Maturo Medical Wellness

Our Story

Dr. Maturo is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor whose focus is on Natural Endocrinology (hormones) specifically in relation to preventive medicine, hormone optimizing with bioidentical hormones, and a very strong emphasis on treating thyroid disease. She is considered a hormone and thyroid expert and has treated thousands of patients over the course of 15 years in practice.

She diagnosed herself with Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism in her 3rd year of medical school, and has a special affinity for offering compassionate care to patients since she has been there as a thyroid patient herself. She can emphathize with her patients’ struggles and truly listens and cares.

In her early years after medical school, Dr Maturo worked and trained with a soon to be retiring board certified endocrinologist with 30 years experience, who passed along his wisdom and experience before he retired. Hormones became her passion during that time!

Years later, Dr Maturo became one of the few practitioners in Arizona certified in bio-identical hormone replacement therapy as taught by Dr Neal Rouzier, MD, a world reknown hormone balancing expert who trains physicians in the art and science of hormone optimization, using evidence-based protocols. Dr Maturo is also a selected referral physician with Forever Health Network, a listing of hormone balancing experts promoted by Suzanne Somers.

For those patients who are frustrated with doctors telling them "your levels are normal" despite lingering symptoms and whose current doctors refuse to change medicines or adjust dose, you'll find the help you need with Dr. Maturo. She has Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and hypothyroidism herself and knows both as doctor and patient how frustrating it can be to get the right treatment for your thyroid.

Maturo Medical Wellness also offers Medically Supervised Weight Loss programs within the practice. The type of program used is based on your individual needs.

DR MATURO'S STORY...

For years I struggled with undiagnosed Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and hypothyroidism. Looking back, I’m convinced I had it since teen years, which explains a lot of the sudden “teenage angst” I experienced at around 16 years of age. The constant low grade fatigue and depression became my normal, over time, and I just got used to it, to be honest.

Fast forward to medical school many years later. I then really felt the effects of this condition physically and emotionally, and had a year long bout of heart palpitations and vertigo that baffled several doctors, including a cardiologist. It took many frustrating trips to several different doctors to finally get the true cause (Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis) properly diagnosed and optimally treated. I ended up figuring it out myself, as a 3rd year medical student, when I wandered into a Basha’s grocery store and saw their mobile lab offering bloodwork that patients could order for themselves. I ordered a full thyroid panel and when I got the results back, it was clearly a case of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (high antibody levels seen) and by that point, an obviously lower functioning thyroid with hypothyroidism showing up on the bloodwork. I was so relieved to finally have a diagnosis for all the elusive symptoms I’d been experiencing for decades by that point!!!

But then I started to see that it wasn’t as simple as “take this pill and you’ll be better”. I went to different doctors for treatment and kept being told “your labs are normal, your thyroid is fine now” even though I didn’t feel fine yet at all. I felt better than I did before treatment, but I definitely didn’t feel totally well. I was still tired. My hair was thin and constantly falling out in clumps in the shower. I still felt moody and depressed at times. It wasn’t until I found the right doctor who would really listen and make adjustments on my medications that I FINALLY started to feel better.

So you can bet I became passionate about helping others with thyroid disease after my own personal experience as a patient with thyroid disease!! After graduating medical school I trained extensively with a board certified endocrinologist who had been in practice for over 30 years. I wanted to learn as much as I could from an experienced hormone specialist in order to fully understand all aspects of hormonal conditions and imbalances that elude doctors and frustrate patients.

Drawing upon my own personal experience as a patient and my medical training as a new physician, I passionately dedicated my practice to natural endocrinology and to hormone optimizing and balancing. I discovered while practicing that hormonal imbalances are often the root cause of weight issues, as well as the missing link to wellness, preventive medicine and overall health. And most importantly, I began to realize that keeping hormones optimized is the key to true preventive wellness and staying healthy for your whole life– so that age related degenerative diseases never appear. When hormones are deficient as we age, we become more susceptible to the age related diseases such as heart disease, osteoporosis, Altzeimers, dementia and cancers.

Optimizing hormones as we age will not only help us feel better and look younger, it protects our health as we age and promotes healthy longevity! What an amazingly powerful effect they have on health– much better than any drug out there, right?? Combine that with a healthy lifestyle, clean diet, and regular exercise….and we’re going to be living past 100 hopefully! The combination of healthy diet, regular exercise, good sleep and optimized hormones is really where it is at for amazing health! What a revelation when I realized this.

In my practice I treat a lot of thyroid disorders, (hypothyrodism and Hashimoto’s especially), hormonal imbalances of the adrenal system (adrenal dysfunctions such as “adrenal fatigue”), and men’s and women’s hormonal issues related to perimenopause, menopause and andropause (male “menopause”). I also help women who suffer from PMS, PMDD (pre-menstrual dysphorphic disorder) and PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome).

I look forward to helping YOU get back to feeling like yourself again...