A Texas hormone pellet company that trains independent clinics, with one patient-facing training clinic of its own in Irving
Biote trains other people's clinics to do hormone pellet therapy. It is not a chain. About 9,200 certified practitioners work out of roughly 5,300 independently owned practices, and Biote's own annual report compares the arrangement to a franchise: the company supplies the two-day certification course, the dosing software, access to compounded pellets and a supplement line, and the individual clinic bills the patient. If you book with a Biote provider in your city, you are booking with a separate business that pays Biote for training and supply. The one exception is the Irving headquarters. The building on West Walnut Hill Lane holds the corporate offices, the call center and the National Training Center, and it also holds a working patient clinic operating as Resurge under Kris Wusterhausen, DO. Trainee clinicians perform supervised insertions there on real patients, which is how the certification course ends. The therapy is bioidentical estradiol or testosterone pressed into a pellet and placed under the skin of the upper buttocks during a short office visit. Dosing comes out of comprehensive lab work and a symptom questionnaire run through Biote's clinical decision software. Pellets dissolve over three to six months, so most patients return two to four times a year, and Biote's own FAQ warns it can take two insertions before the effect settles. The company counted around 400,000 active patients at the end of 2025 and says its providers have performed roughly 6 million procedures since 2012. About 85 percent of those procedures were for women. The pellets are compounded rather than FDA-approved, and they come from 503B outsourcing facilities including Biote's own subsidiary Asteria Health. That subsidiary recalled estradiol and testosterone pellets shipped between May 2025 and January 2026 over possible metal particulate, which the FDA classified as a Class II recall in February 2026. Compounded hormone pellets are also a contested category: a 2020 National Academies review found the evidence does not support them being as safe or effective as approved hormone products, and ACOG advises against prescribing them routinely where an approved formulation exists. Biote does not do stem cell, exosome or PRP work of any kind.
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Biote publishes no patient prices, because it does not bill patients. Each certified clinic sets its own fee for an insertion and its own retail price on Biote supplements. Expect to get a number from the individual practice, not from Biote, and expect compounded pellets to sit outside insurance coverage.
Pricing is indicative and set by each clinic. Confirm the final cost directly before treatment.
3 reviews
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Experience
Biote needs to train their retailers much better. More monitoring is necessary. Even after the first dose of pellets caused complications Biote's answer as to why where wrong. Find a better thought out solution to you needs please. For your well being.
Experience
Thought this clinic would help me with my severe menopause issues but the doctor created other more severe issues. Unbeknownst to me I was given a very high dose of testosterone along with estrogen and progesterone. My voice got scratchy, body hair started to grow more, I had bleeding after nothing for 7 years and there were physical developments that are now permanent despite it being over a year. When I brought it up the doctor acted all put out about it.
Experience
When I had my ovaries removed, I did not realize all that would follow. They took much more than I had expected. BIOTE has given me back a big part of myself. And my hair! Is no longer falling out! Anyone needing help with sleep, moods, emotional regulation, brain fog, ADD, getting things done, sleeping through the night, sugar cravings, mindless eating, and anger โ this is for you.
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3.7out of 5 on Google from 40 ratings
Google shows 3.7 from 40 reviews at Biote's Irving corporate address, and the listing carries no Google tally of review themes. No individual review text was retrievable. On BBB, two unanswered complaints concern supplement orders and refunds, while a single five star review discusses hormone pellet treatment received through a certified provider.
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Biote comes up often in menopause, perimenopause and TRT subreddits, and reports are split. Some posters describe better sleep, energy and libido after pellets, while others report weight gain, hair shedding, acne or mood swings they could not adjust because the dose stays fixed for months. Clinicians question the pellet model.
