– Why do women seek treatment at ReacTEvate / Optima Medical Care?
Many women who are undergoing menopause and even perimenopause, which occurs ten years before menopause, experience a number of physical and psychological symptoms which are disconcerting to them. These various symptoms, which can be unique to each patient, include but are not limited to:

• Hot Flashes
• Loss of Libido (a diminished sex drive), which can be accompanied by a generalized dryness to the vagina making sexual intercourse painful and undesirable.
• Increase in Body Fat, especially in the abdomen and hips.
• Loss of Skeletal Muscle, especially in the arms and legs, resulting in generalized weakness, and a decreased desire to work out resulting in a cascade of
  physical and psychological ailments.
• Migraine Headaches
• Anxiety, Depression, and a general uneasiness of their physical and mental health
• Insomnia and poor overall sleep
• Loss of Concentration, Memory Loss, & Overall Decreased Cognition and Poor
• Mental Functioning Compared to how a woman’s brain functioned just a few years earlier.
• Chronic Fatigue, Muscle Aches and Cramps.

To fully answer this question, let’s discuss and define menopause. Menopause, which is the cessation – or stopping – of the normal, typically monthly, menstrual cycles. By its definition, Menopause occurs one year from the date of a woman’s last menstrual cycle; most women experience menopause in their 40’s or early to mid 50’s with 51 being the average age of menopause. A simple search of menopause on the internet will describe it almost certainly in terms of its physical and psychological symptoms, frequently emphasizing that this is a natural part of the aging process. What is seldom discussed on a superficial search of menopause online is the fact that what really is occurring during menopause is first a decrease in the amount of testosterone produced by a woman and then a decrease in the amount of progesterone produced by a woman. Once a woman enters menopause her body will never revert back to producing normal amounts of testosterone and progesterone, levels she made ten and twenty years ago. With these low levels of testosterone and progesterone, the myriad of symptoms described above. Woman choose to come to ReacTEvate / Optima Medical Care to safely and effectively attempt to stop these physical and psychological symptoms which greatly limit the quality of life of a woman undergoing menopause.

Many women experience the previously described symptoms of menopause(such as decreased libido, vaginal dryness, decreased mental acuity, depression and anxiety) as early as ten years prior to menopause. This ten year window prior to the actual cessation of monthly menstrual periods is known as the perimenopausal period. Many perimenopausal women are successfully treated at ReacTEvate / Optima Medical Care to stop or greatly control the above described symptoms well before menopausal symptoms occur.
Perimenopausal, Menopausal, and Post-Menopausal women all benefit from treatments provided by the specialized physicians at ReacTEvate / Optima Medical Care.

At ReacTEvate, our physicians, who are experts on proper hormonal therapy, assess each patient thoroughly and individually. We begin with an in depth physical exam and the obtaining of a detailed medical history. We also have your blood drawn and sent to a clinical laboratory which assesses for specific lab values not typically obtained in an annual or routine physical examination. Once your ReacTEvate physician has received the results of your blood test, your doctor will personally go over all your lab results. Then, based on our individually-tailored treatment plan, your doctor will discuss with you in detail if you might be a candidate for bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.

For woman who demonstrate low levels of testosterone, lower then what she had 10, 20, or 30 years ago, your doctor will discuss with you the benefits of receiving hormonal treatments. At ReacTEvate we use, plant-based, bioidentical hormones which are structurally the same as the hormones which your body used to make. At ReacTEvate, our doctors use small pellets which are slightly larger than a grain of rice. These are painlessly placed near your hip by a brief, sterile medical procedure performed by our experienced physicians.

At ReacTEvate our expert staff understands that each woman is unique and that if she is a candidate for bioidentical hormone therapy her results may vary. That being said, the vast majority of our women who are treated at ReacTEvate experience excellent results, with very few if any side effects. Following the placement of bioidentical hormone pelleting many of our patients will experience any or all of the following benefits:

• Increased Libido (increase in sex drive)
• Reverse or Eliminate Menopausal-Associated Depression & Anxiety
• Increase your Level of Energy
• Decrease Body Fat (Lipids), especially from the abdomen, hips, and upper thighs.
• Increase amount of Skeletal Muscle, especially in the arms and legs.
• Delay the Symptoms of Aging which are brought on by Menopause.
• Strengthen your Immune System
• Look and Feel Younger
• Improve Mobility
• Increase Your Physical Stamina
• Sleep Better, Decreasing Your Insomnia
• Protect Against Osteopenia and Osteoporosis(both of which can result in fractures)
• Protect Against Heart Disease(Cardiovascular Disease)
• Improved Mental Aptitude, including improved Memory, Concentration, & Alertness
• Protection Against Diabetes
• Generally Feel and Look Younger and Healthier