A patient writes:
So I think that hormone therapy is not useful, since all laboratory values are normal and I do not want to artificially influence values that are within the normal range.
This is a common fallacy! The reference values of the laboratories are clearly too broad from an anti-aging point of view (all hormone levels in both healthy and diseased 20- to 80-year-olds are collected and a central range is defined statistically) and disregard the age-related decrease in hormone production.
For instance, the values of testosterone or HGH could be fallen by half since the age of 25 and would still be “normal” according to the laboratory reference values because, of course, they are still better than those of 80-year-olds. This reduction by 50 percent would be responsible for a large part of the symptoms of “aging”, which should be treated with bioidentical hormones (BHRT).
DDr. Heinrich, MD