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Komal Bajaj
Chief Medical Officer
MD, MS
An OB/GYN and clinical geneticist who still sees patients, appointed Biote's chief medical officer in June 2026. She was the first chief quality officer for NYC Health + Hospitals at Jacobi and North Central Bronx, a two-campus system covering about a million patients, and is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She has advised the Secretary of Health and Human Services through the AHRQ National Advisory Council and sat on The Joint Commission's chief physician council. MD from Northwestern, master's in health professions education from the MGH Institute.
Mickey Karram
Chair, Medical Advisory Board
MD
Director of urogynecology at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati and a volunteer professor of OB/GYN at the University of Cincinnati. Board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. Past president of the American Urogynecology Society, honorary editor-in-chief of the International Urogynecology Journal, and co-author of two standard texts on pelvic anatomy and reconstructive pelvic surgery.
Cory Rice
Chief Clinical Advisor
DO
Trained in internal medicine at Methodist Medical Center of Dallas, where he was chief resident, after a forensic science degree at Baylor and a DO from the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. He founded Modern Medicine, a group of outpatient practices, holds certifications through the Institute for Functional Medicine and A4M, and says he has personally done more than 20,000 pellet procedures.
Bruce Dorr
Senior Medical Advisor
MD
OB/GYN subspecialised in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. Medical school at Wayne State, residency at the University of Colorado, where he later ran the urogynecology division and the urodynamics lab as an assistant professor. He leads the OB/GYN department and robotic surgery at Littleton Hospital in Colorado and has been with Biote since 2013.
Kris Wusterhausen
Physician, Biote Training Clinic
DO
The doctor patients actually see at the Irving site. Family medicine residency at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth, finishing as co-chief resident in 2001, and board certified through the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians. He ran the Campbell Clinic in Parker County from 2002 to 2019, trained with Cenegenics, opened the Resurge Clinic in 2008, and is certified in peptide therapy through the International Peptide Society.
Lisa Jukes
Medical Advisory Board
MD
Board-certified OB/GYN, UT Southwestern medical school in 1996 and residency there through 2000. She opened Modern Women's Health in Austin in 2004 and has been a Biote provider since the company started. She proctors for the Texas Institute of Robotic Surgery and speaks nationally for AbbVie.
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Biote is different from a traditional regenerative medicine clinic because it primarily operates as a hormone pellet training and supply company for independently owned medical practices. If you are considering treatment through a Biote provider, it is important to confirm which clinic is actually providing your care and what services that specific location offers.
Biote specializes in hormone pellet therapy using compounded estradiol and testosterone pellets. The pellets are inserted under the skin during an office visit and are intended to release hormones over several months. Treatment decisions are generally based on laboratory testing, symptoms and the provider's clinical assessment.
Because Biote works with independently owned practices, the patient experience can vary considerably from one provider to another. The clinic's medical team, consultation process, pricing, follow-up care and treatment protocols are determined by the individual practice rather than by a single nationwide Biote clinic.
Patients considering Biote should ask the provider which hormone will be used, how the dose was determined, how frequently follow-up blood tests are required, how often another insertion may be needed and what happens if the dose needs to be adjusted.
It is also worth distinguishing Biote from regenerative medicine providers. Biote does not provide stem cell therapy, exosome therapy or PRP treatment. Its primary focus is hormone pellet therapy and related products supplied through its network of certified practices.
Before booking treatment, review the specific provider's credentials, experience with hormone pellet therapy, total treatment costs and follow-up arrangements. Reviews can provide useful information about communication and patient experience, but individual experiences do not establish that a treatment will be safe or effective for everyone.
Biote reviews on My Stem Cell Guide include both positive and negative patient experiences. The current reviews discuss issues including treatment outcomes, complications, communication and the perceived benefits of hormone pellet therapy. Because these are individual accounts and are not independently verified medical outcomes, they should be considered alongside professional medical advice and the information provided by the treating provider.
For patients comparing hormone therapy providers, the most useful questions are not only how much the initial treatment costs, but also how frequently treatment is repeated, what monitoring is included, who manages dose adjustments and what the total expected cost will be over a year.
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