The Highs and Lows of Testosterone
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 2018-11-23

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We just got back from a conference of Age Management Medicine Specialists. We attend this conference every year. Doctors from around the world come to share with each other their knowledge and experience of age management medicine.

Dr. Maupin’s practice focuses on the use of testosterone and estrogen pellets. There are other ways to deliver these two hormones, but in her experience, pellets are by and far the best method for delivering the hormones to you. This has been both a scientific and trial and error experience for Dr. Maupin. She spends a lot of time with her patients discussing their symptoms and concerns and she watches the areas of concern that we call side effects very carefully.

Kathy wants to make her patients feel better. She wants them to experience symptom reduction. So, she does not try to put them on drugs and manipulate a dozen different data points. She has learned that HRT pellets work best for this goal. In order to make these determinations, Dr. Maupin has new patients get some lab tests and send the results to her before she ever takes a meeting with the patient. (or prospective patient) After looking at those data points she meets with the patient. She explains that she has looked at the labs and that the results are either within “range” or not. Range is what a layman would call normal. However, the complication arises from the fact that there is no real “normal” on the lab sheets from the two largest lab providers in the country. She does not get a number that is normal she gets a range of numbers where the patient might be fine.

The challenge is to determine the lowest level at which symptoms are relieved. Dr.’ are looking for what we call the sweet spot of testosterone where the patient feels good and his symptoms have declined, and he is healthy. She has learned through years of practice the delicate art of dosage control by looking at labs and interviewing the patient. She wants to know how they live their lives, their stress level, their sense of sexual energy, and other factors of their lifestyle (alcohol, exercise, other health concerns). Then she determines a dosage that her experience tells her will be the right amount for those individuals.