Natural Anti Aging

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

A new compounding pharmacy has been found by one of our readers.  We have added it to our compounding pharmacy page.

Trutina Pharmacy, located in  Ancaster, Ontario, specializes in custom compounding for Bioidentical Hormone Therapy, and the Restore Program (advanced hormone testing and monitoring.  If you are searching for bioidentical doctors in Ancaster and the surrounding area, they will be able to help you find a qualified bioidentical doctor.

They will ship across Canada directly to either the doctor or you, the patient.  A signed prescription is required.

Trutina Pharmacy is located at 201 Wilson Street, East, in Ancaster, Ontario.  The telephone number is 905-304-9300.  Their website address is www.trutinapharmacy.com.

As always, we are constantly searching for bioidentical doctor’s names and compounding pharmacies for our community of readers.  Many bioidentical doctors’ listings and compounding pharmacies are supplied by our readers because it is still difficult in Canada to find bioidentical doctors for management of menopause and andropause symptoms.

For our readers, both doctors and patients and those considering bioidentical hormone therapy, we would like to announce to our readers the upcoming The Bioidentical Hormone (BHRT) Conference and Expo in Toronto.

On Friday, April 9, 2010 at the Park Hyatt Hotel at 4 Avenue Road in Toronto, there will be a conference entitled The Bioidentical Hormone (BHRT) Conference and Expo sponsored by Tru Balance Health Care.

If you are interested in natural anti aging, finding bioidentical doctors or treating your menopause or andropause symptoms with bioidentical hormones, or, you are a doctor who specializes in bioidentical hormones or would like to add this service to your practice, this is the conference for you.

This public conference, the most comprehensive BHRT conference and expo in Canada will feature the following:

•    top Canadian and USA doctors will speak about BHRT
•    Get the chance to speak face to face with the doctors
•    Get educated, shop and network
•    See new products, services and exhibits on BHRT
•    Meet the doctors who are taking patients in Ontario
•    Learn about the new Restore Program – the most comprehensive web management BHRT program for physicians with advance hormone testing to arrive in Canada. (launched in January, 2010)

The speakers at the conference include:

▪Mark L. Gordon, M.D., FAAFP – Founder & Medical Director of Millennium Health Centers, Inc., Encino, CA
▪Sangeeta Pati, M.D.,  FACOG – Founder & Medical Director of the SaJune Medical Center, Orlando, FL
▪Marla Ahlgrimm R.Ph. – Founder & CEO -Women’s Health America, Inc. The RESTORE Program, Madison, WI

Tickets for the Bioidentical Hormone (BHRT) Conference and Expo are available from the Director of Business Development and Communications, Tru Balance Health Care, 647-884-0663.  Advance tickets for the Bioidentical Hormone (BHRT) Conference and Expo cost $10.  Purchase at the door for $15.00.  TruBalance is the corporation that brought Suzanne Somers to Toronto to speak about bioidentical hormone therapy and cutting edge cancer treatment in October of last year (2009).

If you are a physician, interested in learning more about bioidentical hormone therapy or a patient interested in learning more about bioidentical hormones, this is a conference you should not miss.  To learn more about the conference and the speakers at the conference, visit the TruBalance website at:  wwwtrubalance.com.