DUTCH Hormone Testing in Boca Raton, FL

Dutch Hormone Testing for Men and Women

Our bodies are constantly engaged in a drive for homeostasis – a state of equilibrium – where our hormones are optimally balanced. This drive for balance plays out constantly, in a perpetual, intricate dance, where one hormone supports, strengthens & complements the other, sometimes acting in a supporting role, other times taking the lead. It may appear a simple performance, elegant in its simplicity, yet the technical sophistication required by our hormones to maintain a healthy, functioning body is mind-blowing.

Our bodies are constantly engaged in a drive for homeostasis – a state of equilibrium – where hormones are optimally balanced. This drive for balance plays out constantly, in a perpetual, intricate dance, where one hormone supports, strengthens and complements the other, sometimes acting in a supporting role, other times taking the lead. It may appear a simple performance, elegant in its simplicity, yet the technical sophistication required by our hormones to maintain a healthy, functioning body is mind-blowing.

If we successfully achieve and retain a healthy hormonal balance, we can expect to experience optimized health, well-being, and happiness. But if our hormones are thrown out of equilibrium, then what? 

Unfortunately, we can expect to experience a wide range of side effects, from short-term insomnia to anxiety, weight gain, debilitating fatigue, loss of libido, thinning hair, & terrible PMS. 

We’ve all been there. Nothing feels right. Your hair is dry, your skin is flaky, you feel bloated, and, despite exercising all week, you feel frumpy. Even worse, you’ve just spent half the night tossing and turning. If a woman is going through menopause, it’s probably even worse.

When Good Hormones Go Bad

It is astonishingly easy for our hormonal balance to be pushed off-center. Toxins in the environment, for example, pathogens in our body, chemicals in the products that we use on our body, genetically modified food, a leaky gut that leads to poor nutrient absorption, undiagnosed food allergies, stress, and so many other factors.

Worse, age-related hormonal shifts can lead to a drop in specific hormones,  alongside the normal hormonal fluctuations women might expect during menstruation, leading to a situation where it’s tough to pinpoint the exact cause of the hormonal disruption. 

The truth is, women often attribute fluctuations in hormone levels to monthly or menopausal symptoms/causes, believing there’s nothing we can do about bloating,  gas, mood swings, anxiety, and water retention.

There Is A Solution

Not only is there a solution, but also the realization that women SHOULDN’T have to put up with feeling lousy every month in the first place. For instance, the side effects listed above could all be symptoms of dysfunction, inflammation, or undiagnosed issues (a deficiency in testosterone, for example, that we can fix with hormone therapy, an unhealthy gut microbiome which we can test for, and rectify, or undiagnosed food intolerances). 

The first step is a comprehensive, medically developed, clinically tested hormone test that really gets us the results we need to determine the causes of these symptoms. This is where the DUTCH Test® comes in.

The DUTCH Test®

At Doctors Studio, we use the DUTCH Test® as a key part of our extensive portfolio of diagnostic tests, which we use to diagnose hormonal imbalances and dysfunction. We then rapidly follow DUTCH testing with the exact hormonal replacement and lifestyle management therapies and interventions that you need to restore your body to perfect health.

Imagine waking up from an incredible nights’ sleep. And sleeping that way every single night for weeks! You fall asleep quickly and don’t wake up during the night, so experience deep, restorative sleep and wake up feeling like a million bucks. Because of that, you start the day power-packed with energy, able to brush off stress, resilient, emotionally balanced, positive, optimistic and strong. Restful sleep also allows for a fulfilling, satisfying sex life. And a monthly period that isn’t particularly problematic.

If most of your days already sound like that, we’re very happy for you!

And if not?

Then you probably need a hormone test.

When it comes down to it, you deserve to have the energy to work out, you deserve a great sex life with your partner, and you deserve skin, hair, nails, and a physique that looks and makes you feel aesthetically great. You deserve to shrug off the challenges of the day, confidently face the world, feel young and energetic again and end each day with energy to spare. That’s what perfectly balanced hormones can achieve.

Let’s find out more about the DUTCH Test™ and exactly how it can lead to vastly improved health.

So what is the DUTCH Test®, Exactly?

The acronym DUTCH stands for Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones. It’s an easy, painless, non-invasive test involving the collection of urine samples over a 24-hour period, which is then analyzed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of your hormonal health.

The Dutch Complete Hormone Profile for Women provides a comprehensive assessment of your adrenal hormones and their metabolites, identifying root causes of hormonal imbalance, including markers that provide information about adrenal (stress) hormones and steroid hormones.

The DUTCH Complete Hormone Profile for Women measures a wide range of hormones. It is non-invasive, convenient and reliable, offering an excellent means of investigating possible hormonal imbalances or hormone-related conditions such as:

perimenopause or menopause, PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), osteoporosis, amenorrhea (loss of period), weight gain, fatigue & lethargy, no sex drive, PMS, mood swings, unexplained fertility issues, the sensation of feeling anxious, emotional, endometriosis, insomnia and disrupted sleep, estrogen dominance, plus the ongoing monitoring of HRT or Bio-HRT.

