Text Box: Saliva hormone testing allows you to measure your levels of estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone. Comparing your female hormone levels to the normal range for your age will help you and your doctor evaluate how hormone replacement therapy will or has changed your hormone levels. Hormones can be tested through non-invasive tests from blood and urine. Currently, saliva testing is able to test levels of estradiol, estriol, estrone, progesterone, testosterone, DHT, DHEA, melatonin and cortisol. It is highly recommended to get a saliva test, for a base line level to start with before starting any hormone therapy. Then the tests should be repeated in 2 to 3 months. This way you will be able to evaluate if Hormone Replacement Therapy has affected your levels. It is then recommended to repeat the test again once a year while on this therapy. It is suggested that you test for Estriol, Estradiol, Estrone, Progesterone, Testosterone, Cortisol, DHEA, Melatonin, DHT and Pyrilinks D (urine test) for bones. Text Box: It is also very important, and well suggested, that you get your hormones tested in your 30’s-40’s, before you even enter perimenopause or menopause, to establish your normal hormone levels, and how your body metabolizes them. If you do the testing early, you will then have something to compare yourself, when you felt good and normal, to later when you begin menopause and your hormone levels begin to fall. This can help your healthcare professional prescribe the right dosages for you to get back on track. Finding a satisfactory dose for you can take several months and anything that you can do in advance to speed up the process will only help you in the long run. Your doctor may see dozens of patients that each need their own individual dose, so he will be experienced in helping you find where you should be. Just make sure that you tell him everything that changes, so you can aid him in his prescriptions. Text Box: Saliva Hormone Testing Text Box: "Testing my hormone levels with an at home saliva test made it so easy to see exactly what hormones my body was missing."

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Volume 1, Issue 3      Bioidentical Hormones: The Hormone Information you’ve been Looking for

Know Your Body, and your options, when it comes to using Bioidentical Hormones.  Individualized therapy is the goal when it comes to bioidentical hormones, so know your hormone levels. 

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Text Box: Saliva Hormone Testing Text Box: Below is a look at how the hormones estrogen and progesterone work together each month to keep one another in balance. In order for your body to function properly, making you comfortable, they need to be balanced each month. When reaching Perimenopause, if you miss a period, your body then does not produce estrogen, and the estrogen you already have in your body is not sufficient to balance the Text Box: progesterone. Estrogen Effects • Weight gain                                 • Depression, headaches                 • Fibrocystic breasts                       • Breast cancer risk