The story behind Verso
I studied medicine at Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, came to Philadelphia for my residency, and completed my training at Drexel in 2001. The twenty-five years since have been psychiatry, treating depression, anxiety, PTSD and ADHD in adults and in children. Mood, sleep, energy and focus are what a psychiatrist works with, and they are also the first things to change when hormones do.
Estrogen, progesterone and testosterone act on the same systems antidepressants act on. So a patient would describe low mood, disrupted sleep and a fatigue that rest did not touch, and what was driving it would be plain enough to me. What I did not have was anywhere good to send her. Prescribing collapsed across medicine after the 2002 trial and never properly recovered, and a fifteen-minute appointment cannot take the history this needs.
So I trained for it. On top of my boards in psychiatry and in obesity medicine, I completed a fellowship in anti-aging and functional medicine, and I started treating hormones directly instead of referring them onward. A striking number of the people I had been treating for years got better.
Then I needed that care myself, and found out how long it takes even from inside the profession. Verso is the clinic I would have wanted to send someone to. The same clinician every visit, labs and follow-up included, and nothing marked up. When hormone therapy is not the answer, we say so on the first call.
Dr. Jutta Vogt
Triple board-certified psychiatrist

