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Dr. Teofilo R. Sanchez, MD, FAAMM, ABAARM
Chief Medical Officer. Board certified in Anti-Aging Medicine by A4M, with 20+ years in primary and emergency care.
Hormone & Metabolic Health
Hormone & Metabolic Health Care at Home
Understand the hormonal and metabolic factors that may be contributing to how you feel.
Hormones and metabolism influence energy, weight, sleep, mood and many other aspects of daily well-being, but these experiences can have many causes, and symptoms rarely tell the whole story. THRYVE brings provider consultation, clinically appropriate testing and individualized care together through virtual care for eligible patients in Texas, North Carolina and South Carolina. Depending on the service, testing and specimen collection may be completed at home or through another appropriate collection arrangement.
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Understanding the connection
Understanding Hormone & Metabolic Health
Hormones act as chemical messengers involved in functions such as growth, reproduction, metabolism and stress response.
Metabolic health involves factors related to blood sugar regulation, lipid levels, energy use and other cardiometabolic processes.
Hormone Health
Hormones are involved in reproductive health, metabolism, growth, stress response and other functions throughout the body.
Metabolic Health
Metabolic health involves factors related to blood sugar regulation, lipid levels, energy use and cardiovascular health.
These systems can interact, but symptoms such as fatigue, weight changes, sleep disruption or mood changes may have many possible causes. Symptoms alone do not establish a hormonal or metabolic disorder. A provider considers your clinical history alongside appropriate testing to help determine whether hormone or metabolic factors may be involved and what, if anything, is appropriate to do next.
Areas Your Provider May Evaluate
What Your Provider May Evaluate
Depending on your symptoms, health history and clinical needs, your provider may consider evaluation across areas such as these. The specific tests ordered depend on your individual situation.
- Sex hormones: reproductive health, libido, mood and other functions in both men and women
- Thyroid function: how the thyroid is supporting metabolism, energy and temperature regulation
- Metabolic and blood sugar markers: how your body manages blood sugar and uses energy
- Cardiometabolic health: context about metabolic and cardiovascular health factors
- Nutritional factors: markers relevant to how you feel and function, where clinically appropriate
Treatment Options
Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Bioidentical hormones are hormones that are chemically identical to those the body produces. This category can include certain FDA-approved products as well as compounded preparations, so bioidentical does not automatically mean compounded.
When appropriate, BHRT may be considered as part of a provider-led plan based on clinical evaluation. Whether it is suitable depends on your health history, clinical findings and a discussion of the potential benefits, risks and alternatives with your provider.
Treatment Options
Testosterone Evaluation and TRT
When symptoms or clinical history raise a concern about testosterone levels, a THRYVE provider may recommend appropriate laboratory testing. Symptoms alone do not establish testosterone deficiency, and treatment is considered only after provider evaluation of relevant findings, potential benefits, risks and monitoring needs.
Where testosterone replacement therapy is appropriate, it is managed and monitored through virtual follow-up.
Treatment Options
Medical Weight Management
Medical weight management considers your health history, current medications, weight-related health risks, lifestyle factors and clinically appropriate testing.
When treatment is appropriate, a provider may recommend nutrition and lifestyle support, medication or other individualized next steps, with ongoing monitoring.
Treatment Options
Additional Provider-Managed Treatment Options
Certain patients may be eligible for additional provider-managed treatment options. Availability and appropriateness depend on the individual service, clinical evaluation and applicable requirements.
How it works
How THRYVE's Hormone and Metabolic Care Process Works
Virtual provider-led care with testing and specimen collection arranged when clinically appropriate.
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Virtual Consultation
Meet with a provider online to discuss your symptoms, health history and goals.
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Testing When Appropriate
Where clinically indicated, your provider orders testing suited to your individual situation.
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Provider Review
Your provider reviews your results in the context of your health history rather than in isolation.
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Treatment Decision
Discuss whether treatment is appropriate and, if so, what an individualized plan may include.
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Monitoring and Follow-Up
Your provider monitors your progress, with repeat testing where clinically appropriate.
THRYVE provides consultations, result review and follow-up through virtual care. Depending on the testing ordered and your location, specimen collection may be available at home through an eligible collection method or mobile phlebotomy. Certain testing or evaluation may require another collection arrangement or referral.
Provider-led care
Meet your care team
Hormone and metabolic evaluation is directed by a licensed THRYVE provider from the first consultation through follow-up. Visit the Care Team page to learn more about the providers who support THRYVE patients.
FAQs
Common questions about hormone and metabolic health care at THRYVE
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The rest of THRYVE's care
Every THRYVE service works together: advanced testing informs your plan, provider-led care keeps it moving, and at-home collection makes it practical to keep up with. Explore them all.
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