Saliva Hormone Testing

What are the benefits of saliva hormone testing?

• Saliva hormone testing is most useful for uncovering hormone imbalance.  For example: discovering a woman has insufficient progesterone to balance high estradiol levels or; that high cortisol levels are interfering with the action of progesterone and testosterone.  Once a hormone imbalance has been uncovered, homeopathic treatment can be instituted.  

• Saliva testing can be used to approximate whether hormone levels are too high or too low as a result of supplementation, but the actual dosage adjustment will still be symptom driven. 

• Saliva collection is painless and more convenient for the patient, particularly when multiple samples are required. 

• Saliva measures hormone that actually made it into tissue, because hormones pass through saliva gland tissue before getting into saliva.  Blood measures hormones that might eventually get to the tissue.