Women's Health

We run a panel of roughly 80 biomarkers including a full thyroid panel (TSH, free T3, free T4, reverse T3, thyroid antibodies), sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA), inflammatory markers, metabolic markers, nutrient levels (vitamin D, B12, ferritin, magnesium), and cortisol. You also get an InBody 770 body composition scan. This gives us a detailed picture of what's actually happening in your body, not just a single number.

We use bioidentical hormones, which are chemically identical to the hormones your body produces naturally. They're sourced from plants (wild yam or soy) and have a better safety profile than synthetic hormones. Your provider customizes the exact combination and dose based on your lab results, symptoms, and health history. We can adjust estrogen type and strength, progesterone, and testosterone individually. It's not a one-size-fits-all prescription.

Initial onboarding runs about $1,200 to $1,500 all-in. That covers your labs, body composition scan, provider prep time, and your full one-hour provider visit. Follow-up visits are $275. Supplements typically run $20 to $100 per month, and hormone therapy runs $70 to $200 per month depending on your protocol. We accept HSA, FSA, CareCredit, and all major cards. New patients also get a $100 voucher toward their first visit.

We operate outside the insurance model, which is actually why we can spend an hour with you and run the testing your doctor won't order. Insurance-based care is limited by what codes get reimbursed, which is why most conventional doctors only run TSH and call it a day. We accept HSA and FSA accounts, CareCredit financing, and all major credit and debit cards.

Most women notice initial improvements within one to three months. Sleep and anxiety often improve first. Energy, weight, and mood shifts tend to build gradually. We recheck labs at about 10 weeks and see you at 12 weeks to review and adjust. Many patients describe it as subtle at first, then looking back and realizing how much has changed. Your provider will give you a realistic timeline based on your specific situation.

No. Perimenopause can start as early as 35, and many women are symptomatic for 10 to 15 years before their periods actually stop. If you're dealing with fatigue, weight changes, mood shifts, brain fog, or sleep problems, your hormones may already be shifting. Getting baseline testing now lets us catch imbalances early and prevent them from getting worse. The earlier you start, the more we can do.

Usually it comes down to time and defaults, not anything about you. Standard insurance visits run 10 to 15 minutes, and the only hormone test that fits that window is usually a single TSH. A real workup covers estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA-S, cortisol, and a full thyroid panel with antibodies, and that takes time most practices don't have. The pattern shows up in the data: a recent survey of women's health care experiences found 93 percent of women felt dismissed at some point when seeking medical help, and 94.4 percent of women age 25 to 34 said their concerns were ignored or written off as stress. Here, the full panel is where care starts, with 80+ biomarkers drawn at your first visit and a full hour with a provider to go through the results.

That history is the norm. A recent survey of women's health care experiences found 47.2 percent of women had to see multiple doctors before being taken seriously, and about a third lived with symptoms for over a year before getting a diagnosis. The difference at Med Matrix is the order of operations. Testing happens first, before anyone decides whether your symptoms deserve it: 80+ biomarkers covering a full thyroid panel, sex hormones, cortisol, and metabolic markers, plus a body composition scan, followed by a one-hour provider visit to review every result together. Your plan starts from what your labs actually show.

It often can. Estrogen and progesterone help regulate the immune system, and perimenopause is a stretch of hormonal instability, not a smooth decline. As progesterone falls and estrogen swings, some women lose a buffer that had been keeping inflammation in check, and an autoimmune condition that was stable for years can start flaring. Disrupted sleep, rising cortisol, and less steady blood sugar during this transition add to the pressure. The most reliable way to see what is happening is to test hormones, thyroid, and inflammatory markers together rather than one specialist at a time, which is part of the 80+ biomarker workup we run for every new patient.

Often, yes, though our role is the hormonal groundwork rather than fertility procedures like IVF or IUI, which stay with your OB or a reproductive endocrinologist. When conception is taking longer than expected, three hormones deserve an early, thorough look: your thyroid, prolactin, and progesterone. Each one can disrupt ovulation or the second half of your cycle, each shows up on a blood draw, and each is routinely left out of standard primary care testing. Our 80+ biomarker panel checks a complete thyroid panel (TSH, free T3, free T4, reverse T3, and antibodies), prolactin, cycle-timed progesterone, blood sugar, cortisol, and nutrient markers together, so a provider can see the whole picture and correct what's off before or alongside whatever your fertility team recommends.