If you’ve begun or are considering starting a weight management plan, it’s important that you also have your hormones evaluated. Your inability to achieve your goal weight may be directly linked to your hormones. At our MacMed Spa locations in Hopedale, Milford, and Framingham, MA, we offer pellet therapy to help patients accelerate weight loss and improve their body compositions.
Can Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy Aid in Weight Management?
One of the most common symptoms of a hormonal imbalance is the inability to lose weight. If you’ve been trying different fad diets or exercise regimens to lose stubborn fat and reduce your body weight but haven’t been successful, your hormones may be to blame. A healthy diet and regular exercise can contribute to weight loss, but if your hormones are imbalanced, that scale won’t budge.
Imbalanced hormones can cause your body to hold onto excess fat and prevent you from losing weight. Once you undergo treatment with bio-identical hormones, you’ll start to see that weight fall off.
How a Hormonal Imbalance Affects Weight Loss
Hormonal imbalances affect more than just your hormones; they can affect every other bodily system. Certain hormones send your body hunger signals and promote healthy weight loss and overall weight management. When these hormones are imbalanced, you may feel hungrier more often overeat, which will cause weight gain or prevent you from losing weight and body fat.
Hormones can also affect how your body stores fat and prevent you from experiencing fat loss despite your best efforts. When you get your hormones back into proper balance, you’ll see results from your healthy diet and regular workouts. Losing weight and decreasing your body fat percentage will be easier because your body will respond exactly how it should.
What Is Pellet Therapy?
We use hormone pellets to balance the hormone levels of men and women suffering from hormone deficiency. Pellet therapy uses the hormones found in natural plants to balance hormones without side effects.
These pellets provide a consistent and sustained delivery of hormones directly through the bloodstream throughout the day. Your body will use as much of the hormone pellet as it needs to ensure you achieve and maintain a state of hormonal balance until you undergo a follow-up treatment.
What Are Hormone Pellets?
Hormone pellets are tiny pellets that are smaller than a grain of rice, and contain either estrogen or testosterone derived from natural plant sources. During treatment, they are administered into the fatty tissue just below the skin’s surface. They are customized with the exact dosage each patient needs to address their unique deficiency.
The Benefits of a Pellet Therapy Treatment Plan
Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy is a treatment that uses hormones that are bio-identical to the ones the body creates to restore balance to the hormonal system.
When your hormones are imbalanced, your body will let you know there’s an issue with signals in the form of symptoms. Some symptoms can affect men and women, while others are specific to men and women. By supplementing the hormones that the body lacks, this treatment process reduces symptoms, including the following most common ones:
- Frequent headaches or migraines
- Irritability
- Sexual dysfunction
- Vaginal dryness
- Pain during intercourse
- Erectile dysfunction
- Low libido
- Decreased quality skin and hair
- Hair loss
- Insomnia
- Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
- Low energy levels
- Fatigue
- Emotional imbalances
- Anger, anxiety, or depression
- Moodiness
- Inability to gain or maintain muscle mass
- Inability to lose weight
- Acne
How Does the Treatment Process Work?
The pellet therapy treatment process begins with an initial consultation. We’ll request bloodwork to identify your deficiency and customize your hormone pellet dosage accordingly. During your consultation, we’ll discuss your symptoms, answer any questions you have about the treatment process, confirm your eligibility, and then schedule your appointment.
The Treatment
When you arrive for your treatment, we’ll cleanse your skin in an area on the buttocks or hip, make a nearly invisible incision into the skin, insert the tiny pellet, and then close it with a small suture. The entire process only takes a few minutes, and then you can resume most of your normal daily activities. You will need to follow some specific aftercare instructions, including avoiding lower body workouts for the first few days so the incisions can heal.
You’ll also need to avoid submerging the incision site in water for the first few days. We will provide complete aftercare instructions once your appointment is over so you know exactly how to promote the best results after your treatment.
How Long Will It Take To Lose Weight?
After you begin a customized pellet therapy treatment plan, you’ll notice a reduction in your symptoms and successful weight management. Most patients begin to see the positive effects of balanced hormones on their weight within the first few weeks of treatment.
Am I a Good Candidate?
If you can’t lose weight and your hormones are to blame, you may be the perfect candidate for a customized bio-identical hormone replacement therapy treatment plan. This treatment process can help you successfully achieve your weight management goals and improve your physique without requiring that you further reduce your calories or schedule additional workouts.
The best candidates are men and women suffering from a hormone imbalance who want to achieve balance, alleviate negative symptoms, and experience all the anti-aging benefits of the treatment process. Regardless of your age or the severity of your deficiency, we can design the right treatment plan to help you achieve and maintain a state of hormonal balance.
Balance Your Hormones, Lose Weight, and Improve Your Quality of Life
If you’ve been frustrated by your inability to lose body fat and reduce your weight, a pellet therapy treatment plan may be the simplest and most effective solution. Weight management can be as simple as balancing your hormones. We can give you more details about pellet therapy, how it works, and whether it’s right for you. Contact us today at one of our MacMed Spa locations in Hopedale, Milford, or Framingham, MA, to schedule your initial consultation.
