Hormone Profiles
Serotonin and Dopamine Profiles
Dopamine and serotonin, sometimes called the happy hormones are chemicals from the brain that act as signals to help regulate many of your bodily functions including your metabolism, sleep, memory and your emotional state. Serotonin is also found in your digestive system and plays an important metabolic role there. Your genetic information will help understand the production, transportation, binding and clearance of serotonin and dopamine. Based on these findings, treatment protocols that optimize these hormone levels will be addressed. If you have concerns relating to mental function, moderate depression, motivation, low mood, learning or memory, addictive behaviours, bowel irregularities, sleep and response to stress, this profile can be very useful. Supplemental protocols to optimize dopamine or serotonin function are provided.
Stress Hormone Profiles
Stress is an expected part of life. Your body's reaction to a change in your environment or your thoughts occur by signals (hormones). This profile looks at the production of stress hormones in your brain and adrenal glands and the strength with which they bind to receptors. The overall function and response is evaluated along with any exaggerated stress reaction - emotionally and physically. The impact within the hormonal system is reported along with an analysis of its impact on anxiety, sleep disorders, depression, hyperactivity, panic attacks, ADD, ADHD ad PTSD. If needed, supplemental protocols to regulate stress hormone production and function will be provided.
Sex Hormone Profiles
Estrogen
Estrogens are hormones that are important for sexual and reproductive development, mainly in women. They are eliminated from your body by being converting to inactive forms that are excreted in the urine and/or feces. This profile looks at your baseline levels of estrogen production from your adrenals and gonads. It also looks at how you convert into the inactive metabolites of estrogen, 2-hydroxy-estrogen (2-OH) or 4-hydroxy-estrogen (4-OH), which has a profound affect on the activity and safety of estrogen itself. The results impact symptoms and conditions like PMS, menopause, PCOS, fibroids etc. Treatment is aimed at increasing the 2-OH from while reducing the 4-OH form creating a healthy estrogen profile.
Testosterone
Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and plays a key role in the development of male reproductive tissues. Testosterone is eliminated from your body by being converting to inactive metabolites. This profile looks at the degree to which you convert and how quickly you clear it from your body. The balance between these two processes affects conditions like prostate health, libido, PCOS and bone health. Treatment is aimed at creating an optimum balance that promotes the beneficial effects of testosterone over its harmful ones.