The Number One Way to Ensure Hormone Balance.

Start with the best test!

Hormones are a HOT topic for many women, because it is critical with everything from energy levels, weight gain, anxiety, panic attacks, and PMS, to thyroid function and cancer prevention.  As women age, our sex hormone levels change dramatically.  And we SHOULD have that change.  But at EVERY stage of life, we also need BALANCE to feel optimal. 

Women are often told they would benefit from hormone replacement therapy.  But again, the key to optimizing sex hormones is BALANCE!  The problem is hormone replacement recommendations are often based on blood tests and symptoms, and sometimes symptoms alone.   If hormone balance is that important, then we to make sure our tests provide the complete picture, before making recommendations.  Otherwise, hormone replacement therapy could be ineffective, or even worse, dangerous. 

The Gold Standard is Urinary testing.  Unfortunately, very few practitioners order it, or are versed in reading the results. 

Blood tests usually consist of the three main sex hormones: estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.  You may also get a breakdown of the three main types of estrogen.  This provides a simple snapshot in time.  But blood tests rarely provide information about your hormone precursors and reveal nothing about how you are metabolizing these hormones.  Without this information, it is impossible to truly know what is needed to optimize and balance your hormones. 

You may have very few hormone precursors and we need to start there, by filling your tank.  Or maybe you have plenty of precursors, but dietary and lifestyle choices are metabolizing certain hormones in your body and creating a very undesirable imbalance.  We could keep adding more hormones, which would add a lot more fuel to the fire.  But you would be adding fuel to the wrong fire, making yourself more and more miserable.  Or worse yet, predisposing you to diseases such as cancer. 

Estrogen alone is metabolized by three different pathways.  One is very safe.  One is very dangerous, binding to and damaging DNA.  Another key piece of knowledge is how well you methylate your Estrogens.  Do you detox them well?  Or does excess Estrogen get stuck in your body because you don’t have the right nutrients to detox them? 

Furthermore, how are your Cortisol levels playing into all of this?  Is your Cortisol being metabolized and cleared from your body properly? 

Starting to sound complicated?  It is!  It is a Hormone Soup Dance.  When you change one small thing, it affects a whole cascade of events in your body that are critical for your health.  So, it is vital to nail recommendations by making sure you know what is happening above and below the hormones in question. 

Urinary testing provides the entire complex interactive picture.  It shows sex hormone levels, their precursors, how they are being metabolized, how well you methylate them, what your Cortisol levels are how, how Cortisol is being metabolized, how well you produce Melatonin, what your oxidative stress levels are, and your level of certain key neurotransmitters.  It is complicated.  Very few people do it.  This is my passion. 

You have one beautiful life to live.  Every single day is a gift.  You deserve to get the most out of your life.  You deserve to feel good! 

Let’s lock arms, get your full hormone picture, and then develop a plan to restore balance and therefore vitality to your unique body! 

Please reach out!  Let’s do this!