What Your Hormone Blood Test Isn’t Telling You

I can’t begin to tell you how often I hear stories of women who feel “off,” go get their hormones checked, and are then told by their doctor that their hormones are fine. But if they are “fine,” why then do they feel so very “off?”

If this sounds like you, please keep reading. Especially if you have had your hormones checked only by a blood test. 

Hormones that are normally measured via a blood test will only tell you "total levels.” This is why you must take your testing further by doing a urine test too. 

A hormone urine metabolite test is superior – far superior – because it tells you the pathways that your hormones are taking. If you’re unfamiliar with this term, “hormone pathways" are simply the metabolic processes which hormones are broken down and processed in the body, particularly focusing on the liver's two phases of detoxification: Phase 1 (hydroxylation) where hormones are made more potent and Phase 2 (conjugation) where they are tagged to be eliminated.

You need to know this critical information because you’ll know if your hormones are taking a healthy pathway or a pathway that promotes breast and reproductive cancer.

Yes, it's enough to do a blood test to get bio-identical hormones, but urine testing tells you SO much more! Pretty much everything you will ever want to know, like:

-Are your hormones promoting breast cancer, PCOS, or endometriosis? 

-Are your hormones to blame for unexplained weight gain or are your hormones inhibiting these conditions?

If you are seeing a conventional doctor, they will not know anything about this and sadly, many don't want to know anything about it. The urine test is extremely complicated and you have to be trained to learn how to read the results.

I have a wonderful functional practitioner in Miami who said recently that the amount of women who call her after taking the urine metabolite test, telling her, "I am so happy I did this test because my 2-OH was so high and I would have ended up getting breast cancer in a few years!" 

What are a few signs of hormonal imbalance?

* Uterine fibroids = estrogen dominance

* PCOS (also caused by insulin resistance)

* Endometriosis (also caused by insulin resistance)

* Fibrocystic/cystic breasts

* Severe mood swings

* Cortisol imbalances

You can order a hormone urine test from Life Extension by CLICKING HERE ... And what's great is that after you get your results back, you will call a clinician at Life Extension and they will review it with you and make recommendations for free!

There is also a great 30 second video that explains why you will benefit much more from doing a urine test. CLICK HERE to watch it. 

You simply cannot rely on blood testing alone to tell you what your hormones are doing. It is truly the key to preventing over 80% of all breast and reproductive cancers.  This is something you do for YOU.

Most functional doctors know about this test! CLICK HERE to find one in your area.