Endocrinology is a sub-specialty of internal medicine totally focused on the highly quantitative science of hormones. Now that the massive nonsexual, rapid acting influences of sex hormones , operating broadly throughout the body & more specifically & critically upon the components of the brain, the immune/inflammatory system & the human mind, have finally come to be appreciated, hormone therapy must be redesigned so as to take these novel yet powerful influences into account.  And this means that a sophisticated, precision-based form of hormone therapy must be mandated instead of the standardized products of the past or the slapdash, erratically delivered burnt offerings of naturopathy, compounded bioidenticals & alternative medicine.