NEWSMAX: … Dr. Tutera explains that the painless treatment method involves inserting a rice-sized pellet under the patient’s hip which delivers a precise dose of hormones. Unlike other therapies that take a “one size fits all” method, SottoPelle is customized for each patient, based on their individual hormonal deficiencies. Once in place, the pellets work with the patient’s own bodily functions and other medications to release just the right levels of hormones necessary to maintain levels of key brain chemicals, such as dopamine, which are depleted in Parkinson’s patients.
“Hormone therapy has been used in the past, and there’s documentation in the [medical] literature that it has been beneficial, but the results have been so spotty because of the fact that they were always using other forms of delivering the hormones, usually pills, for the most part,” Dr. Tutera explains.
But with SottoPelle therapy, the patient’s heart rate and blood flow govern the release of hormones from the pellets implanted under the skin… (more)
