Need To Get Your Hormones Tested?

Symptoms telling you something is not right? If so, it's time to get to the cause.

Are your periods becoming irregular? Are you tired and irritable? Do you have difficulty sleeping? Are you gaining weight for no reason?

How can you best assess what is going on?

Identifying a hormone problem is a little bit like putting together a puzzle. Usually, there is not one simple test, but a combination of test results and symptoms.

You may have already had a routine test done and your results may have appeared fine.

If this is the case and you still feel unwell and are presenting with symptoms of hormone imbalance, you may have a subclinical hormone imbalance. This means it is not serious enough to be classified as a hormone disease, but it may be serious enough to cause you grief!

What Are The Most Common Hormonal Conditions?

Thyroid disease
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
Insulin resistance causing weight gain
Adrenal insufficiency
Menopause
Estrogen dominance causing PMT, heavy periods and fibroids
Endometriosis
Infertility

Hormone Testing: Blood, Saliva and Urine Tests

There is no perfect hormone test. You may need to look at hormones from a few angles.

Blood testing is good for some things, such as detecting menopause and confirming ovulation, but blood testing cannot accurately measure hormone levels during hormone replacement treatment.

Saliva testing is better for monitoring hormone replacement, and it is also a good choice for assessing oestrogen dominance and cortisol. Saliva levels can be somewhat unreliable. Both blood and saliva tests have the disadvantage of being a 'snapshot' look at hormones that fluctuate greatly during day.

24-hour urinary hormone testing is a new approach. It has many advantages. Firstly, it measures total daily hormone production and metabolism. This avoids inaccuracy due to fluctuations. Secondly, it measures hormone metabolites as well as primary hormones. Hormone metabolites are hormones whose molecular structure has been changed in order to be excreted from the body. Some metabolites such as 16-hydroxy oestrone are particularly risky for breast cancer.

Testing Beyond Hormones

Just knowing your hormone levels is not enough. Hormone balance and function is affected by other aspects of health, such as bowel and liver function.

At MassAttack we apply a broad spectrum approach to hormone balance and test for basic biochemistry, insulin balance, inflammation and more. Most of this is done by blood test, but some new urine metabolic testing is available.

Diagnosis by Symptom Evaluation

Your symptoms and medical history give us the best information. By completing our online Health and Hormone Assessment we can gather this information. I will then provide the referral for the most appropriate tests for you given your case history. This means you get exactly the tests you need.

From these test restults, I will then customise a health and hormonal balancing plan to ensure you are doing everything possible to balance your hormones naturally.

Remember, much of the health care industry is focused on treating symptoms rather than investigating underlying causes.

Over the counter medications and natural supplementation is a good example of this. Unfortunately, these options leave underlying health conditions and hormone imbalances undiagnosed and untreated. This leaves you on a downhill slide of poor health and a lifetime of un-wellness.

Likewise, a formal diagnosis of a health condition only leads to wellness if you investigate the underlying causes and implement a tailored treatment strategy to reverse the drivers. This is why my program is unique and achieves such long lasting results.