Dr. Todd Drexel Discusses Hormone Treatment
Watch Graves Gilbert Clinic Obstetrician and Gynecologist Dr. Todd Drexel discuss hormone replacement and the treatment he provides to help both females and males.
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My name is Dr. Todd Drexel and I'm an obstetrician/gynecologist and I've been with Graves Gilbert Clinic about 10 years now. Well I enjoy what I do here at Graves Gilbert Clinic for several reasons. As an obstetrician/gynecologist I'm lucky, I get to see babies come into the world almost every day and I get to watch that. I get to take care of those mothers after that and I watch those mothers transition through life, I've been here 10 years and I've seen a lot of these women come through this and I’m an obstetrician here, gynecologist here and that's really unique to our specialty area and I think I'm lucky to be doing that.
Well I have a keen interest in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Over the last probably 7 years that part of my practice has really expanded. I enjoy the challenges of that part of my specialty area, it's very unique, every patients very different in respect to their hormone management. Actually I treat ladies and men. The ladies it's those symptoms you get when your menopausal, it's the brain fog, it's not sleeping at night, it's the hot flashes and night sweats, memory issues, a lot of those things can get better if your hormones are balanced. Men do actually, they come to me, low testosterone, andropause is what that's called on the street and low testosterone levels and we help them get those back up into a normal range and guys, I don't know, they seem to think more clearly and everything's just better that way.
Well I think hormones do get a bad rap sometimes. There was a study back in 2001 that came out and we've since then decided that it was not a great study, but a lot of people still go back to that study because a ton of women came off of hormones after that study and that was horrible for those women because it's very hard to come off hormones. So since then I looked at what was in that study and I tried to do something that's kind of a different approach to things, using topical bioidentical hormones, not letting things go through the oral GI tract that in the liver and doing damage there.
That's I guess the misnomer that a lot of people have is that hormones are dangerous. You know with certain people I guess they could be, but for most the population they're pretty safe.
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