Guide to Lifelong Hormones
The Power of Connection: How Hormones Link Every System for Wellbeing
Hormones touch almost every aspect of your health – mood, metabolism, sleep, immunity, and more. This guide shows how Levitas connects the dots to restore balance over the long term.
Your Hormone Health, At a Glance
Use this guide to understand why hormones matter, what you can do naturally, and when medical support makes sense.
Why Hormones Matter
Hormones are your body’s messengers, regulating energy, mood, weight, sleep, and sexual health. When they’re out of balance, every system feels it.
Lifestyle & Natural Support
Simple changes in sleep, stress, movement, and nutrition can significantly improve hormone signalling and resilience—often before medication is needed.
Medical Optimisation
When lifestyle steps aren’t enough, Levitas offers advanced testing and tailored bioidentical hormone therapy, monitored by experienced clinicians.
Signs Your Hormones May Be Out of Balance
These early symptoms are often dismissed as “just stress” or “just ageing” but usually point to deeper hormonal shifts.
When Hormones Shift for Women
Menstrual changes, hot flushes, night sweats, vaginal dryness, fertility changes, and mood swings may all signal perimenopause, menopause, thyroid, or adrenal shifts.
Female hormone symptom checkerWhen Hormones Shift for Men
Reduced drive, erectile changes, abdominal weight gain, loss of stamina, reduced strength, and brain fog often point to declining testosterone and related hormones.
Male hormone symptom checkerYour Guide to Key Hormones
Understanding how each hormone behaves makes it easier to see why symptoms appear—and how we can help.
Oestrogen
Supports mood, sleep, skin, and bone density. Beyond fertility, it’s essential for cognitive health and emotional resilience as women age.
Progesterone
Balances oestrogen, supports restful sleep, and helps calm anxiety and irritability by stabilising the nervous system.
Testosterone
Essential for libido, muscle mass, motivation, and cognitive sharpness in both men and women.
DHEA
A key adrenal hormone that feeds into other sex hormones and influences mood, energy, and immune function.
Vitamin D
Regulates bone health, immune balance, and insulin, influencing multiple hormone pathways throughout the body.
Cortisol
The stress hormone that shapes how you respond to life’s demands. Chronic imbalance disrupts mood, metabolism, and immune function.
Insulin
Manages blood sugar and metabolism, deeply connected to appetite, weight, stress hormones, and reproductive hormones.
Thyroid & Melatonin
Thyroid hormones (T4, T3) set metabolic pace, while melatonin shapes circadian rhythm—together they influence energy, mood, and long-term health.
Hormone Changes with Ageing
With age, women navigate perimenopause and menopause while men experience gradual testosterone decline (andropause). These shifts affect not only fertility but also metabolism, cardiovascular health, bone density, and cognition. At Levitas, we see these hormone changes as an opportunity: with the right testing, lifestyle support, and—when needed— carefully monitored treatment, you can stay healthier for longer.
Lifestyle & Natural Hormone Support
Not every imbalance needs medication. Often the first step is to restore hormone balance naturally through simple, consistent changes in how you live.
- Daily routine: regular sleep/wake times, consistent meals, and daily movement.
- Stress management: breathwork, yoga, meditation, and boundaries around work.
- Nutrition: whole foods rich in protein, fibre, minerals, and healthy fats.
- Circadian rhythm: daylight exposure in the morning, reduced blue light at night.
- Hydration & minerals: electrolytes and magnesium to support hormone signalling.
Medical Support & Optimisation
When lifestyle steps are not enough, medical support can make a decisive difference. Levitas offers:
- Advanced hormone testing to uncover root causes.
- Hormone optimisation therapy tailored to your profile.
- Bioidentical hormone replacement options for women and men in the UK.
- Ongoing monitoring for safety and long‑term benefit.
- Integrated care: we always combine medical treatment with lifestyle and natural support.
Our clinics in Esher, Guildford, and London (including Mayfair, Westminster, Kensington, Chelsea, Knightsbridge, Notting Hill, Belgravia, Chiswick, and Hammersmith) provide trusted access to modern hormone care.
Explore Your Options
Go deeper into the approaches we use at Levitas.
Why choose Levitas for hormone careThese lifestyle and medical strategies support patients across Surrey (Kingston, Esher, Oxshott, Epsom, Ashtead, Horsley, Guildford, Dorking, Haslemere, Farnham, Liphook, Petersfield) and London (Mayfair, Westminster, Knightsbridge, Kensington, Notting Hill, Belgravia, Chiswick, Hammersmith).
Women’s Hormone Optimisation
For women, we often focus on oestrogen, progesterone, and thyroid health to manage perimenopause, menopause, cycle changes, and fertility concerns.
Take the female symptom checkerMen’s Hormone Optimisation
For men, care usually centres on testosterone, DHEA, and growth pathways to restore strength, drive, mood, and cognitive performance.
Take the testosterone symptom checkerReady to look at your hormones more closely?
Book an initial consultation at a Levitas clinic in London or Surrey, or use our symptom checkers to understand where to start.
The Treatment Process
The first step in the treatment process is to visit the doctor for an initial consultation
During the initial consultation the doctor will take a full comprehensive history to understand the present concerns.
The doctor may take blood or arrange sputum tests. (there will be an additional charges for these tests).