How to Check Your Hormonal Levels
Contributed by People's Pharmacy

HormoneCheck screening profiles are an accurate and reliable way to monitor your personal levels of steroid hormones, including estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, and cortisol. Adequate, but not excessive levels of these hormones are vital for maintaining both physical and emotional health.

HormoneCheck profiles can help determine whether hormonal imbalances are affecting the way your feel. They also allow you the freedom to monitor changes in your physical health, and can help your health care provider determine an effective, natural way to return your hormones to their proper levels.

When to Collect:

To accurately gauge the effects of intervention, you should always collect saliva at approximately the same time of day, preferably in the morning.

For women wishing to measure levels of estradiol and progesterone, it is important to collect according to the following schedule: If you are menstruating normally, or even sporadically, please collect saliva on days 20, 21, and 22 after the first day of your last period. (It may be helpful for you to mark the appropriate days on your calender.) If you are on hormone replacement therapy, you may continue with your current medication. However, please collect during the part of your cycle when all hormone prescriptions are being taken. If you are skipping periods for months at a time, or are post-menopausal, you may collect at any time.

For more information about Hormone Check salivary screening or to obtain the kit, please contact any of the People's Pharmacy locations in Austin, Texas. If you are outside of Austin, contact the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (800) 927-4227 to find your nearest wholistic pharmacy.

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