Research notes

Hormones move in cycles.
Replacement should too.

Static dosing flattens a system that was designed to rise and fall. Rhythmic replacement respects the design.

The problem with flat dosing

Conventional replacement gives the same dose every day. The ovary never did that. Receptors downregulate, symptoms creep back, and the answer is usually more.

Rhythmic replacement

Estradiol and progesterone dosed to mimic a physiologic cycle: rising, peaking, falling. Receptor sensitivity is preserved. Sleep, mood, cognition and body composition respond in ways flat dosing rarely delivers.

Who it is for

Perimenopause, menopause, surgical menopause, and the women in their thirties whose labs are normal and who feel anything but.

Who leads it

Elaine Marquez Mortensen, ND, medical director. She draws the labs herself, reads the whole panel, and follows the cycle month by month.

Educational. Not medical advice. Treatment decisions are made by a licensed clinician with the patient. Nothing here describes a product as approved by any regulator.

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