A decline and imbalance of the naturally occurring sex hormones in women may many times lead to fatigue, night sweats, weight gain, headaches, loss of libido, osteoporosis, insomnia, diminished mental clarity, endometriosis, lack of energy or drive, fibrocystic breast disease, hot flashes and vaginal dryness.

Additionally, women who are still menstruating often complain of irregular menstrual cycles, heavier periods with cramping, premenstrual breast tenderness, mood swings, fluid retention and headaches when they have hormonal imbalance.

These symptoms are the inevitable result of the aging process when hormone levels typically decline. While estrogen and progesterone levels decline with age, progesterone declines much more rapidly resulting in estrogen dominance.

At the Hotze Health & Wellness Center, our approach is to treat this imbalance with natural, bio-identical hormones. Conventional medicine would have you believe there are only two options: surgery, usually a hysterectomy, or prescription drugs, most often counterfeit hormones that actually worsen the problem.