San Francisco Institute for Integrative and Regenerative Medicine - SFIIRM

1. San Francisco Institute for Integrative and Regenerative Medicine – SFIIRM Regenerative medicine is the new frontier of using the body’s own innate healing capacity to heal itself. We can amplify this effect by concentrating growth factors and stem cells derived from patients own body. These can then be used to regenerate tissue such as torn muscles, ligaments and cartilage as well as for facial rejuvenation, hair regrowth, scar removal and other aesthetic treatments. Harvesting a high quality regenerative product is important but putting it back into a healthy host that will use it to heal the intended area is even more important. Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy involves the replacement of hormones in a way that most closely mimics the natural hormone homeostasis for health optimization and the treatment of diseases that are due to hormone deficiency. The hormones used are compounded to be atom for atom the same molecule that your body has always seen. The dosing is meant to mimic the levels that you body has always produced. This is an essential feature that keeps the process safe and natural. Is this Safe? The Women’s Health Initiative looked at the use of conjugated horse estrogens and a synthetic form of progesterone. It turns out that using synthetic progesterone was the most dangerous element of that study and why a whole generation of patients was turned away from the appropriate use of hormone therapy. The horse estrogens can lead to an imbalance of estrogen metabolites that can cause side effects that do not occur when bio- identical hormones are used in the appropriate context. BHRT in a Functional Medicine Context

2. Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy is more than just the simple prescription of hormones to replace deficient levels. When practiced in the larger context of Functional Medicine, Bio- Identical Hormone Therapy becomes about relating digestive imbalances and detoxification impairment with adrenal dysfunction that is mediating hormone deficiency. Hormones are processed in the liver like toxins and certain metabolites can build up if the detoxification pathway is overwhelmed with other toxins. Microbiome, other digestive imbalances and food sensitivities can cause chronic immune stimulation that leads to adrenal stress, causing the body to shift into a catabolic (wear and tear) state and become deficient in anabolic (build and repair) hormones. About US Dr. Wardwellʼs path to Integrative Medicine began as an undergraduate at University of Colorado. He began to study Eastern philosophy in search of a cross cultural notion of Virtue Ethics. Upon graduating from CU, he spent the semester before medical school broadening his perspective in graduate courses at Naropa University. Here he took classes in Yoga Meditation, Transpersonal Psychology, Jungian Dream Therapy, and the Buddhist Middle Way philosophy from Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. After a semester of eye-opening course work, Dr. Wardwell began his medical studies at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Contact Us: Email: info@sfiirm.com Phone: (415) 606-0309 Address: 450 Sutter Street, Suite 1341 San Francisco, CA 94109 Website: https://sfiirm.com/