Women’s Health

Finding balance

PMS & Menopause

Especially for women, it is all about the balance. Hormones are often not balanced because phospholipids are not balanced. To that end, we offer fatty acid testing through Kennedy Kreiger at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

Women often balance jobs and raising children, all the while finding time to tend to household duties and squeeze in time for the gym. That’s enough to break anyone. Their adrenals are shot. Their nutrients, and hormones are low from the work outs, and stress of ‘modern life’. People chalk it up to aging as to why women are so run down. Its not the aging process, it unrecognized hormonal decline and/or nutritional deficiency and/or environmental factors which leads to low energy and looking old.

We speak in easy to understand language, not in “technical noise.” We address many common complaints that women have such as:

• hot flashes

• night sweats

• irritable/ mood changes

• low energy

• weight gain

• not sleeping throughout the night

• vaginal dryness (we now offer a vaginal pill to increase lubrication as well as more commonly known treatments to reverse this common and easily treated problem)

• low or no libido (sexual desire)

• decreased strength of orgasm (ask us about oxytocin treatments)

• more forgetful

• chronic stress (that can lead to adrenal fatigue)

• PMS symptoms

• menopausal symptoms

• fibromyalgia

• bone loss, and much more!

We use bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, and often use of a compounding pharmacy. The use of a compounding pharmacy allows for tailoring of the dosage of medicine that is optimal for you. Estrogen is vital for preservation of brain function and to avoid Alzheimer’s Disease: Read Article. 

We can help you lower your cholesterol without a prescription medicine. If you have diabetes we can offer you new treatment options. Trouble sleeping? Chronic stress? We can help.

Always low in iron and no blood loss source found? It may be from Lead toxicity. We do testing for toxic heavy metals. Lead disturbs heme synthesis (that is the making of red blood cells) leading to anemia.

Do you suffer from Fibromyalgia? We offer treatment for this issue, including the use of oxytocin to decrease muscle pain.

Check out Preconception Medicine for those of you who are considering becoming pregnant. Ideally, this work should be done a year in advance for having the best chance of having a healthy baby.

If  you have PMS symptoms, or if you  are in Menopause, or in Peri-Menopause, and have symptoms, Dr. Bieley can help. The safest way of doing this work is to test you, then treat you, and then retest you with the goal of balancing your hormones and making you symptom free. You have to test, you can not guess. A surgeon in the surgical intensive care unit once said, “We don’t do by guess and by golly hemodynamics”. That was said in the 1970’s and still remains true.

Women need their hormones and they need them to be properly balanced. Menopause is equivalent to a partial lobotomy for women. Menopause is the loss of an entire hormone system.

The Benefits: become stress resilient, improved energy, memory, mobility, mood, vision, hair, skin, sleep, and libido. This leads to a better quality of life.   Menopause can be the best time of a woman’s life if she is hormonally sound (just don’t forget exercise and good nutrition).

Genetic Testing

Concerned with breast cancer? We offer Estrogen Metabolism Gene Testing to every woman at the outset, prior to starting any hormone therapy. If you are at risk for breast cancer we can guide you with nutritional supplements and lifestyle changes to create a ‘metabolic workaround’ so that you avoid getting breast cancer (see Gene testing section). Approximately 85-90% of the breast cancers are environmentally influenced and can be prevented through nutrition, lifestyle changes, and detoxification.    We offer environmental toxins testing as pesticides have been linked to breast cancer. 

We offer nutritional testing as low levels of CoQ-10 have been associated with a several hundred fold increase in the rate of breast cancer.  Interestingly, a type of Vitamin E called tocotrienols, the annatto form of  mixed delta/gamma tocotrienols is best,  has been shown to raise CoQ-10 levels and  decrease the risk for many cancers including breast cancer. (Source: lecture by Barry Tan, Ph.D,  A4M conference, Las Vegas, 2012).

Peptide Therapies:

We have many peptide therapies to help you recover faster, improve your immune system, help you sleep better, reduce stress, and slow the pace of aging. See Peptide Therapies on our web site for more information.

Healthy Living and Longevity Medical Center is not a substitute for your primary care physician. We are a complement to your primary care doctor and specialist.

Bioidentical Hormone and Psychiatric Considerations:

It’s not a fun experience to be visited by the ‘Seven dwarves of menopause’ Suzanne Somers wrote about: itchy, bitchy, sweaty, bloaty, sleepy, forgetful, and all dried up! All the menopause symptoms are really a result of Progesterone deficiency. Supplementation of progesterone will help alleviate these symptoms. We look at all of the sex hormones, in addition to thyroid and adrenals, and by looking and treating the totality of your situation, we have the best chance of obtaining hormonal balance, and you feel like yourself again, symptom-free! God bless Suzanne Somers who recently died (10-15-23). The truth of her words stand immortal.

It typically takes six to nine months, in general, for hormone balance and replenishment to occur, and we monitor hormone levels every three months unless there is a special need for earlier testing.

Bio-identical hormone replacement therapy can improve many psychological and psychiatric issues such as: Autism Spectral Disorder, Sleep disorders, Burn-out Syndrome, improved Sexual Arousal, Depression, Slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, Irritability, Anxiety, Hypochondria,  Social Withdrawal, Bipolar disorders, and Schizophrenia. (See this section for psychological and psychiatric issues under Solutions).

We also never use oral estrogens, which can increase the risk of gallbladder issues, and they can alter your body lipids in an unfavorable direction. By sticking to topical application with estrogen creams, gels injections, or by putting the estrogen or estriol cream in the vagina, we are able to bypass the liver and avoid these problems. We also offer testosterone via creams, gels, or injections. Learn more about this on the Bioidentical Hormone Therapies page.