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Bioidentical Hormone Pellet Training 2018
The American Functional Medicine Association is proud to announce our clinical training workshop on hormone pellet therapy on April 21st – 22nd in Atlanta, Georgia
This workshop is designed to help practitioners understand the benefits of BHRT pellet therapy and how to become proficient in prescribing pellets and other hormone modalities
Date: April 21st-22nd
Location:Palisade Conference Center D
5900 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd.
Atlanta, Georgia 30328
About Our AFMA Faculty Member Trainer:
Eldred B. Taylor, M.D., a functional and anti-aging medicine expert, has provided medical training for decades to healthcare providers on bioidentical hormone replacement (BHRT) throughout the U.S. and the world. He has also authored books on the subject and provided hundreds of CME education hours to practitioners.
The benefits of pellet therapy include:
- Better clinical outcomes and symptom relief
- Steady state hormone levels which makes BHRT more predictable
- Safe, quick and easy to do in a clinical setting with little risk or discomfort to your patient
- Improves patient compliance with BHRT therapy
- Less side effects and better tolerated by patient who have difficulty with oral and topical creams
- Cost effective for patients
- Can be used in men and women
- Provides revenue to medical practices
Our hormone pellet therapy course goals are to:
- Provide knowledge on the benefits of pellet therapy and how to accurately diagnose suitable patients for pellet therapy
- Review how to set up for and administer pellet therapy
- Discuss when and how to use estrogen, progesterone and testosterone pellet therapy in men and women
- Understand the hazards of using estrogen pellets without progesterone pellets or oral or micronized progesterone
- Present scientific data on the dangers of prescribing super physiological levels of sex hormones
- Explain why elaborate non-scientific protocols and algorithms dont work when dosing pellet patients and how they can put your medical license in jeopardy
- Understand standard of care guidelines and pellet therapy
- Discuss why FSH levels should not be used to determine pellet hormone dosing
- Provide in depth training on how to dose using pellet therapy and avoid potential adverse events
- Elaborate on why pellet implantation may provide more consistent and effective treatment over oral, intramuscular, and topical modalities for hormone therapies
- Explore why hormone pellet therapy may be more useful in the treatment for the relief of hormone related symptoms like mood swings, anxiety, sleep disturbances, sexual dysfunction and other hormone associated symptoms