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Treatments

Bioidentical HRT

Lab-guided hormone therapy for the years when your own levels drift, monitored continuously by board-certified nurse practitioners.

Hormone replacement therapy consultation at Skin Med Spa

Wondering about
your hormones?

What is
bioidentical HRT?

Hormones are the body’s operating system, and when estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone drift with age, the symptoms are unmistakable: broken sleep, flat energy, mood swings, stubborn weight, and a fog where focus used to be.

Bioidentical hormone replacement restores those levels using hormones molecularly identical to your own, in doses set by your labs rather than a standard chart.

The process is genuinely medical: comprehensive testing first, an unhurried review of results and history, then careful dosing with follow-up labs to verify what you feel is what the numbers show.

Hormone care rewards precision and patience. Our nurse practitioners provide both, along with the honesty to tell you when hormones are not the culprit.

Comprehensive testing establishes your actual levels before anything is prescribed.

Bioidentical hormones match your body's own, processed the way nature intended.

Perimenopause, menopause, and male testosterone decline are all treated here.

Follow-up labs and symptom reviews keep dosing accurate as your body responds.

Lab-guided dosingBioidentical hormonesWomen and menBoard-certified NPsOngoing monitoringHonest candidacy

When you stopped feeling like yourself, the labs can say why.

Symptoms overlap; labs don't lie. Testing comes first here, and if your levels are healthy, your provider will tell you that plainly and help you look elsewhere.

Sleep Fell Apart

Night sweats and 3 a.m. wakeups are classic signals of hormonal drift.

Energy and Mood Flattened

When rest doesn't restore you and patience runs thin, levels deserve a look.

The Body Stopped Responding

Workouts that once worked and diets that once delivered losing their effect is hormonal math.

You Want Numbers, Not Guesses

Lab-verified treatment suits patients who prefer evidence over experimentation.

Aging is
inevitable.

Feeling depleted
isn’t.

Bioidentical hormones are molecularly identical to the ones your body produces, rather than synthetic near-matches. Your body recognizes and processes them the same way it handles its own.

You don't have to guess; that's what the lab work is for. Comprehensive testing measures your actual levels, and your provider reads them against your symptoms before any therapy is discussed.

No. Perimenopausal women often benefit earliest, and men with declining testosterone experience their own version of the drift: fatigue, mood changes, and lost strength. Both are treated here.

Many patients notice sleep and energy improving within a few weeks, with fuller effects over two to three months as levels stabilize. Follow-up labs verify the progress objectively.

Safety depends on proper candidacy, dosing, and monitoring, which is exactly why our program is built around labs and follow-up rather than one-size prescriptions. Your provider reviews your personal and family history candidly, including when HRT is not advisable.

Where to next?

Book your visit at Skin Med Spa in Downers Grove

Yourself again,
verified by labs.

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.