According to a recent New York Times article there are now 10 administrators for every doctor working in hospitals in America. The number of administrators has increased over 3000% between 1975 and 2010. Please read that again! Do you wonder why healthcare costs so much and where does the money go? Think about what the increase in administrative and support staff has added to the cost of any procedure or hospital stay.

For many years, women have been told that PMS was not a real thing. Many women, in particular those who consider themselves to be feminists, were offended by the cultural messages that seemed to dismiss and diminish women as being hormonally imbalanced and emotionally unstable and unpredictable because they had periods.

Regular or mild depression is what most of us get. There are treatments for this, and we often improve, although it usually takes a couple of weeks of taking the anti-depressant before it begins to work, and we feel better. If that drug does not work, then you have to let it all get out of your system and try another, then wait a couple of weeks to see if it is the one that will work for you.

Dr. Maupin’s office, BioBalance Health, is a specialty practice that focuses on the replacement of hormones. As we age, we tend to make fewer and fewer of the critical hormones. We have found that if we can replace these natural hormones with bioidentical ones, we can improve our health as we age and a void many of the illnesses and chronic problems of old age.

In April of 2019 the magazine Scientific American was focused on women’s health relative to child birth and pregnancy. We read these articles and found them to be less scientific than we had hoped with regard to the research and data. Most of the articles were focused on summaries of studies that journalists were reporting on. The opinions seemed more relevant to the agendas of the individual journalists. However, as we read them, we realized that their concerns were also our concerns.

In recent weeks we have focused on short term concerns that some women have about replacing their lost testosterone with pellets. This week we want to explore some of the information regarding more long -term concerns that sometimes arise.

Women hear about these concerns, but rarely do they experience the symptoms. But women talk about the possibility, and they are anxious about having these things happen.

Dr. Maupin delivered a lecture at a recent international medical convention. Her focus in the lecture was on using the pellet method to replace Testosterone in women. There are any number of ways that testosterone can be replaced and over the years, Dr. Maupin has used all of them in her practice. But over time, she has gradually reached the conclusion that there is one best method of delivery, and that is to use bioidentical pellets that are inserted under the skin of the hip or buttocks.

A lot of the doctors who attended the conference use other delivery methods for replacing hormones. Dr. Maupin has tried all of the delivery methods and has found that all of them have drawbacks and problems that do not exist with the pellet method. The pellets provide an on -demand system of replacement as your body needs the hormones provided by the pellet. These are bio-identical pellets the body does not see or treat them differently than your original hormones.

After menopause, estrogen is a preventative for stroke, heart disease, cancer, frailty, and many other situations that can shorten a woman’s life. While women not yet in menopause are less at risk than men are for a number of life -threatening illnesses.

Patients frequently ask about the price of bioidentical pellet replacement of their lost hormones. They are interested in trying to compare the cost of this procedure against other hormone replacement strategies both in terms of the financial cost and the medical issues involved.

This week, we want to discuss the alternatives that are out there and identify any side effects or concerns that might arise from using those methods instead of using pellets.