Natural Hormone Replacement Abc News 13

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Ever fear, feel tired, stressed out. Cranky. Are you gaining weight and can't figure out why do you think you're losing your mental edge? Well, the good news is you're probably not sick. The bad news is you're getting older, but in today's anti-aging breakthrough, a hormone replacement. Treatment that could. Stop father. Time in his tracks, Sharon. And Stephen Frank. Don't want to get old?

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Highly energetic a. Like always on the go, never wanting to.

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Stop. I used to work out six times a week. Don't work out quite as much as I used to. He's 51. Both have stayed in shape physically and mentally, but in the last year and a half, they've become. Tired, I would just say I feel like the.

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Blood sitting drained.

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From me. So do you find yourself with? Less coping skills. Maybe not quite as sharp. There's days I go out there and I feel. Very dull, a little bit of depression, a little tiredness. Thinking what?

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I need to get. Rid of this what's going on with me?

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It's the kind of thing Houston doctor Richard Laconi hears all the time when they.

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They could have energy to do something after work. Now they come home from work and pretty much just throw themselves down, you know, watch TV and. Go to bed so.

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Or is it just? Part of growing older. Doctor Laconia, certified in anti ageing medicine and believes. It doesn't have. To be that way.

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You can keep your vitality and and and preserve. Your health for. A lot longer than than we have. In the past.

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He says as we age. Part of the reason we begin to feel unromantic, stressed out, and tired all the time is because our hormones have become depleted.

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Every single person right will have. A A decline in. That hormone level and and and decline and the. Vitality that goes with.

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It happens to women and men, and it could explain what Sharon and Steven Frank have been feeling through a blood test, doctor Laconi finds that Stevens testosterone level is low, half of what it would be for a healthy 25 year old.

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Good afternoon, Sharon. Very good, real good. This has helping me time to understand what some of the problems are.

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And Sharon, her hormone levels are low as well.

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Your progesterone is. Virtually 0. It's down around, you know, point 8.9.

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That's bad. Doctor Laconi recommends testosterone cream for both.

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You're just going to love it and really good.

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Oestrogen cream for. Sharon and several other hormone supplements, they'll each take by mouth. It's called natural hormone replacement therapy, not a new idea in the medical community, but something that's become more common.

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If your doctor isn't. Open to it, then find one that is.

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The Franks will have to take the hormones every day for the rest of their lives, and it won't be cheap. So I'm looking at about 100 and.

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$50.00 a month for all. Of these products, that's correct.

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They agreed to. Try it for a couple of weeks and in our next report we'll find. Out if they. Feel a difference? You'll also see what happens when I get my hormone levels tested. Give me the gas and go for it. So be sure to tune the money for that. Also, if you've been feeling some of the symptoms we talked about, log on to our website at abc13.com and take a quiz. It could help. You decide if natural hormone replacement therapy is something for you. I volunteered. I know. I'll.

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I know well how big of you, Don.

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Yeah, right. Well, you know, it's it's one of those. Like Mikey triumphs, you know?

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So you're gonna do the.

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