Hormones

What is Hormone Therapy in Portland, OR?

While there are many forms of treatment and relief for hormonal imbalances, Low T (andropause), perimenopause, and menopause, the most effective is Bioidentical Hormone Therapy (BHRT). BHRT is safe and effective at hormone regulation and can even act like anti-aging hormones, restoring your body to optimal youthful levels.
Bioidentical hormones in Portland, OR, are artificial hormones created to be identical to the hormones produced by your body as opposed to synthetic Rx’s.
At Upgrade PDX, we only use bioidentical hormones for your treatment if your levels are low or out of balance. The entire treatment plan is customized per the hormones required by your body.
Hormones play a key role in all body systems. They are the main signal for normal tissue and regulatory homeostasis (balance) in the body.

What is HGH?

Growth hormone is an anabolic hormone, which means that it builds up your body. It does this in part by directly regenerating tissues and mildly increasing the blood sugar level (to provide energy) and also indirectly by stimulating the secretion of another hormone—called IGF-1 or insulin-like growth factor I—because of its analogy with insulin in structure and action (lowering the blood sugar level).
Growth hormone offered at our Medical Clinic in Portland, OR has a variety of benefits, not only builds up your muscles, blood vessels and bones more than testosterone. It also builds up the nervous system tissues, including the brain and its neurons (brain cells). Test yourself using Dr. Hertoghe’s (one of the world’s leading experts in HGH) symptom checklist.
The current biomedical thoughts on this can be found in this summary from Mayo Clinic , while more advanced considerations can be seen in research such as this article.