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”
At Wellness Culture, we reject that narrative.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A lot of women come in thinking they just need to push through it. Poor sleep, irritability, anxiety, brain fog, weight changes; sometimes it is lifestyle, sometimes stress, but often hormones are part of the picture. Labs and your symptom history together help us figure that out instead of guessing.
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No. Hormone shifts can start years before menopause. I see women in their 30s and early 40s who feel completely different than they used to and don’t know why. We don’t treat age, we treat what’s happening in your body.
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Safety comes from being individualized and monitored. The goal isn’t to push levels high, it’s to restore balance so your body functions normally again. We follow symptoms and labs over time and adjust when needed.
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Yes. Hormones should never be started blindly. Labs give us a baseline so treatment is specific to you and so we know how your body responds after starting.
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Some women notice sleep and mood improving first. Energy, strength, and body composition changes usually come more gradually over the next few months as your body stabilizes. It’s not overnight, but it should feel progressive.
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The goal is the opposite! To help your body regulate normally again. Hormones affect metabolism, muscle maintenance, and appetite signals. When balanced appropriately, many women find it easier to maintain or improve body composition with their usual habits.
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It depends on symptoms, but commonly estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, thyroid markers, and metabolic markers. We’re not chasing one number, we’re looking at how the system works together.
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No. Many women seek care during perimenopause when things first start changing and they don’t feel like themselves anymore. You don’t have to wait until menopause to address it.
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Yes, telehealth visits are available across Kansas. Labs can still be arranged locally so we can monitor properly.
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More frequently at the beginning while we dial things in, then periodically to make sure you continue feeling well and levels stay appropriate. The goal is consistency, not constant adjustments.