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When Your Hormones Shift…

Your Life

Shifts Too

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Balancing Hormones and Regaining Energy Through Metabolic Health

Hormonal imbalance can change everything — your energy, your sleep, your mood, your weight, your confidence, and even your relationships. For women, this often looks like fatigue, anxiety, irritability, night sweats, hot flashes, weight gain, low sex drive, and discomfort with intimacy. For men, hormonal imbalance commonly shows up as decreased libido, stubborn belly fat, loss of muscle strength, low motivation, poor mental focus, anxiety, irritability, high cholesterol, or elevated blood sugar.

What many people don’t realize is that these symptoms are not “just aging.” They are signs that your hormones are no longer communicating the way your body needs them to.

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At McHugh Health in Jacksonville, FL, we use Biote Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy — a safe, natural, and highly effective method to restore optimal hormone levels using pellets that match the hormones your body already produces.

Our goal isn’t to simply reduce symptoms — it’s to help you reclaim your energy, your clarity, your mood, your metabolism, and your confidence. Jacksonville is an active, outdoor city, and you deserve to feel strong, capable, and present for the life you want to live.

Whether you’re a woman navigating perimenopause or menopause, or a man experiencing andropause or hormone decline, we’re here to help you feel like yourself again — steady, energized, balanced, and fully alive.

What to Expect

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01 ‣ Hormone Evaluation

Your first visit includes a consultation and a detailed look at your symptoms, health history, lifestyle, and goals. We order targeted bloodwork to understand exactly where your hormone levels are and how those imbalances may be affecting your sleep, metabolism, mood, energy, and sexual health.

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02 ‣ Personalized plan

Once we have your results, we design a treatment plan tailored to your body.
Biote bioidentical hormone pellets:

  • Release hormones steadily and naturally

  • Do not require daily pills or frequent injections

  • Are chemically identical to your body’s own hormones

  • Support long-term balance with fewer peaks and crashes

Pellets are placed just beneath the skin in a quick, simple in-office procedure.

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03 ‣ Support at every phase

Hormones affect nearly every system of the body — metabolism, brain function, bone health, mood, sleep, sexual function, and more. As your levels balance, you may notice:

  • Better sleep

  • Improved mood stability

  • Less anxiety and irritability

  • Fewer hot flashes or night sweats

  • Improved libido and comfort during intimacy

  • More mental clarity

  • More muscle strength and decreased fat

  • Improved energy and motivation

We follow up consistently to ensure your treatment is working, adjusting your plan as needed to help you feel your very best.

FAQs

  • Insurance plans do not cover bioidentical hormone therapy. 

  • Yes. Bloodwork is essential for understanding your hormone levels and creating a plan that is safe, personalized, and effective. Follow-up lab work is also done as needed to monitor your progress.

  • We use bioidentical hormones through the Biote method — hormones that are chemically identical to the ones your body naturally produces. This supports better absorption, improved safety, and more consistent results.

  • We use pellet therapy, a small, sustained-release hormone pellet placed under the skin. This provides steady, reliable hormone levels without daily pills or frequent injections.

You Don’t Have to Feel This Way , Your Hormones Can Be Balanced.

Your Life Can Change.

If fatigue, mood swings, anxiety, low libido, weight gain, or poor sleep are limiting your life, it’s time to address the root cause. Hormone balance can restore your clarity, your confidence, and your energy — and we’re here to guide you through every step.

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