BHRT SERIES - PART I Mastering the Protocols for Optimization of Hormone Replacement Therapy

BHRT SERIES - PART I Mastering the Protocols for Optimization of Hormone Replacement Therapy is organized by TruBalance Healthcare and will be held from Mar 20 - 22, 2020 at The Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Accreditation:
21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, 21 Nursing Contact Hours (21 Pharmacologic Hours) Accreditation by The Foundation For Care & Management, Centre for Learning & Change.

Course Description:
No other program includes the comprehensive, in-depth analysis of evidence supporting hormone optimization that this course provides. The PART I course is a 2.5 day intense mini residency that is comprehensive & extremely practical. Dr. Rouzier teaches you the “nuts and bolts” of optimizing your patients’ hormones. He helps you understand the why’s of optimal hormone levels, but also gives you specific instruction on how to prescribe. You will walk away with the practical knowledge and confidence that is required to work on Monday morning with your first patient.

PART I - utilizes a scientific literature review of HRT, case presentations, & case management requiring audience participation, an approach designed to help Physicians, NPs, and NDs to successfully and knowledgeably treat their age management patients.

DAY 1 - Is a literature review of the importance of optimizing hormones for both men and women.
DAY 2 - Involves diagnosing, prescribing, monitoring, and adjusting dosing based on patient’s symptoms and lab tests.

The Part I course is designed to provide literature presentations, case studies, and open discussions

As a Healthcare Practitioner, Have You Ever Struggled With Patients Who Face Gradual, Steady Decline in Their Overall Health?

• Do any of your patients try to lose weight, eat right, exercise . . . but never seem to get results?
• Do you have patients with out-of-control numbers - cholesterol, LDL, C-reactive protein, blood glucose, and hemoglobin A1C?
• Are the therapies you’ve prescribed for those patients (statins for hyperlipidemia, metformin for insulin resistance and diabetes, blood pressure drugs) making them better or worse?
• Are your patients experiencing improvement in their numbers?
• Are they feeling as good as they ever have?
• Are they really reducing their cardiac and metabolic risks?
• Are your menopausal female patients still suffering from hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue, low libido & hair loss?
• Are they sleeping soundly 8 hours a night?
• Are they free of paralyzing anxiety and hopeless depression?
• Are your male patients experiencing low energy, muscle loss, hair loss, weight gain, and sexual dysfunction?

Course Objectives:
• Evaluate and become proficient in the medical literature that supports biologically identical hormone replacement in contrast to chemically altered hormones and realize that “all hormones are not the same” as demonstrated per the literature.
• Implement therapeutic management of andropause based on studies reported in prestigious medical journals.
• Identify the types, doses and methods for administering testosterone to men and women.
• Discuss the prescribing of testosterone for men and women, including complications, precautions, potential side effects, and monitoring.
• Discuss the utilization of Finasteride, Dutasteride, and Anastrozole as they pertain to the management of side effects of testosterone.
• Identify the uses of melatonin including correct dosing and monitoring.
• Apply strategies for the effective uses of DHEA & pregnenolone including correct dosing/monitoring
• Evaluate new evidence that contradicts the experts’ conclusions from the HERS and WHI trials on estrogen treatment in women.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the health benefits of estrogen and progesterone in contrast to the health detriments and harm of synthetic estrogen and progestin.
• Describe the types, doses, and methods used to administer estrogen and progesterone.
• Identify that different formulations can affect absorption, efficacy, side effects, and complications.
• Review lab tests that demonstrate that some compounded hormones are poor in quality, not micronized, and result in reduced efficacy and low serum levels.
• Discuss recent literature, questions and answers that demonstrate the beneficial effects of hormones such as improved function and healing and a better quality of life.
• Describe current concepts of thyroid replacement and compare and contrast different options available for thyroid replacement as supported in the medical literature.
• Recognize various methods of testing for thyroid deficiencies & what labs & approaches are best.
• Discuss and analyze interesting and complicated cases that involve hormone replacement therapy, which hormones are absorbed best, and when to use oral vs. transdermal HRT.
• Recognize the difference between “normal levels” and “optimal levels” of hormones and the benefits or detriments as demonstrated by current medical studies.
• Implement best clinical practices in diagnosing, prescribing, monitoring and adjusting of BHRT for improved function and quality of life.
• Develop and apply business management principles to set up a preventive medicine practice.
• Analyze and review treatment protocols in case management for both simple and complex cases as it pertains to BHRT.
• Describe how to write prescriptions for compounded hormones to pharmacies, and how different
formulations can affect absorption, efficacy and side effects.
• Identify and correct any insufficient or inappropriately prescribed hormone therapy to conform to scientific standards in order to optimize hormone levels.
• Implement current strategies into your practice to improve the level of care and patient compliance in the treatment of adult hormone deficiencies.
• Identify that biologic endpoints (lab tests) are the only reliable assessments to assure that the HRT prescribed is as efficacious as pharmaceutical bioidenticals utilized in the literature.
• Recognize that it is the responsibility of the medical practitioner to assure that their compounding pharmacy dispenses only high-quality hormones from either a European, Canadian or U.S. made source in order to guarantee efficacy and therapeutic endpoints. ** Choose the compounding pharmacy according to your country. Canadian compounders cannot ship prescriptions outside of Canada.
• Apply current prescribing strategies for maintaining adequate hormone levels, which serum levels to follow, which tests not to use (saliva), and the literature supporting each.
• Review the literature describing anti-aging & how it pertains to hormones & improving function, healing & provide a better quality of life even though no therapy is FDA approved for anti-aging.
• Analyze new treatment protocols to best diagnose, prescribe, monitor, and adjust BHRT for improved function and quality of life.