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The Guide to Surviving Menopause with Solutions Functional & Hormone Medicine

Brain fog, anxiety, depression, hair loss, weight gain, poor memory, insomnia, hot flashes, and fatigue… especially fatigue!!

Ladies, do these symptoms sound familiar to you? If they do, chances are, you’re experiencing the symptoms of hormone decline, something every woman has dreaded since they had to help their mom rip her jacket off before she died of heat stroke. “Mom is being so dramatic” you may have thought, until you wake up in the middle of the night, skin and internal organs ablaze. When it hits, it hits hard, ladies: Menopause.

While menopause can create some of the most uncomfortable times of your life, you don’t have to let it rule your life. Luckily, Mandi Snell, nurse practitioner and owner of Solutions Functional & Hormone Medicine/IV Vitamin Bar, is here to give us the inside scoop on how menopause affects your body, and how she can help you get your life back!

“Our mission is to offer an alternative and highly effective solution to the human condition to which we are all appointed: hormone decline,” says Mandi. “Symptoms of hormone decline are vast for both men and women and can begin as early as the 3rd decade of life.” Oftentimes, these symptoms are misunderstood and treated ineffectively with measures such as antidepressants, sleeping medications, and anti-inflammatories to name a few.

Menopause is associated with estrogen hunger, which causes the cessation of menstrual cycles, hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and many of the other typical symptoms a woman experiences in her 5th decade. Although, what most people don’t know, is that estrogen is actually the last to go in a series that begins with a decrease of testosterone in the 3rd decade, followed by the decrease of progesterone production in the 4th decade. Mandi explained to us that these declines can be incredibly disruptive to the lives of women, being responsible for poor mental health, poor libido, joint pain, severe fatigue, and so much more. And that is even before you actually enter the stage known as menopause!

Progesterone is our “happy hormone” and without it, you can feel crabby and neurotic. Though it’s associated largely with pregnancy support, progesterone is a great fix for insomnia, headaches, depression, anxiety, and so on. “We include ourselves as progesterone-loving, middle aged ladies whose lives (and households, and workplace, and relationships) benefit from daily, superaffordable, oral-available, bio-identical progesterone!” explains Mandi. Plus, progesterone is anti-aging, so we see no cons to all these pros! Next, on to Testosterone, or “the male hormone.” A widely misunderstood hormone, many women going through menopause don’t recognize how lifechanging it can be. Men we can do without, but give us all the testosterone! “Testosterone, when given in healthy, trace doses, is a life-giving mental health manager and menopausal friend,” says Mandi. “Around our office, we refer to these benefits as “The M’s”: Mood, Motivation, Memory, Mental Focus, Mojo (for the next time you need a more lady-like libido reference), and is a Malaise (fatigue) reliever!”

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is a treatment used to relieve the symptoms of menopause, but has an unnecessarily bad rap surrounding it. You may be saying, “But wait! Doesn’t HRT cause breast cancer and blood clots and strokes?!” Well, under the caring hand of Mandi, you can learn the truth about HRT and how it can help you during menopause. “In our clinic, we are an academically-driven, fact-checking, fact-finding think tank,” laughs Mandi. “We won’t offer you botox for anti-aging, but we will share our passion for getting your life back.”

To learn more about menopause, HRT, functional medicine, and how to get back to living your life, give Mandi a call!

The team at Solutions Functional & Hormone Medicine/IV Vitamin Bar is eager to help!

Visit www.solutionsivvitaminbar.com or call (859)251-6220 to connect today!