Hormone Upgrade & Wellness Center
Hormone Upgrade & Wellness Center is a single-clinician practice on Draper Avenue in La Jolla, led by Deb Wainwright, DNP, a nurse practitioner who has worked in bioidentical hormone therapy for over twenty years. Its lab page names the markers it runs, from Reverse T3 and TPO antibodies to HOMA-IR and lipoprotein particles. Its peptide page names eight compounds individually.
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Deb Wainwright, DNP, ANP-BC, APRN, APHN-BC
Double board certified Nurse Practitioner holding a Doctor of Nursing Practice. Board certification in Bio Identical Hormone Optimization from the Academy of Preventive and Innovative Medicine.
Published qualificationsBSN from Western Sydney University, Australia; MSN as an Adult Nurse Practitioner from The George Washington University; Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Frontier Nursing University. The clinic states she has practised bioidentical hormone therapy for over twenty years.
Care at Hormone Upgrade & Wellness Center
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What people come here for
Kinds of care
Tests and services
- Hair loss treatment
- Prescription and procedural care for hair thinning.
- IV vitamin therapy
- Vitamin and fluid infusions marketed for energy and recovery.
- Medical facials & skin treatments
- Clinical-grade facials, microneedling and peels.
- Menopause hormone therapy
- Estrogen/progesterone care for perimenopause and menopause.
- Methylene blue (off-label)
- A prescription dye and antidote, sold by clinics for energy and cognition. Off-label for those uses, with no human trial showing benefit.
- PRP injections
- Your own concentrated platelets injected for joints, skin or scalp.
- Peptide therapy
- Compounded peptides marketed for recovery, growth hormone and repair.
- Testosterone therapy
- Prescription treatment for diagnosed low testosterone.
- Vitamin & lipotropic injections
- Quick shots of B12, glutathione and fat-metabolism compounds.
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Practical information
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