Welcome to Good Hormone Health
Does this sound like you? Too tired to function during the day, but can’t sleep at night. Keep gaining weight in spite of eating clean and working out with a personal trainer. Becoming depressed, moody and irritable. Achy. Sweating. Bloated. Ever thought you had a hormonal disorder or wanted to have your thyroid thoroughly checked. You may want to look over the information on the Goodhormonehealth.com website and see if making an appointment with Dr. Friedman is appropriate. Dr. Friedman is an adult Endocrinologist, he does diagnose and treat children who could have Cushing’s syndrome or thyroid problems, but does not deal with growth (kids with short stature) or developmental/pubertal problems.
The key to getting your life back starts with getting the right information from an expert Endocrinologist who is dedicated to educating and treating patients with all types of hormonal disorders. Goodhormonehealth is dedicated to providing just that. Check out our collection of articles backed by research, provided by Theodore C. Friedman, MD, PhD on the detection and treatment of hormone imbalances, pituitary, thyroid, adrenal disorders, low testosterone, menopause and Cushing’s disease/syndrome. You can then decide if you want to make an appointment with Dr. Friedman.
GETTING YOUR HEALTH BACK
So many of us believe that fatigue, weight gain, loss of libido and other problems are just symptoms we must learn to live with. What if these symptoms are not the result of stress, diet, or aging, but are actually caused by a hormonal disorder? Symptoms of hormone deficiency or excess may be subtle and difficult to diagnose. Many hormonal problems are misdiagnosed as depression, especially in women. You know your own body better than anyone else, and you know when something is wrong. Dr. Friedman is a compassionate, caring physician who will listen carefully to your concerns and work with you to establish a diagnosis and treatment plan. As an experienced, board-certified endocrinologist and researcher, he has the capabilities to diagnose and treat even the most difficult hormonal problems. Dr. Friedman has found that many of his patients suffer from undiagnosed pituitary, thyroid or adrenal problems or are improperly treated for these conditions. These include many people with Cushing’s disease, which can present with a baffling array of symptoms and is frequently misdiagnosed. Other patients may have pituitary, thyroid or adrenal insufficiency, each of which have numerous symptoms and are equally hard to diagnose. Menopause is a challenging time and Dr. Friedman specializing in treating women with menopause. Dr. Friedman is a world-renown expert in these difficult-to-diagnose diseases and is happy to see patients from around the country (and around the world) who need a straight answer to their hormone problems. Dr. Friedman is a take action doctor who won’t delay treatment and just tell you to “come back in 3 months”. He thinks out of the box (yet is well-grounded in conventional Endocrinology) and often diagnoses hormonal problems where other doctors have failed. Dr. Friedman is not an anti-aging doctor and works to return low hormones levels to normal unlike anti-aging doctors who give high doses of hormones often to those with normal levels. Dr. Friedman listens to symptoms and uses reliable laboratories for testing.
Read about Dr. Friedman’s patient Taylor Davis and her journey to achieving good hormone health.
Dr. Friedman gave four talks at The MAGIC Foundation’s 13th Annual Conference for Adults
with Endocrine Conditions in Phoenix on March 3, 2019. Slides and talks are available here.
Latest Articles
Find out more on pertinent endocrine issues. Dr. Friedman give tips to readers about how they can improve or augment actions in their life to have a healthy lifestyle.
Stress, Sleep Deprivation & Social Jet Lag
The 3 S’s of how cortisol leads to weight gain: In December, 2015, I gave a webinar on the hormonal effects on obesity, that was one of my most popular webinars. Everybody wants to learn about how hormones are related to body weight and food intake. I talked a lot about how cortisol is involved […]
Calcium Heart Scan – Priceless
Dr. Friedman recommends for many patients to undergo a relatively new test to evaluate their heart status called a Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) or Calcium Heart Scan, formerly called “electron beam CAT scan” (EBCT). This is often part of what is called a “body scan,” which also looks for lung cancer and other types of […]
Florence Student’s Mysterious Affliction
FLORENCE, S.C. – After struggling with a mysterious illness for nearly three years, Florence resident Taylor Davis is using her diagnosis of Cushing’s disease to raise awareness. Davis was a healthy young adult when she started as a student at the University of South Carolina in the fall of 2015, but soon into her […]
Should I Take Birth Control Pills?
Birth control pills were discovered in the 1960s as a means to contraception with profound implications for society, including separation for women between conception and sexuality. While this most likely had beneficial effects for our society, people have come to see birth control pills as something completely benign, almost like taking a vitamin. Birth control […]
Ketoconazole: Therapy for Cushing’s syndrome
Dr. Friedman usually recommends surgical treatment for Cushing’s syndrome and, specifically, pituitary surgery for those with pituitary Cushing’s disease. However, many patients are not good surgical candidates for their Cushing’s disease. This can occur if they do not have a tumor clearly seen on their pituitary or if their tests are equivocal for Cushing’s. There […]
Growth Hormone Treatment in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
Often patient with hypopituitarism need growth hormone, and many of them are younger females who do get pregnant. Dr. Friedman has explored the issue about whether growth hormone is safe and needed in pregnancy for those who were already on growth hormone before they became pregnant. The literature supports that growth hormone can be given […]
Educational Resources
EXCITING NEWS
Dr. Friedman is now approved to offer telemedicine appointments to NEW patients in California (who live more than 2 hours away from his Los Angeles office). The initial in-office visit is no longer necessary!
Recent Webinars
GROWTH HORMONE TESTING
Need growth hormone testing, but do not want to get the low blood sugar following an ITT? Dr. Friedman is now performing both the macrelin and glucagon stimulation test for growth hormone testing.
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