Natural Anti Aging

Please see the bioidentical doctors Canada page for the latest updates on doctors that will treat your menopause, andropause and perimenopause symptoms with natural hormone therapy.

Dr J. Simon McGrail, MD, was added to our bioidentical doctors page for the Toronto area:

Dr. J. Simon McGrail, MD
Plastic Surgeon & Bio-Identical Hormone Specialist
1573 Danforth Ave (at Coxwell Ave)
Toronto, ON.
Tel: 647.884.0663

Carla Peppler has a new website and a new email address:

Carla Peppler, RN(EC), BNSc, MPA, CNC(G)
NEX Health Centre
nexhealthcentre@wightman.ca
www.bioidenticalhormonesontario.com/Hanover-Ontario-Bioidentical-Hormone-Therapy.html

New bioidentical doctor update:

Dr. Ian Richardson, MD
Room 261-Y
75 Bruyere Street
Ottawa ON
K1N 5C8
(613) 562-6322
(613) 562-6013

For Doctors:  Developing Your Hormone Therapy Practice

While the latest trend in women’s health and hormone therapy is to prescribe the lowest dose for the least duration of time, Women’s Health America (WHA) has helped physicians provide this type of cutting-edge care for their patients since nearly 30 years ago. In fact, Women’s Health America has always been a pioneering the future of hormone therapy: *

Restore™ is the latest in their innovative programs designed to provide individualized bioidentical hormone therapy. Medicine for this millennium, *Restore™ integrates the very latest in leading laboratory technology and pharmaceutical science with traditional values in health care: listening to patients and responding to their individual needs. *Restore™ lets practitioners return to the art of patient care and treat patients as individuals. In the wake of the controversy over hormone replacement therapy, this approach is more important than ever.

“Our recommendation is… take the lowest dose for the least duration required to provide relief,” said Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D, Commissioner U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2003. Dr. Leon Speroff, Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Oregon Health & Science University adds, “As we move to lower doses, I believe clinicians will have to be more aggressive in providing appropriate surveillance.” That kind of monitoring is something time constraints keep most physicians with a busy practice from being able to provide directly for their patients. That’s where *Restore™ comes in – by providing this very type of careful monitoring now recommended by the FDA.

The secret to success:

The secret to *Restore™’s success starts with Marla Ahlgrimm’s, R.Ph., founder and CEO of Women’s Health America, years of experience in using her own ability to carefully listen to physicians and patients. What she has learned and observed over the years is the basis for the state-of-the-art Hormone Therapy management protocols as well as the technology housed in Women’s Health America’s pristine headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin. There, Ahlgrimm and her staff, including several registered pharmacists, nurses, laboratory technicians, analytical chemists and a cadre of support staff evaluate health histories and hormone levels, dispense individualized prescription therapy, monitor outcomes and provide top-notch assistance to physicians and their patients with PMS, perimenopause and menopause concerns.

Physicians enrolled in the *Restore™ program provide their patients with a complete bio-identical hormone therapy program that combines salivary hormone level and NTx urine bone loss testing, customized prescription therapy, follow-up testing and ongoing case management.

This article originally appeared in the M.D. NEWS VOL.3, NO 1 JAN 2005

We recently received this email from a new reader which emphasizes the difficulty women and men have  in finding a doctor who can describe bioidentical hormones.

RH wrote:

I found your list on the web and the first doc I called had retired and the second one was not covered by OHIP.

Is there any chance that you can shorten my search so that I don’t have to phone all the doctors in the list?

We answer:  It is very difficult for men and women to locate a doctor who knows how to monitor hormone levels and prescribe bioidentical hormones. Our bioidentical doctors‘  list was created because there was a need for it.  It was specifically created to assist patients in finding a bioidentical doctor.  No other list was available on the internet at the time (four years ago).  Other websites have copied our doctors’ list since then.

We have researched both a doctors’ list for the U.S. and one for Canada, such was the need of people in both countries to have a resource for finding a doctor.

For updating this list, we rely on doctors, clinics and our readers to inform us of a new doctor who prescribes bioidentical hormones.  If a doctor has retired, please let us know which doctor has retired for our community of readers and new readers who are searching for a bioidentical doctor.

Also, many doctors who prescribe bioidentical hormones do not bill for this service under OHIP.  This is because the training for managing menopause and hormone levels is costly.  There is also a greater requirement of time on the doctor’s part to manage menopause symptoms and hormone levels for each individual patient.

However, some doctors do bill OHIP for bioidentical patients.  Unfortunately, we at PureAgeless do not have the resources to investigate which doctors bill OHIP and which do not.

We have also told our readers they can ask the pharmacist at a compounding pharmacy in their area.   Compounding pharmacies make up the bioidentical hormone mixtures from prescriptions.  Compounding pharmacies are a good resource for finding a bioidentical doctor.

People in Vancouver and in California are extremely fortunate because there are an abundance of doctors who can prescribe bioidentical hormones.  Elsewhere, as we all know, it’s a different story.

We have arranged the doctors by province/state and city.  We hope this helps our readers.