An important aspect of women’s health not to be overlooked is hormonal balance, specifically, serum imbalances of sex steroid hormones and their metabolites—estrogens and estrogen metabolites, androgens, progesterone, and sex-hormone-binding-globulin (SHBG). The imbalance of these hormones can have a significant impact on the degenerative aging process as well as on chronic health disorders. Recent research links the balance of these hormones and metabolites with primary mechanisms of bone turnover, lipid metabolism, cardiac function, cognitive and emotional health, immune function, as well as hormone dependent diseases, such as breast and endometrial cancers and lupus. Hormonal health is linked to some of the most common and critical health conditions facing women including, PMS, perimenopause, polycystic ovary syndrome, dysmenorrhea, fibrocystic breast disease, sexual dysfunction, dementia, heart disease, and osteoporosis.
A New Leaf’s Great Smokies Diagnostic Laboratories (Link: www.gsdl.com) Women’s Hormonal Health Assessment is a one-day, single-serum lab that provides an assessment of hormonal balance for both pre and post-menopausal women and includes clinically useful ratios. This provides the doctor with an understanding of how the patient’s sex steroid metabolism is impacting her health and can help the doctor detect and treat subtle irregularities that can lead to the development of hormone-dependent degenerative conditions, such as osteoporosis and breast cancer.
After receiving the test results, the doctor and patient work together to make supplementation, lifestyle, and dietary changes and customize therapies to work towards achieving hormonal balance, improve symptoms of chronic disorders, and help prevent degenerative aging.
Salivary Hormone Testing
Salivary hormone testing recognized by the American Association of
Endocrinology as the gold standard for determining the most accurate
levels of::
* Estradiol
* Progesterone
* Testosterone
* DHEA
* Cortisol
Saliva testing is a convenient,and above all, accurate means of testing steroid hormones.
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