The DUTCH Hormone urine test is especially beneficial for individuals experiencing challenges like weight loss difficulties, daily fatigue, irregular menstrual cycles, low mood, irritability, or depression.

While traditional medicine often relies on blood tests for hormone evaluation, these tests can overlook key details about hormone imbalances. The DUTCH urine test addresses these gaps by providing a more comprehensive analysis.

The DUTCH test measures hormone metabolites, offering crucial insights into health. For instance, certain estrogen metabolites are associated with an increased risk of breast cancer, while others are protective.

Understanding how your body metabolizes hormones can reveal the root causes of symptoms, guide treatment, and help restore the body’s natural hormone balance.

Unlike other tests, the DUTCH urine test uniquely provides this detailed information. To put it in perspective: if blood tests show your hormone levels, saliva tests indicate how much is available for use, and the DUTCH urine test reveals how your body processes and utilizes these hormones. This holistic view offers a significant advantage in correcting hormonal imbalances.

The DUTCH test is straightforward, highly accurate, and can be conveniently completed at home.

Hormones Tested with the DUTCH Test:

• Total Metabolized Cortisol: Indicates how much cortisol your body produces throughout the day, differing from free cortisol levels. The amount of cortisol produced will guide your treatment plan.

• Total Cortisone: Shows how quickly your body converts cortisol to cortisone.

• Free Cortisol: Reveals active cortisol levels in your body. The levels and rhythm of free cortisol help guide your treatment plan.

• Free Cortisone: Along with cortisone metabolites, shows how quickly cortisol is converted to cortisone, guiding the best treatment strategy.

• Tetrahydrocortisone: A metabolite of cortisone.

• DHEAs: A precursor to testosterone and estrogen. High levels can indicate PCOS and inflammation, while low levels can indicate adrenal insufficiency.

• Testosterone: Optimal levels are associated with vitality and well-being. Low levels can affect mood, fertility, libido, athletic performance, energy, bone, and muscle development.

• Progesterone Metabolites (α-pregnanediol, β-pregnanediol): Indicate total progesterone levels and are precursors to the neurotransmitter GABA. Low progesterone levels can lead to PMS symptoms and infertility.

• Androgen Metabolites of DHEAS and Testosterone: Important for assessing how well your body processes testosterone. Metabolism down the 5α-DHT pathway can cause hair loss, skin problems, aggression, and increased prostate cancer risk in men.

• Estrogens: Includes estrone, estradiol, and estriol. The balance between estrogen and progesterone is crucial for fertility, PMS, menopausal symptoms, cancer prevention, bone health, menstrual cycle changes, heart function, and brain health.

• Estrogen Metabolites: Show how your body detoxifies estrogen. Improper detoxification can increase the risk of breast cancer, prostate cancer, cysts, and fibroids.

• 6-OH-Melatonin-Sulfate: Assesses melatonin production. Low melatonin can affect sleep quality and difficulty falling or staying asleep. Melatonin also has antioxidant effects, protecting the brain and improving mood.

• Melatonin: Invaluable for understanding erratic sleep/wake cycles. Recent additions to the DUTCH test include markers for neurotransmitters, B12, B6, and glutathione.

Why Measure All These Hormones?

Hormones function as a family, and when one is imbalanced, it often affects others downstream. Evaluating all these hormones gives us a clearer picture of the imbalances within your body and how to support optimal balance. Understanding the pathways helps explain why certain hormones may be excessive and others deficient.

For those with “adrenal fatigue,” sleep, or stress issues, testing adrenal hormones and their rhythms provides specific information on addressing these problems by examining your adrenal-brain communication, known as the HPA axis (hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal).

This test is highly beneficial for fertility problems, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), fibroids, PMS, irregular periods, painful periods, anxiety, moodiness, and endometriosis. It provides a complete picture of how adrenal and reproductive hormone imbalances contribute to these issues.

For those using hormone replacement therapy, monitoring levels is crucial. This test is particularly effective for oral progesterone, vaginal hormones, patches, pellets, and injections. However, it is not for hormonal birth control pills.

For sleep problems, checking melatonin levels is important. Low melatonin may relate to sleep issues, or it could be normal.

Low DHEA levels, produced by the adrenal glands, can cause fatigue, decreased muscle mass or bone density, depression, aching joints, loss of libido, and lowered immunity.

Estrogen dominance, where progesterone is low, and estrogen is high, can be a factor in endometriosis, PMS, painful periods, fibrous breasts, fibroids, tender breasts, moodiness, and more. It can exacerbate perimenopause symptoms.

This test shows how you metabolize estrogen through your liver. Poor estrogen metabolism can increase the risk of estrogen-related cancers such as breast, cervical, and uterine cancer.

Includes:

• Test Interpretation

• 30-50 Minute Consultation

• Protocol with supplements, nutrition, exercise and lifestyle recommendations