the night, wrought with tension, restlessness, nervous sweats and an inability to go back to sleep.

Sue wonders if it’s her anxiety from the job keeping her up at night or her hormones making her toss and turn. Maybe it’s the stress of college tuition costs for her three kids.

How can women know the difference between everyday anxiety and the menopausal kind? More importantly, what can they do to alleviate anxiety altogether?

Sue initially made some lifestyle changes… reducing her coffee intake, replacing sugars and junk food with healthier meals, taking a yoga class and walking more. She also started doing more relaxing things before bedtime, such as taking a hot scented bath instead of watching the news.

Still, the night sweats continued. That’s when she decided to have her hormone levels tested and try SottoPelle Therapy.

Sue’s lab tests showed that she was pre-menopausal and really low in estrogen and testosterone, an imbalance that leads to stress in the body, thyroid disorder and adrenal fatigue. She started sleeping better after taking bio-identical progesterone before bedtime and found that it alleviated her anxiety and calmed her nerves.

Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy helped Sue get through menopause naturally and safely, without the hot flashes, nervous jitters and tension that formerly kept her up all night and reaching for the caffeine all day.

Anxiety can also result when testosterone levels drop as men enter andropause. Balancing these hormones with pellet therapy effectively relieves the anxiety and irritability that often plagues men at this time.

To determine if your symptoms are due to the hormonal imbalances of menopause and andropause or a deeper emotional cause, and more information about SottoPelle Therapy, lab tests and hormone evaluations, visit http://www.sottopelletherapy.com/faqs/.  You can also take SottoPelle hormone self assessment.

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The Real Truth About Fatigue: Hormone Replacement Therapy May Be Your Answer

Dr. Enrique Jacome

Are you dragging and lagging throughout the day with constant fatigue? Have you lost your normal stamina and often run out of steam? Do simple tasks leave you feeling flat lined?

I hear this from my patients all the time and fatigue seems to be affecting everyone in some way these days. Pick up any national magazine and chances are you’ll find a headline boasting of some quick fix to “Fight Fatigue Now!”

While such debilitating fatigue can be due to dozens of causes, most doctors simply chalk it up to modern-day stress and tell patients to slow down and get more rest. Such good advice often fails to address the real root of the problem and offers no viable support to help men and women combat their fatigue.

Hormones play a major role how you feel throughout the day and fatigue often results when there is a hormonal balance. Think of your hormones like the remote control for your TV, enabling you to switch channels and adjust volume, brightness, picture quality and other important functions. Estrogen and testosterone act as biochemical messengers, communicating with each other to fine-tune your physiology and energy similar to the way your remote control changes the settings on your TV.

Fatigue hits women particularly hard, especially during menopause and perimenopause due to rapid decline of the female hormones. Men are dragging behind too as testosterone levels take the plunge, reducing their normal endurance and stamina.

How do you know if hormonal imbalances are to blame for your fatigue? Start with this simple list and see how many apply to you:

• Feel tired and dragging throughout the day beyond normal sleepiness
• Lack of energy
• Reduced drive and mental clarity
• Low stamina and endurance
• Lack of motivation to pursue normal activities
• Decreased sense of vitality and well-being

 If you checked off two or more of these, then you should consider taking a simple lab test to monitor your hormone levels and determine any imbalances. Natural bio-identical hormone replacement therapy [BHRT] helps many people to ward off fatigue and restore their normal energy levels.

Recent studies indicate that bio-identical hormone pellet therapy can boost energy levels and correct the hormonal imbalances that start to plague us in mid-life. Finding the right balance with natural hormone pellets customized to suit your unique physiology can make a life-altering difference in how you feel and function throughout the day.

SottoPelle® Therapy works naturally with your individual physiology to balance your hormones and fight fatigue without synthetic drugs or one-size-fits-all injections. For over 25 years it has helped thousands of men and women enjoy renewed vitality.

Take our simple hormone assessment here.

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