Dr Thierry HERTOGHE

The endocrine consultation, physical exam, thyroid, curing diseases with hormone therapiesThe endocrine consultation, physical exam, thyroid, curing diseases with hormone therapiesThe endocrine consultation, physical exam, thyroid, curing diseases with hormone therapies

The endocrine consultation, physical exam, thyroid, curing diseases with hormone therapies

2 days:

The endocrine system: a review
Hormone actions:  an overview

Factors that impact on the endocrine System :
•    Aging
•    physical exercise
•    daylight and darkness
•    sleep and sleep deprivation


Effects of Hormone Therapies on
•    Free radicals: the antioxidant hormones
•    Lifespan

Hormone lab tests and treatment: overview
Balancing the endocrine system: How to balance one hormone with the other

Endocrine dysfunctions in chronic fatigue syndrome

Thyroid  Deficiency
•    physiology
•    diagnosis
•    effect of thyroid hormones on age related diseases
•    studies showing associations of disease with TSH and thyroid hormone levels within the reference range
•    treatment
•    T3 + T4 treatment versus T4
•    Follow-up problems : how to solve them
•    Some practical case studies with thyroid treatment


1 day:

The Endocrine Consultation:
•    Anamnesis: medical history, clinical symptoms
•    The physical endocrine examination (4h)
•    The interpretation of laboratory tests: blood, saliva, 24 h urine (overview)
•    Hormone treatments (short overview)
•    Follow-up

Balancing Hormones: how to overcome and avoid hormone imbalances
Hormones to cure disease: practical tips and doses for hormone treatments in diseases illustrated with presentation of patient records
•    Chronic fatigue syndrome
•    Mood disorders
•    Sleep disorders
•    Psychiatric diseases
•    Neurological diseases
•    Premature aging face and body
•    Thinness, anorexia, cachexia
•    Obesity
•    Skin diseases
•    Hair diseases
•    Cardiac diseases
•    Rheumatic disorders

The Endocrine Consultation:
•    Laboratory tests: blood, saliva, 24 h urine (overview)
•    Main serum hormone lab tests to ask for an initial assessment
•    Main 24-hour urine hormone lab tests to ask for an initial assessment
•    Main saliva hormone tests
•    Main hormone tests to do in the follow-up

1 day ½
•    Interesting cases of  patients treated with multiple hormone replacement, including GH
•    Reports of female patients treated with transdermal estradiol and progesterone
•    Reports of female patients treated with transdermal estradiol and progesterone
•    40’Reports of measurement of biologic age  in patients
•    Unexpected changes that may occur in hormone therapies; Treating hormone deficiencies with tests borderline low within the reference range
•    Treatment of obese persons with hormone treatments
•    Session with on stag e live consultations with hormone treatments
•    Treatment of sexual problems with hormone treatments