Dr. Maupin Q & A

Dr. Kathy Maupin answers questions about her bioidentical hormone practice and reverse aging treatment.

How did you start treating women with bioidentical hormone pellets?

“When I was 47 I got very sick after my hysterectomy. I had always used bioidentical hormones before that. I had always depended on them for my patients, so I tried them all. I had tried everything. I had had my ovaries out so I had no hormones at all; not one thing worked. I was so frustrated. I gained weight, I was depressed, I was exhausted all the time. I was an OB, I got up at night and was used to getting by on four or five hours of sleep. This was a disaster for me. My life was completely turned over by a lack of hormones…”

What is the process to become a new patient?

The way we like have our patients come in, we like to have them fill out a questionnaire online. When they do that, we look at their questionnaire and sure they are candidates for this kind of treatment. That’s very important because we don’t take care of nineteen year old males who want to have testosterone. That’s not going to happen, we’re not going to have them make an appointment. We only want to see people we can help, and that it’s safe to help, and that it’s replacement and not augmentation of hormones…”

Treating Menopause with Bioidentical Hormone Pellets

“Menopause is the third stage of aging. The first stage is loosing your testosterone for women. Second stage is loosing progesterone. The third stage is loosing your estrogen. And that is menopause. We have problems way before menopause—probably 10 years before in most of us. When we hit menopause, that’s that last step. We enter menopause, everybody says, “When’s this going be over?” Well, it’s never over. We’re in it until we die…”

How did you start treating men with bioidentical hormone pellets?

“My success with my BioBalance practice was with women, because women were my patients, I was an OB/GYN. I had taken care of men in the past. I had taken care of men with infertility. So I knew all the basics, and I had also been trained in men’s pellets. I just didn’t think I would ever use it. But when I took care of my female patients, they were so happy and they couldn’t find a doctor who would help their husbands. So they came to me, they begged me, they asked me if I would share my knowledge of men’s pellets with their husbands…”

Talk about treating couples and saving marriages.

“When I first started this, I thought I was helping women get their lives back. And then I added men to it, helping men get their lives back. Then I realized there was a couple issue here. I guess I realized that the whole time. But I wasn’t a counselor, however now I’ve kind of become one. It’s gratifying to see a couple get their health back, get their sex lives back, that form of communication that they had given up. They just separated, living in the same house, eating dinner together, never talking…”

Subdermal Pellets are the best Delivery System for Bioidentical Estradiol

“There are many forms of estrogen. Every type of estrogen is different, with a different physiology. Part of this has to do with the delivery system, part of it has to do with the estrogen itself. Premarin is a horse estrogen and we’re not horses. My choice has always been something that is identical….”