Hormone Therapy Can Prevent Disease for the Elderly: Interview with Dr. Cheryl Perlis, M.D.

In a recent interview with Dr. Cheryl Perlis, M.D., we learned a lot about the benefits of hormone therapy and supplements in preventing everything from serious diseases like dementia and heart disease, as well as preventing more common every day symptoms like fatigue, weight gain, sleeping difficulties, and thinning hair.

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How can hormone therapy be used to target different ailments in elder care patients?

Hormone therapy has many benefits for people of all ages, and especially the elderly.  It all depends on their complaints.  Vitamin b-12 deficiencies are very common and associated with dementia, fatigue, and poor learning, among other serious conditions like osteoporosis and heart disease which develop more commonly as we age. Many elderly suffer from symptoms related to all of the medications they have been prescribed by their doctors. For example the statins, commonly known as Lipitor, lowers your cholesterol.  Lowering cholesterol can cause you to decrease all the other hormones you need to function like testosterone. Low testosterone leads low muscle mass, fatigue, depression, anemia. This is just one example.

By taking supplements and low dose hormones, as well as having thyroid checks, many symptoms of aging can be alleviated. Problems with the thyroid can also be linked to dementia. In fact, 60% of the population is low on their thyroid hormones which are responsible for maintaining the major systems of the body, and 96% of the population is deficient in iodine, which helps the thyroid.