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Pregnenolone – the little talked about hormone. In fact, it goes so unchecked that a LabCorp bloodwork slip doesn’t place a reference range of “normal” alongside the pregnenolone lab result. Now, the scarcity of practitioner-ordered pregnenolone inquiries may not be...

I hopped off a discovery call this afternoon, wrapping up a conversation with a newly menopausal female prospective client. At the tail end of her appointment, she asked me one of those, “Oh by the way…” questions, and it centered around the use of methylene blue....

Brief Update: Did you hear the news? Lilly pharmaceutical, just this month of August 2026, sued six companies for the illegitimate production of Retatrutide. Retatrutide is an upcoming GLP-1 product still in Clinical Phase Three trials, not yet released to the public....

At its core, a compounding pharmacy exists to create unique and personalized medications tailored to a client’s physical health needs. For instance: did you know that metformin can be applied topically in a cream form to avoid gastrointestinal distress, which can...

One of my first interactions with compounding pharmacists and their pharmacies occurred after I resigned from hospitalist medicine and began working in private practice. Throughout the middle of the pandemic, I became acutely aware of a nonprofit organization called...

At the core of Kalon West | Hormone Therapy Medical Clinic we believe in using off-label or “repurposed” pharmaceuticals for your symptoms and/or root cause relief. Most of Kalon West’s providers come from traditional medical backgrounds, who then also furthered their...

Prior to synthetic thyroid hormones being commercially available as a product, (aka Levothyroxine, or “Synthroid” and Liothyronine or, “Cytomel”) thyroid hormone replacement therapy was available in a product form called Desiccated Thyroid or “DTE”. I jokingly call...

Did you know that you can actually take thyroid medication in the afternoon? Surprised? I didn’t know this to be true or a common medical practice option either. You may have heard of the viral phrase: “I was this many years when I found out (insert common knowledge...