5 benefits of saliva testing for hormones

Look Good, Feel Great, Live Longer!

A salivary hormone test is a comprehensive hormone test which can reveal many clues about your current health which may not be obvious using other tests. It’s easy too - all you need to do is spit into a tube, so no needles!


1· Improve Your Energy!

Salivary hormone testing can reveal the impact aging, illness and lifestyle including stress have had on your adrenal and sex hormones which may be affecting your energy. These include particularly the hormones DHEA, cortisol, testosterone and oestrogens. If your stress hormone cortisol is either too high or too low or your oestrogens are too high, they may also be interfering with your thyroid and other hormones and robbing you of energy. And, contrary to popular belief, not all women have low oestrogen after menopause!

2· Look Younger and Live Longer!

Your hormone DHEA is known as your longevity hormone. While scientists are still trying to understand exactly how this hormone works, what they do know is that it that seems to have a protective effect on your brain, skin, bone and muscle mass, immune system, blood sugar balance and against cancer cells. What does this mean? Low DHEA levels have been associated with accelerated aging including thinning of the skin, wasting of muscle, bone loss, fat gain and cancer!

Having too much oestrogen can also increase your risk of certain types of cancer including breast, endometrial, ovarian, cervical and possibly colon and other cancers.


3· Lose Weight!

As already mentioned above, having a low DHEA means you tend to put on fat and lose muscle. Having other hormonal imbalances like too much oestrogen and not enough progesterone (known as oestrogen dominance) and too much cortisol cause you to gain weight and have difficulty losing it. Excess oestrogen causes you to gain weight around your waist, hips and thighs which is hard to shift. Having a high level of cortisol for long periods interferes with your blood sugar balance and causes you to gain weight around your middle. This in turn increases your risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease like heart attack, stroke and thrombosis (blood clotting).

4· Be Symptom Free and Enjoy Life!

Having oestrogen dominance syndrome causes a multitude of symptoms. If you suffer from symptoms during the week or two before your period like mood swings, depression, anxiety, sleep problems, breast tenderness, food cravings, bloating or painful or heavy periods, you very likely have oestrogen dominance. In fact there are about 150 known premenstrual symptoms and many of these are caused by oestrogen dominance.

Many of the symptoms you may be experiencing prior to and around menopause may also be a result of oestrogen dominance or other hormonal imbalances. Symptoms you might experience around this time include premenstrual symptoms, aches and pains, difficulty thinking clearly or concentrating, irritability, hot flushes and sweats, sleep problems, heart palpitations and more.

Low sex-drive, fertility problems, acne, fibroids, endometriosis, breast lumps and cysts, depression and sleep problems are also very often related to hormonal imbalances.


5· Feel Confident in your test results!

Salivary hormone tests can test more accurately than blood tests for the 'free or available' level of your sex hormones plus a few other very important steroid hormones. Why? In your blood, most of these hormones are bound to large protein molecules, which effectively make them unavailable to your cells. Only the small percentage of these hormones not bound to protein molecules (estimated to be less than 5%) are able to move out of your blood vessels and be used by your cells.

Blood testing doesn't differentiate between the hormones bound to protein molecules and those that are ‘free’ whereas saliva testing only measures the 'free' hormone level.

Blood tests for the stress hormone cortisol are also notoriously unreliable because when faced with a needle most people become at least a bit stressed which causes their cortisol level to rise and could cause a false normal result in someone with low cortisol. Cortisol is also best tested first thing in the morning between 6 and 8am - not the most convenient time to be having a blood test done.

Restoring Your Hormonal Balance After the Test

By finding out what hormonal imbalances you have, your treatment can be tailored specifically to those imbalances, which means you feel better faster!

And the good news is that you don't need to use hormones to restore the balance! Using hormones including patches, troches, tablets, contraceptive pills, injections, vaginal rings and intrauterine devices like Mirena doesn't fix the cause of your hormonal imbalances. In fact, they may actually cause other hormonal imbalances. And, while you use hormones your body stops making its own, so your symptoms will usually return soon after you stop using them.

Natural therapies on the other hand address the underlying causes of your hormonal imbalances which means that apart from a few basic nutritional supplements, you don't need to take things long-term and there are only positive side-effects!


To regain your health, happiness and sanity naturally, without drugs or hormones
Call Kris Kern today on 0414 247 155 (Perth)
Kris Kern, Scientific Naturopath & Herbalist
BHSc, AdvDip (Western Herbal Medicine)

Or visit www.HormoneHelpNow.com for your free report titled
‘3 Crucial Keys to Restoring Hormonal Balance Every Woman Must Know’.

Are you into Social Networking Yet?

I was encouraged by family and friends to blog, twitter, network, link. Why do I have to? Who will benefit? When will I have time?

Once started, I have been introduced to some wonderful talent and so much knowledge. Where do you start?

Pick up some ideas from Alison at Business Women Unite. Alison asks: what are the benefits of joining these networking sites?

They all offer different things but by using these sites you can promote your business to thousands of visitors that these sites get every week which helps generate traffic to your business. You can expand your business by connecting and doing business with people from all over the world.

Sites like LinkedIn are based on the concept that someone knows someone who knows someone who knows someone else…and on it goes. They have applied this to business but you can also connect with lost school friends and work colleagues.

Whereas Twitter is different again and you communicate with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? It takes a bit of getting used to but it’s worth it.

On the Business Women Unite site there are more business related tools such as a discussion forum that you can use to ask questions, share resources and get tested business tips plus experts who can give you advice on how to increase your sales and profits, how to drive more traffic to your website and how to have a better lifestyle plus much more.

If you have the right strategy and the right approach you can turn a few minutes a day into thousands of extra dollars. Isn’t that worth the bother!

Do you like the sound of social networking and dont know where to begin? Are you a business woman? More information here: http://businesswomenunite.net.

From Jo Firth - for women who are empowered to manage their future.

Missed diagnoses: who is responsible?

When an early stage cancer is missed or a serious illness is wrongly diagnosed, many of us blame our doctors.

What has emerged most recently from studies is that diagnostic failures are often due to missed steps, so-called “process of care lapses,” that stem from both doctors and patients.

As empowered individuals, we can challenge the medical system, take control of our health and explore all the options. We can also make an informed decision based on harms versus benefits. However we have a responsibility to act when required, even if the outcome may be not what we desire.

This article appeared recently in the New York Times. Something to think about.
http://bit.ly/3pawL1

Chemotherapy contributes to a quarter of cancer deaths: study

ABC reported on a study done by British National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Deaths. The study highlighted a review of late-stage cancer patients who died within 30 days of chemo treatment. One in four deaths was cused or hastened by the chemotherapy.

The ABC story is here: http://bit.ly/2R4jns

Note: this review was done on late-stage cancer patients and discusses the issues of the patient understanding the limitations of intervention with chemotherapy.

What do you think?