28 Day Female Cycle Hormone Profile, Salivary PathLab offers a comprehensive endocrinology test menu that salivary hormone evaluations.

• Female Hormone Profile [FEMSAL]
• E2, DHEAs, Progesterone, Testosterone
• Adrenal Stress Profile [SADREN]
• Cortisol 8am, 12noon, 4pm, 8pm; DHEAs 8am
• Male Hormone Profile [MALSAL]
• DHEAs, Testosterone, E2
• Sleep Profile [SLPSAL]
• Cortisol midnight, Melatonin midnight
• 28 Day Female Cycle Hormone Profile [SFH28]
• 11 x samples of E2, Progesterone; 1 x Testosterone

TEST OVERVIEW

Adequate levels and an appropriate balance of the steroid hormones (Estrone, Estradiol, Estriol, Progesterone, Testosterone, DHEA, DHT, Cortisol, Androstenedione, Melatonin) are necessary for maintaining optimal health and wellbeing in both females and males. This family of steroid hormones supports a large range of essential physiological functions including blood lipid balance, bone mineral density, fertility, sexuality, a general sense of well being, as well as certain aspects of balanced brain functioning.

Symptoms are generally more likely to be related to bio-available levels of hormones than to total levels. Unless you order the more complicated (and expensive) equilibrium dialysis determinations of free and albumin-bound hormone in serum you will not get the information needed from a standard reference laboratory. Even then, chances are you can't collect enough samples to get a complete picture of the circadian and periodic hormone patterns that are clinically critical to proper diagnosis, treatment and monitoring.

Salivary assessment, in contrast, gives you accurate information about bio-available hormone levels. Because it is a simple collection of saliva, it can be performed any time, anywhere your patient needs to do it. There is no need for a blood draw.

At PathLab, testing of steroid hormones in saliva can assist in providing an index of the body’s hormonal environment to determine if any symptoms you are experiencing are associated with an imbalance or lack of specific hormones.

Cost: $250