
Lab-guided bioidentical hormone therapy for women and men, and the foundation when levels have drifted.
Bioidentical HRT
“I just don't feel like myself” is a real clinical complaint: fatigue that sleep doesn't fix, brain fog, flat mood, low libido, workouts that stopped paying off. Past a certain age it gets dismissed as just aging. Frequently, it's hormones, and hormones can be measured.
We start with comprehensive labs, not guesses. Where levels have drifted, bioidentical replacement restores them; peptides and IV therapy support the systems around them.


Everything starts with comprehensive labs, because “I don’t feel like myself” has too many possible causes to guess at. Hormones are chemical messengers — thyroid, testosterone, estrogen, and their colleagues set your energy, mood, sleep, and drive — and when levels drift with age, the systems they run drift with them. Bioidentical replacement restores those levels to where your body functioned well, using hormones structurally identical to your own, dosed to your labs rather than to an average.
The supporting layers work around that foundation. Peptides are short signaling molecules that nudge specific systems — sleep quality, recovery, body composition — and they layer onto a balanced hormonal baseline rather than substituting for one. IV therapy is the immediate lane: hydration and vitamins delivered directly, for a same-day lift while the slower hormonal work takes hold over weeks.

The tradeoff here is speed versus depth. IV therapy helps today and fades in days — useful, but it treats the afternoon, not the cause. Hormone replacement works on the actual driver, and that takes patience: weeks to begin feeling different, a few months to know where you’ve landed, with follow-up labs confirming the dose is right rather than assuming it. Peptides sit in between, building their effects over a protocol.
This is medicine, so it runs like medicine: screening and baseline labs before anything is prescribed, periodic retesting after, and dosing that adjusts to your results — not a subscription you set and forget. Budget for an ongoing relationship with monitoring built in. What the consultation decides is whether hormones are actually your story; sometimes the labs say something else entirely, and finding that out is precisely the point of measuring before treating.
Listed in the order we most often recommend them. Your consultation decides which actually fits your skin, goals, and downtime.
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Medically reviewed by Barbara Kowalczyk, FNP‑BC and Michael Fressola, ACNP‑BC, board-certified nurse practitioners at Skin Med Spa. This page is for education and is not a substitute for a personalized medical consultation.