Female Hormone Therapy
Women are too often told their symptoms are “normal,” something to push through, or simply part of getting older. Low energy, stubborn weight gain, brain fog, poor sleep, mood changes, and low libido are not a personal failure, and they’re not something you have to accept.
Women’s hormone replacement therapy is about restoring balance, resilience, and vitality by addressing what’s actually happening beneath the surface.
It’s time to take control of your aging process and start feeling better!
At Wellness Culture, we don’t guess and we don’t do one-size-fits-all protocols. We use data-driven lab testing, personalized hormone optimization, and lifestyle strategy to help women reclaim strength, clarity, and confidence at every stage of life. This is proactive healthcare, for women who want to feel powerful in their bodies again.
Hormone Changes Are Real
And So Are Your Symptoms
As women move through perimenopause and menopause, the body can experience up to 100 different symptoms as hormone levels begin to shift and decline. While every woman’s experience is unique, some of the most common symptoms include:
Hot flashes and night sweatsFatigue and low energyMood changes, anxiety, or depressionSleep disturbancesWeight gain and changes in body composition
Traditional healthcare often addresses these symptoms individually, prescribing medications to suppress or manage each one. While this approach may provide temporary relief, it often overlooks the root cause: hormonal imbalance.
Treating the Root Cause,
Not Just the Symptoms
The process begins with a phone consultation to discuss your health history, goals, and current concerns. During this call, we will also arrange for comprehensive laboratory testing.
Hormones like testosterone, estradiol and progesterone play a foundational role in nearly every system of the female body, including brain function, metabolism, bone health, cardiovascular health, and emotional well-being. When these hormones decline, symptoms aren’t random, they are signals.
Rather than masking symptoms with multiple medications, hormone optimization focuses on restoring balance. When estrogen and progesterone are thoughtfully and safely optimized, many of these symptoms can improve simultaneously, often reducing the need for multiple symptom-based prescriptions.
A Different Approach to Women’s Health
At Wellness Culture, we believe women deserve more than reactive care. By addressing the underlying hormonal shifts that occur during perimenopause and menopause, we help women regain energy, improve sleep, stabilize mood, support metabolic health, and move through this phase of life feeling strong, clear-minded, and in control.
This isn’t about “getting through” menopause, it’s about living optimally through every stage of life.
how it works
Once your labs are completed and results are received, you will be contacted to schedule an in-person visit to review your labs in detail and develop a personalized care plan tailored to your individual needs.
This program is not covered by insurance and is offered on a self-pay basis. Payment is due at the time of service and will be set up as recurring payments.
Estrogen Is Not the Enemy:
Separating Science From Decades of Misinformation
For decades, women have been taught to fear estrogen, told it causes cancer, stroke, and long-term harm. The science tells a different story.
Perimenopause and menopause are hormone-deficiency states, and estradiol, the primary estrogen your body naturally makes, plays a critical role in brain, bone, metabolic, and cardiovascular health. When prescribed in its bioidentical form and properly balanced with progesterone, estrogen is not dangerous, it is protective.
This article breaks down the misconceptions, explains the flaws of older studies that fueled fear, and reviews modern research on why estradiol matters as we age.
Progesterone
The Quintessential Hormone for the Female Body
For decades, estrogen has been positioned as the hormone of womanhood.
But the truth.. the kind we see clinically, biologically, and at the cellular level, is this:
Progesterone is the balancing hormone.
And without it, the female body does not feel safe, stable, or resilient.
Progesterone is not “just a pregnancy hormone.” It is a neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, pro-metabolic, anti-estrogenic, and anti-stress hormone that touches nearly every system in a woman’s body from the brain to the bones to the mitochondria.
At Wellness Culture, we see it over and over again: women are not just experiencing hormone deficiency, they are experiencing hormone imbalance, with progesterone depletion often playing a central role.
Testosterone in WOmen
Testosterone is not a “male hormone.”
It is a human hormone and women need it for strength, resilience, motivation, metabolic health, and vitality across the lifespan. Women naturally produce testosterone in the ovaries, adrenal glands, and peripheral tissues, and it plays a critical role in muscle preservation, bone density, energy production, mood, libido, and metabolic function.
Yet as women age, testosterone levels decline by 40–60% over a lifetime not only due to aging itself, but also due to chronic stress, hormonal suppression, oral contraceptives, endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), metabolic dysfunction, and inflammatory burden.
Women are often told…
“This is just aging”
“Your labs are normal”
“You should just accept it”
