What's New: Encompass Wellness

New wellness clinic helps optimize your hormones and your health for amazing results

Story and photos by

Margaret Pennock

When it comes to aging, many of us have been told that fatigue, dry, dull skin and hair, loss of mental sharpness, weight gain, and multiple other issues are simply a ‘natural’ part of getting older. If you’re not ready to throw in the towel and accept that but want to discover the real reasons you aren’t feeling like yourself anymore, Mary J. Jordan (MJ) Certified Family Nurse Practitioner is here to help.

Located in Sioux Falls, MJ specializes in caring for the physical, mental, and sexual health of her patients. She shares, “I started my business because I am passionate about healthcare and Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). I love hearing the stories patients tell me about how much their lives and relationships have changed after starting HRT. I worked at a clinic in Sioux City for two years and had patients coming to me from Sioux Falls, SD, and Luverne, MN. They would drive two to four hours to the clinic for HRT and were persistent in getting me to come to Sioux Falls, SD.”

She does hormone replacement therapy in the form of a testosterone or estradiol pellet. The pellets are the size of a grain of rice and are placed under the subcutaneous fat of the upper buttocks. The pellets are bioidentical to the hormones that your body makes and are all natural. They are made from yams and soy. Women have the pellets placed every 3 months and men every 6 months.

MJ’s commitment to treating the root cause of her patient’s healthcare issues has led her to specialize in working to reverse disease rather than merely treating the symptoms. Her clinic, Encompass Wellness, provides HRT services for women and men to address problems caused by hormonal imbalances. In addition, she also provides IV hydration, and weight-loss strategies through customized plans including nutrition planning, nutraceuticals, fat-loss cream, semaglutide, and peptides to increase your metabolism as well as Botox® and filler.

According to MJ, “As we age, our endocrine system decreases hormonal production, which can affect a wide range of natural processes in our bodies. As women lose testosterone, they experience a lack of well-being; fatigue; weight gain; joint pain; brain fog; lack of libido; mood changes like irritability, anxiety, and depression; urinary incontinence; hot flashes, and night sweats. As men lose testosterone, they experience a decrease in libido and sexual performance, sleep and mood are affected, muscle and strength decrease, fatigue, and weight gain.”

Her philosophy is to help individuals optimize their health to enjoy life to the fullest. “Many of us assume as we age, we are supposed to feel unwell. Patients have come to me saying they have been to their primary care provider and were told everything is normal. The hormone labs are normal for their age, but we don’t want to feel our age. Biote® HRT optimizes the hormones by putting them back to the level you were at in your early 20s where you felt the best. Hormone deficiency causes many health issues and affects our quality of life.”

Encompass Wellness is an allinclusive health center. As a nurse practitioner, MJ addresses many common health issues like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, thyroid function, and depression. She has been a certified Biote® provider for over 2 years.

Discover more about Encompass Wellness at encompass-wellness.com n

DO YOU KNOW YOUR OMEGA-3 INDEX?

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that regulate your blood and brain’s structure and ability to perform. Omega-3s EPA and DHA are known to play specific roles in the structure and function of the brain and have important risk factor benefits for heart protection. About 60% of the brain is made up of fat. In fact, it’s one of the fattiest organs in the human body. It’s also one of the most important organs, as it plays a role in just about every major body system. “The higher the EPA level in the blood, the lower the rates of the different cardiovascular events, cardiovascular deaths, and even total mortality,” Dr. Bhatt said.

For health practitioners and consumers, the Omega-3 Index can be used as a tool to help personalize omega-3 intake. In other words, it can help them measure, modify and monitor these important nutrients in the diet. This is particularly important because there are so many individual variations in diet, genetics, and lifestyle.

There is also a lot of confusion when it comes to locating the most appropriate sources of omega3s. The reality is it doesn’t matter where your omega-3s come from – as long as whatever you’re consuming delivers a meaningful amount of EPA and DHA, enough that puts you in the protective zone of 8% on the Omega-3 Index scale. I recommend 1-2 grams of EPA and DHA daily.

Get the Omega-3 Index test at Pharmacy Specialties & Clinic for 20% discount months of April and May. OmegaMax capsules are also discounted 20%.

2333

Hours: Mon – Fri 8:30am – 5:30pm