Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. We frequently treat patients from Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and more... offering the hope of healthier more abundant lives to those with chronic illness.
Female Hormonal Health
Reproductive Hormones
- Pre Menstrual Syndrome (PMS) and the symptoms that go with it
- Irregular Periods
- Menopause (when they drop too low)
- Perimenopause (as they are trending down)
- Menstrual Cramps
- Premenstrual Dysmorphic Disorder
- Ovulation and Fertility (and thus Infertility)
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovary Syndrome
Finding your balance and your optimal levels requires more than a prescription and a lab reference range that many providers stop at. Learning to listen to your body’s hints begins with someone to help you understand your body’s language.
Only then do we start therapies like:
- Anti-inflammatories to take the pressure off your hormones
- Herbals to help balance the ones you already have
- Gut and nutrition therapies so the ovaries have freedom to function
- AND then when necessary Bio-identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT / HRT)
Don’t settle for a simple prescription, guaranteed results, or a “don’t worry about the risks’ that you hear elsewhere. Definitely, don’t listen to the “you are just getting older, live with it.”
Hormones interact with the rest of our systems
We can help balance hormones.
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