At Silk Life, we do detailed labs to identify what changes are causing your symptoms and put together a customized plan for you to get results fast. Your plan will include:

Correcting any hormone imbalances. This may be done through lifestyle changes, supplements or direct Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement (BHRT).

Fast track your success with Medical Weight Loss. Once we have your labs, we’ll be able to identify what weight loss treatments will be most effective and permanent for you and your biology.

Identify a lifestyle plan to support your optimal health based on your specific biology. For example, identifying if Intermittent Fasting will be harmful or helpful for you long term.

Your PCP and OBGYN are not doing detailed blood work. Typically, they are ordering the yearly blood work covered by your insurance. If you are unable to lose weight despite exercise and healthy eating, something has changed. If it doesn’t show up on your basic labs, this doesn’t mean it’s your fault and you just need to work harder. It means your provider needs to look harder. To get a good understanding of your metabolism and the factors impacting your weight and energy, we need more detailed blood work.

“Normal” ranges are very wide to account for what is “normal” among our population. They are used to screen for severe cases of hormone imbalance. Therefore, you can be at the low end of normal and still be experiencing symptoms that are being ignored. That is why it is important to take your symptoms into account when making a diagnosis and compare your results to the optimal ranges for your age.

Primary Care provider and OBGYN do an amazing job of diagnosing and treating you when you are sick and getting you back to “normal.” Their goal is not to get you to optimal health including an optimal metabolism for your maximum physical and mental performance and to maintain your ideal body.

I was always skinny when I was young, but in my 30’s I started gaining weight. With each birthday the scale went up and my energy and drive declined.

When I started to see these changes, I first tightened up all of my healthy habits, exercising daily and eating healthy. No change.

Then I went to my doctor and said, “I know something has changed in my body.” When she did labs, I was actually excited to finally have something I could treat, but disappointingly she reported. “Your labs are normal. Just eat less and exercise more.”

When you are suffering, these words can be devastating. It led to me believing it was all my fault. For years, I suffered wondering what I was doing wrong. I tried all the fad diets and saw some temporary results without long-term success.

So many women have shared similar experiences. They’ve gone to their doctors with weight gain and fatigue, just to be told their labs are “normal,” for their age. “Try just eating less and exercising more.”

The truth is that basic labs done with your Primary Care provider and OBGYN may be missing the cause of your weight gain and fatigue.