The Woman's Health Pavilion has continued Dr. Brown's partnership with Hormone Therapy Centers of America (HTCA) as  Certified Providers in order to offer another treatment option to his patients suffering the many and varied symptoms associated with hormone imbalances and deficiencies. While characteristic of the years leading up to and past menopause, women of any age can be affected.

Considerable information is available on the HTCA website, but the basic concept is to provide hormone supplementation  via pellets placed beneath the skin where they are gradually absorbed into the system over several months. HTCA provides clinical support, management guidelines, and quality oversight, so that we can provide care that is safe, up-to-date, and cost effective.

Pellet therapy offers the advantage of hormones identical to what your body makes ("bioidenticals") delivered in a gradual and steady manner. It avoids the "first pass" processing by your liver which interferes with accurately measuring and managing hormone levels and which contributes significantly to the known risks of oral hormones. Further, while we have long known that women can benefit from small amounts of testosterone, delivering it in a controlled and limited manner has been difficult, and pellets are an elegant solution to this problem.

If you would like to investigate this option, please contact the office for an appointment for a baseline symptom review and exam, baseline laboratory tests, and a detailed discussion of your options with one of our certified providers.