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Our primary membership covers what you find in most primary care offices, and most family doctors will refer out to a specialist to manage and evaluate hormones. Our providers seek extra educational resources - spending time and money to bring you the most up to date integrative approach within each program. Visit copays apply to cover this extra time and expertise. This allows us to keep our primary care membership low and programs can then be added on to personalize the additional time needed to implement our unique approach. 

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Here are some common questions we get regarding our brain health program:

Unfortunately hormone training is not included in traditional western medical education. Many women's health specialists do not feel comfortable with gentle bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Our providers have a unique lens as your primary care to understand your full health history, metabolic and genetic risk factors, family history and health goals.  

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Salivary testing approximates intracellular hormone levels which can be very different than serum hormone levels. Additionally, salivary testing can capture a cortisol curve which can show us if chronic stress and burn out are impacting your hormone symptoms. Chronic cortisol elevation can cause weight around the middle, abnormal sleep cycles and fatigue. As integrative medicine providers, we believe it is important to know if treating chronic stress impacts should be included in your treatment recommendations. 

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Hormone pellet therapy is not currently offered within our programs as pellet therapy is not built around physiologic principles. Our program is based on the Osteopathic philosophy that natural physiology is where balance begins. Nature does not implant high doses of testosterone that then falls slowly over 3-6 months....so we do not either. If you are on pellet therapy, or prefer this, we can help support your program by offering a second opinion or adding supplements and genetic testing to be sure that your pellet therapy is safe and balanced. 

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Yes! Our Healthy Hormone Assessment Programs require a 6 months primary care membership OR you can add $799 to any program costs listed and participate as a non member. This $799 includes an intake visit with a full health history. You may choose a non member Healthy Hormones Assessment Program if you are interested in "knowing where you are at" on your hormone journey. Results can be shared with your other providers and care team members. If you are interested in hormone therapy prescriptions, however, this treatment is 0only provided within our Hormone Maintenance programs which require a DOPC primary care membership. This requirement is because we are fundamentally a holistic primary care practice and if we are prescribing hormones with risks and benefits, we want to be sure we are keeping up with all aspects of your health! 

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Yes! We follow the same principles of gentle, bioidentical and safe hormone replacement therapy for men and women. There is a level of each assessment and maintenance program dedicated to men interested in evaluating and managing your testosterone.  

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Yes! For our members in the LGBTQ community we offer maintenance hormone therapy within our Healthy Hormones Maintenance Programs. However, we do not offer programs around gender transitions or counseling around gender affirming care. This is care best initiated within a specialty care clinic.