Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Maximizing Health Through Comprehensive Testing | Hormone Replacement vs Optimization

4 Jun 2025 · 0 min

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YouTube video by Aaron Hartman, MD about the value of comprehensive testing for assessing and optimizing patient health, illustrated with the speaker's personal experience in hormone optimization and training. The speaker notes that extensive testing aids assessment and tailoring care, and shares he spent six months in focused study during a personalized medicine fellowship at USF to better understand hormones.

The more information you have, the better off you're going to be at assessing this person's health, but also giving them what they need and then optimizing that. And the only caveat that would be just it becomes hard for the patient because, like, while my blood estrogen was low or undetectable. Yeah. But my salary level was high. It took me probably six months to really get a really good handle on this. I spent I'm working on a personalized medicine fellowship right now through USF and spent six months just taking a deep dive into all things hormone. And it was really interesting.