#21: Dawn Ipsen, Pharmacist: the modern science of Compounding Pharmacies and how they can personalize your pharmaceutical medication for YOUl

Are you familiar with compounding pharmacies? This is not cauldron and puppy dog tail work. Dawn Ipsen, Doctor of Pharmacy, and owner of Clark’s Compounding Pharmacy and Kusler’s Compounding Pharmacy, breaks down all about compounding pharmacies, the mission of which is to personalize the pharmaceutical to the individual patient. Cutting edge medicine is all about personalizing the program- how about putting together the right ingredients, in the right formulation, removing the wrong fillers, and choosing the best form of administration for the patient? This is an amazing science. We start with describing the characteristics of a modern-day compounding pharmacy. Then we systematically walk through some of the most common things that get compounded: pharmaceuticals without fillers (aka ‘excipients’) so your medications won’t make you sicker, bioidentical hormones, sinus medications, topical preparations and others like low dose naltrexone, ketamine and oxytocin. Listen in to think about how a compounding pharmacy can improve your health and wellness with the incredibly knowledgeable and experienced Dawn Ipsen.

Resources:

Clark’s Compounding Pharmacy in Bellevue, Washington: https://www.clarkspharmacywa.com/

Kusler’s Compounding Pharmacy in Snohomish, Washington: https://www.kuslerspharmacy.net/

Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding: https://www.a4pc.org/ and to to find a compounding pharmacy near you https://a4pc.org/APC/FindaCompounder.aspx