Part 1
Basic Course Agenda

• Saturday
  • 7:30am - 8:00am
    • Registration
  • 8:00am - 10:30am
    • Introduction to Hormone Replacement Therapy
      • Importance of optimization of all hormones, including HGH
      • Health and quality of life benefits
      • Normal is not optimal
      • Literature review: have we been doing it wrong?
      • What we should know about hormones but were never taught
  • 10:30am - 12:00 Noon
    • Testosterone
      • Various types and doses: How, when, where to apply
      • Complications, precautions, side effects and monitoring (PSA levels and prostate cancer)
      • DHT, Estradiol, Finasteride, Anastrazole
      • Testosterone for women
      • What doses and levels work best and how to adjust
      • Side effects and Spironolactone
    • Melatonin, DHEA and Pregnenolone
      • The great sleep and immune enhancer
      • DHEA: A literature review
      • Indications and contraindications
      • Pregnenolone: the mother of all sex hormones
      • Memory enhancer?
      • Administration, monitoring and adjusting
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:00pm
    • Lunch Break
  • 1:00pm - 2:30pm
    • Estrogen
      • Risk vs. benefit – a literature review of types of estrogens
      • Health benefits and feel-good benefits: informed consent for stopping HRT?
      • What kinds, natural or synthetic?
      • ACOG and NAMS: no study to show efficacy of BHRT – wrong!
      • Doses, monitoring, levels, adjusting, selection: what works best
      • Transdermal vs. oral
      • Does age make a difference?
      • Indication and contraindications
      • Refuting the WHI Trial
      • Different strategies for PMS, Perimenopause and Menopause
  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm
    • Progesterone
      • Absolutely necessary in all women
      • A literature review
      • MP ≠ MPA, natural vs. synthetic
      • If some is good, more is better?
      • Dosing, monitoring and adjusting
      • Serum vs. saliva
    3:30pm - 3:45pm - Break
  • 3:45pm - 5:30pm
    • Thyroid
      • The most misunderstood hormone
      • Thyroid test is normal, so what?
      • Does your patient need thyroid? You bet!
      • Understanding lab values
      • What is responsible for low thyroid symptoms when TSH is normal?
      • Methods of administering thyroid medications
      • Treatment of fatigue, TSH or Free T3?
      • Literature support for optimization: treat the labs or the patient?
  • 5:30pm - 6:30pm
    • Question and Answer Tim
      • Interesting Cases
• Sunday
  • 8:00am - 12:00 Noon
    • Case Management Everything You Should Know
      • Administration and appropriate dosing
      • Monitoring the patient and adjustment
      • Proper case management, problems and complications
      • Mistakes to avoid
      • Lab interpretation
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:00pm - Working Lunch Break
    • Working Lunch/Guest Speaker, Carolyn Rouzier:
      "Setting Up My Preventive Medicine Practice: What Works and What Doesn't"
      • Outline, worksheet, forms, letters, and consents
      • How to bill
      • Different types of programs
      • Necessary equipment
      • Products and services
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    • Review of Practical Application
      • More treatment protocols
      • Trouble shooting and case management
  • 2:00pm - 3:15pm
    • 100 Written Questions and Answers with Discussion
  • 3:15pm
    • Wrap-up/Evaluation/Adjournment

Part 2
Advanced Course Agenda

• • 2:30pm - 3:00pm
    • Registration
  • 3:00pm - 6:00pm
    • Age Management Review
      • Literature review of hormones
      • Cancer and hormones, HGH, Testosterone, Estrogen and Progesterone
      • New studies refute the WHI mistakes
  • 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    • Informal Question and Answer Period
      • Difficult cases
      • Open discussion
• Saturday
  • 7:30am - 8:00am
  • Registration
  • 8:00am - 10:00am
    • Advanced Scientific Review
      • Estrogen
      • Progesterone
      • New evidence contradicting the WHI Trials
      • Transdermal vs. Oral: the debate continues
  • 10:00am - 12:00 Noon
    • Advanced Scientific Review, Continued
      • HGH
      • Thyroid
      • Testosterone
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:00pm
    • Lunch Break
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    • Diabetes
      • Insulin resistance
      • EPA’s
      • Benefits of exercise
  • 2:00pm - 4:00pm
    • Cardiology
      • Preventive therapy markers
      • Niacin
      • Case studies
    • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
      • Vitamins and Supplements
• Sunday
  • 8:00am - 9:00am
    • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
  • 9:00am - 10:00
    • Hair loss and Hirsutism
  • 10:30pm - 11:00pm
    • Osteoporosis
      • Estrogen metabolites
      • NTX
  • 11:00am - 12:00
    • Interesting Cases
  • 12:00 - 1:00pm
    • Lunch Break
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    • Chronic Fatigue
      • Cortisol
      • Thyroid
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    • Test Your Knowledge
      • 100 Questions with Answers
  • 3:00pm
    • Wrap-up/Evaluation/Adjournment

Part 3
Advanced Course Agenda

• Saturday
  • 7:30am - 8:00am
    • Registration
  • 8:00am - 9:00am
    • Introduction and Review
      • Compounded hormones and estriol: does the science support the claims?
      • Saliva testing
      • Bioidentical hormone review
      • Recent relevant literature review
  • 9:00am - 10:00am
    • Thyroid and Testosterone
      • Thyroid T3 use in depression, functional hypothyroidism and prevention of CAD
      • Thyroid does not cause osteoporosis
      • Testosterone use after prostate cancer
      • Different testosterone therapies have different effects on lipids, blood levels and side effects
    10:00am - 11:00am
    • 200 Case Studies with Q & A
  • 11:00am - 12:00 Noon
    • Human Growth Hormone
      • New articles for off-label use
      • How to diagnose and treat deficiency
      • HGH and cancer: a review of the world data
      • New articles to support safety
  • 12:00 Noon - 1:00pm
    • Lunch Break
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    • Hormone Literature Review
      • Estrogen’s role in men for osteoporosis, CAD and prostate cancer
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    • 200 Case Studies With Q & A continued
  • 3:00am - 4:00pm
    • PCOS: What the Books Don't Tell You
      • How to handle tough PCOS cases
      • Aldosterone: it must be treated
      • Diagnosis and treatment of adrenal hyperplasia
      • Focus on the vagina: the various ways to treat it
  • 4:00am - 5:00pm
    • Progesterone and Postpartum Depression How to raise and lower SHBG: when and why
      SHBG and CAD, DM and HTN
    • 5:00am - 6:00pm
      • Question and Answer Time
• Sunday
  • 8:00am - 9:00am
    • 200 Case Studies and Presentations, cont.
  • 9:00am - 10:00pm
    • Vitamin D
      • Diagnosing, prescribing, monitoring and adjusting
      • A literature review
      • A lab review
    10:00am - 11:00pm
    • The Antiproliferative, Oncostatic, Immune Stimulatory and Thrhrombopoetic Effects of HRT
  • 11:00am - 12:00 Noon
    • Estrogen
      • Oral vs. transdermal: which is best and why
      • Hormones and clotting
    12:00 Noon - 1:00pm
    • Lunch Break
  • 1:00pm - 2:00pm
    • MMP, Clotting Factors, Inflammatory Proteins and Fatty Acid Esters in CVD
  • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
    • Androgen Deprivation Therapy: How to Prevent the Increased Mortality, CADCAD and DM Side Effects 200 Case Studies with Q & A, cont.
  • 3:00pm
    • Wrap-up/Evaluation/Adjournment