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Kalon West | Hormone Therapy Medical Clinic
Compounded Medications | Part II
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...
Compounded Medications | Part I
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...
Thyroid Hormone Replacement Therapy | Twice Daily, aka “BID”, dosing | Therapy Options | Part II.
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...
Thyroid Hormone Replacement Therapy | Twice Daily, aka “BID”, dosing | Part I
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...