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Benefits of a Compounding Pharmacy

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What is a compounding pharmacy? The word compound means to combine two or more things together. Basically, the compounding pharmacy specializes in putting two or more kind of medications or products together and make a new product. All the medications in the compounding pharmacy are made from scratch and are customized for each patient depending […]

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Dehydroepiandrosterone DHEA

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Related Glands Adrenal Glands Ovaries Testes What is Dehydroepiandrosterone? Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is an important precursor hormone. Precursors are substances that are converted by the body into hormones. DHEA is the highest circulating steroid present in the human body. It does not have much biological effect on its own but is powerful when converted into hormones […]

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Cortisol

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Related Glands Adrenal Glands Hypothalamus Pituitary Gland Related Diseases & Conditions Adrenal Fatigue Adrenal Incidentaloma Adrenal Insufficiency Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Cushing Syndrome Cushings Disease Pituitary Tumors Cortisol is often called the “stress hormone” because of its connection to the stress response, however, cortisol is much more than just a hormone released during stress. Understanding cortisol […]