Dr. Shilpa Sayana warns against buying hormones online without a doctor. Hormones need individualized dosing and monitoring because wrong levels cause inflammation and bad lab results. She describes a patient whose high estrogen triggered systemic inflammation, showing why you need a licensed provider supervising your care.
Stop ordering hormones online. Hi, I'm Dr. Shilpa Sayana. I'm an internist and functional medicine MD in practice for over 15 years. More and more, I'm seeing patients come in on hormones that just clicked on a few buttons and ordered online. That's really dangerous 'cause hormones are not protein powder, and they need to be dosed and personalized to your body. One of my patients' estrogen was super high, and she was pretty inflamed and puffy, and had all these negative downstream impacts on her lab work and how she was feeling. Just due to this high level of hormone. I think it's amazing that hormones are so available, but don't get them online. Get them from a medically licensed provider, and please monitor them to make sure that they're safe for you and that you're feeling better on them. Follow for more.