The DUTCH Test offers a comprehensive profile of your sex and adrenal hormones and their metabolites, identifying root causes of hormone imbalance. These hormones work together to influence cellular physiology in a wide range of complex ways, which is why disrupted levels or ratios of any of your hormones can cause such profound effects & lead you to suffer unpleasant side effects. These hormones are measured against other vitamins, neurotransmitters & other markers including:

• Sex hormones (estrogen, testosterone, progesterone)
•  Steroid hormone DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) is a test that can help  determine the causes of PCOS, amenorrhea & hirsutism (excess hair growth)
• Daily free cortisol levels (a stress hormone) are taken at intervals during the day to provide a window into stress patterns within your body
• Oxidative stress marker (provides data on the level of free radicals in the body and cell damage)
• Melatonin (a major modulator of circadian rhythms and sleep/waking that enables high-quality sleep at night, and alertness during the day.
• Organic acids (including markers for B12, Vitamin B6, Glutathione, Dopamine, Adrenaline, & Serotonin, which together exert a major effect on physiological processes, energy levels, and our emotional state), and knowledge that allows us to gather vital data on the health of your metabolism & metabolic pathways.

Don’t forget that the DUTCH Test is for men too!

The Dutch Complete Hormone Profile for Men provides a comprehensive assessment of your sex and adrenal hormones and their metabolites, identifying root causes of hormonal imbalance, including markers that provide information about adrenal (stress) hormones and steroid hormones (DHEA, estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, cortisol).

The test covers 35 different hormones:

• Sex hormones (estrogen, testosterone, progesterone)
• Daily free cortisol (a stress hormone)
• Oxidative stress marker (provides data on free radicals in the body)
• Melatonin (a major modulator of circadian rhythms associated with high-quality sleep & alertness
• Organic acids (including markers for B12, Vitamin B6, Glutathione, Dopamine, Adrenaline, & Serotonin, which together exert a major effect on physiological processes, energy levels, and our emotional state)

The acronym DUTCH stands for Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones. It is an easy, painless, non-invasive test involving the collection of urine samples over a 24-hour period, which is then analyzed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of your hormonal health.

Why Do Men Need the DUTCH Test®?

While both men and women would benefit majorly from a DUTCH Test™, their reasons differ somewhat. For females, the biggest benefits associated with gaining a detailed hormone profile is to get to the bottom of fertility issues, to resolve perimenopausal or menopausal symptoms, to resolves issues with PMS, to identify & correct PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome), identify & correct estrogen dominance, identify & correct unsafe metabolism of estrogens that might increase the risk of breast cancer, and improve egg quality for stress-free fertility by correcting stress hormone and sex hormone imbalances.

All men and women suffer from a decline in key hormones as a result of the aging process, but that doesn’t mean that hormonal decline and any negative side effects that accompany it should be viewed as unavoidable, or something to be tolerated. The Doctors Studio is extremely well-versed & knowledgeable in creating lifestyle & nutrition programs and hormonal therapies that can be tailored to the exact needs of any individual to restore them to a youthful, enjoyable hormonal profile. Engaging with The DUTCH Test® allows us to gain a comprehensive insight into how we can help you, & in how we can empower you to help yourself.

What Can I Expect from the DUTCH Test®?

The DUTCH Test® can alert us to specific hormonal age-related shifts, to measure your hormonal levels against benchmarks for optimal and normal levels (providing an ‘age range’ and ‘optimal range’), as mediated by age, and work out whether an age-related ‘normal’ level might still not be adequate for you.

What does this mean, exactly? Well, a regular physician might screen your estrogen levels, for example, but choose not to refer you for hormone replacement therapy, as your levels are technically still within the ‘average’ range. Yet you are experiencing a range of symptoms associated with suboptimal estrogen levels. Clearly, what is ‘average’ or ‘normal’ for others is not normal to you, and we need to get to work on optimizing those estrogen levels again and returning them to a level that demonstrates a healthy ratio with other key hormones.

Is The DUTCH Test® Backed by Science?

Yes. The DUTCH Test® is the most advanced hormone test available. Created by Precision Analytical, a CLIA- certified laboratory, patients using the DUTCH Test® can gain the peace of mind that extensive scientific testing & innovation brings, offering a non-invasive, rapid, pain-free, accurate & informative test for anyone considering bioidentical hormone therapy, or who suspects that they might have a hormone problem.

What Are the Next Steps?

Once you have received your DUTCH Test® results, the Doctors Studio will talk you through your results, discussing & highlighting any hormonal imbalances to you, designing a treatment plan tailored uniquely to your needs, and prescribing supplements (if required) to support optimized hormonal health. This tailored plan might include hormonal replacement therapy, or lifestyle recommendations, or a combination of the two. Ultimately, the combination of the scientifically innovative DUTCH Test®, and our extensive knowledge & experience in clinically tested hormonal therapies, offers you the most positive & powerful way forward in managing your hormonal health & in restoring you to your best possible self.