Balancing Hormones No Easy Task For Women
Chances are your hormones can get the best of you sometimes.
For 46-year-old Sharon Lynch of Flower Mound, the quest for better moods and more energy led her to Irving pharmacist, Jim Hrncir, one of the leading experts in the nation on bio-identical hormones.
Since the mid 1980's the owner of the Las Colinas Pharmacy has been helping patients balance their hormones, a process that typically begins with a detailed health questionnaire and extensive blood work.
"Somewhere in the last couple of years in my mid-40s, I felt like I haven't have the energy. My skin's dry; my hair's getting thinner; and I'm cold a lot, which in Texas is weird," explained Lynch.
The wife and mother of two followed both steps, painting for Hrncir a vivid picture of what was going on in Lynch's body. But when her blood work results came back, she was surprised to learn her levels were normal.
"And I'm thinking I'm fine, I don't think I need anything."
But this is where Hrncir says too many women make a mistake and settle.
"When I started talking to Jim, I learned most Americans are considered normal, but it's not optimal," said Lynch.
"There's more to this than being 'in the range'," explained Hrncir. "This optimal versus just getting by is a big concept most people aren't getting."
So Lynch researched some more, asked lots of questions, and decided she didn't want to spend the rest of *her life settling with constant fatigue, cold chills, lack of sleep and brain fog.
"Like coloring our hair," Lynch explained. "It's keeping up our body the way our parents didn't know how to do when they were younger."
Lynch followed Hrncir's recommendations and says within three days, the body aches and chills were gone. She says she felt better than she had in years.
"The number one was sleep, because the very first night i slept deeper than i have in a long time."
Hrncir says research is showing balancing your hormones when you're young can lower the risk of heart disease and osteoporosis, even breast cancer.
