MULTIGEN WELLNESS HEALTH ARTICLE #32 – WHAT ARE THE 5 CORE THINGS A MALE SHOULD MANAGE DURING TRT OR HORMONE THERAPY
“My testosterone is low, and I need help. What else do I need to check or manage too?”
In the world of TRT, Hormone Therapy, HRT, Endocrinology…. There are soo many options!!! Most patients tell me when they sign up that it was overwhelming trying to figure out which direction to go when choosing a clinic to start therapy.
I am Joshua G. Crampton and I founded MultiGen Wellness Online Hormone Therapy. We help balance and then optimize the human hormone system. I think the favorite 2 parts of our therapy protocols is when a new patient has that “AHA Moment”, when we are doing our Labs, Interpretation Coaching Call and they finally have a scientific ANSWER to WHY they feel the way they are feeling. My Second favorite part of our treatment protocol is when a client tells me he “Finally had Morning Wood!” for the first time in years, or that he is feeling way better or sleeping better.
New patients will often ask “How long until I start feeling better?” I will always tell them: “The moment you have clarity about what’s wrong, and what to do to fix it!” The truth is that a new patient can start feeling better within 30 – 45 minutes of starting their first treatment. A man with low testosterone could start feeling better withing 4 – 7 days after starting treatment if it’s done right.
The way we approach the human body is very simple yet scientifically thorough. Our patients report to us that they love how simple our system is from how our billing works to how our therapy works.
THE BLUEPRINT:
I have a concept I like to call the “Human Blueprint.” Taking an engineer’s approach to the human body when it comes to the hormones, we look at the hormone system as a blueprint of the body’s hormonal physiological condition. The ironic symbolism is also the concept of “Inner world matches the outer world”. You hear this a lot in Life Coaching and Self-Help books. The truth about a human body is that the Hormone System IS a blueprint for the inner world of the body.
When I am looking at a blood report that has almost 50 panels listed, and I pick out 5 core levels that would be FOUNDATIONAL and bigger impacts than any of the 50. I would list these 5 core levels and our targeted values for men and women:
MEN:
- Testosterone (900 – 1,200 target range)
- Estrogen/Estradiol (12 – 20 target range)
- Hematocrit rate (40 – 44 target range)
- Cortisol (6 – 23)
- LH, FSH & TSH (LH 6 – 8.6IUL) (FSH 8 – 12.4IUL)
WOMEN:
- Testosterone (50 – 70)
- Estrogen/Estradiol (300 – 400)
- Progesterone (10 – 25)
- Cortisol (6 – 23)
- LH, FSH & TSH (LH 70 – 95) (FSH 15 – 21) (TSH 0.4 – 2 MIU)
These would be the first things I look at when looking at a chart to determine the wellness level of the patient. These are the upper end of the range for health indicators that we set as our targets for men and women. Once we achieve these base levels of balancing with our patients we are completed with the “Science” part of hormone therapy. We begin the phases of Optimization. This is where the Art of Hormone Therapy begins. With Hormone Therapy it all boils down to How the Patient Feels!
Balancing & Optimization:
Once we achieve this base balancing with these target ranges of each patient, we then focus on optimizing the patient and helping them to become far better than they could be with just their stock DNA Genetics.
We find with our patients that after we start getting their levels to match our target ranges, they start feeling better than they actually ever have felt. One patient said he felt stronger, and smarter now than he did in his 20’s. Before we can take the human body beyond its genetic limitations. We FIRST must reach those genetic limits to see where they are.
THE PLATEAUS:
We are looking to get our patient to a place where they say things are great and amazing and yet they have not felt better in a while. This is where the patient has evened out and it’s time to start optimizing. When the changes are new, they are very noticeable and present. After a few months the patients get synced in and comfortable in how they are feeling fully balanced. This is when we start introducing new treatments or enhancements or we start looking at ways to get the patient performing better than they ever have. The are numerous further testing we can do with patients beyond the hormone system. We have nutritional testing that includes heavy metals, we have nutritional DNA testing and many more ways to help our patients operate at their best.
THE JOURNEY:
When a patient signs up for therapy they are starting a new journey. They are beginning to take actions and steps towards their wellbeing. We often hear a patient say it took a log for them to get the will power to reach out, make calls, do research and finally get help. Par of the issue with hormone imbalances is that you suffer silently, and you suffer unknowingly. Most patients are only actually aware of 2-3 core symptoms. Once those 2-3 core symptoms get intolerable and too life disrupting, the patient will garner the willpower to get help.
The biggest problem with getting help and starting a new journey is figuring out where to actually start. There are TRT clinics on every street corner in the major cities and patients will feel overwhelmed until someone educates them correctly in a way that they can understand and then offers easy solutions that make reasonable sense.
We love starting new journeys with new patients.
Believe it or not, you CAN start feeling better within 1 hour of starting our treatments. Remember we offer free health consults if your curios about finding out more.
