Forbes magazine revealed that personalized healthcare is one of the top trends in the industry in 2023, with an emphasis on precision medicines that are tailored to patients based on age, genetics, and other risk factors, rather than a generic approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Apotheca Integrative Pharmacy, a pioneer specialty compounding pharmacy in the Philippines, women may require customized dosages or delivery methods for medications related to their reproductive and hormonal health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through compounding \u2014 the science of customizing medications to a patient\u2019s specific needs \u2014 medications can be tailored to meet their individual requirements. This process removes problem-causing excipients, adjusts dosage strengths to suit certain patients, such as infants or the elderly, adds flavors for better taste, and even creates alternative form factors to make medicines easily ingestible, such as lozenges, candies, gels, creams, capsules, and liquid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This month, AIP encourages Filipinas to explore Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy and Weight Loss Management solutions, two of their top categories in service of female patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Women who suffer from hormonal imbalances caused by polycystic ovarian syndrome or menopause, common conditions of Filipinas young and old, can turn to hormone replacement therapy to treat their symptoms. BHRT is the process of replicating hormones using natural resources to supplement the body with the hormones it lacks. These can be: Thyroid Hormones Triiodothyronine and Thyroxine that stimulate body oxygen and energy consumption, increasing basal metabolic rates; Progesterone that increases core temperature during ovulation, relaxes smooth muscle, reduces gall bladder activity, normalizes blood clotting and vascular tone, and assists in thyroid function; and Melatonin that improves the circadian rhythm and induces drowsiness for better sleep, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n