Old school testing
includes saliva testing, but I find dried urine to be more informative.
Old - school testing
includes saliva testing, but I find dried urine to be more informative.
Not exact matches
This supports the overall goal of using such diagnostic
test in the field to
test bodily samples
including urine, blood or
saliva.
Your
testing might
include a blood
test and a
saliva test as well.
This
includes 194 lab
tests on blood, stool, urine,
saliva, hair, tissue / discharge and breath, as well as perform 16
tests in their office:
It
includes the same
tests as the Female / Male
Saliva Profile I, plus adds three Cortisol
tests to provide a complete evaluation of diurnal adrenal function.
After you perform the proper diagnostic
tests, with a qualified healthcare provider — which may
include a 24 - hour urine sample,
saliva sample or hair analysis, it's time to focus on solutions.
Then you get all of the metabolites that you would get from 24 - hour urine
testing,
including the total amount of cortisol, et cetera, but you also get the benefit of the four different time readings of
saliva testing.
You might want to consider a blood spot or
saliva hormone level
test that
includes estradiol, progesterone, testosterone and cortisol.
Dr. David Zava of ZRT Laboratory and our co-author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Breast Cancer, has been measuring progesterone / estrogen ratios for many years in his
saliva and blood spot
tests, and
includes them in
test results.
We typically employ a variety of lab
testing (which may
include blood work,
saliva testing, breath or stool
testing) and come up with a naturopathic treatment strategy to not only alleviate symptoms but address and remove the cause for the disease.
First there was a lot of
testing unlike any I had had done before
including a
saliva hormone
test, blood
tests, and heavy metals
tests.
If you were my patient, I'd have all your hormone levels (
including adrenal) measured via a
saliva test, in addition to extensive blood work and take it from there.
After many case presentations, and countless investigations
including many different kinds of
tests (stool
testing, blood
testing, hair
testing,
saliva analysis) and countless hours of research, I slowly started to work on, developing different lifestyle and dietary programs for my patients.
In this last recorded talk on CD, before his death, Dr. Lee covers many different areas of interest about natural hormone replacement therapy,
including progesterone and estrogen's effects on the body, what causes hormone imbalances and how to restore balance, why
saliva hormone level
testing is so important, and the politics of medicine.
Often I will order a
saliva test for cortisol that gives us multiple readings throughout the day, DHEA - S is
included in this
test as well.
Performing serological
testing of blood, semen and
saliva using microscopic and chemical analysis, instrumentation analysis
includes RT - PCR quantitation, PCR amplification, and capillary electrophoresis typing.
Limitations
include the lack of a control group, the small sample size, and difficulties collecting the
saliva samples for the cortisol
tests.
Exclusion criteria for controls
included previous court conviction (excluding minor traffic or curfew offenses), a substance - related arrest or treatment, school expulsions, meeting DSM - IV - TR criteria for a non-nicotine substance abuse or dependence diagnosis, meeting DSM - IV - TR criteria for conduct disorder in the last year, or a positive
test for a non-prescribed substance about 7 days before and immediately prior to scanning using the same urine and
saliva tests mentioned above.