Your Hormone Labs Aren’t Telling the Whole Story
24 days ago
- Test, don’t guess. Dr. Liz’s whole approach starts with data: she wants to see how your body is actually making and breaking down hormones before recommending anything.
- Not all hormone tests see the same thing. Blood catches a single moment (and mostly the inactive, bound hormone), saliva catches the free fraction, and urine shows the 24-hour picture plus how you clear hormones. Her analogy: blood is peering through a hole in the wall, urine opens the gate.
- Treat the “why,” not just the number. The more useful question isn’t whether a hormone is high or low, it’s why it’s behaving that way, which points back to genes, gut, blood sugar, sleep, and environment before you ever reach for a hormone.
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