by Jim Paoletti, BS Pharmacy, FAARM, FIACP – Director of Education | Power2Practice There appears to be many assumptions, questions and concerns surrounding the use of testosterone therapy in women. It has been written that testosterone is a male hormone, that its only benefit to women is to increase sex drive, and that testosterone therapy will result… Read More »
Continuous Bleeding & The Progesterone Challenge
by Jim Paoletti, BS Pharmacy, FAARM, FIACP – Director of Education | Power2Practice Continuous menstrual flow is a problem that you may encounter with some peri-menopausal patients. It results from too much proliferation from the action of estrogen on the uterus, compared to a lack of action by progesterone. Common causes are low progesterone production, high estrogen… Read More »
Converting Patients to BHRT from Conventional Therapies
by Jim Paoletti, BS Pharmacy, FAARM, FIACP Determining dosages and managing symptoms in patients who want to covert from conventional therapies to bioidentical therapy can be one of the most difficult challenges facing the BHRT practitioner. Conventional therapies and dosages provide too much hormone, even if the manufactured product being used contains bioidentical hormone rather… Read More »
PODCAST: Clinical Considerations for Topical Hormones
by Jim Paoletti, BS Pharmacy, FAARM, FIACP – Director of Education | Power2Practice In this 11-minute in-depth podcast, hormone therapy expert, Jim Paoletti, talks about administration of topical hormones, including how to choose the site of application, unique pharmacokinetic considerations, and the best testing methods to use. Click the arrow below to listen… This Podcast is Brought to You by… Read More »
PODCAST: Interactions Between Estrogen & Progesterone
by Jim Paoletti, BS Pharmacy, FAARM, FIACP – Director of Education | Power2Practice In this 5-minute podcast, hormone therapy expert, Jim Paoletti, talks (in-depth) about the interactions between estrogen and progesterone and suggests a great textbook for reference. Click the arrow below to listen… Jim Paoletti will be a featured presenter at a two-day workshop focused on BHRT… Read More »
PODCAST: Functional Hormone Balance
by Jim Paoletti, BS Pharmacy, FAARM, FIACP – Director of Education | Power2Practice In this 30-minute podcast, Jim Paoletti talks about functional hormone balance by addressing the symptoms of hormone imbalance, including the factors that affect hormones, from a Functional Medicine perspective. Click the arrow below to listen… Jim Paoletti will be a featured presenter… Read More »
PODCAST: High Cortisol Interactions
by Jim Paoletti, BS Pharmacy, FAARM, FIACP – Director of Education | Power2Practice Cortisol is the chief disruptor of the endocrine system, because it affects production and/or function of every other endocrine hormone. Chronic stress causes multiple metabolic issues such as advanced aging and multiple disease states. In this podcast, Jim Paoletti talks about the effects of chronic high cortisol… Read More »
PODCAST: Thyroid Hormone Interactions
by Jim Paoletti, BS Pharmacy, FAARM, FIACP – Director of Education | Power2Practice Small but mighty, the thyroid gland affects myriad bodily functions. When thyroid function is suboptimal, nearly all hormone function becomes suboptimal as well. In this podcast, you will get a brief rundown of how thyroid hormone interacts with other hormones, how hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may affect… Read More »