Your Hormones Deserve Personal Care

22 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube video, Lindsey Burwell highlights a prevalent issue among young women seeking hormone therapy: many are subjected to a cookie‑cutter approach to testosterone prescribing, which often results in undesirable side effects such as excessive hair growth and mood instability. The conversation underscores that hormone optimization is not a one‑size‑fits‑all process and that many providers lack the specialized training required for effective hormone management. The co‑speaker stresses the importance of follow‑up appointments within 4–6 weeks to assess blood hormone levels, specifically progesterone, free testosterone, and total testosterone, as these metrics are crucial for safe and effective treatment before menopause.

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There's a lot of young women that I work with who will go to a hormone doctor. It feels like there's almost like a cookie-cutter approach to getting on testosterone, and then they don't have good results and reactions. They're getting hair everywhere. They're feeling crazy.
Well, it's definitely not one size fits all. And so it's very important. And not all providers that do prescribe hormones are trained in hormone optimization. If they haven't scheduled you to come back in 4 to 6 weeks for blood levels, yeah, they're really off. We need to know. where the progesterone level is, what the free and total testosterone is, because that's what happens long before menopause. Mm-hmm.