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What kind of testing do you do for adrenal fatigue?
Over here, we do saliva testing. Blood testing is good for other things--chem panels, CBC,
and such as that--but the saliva testing tests the amount of hormones that are free. And
the free hormones are the active hormones inside of the cell tissue, whereas the blood
hormones are attached to proteins in the blood, which makes them inactive.
So when we're testing, we always test the hormones with the saliva test kit. It's more
sensitive than the blood test, and it always seems to line up with the patient's symptomology.
So, I do have quite a number of patients who come in and say, "Well, I've had the blood
test and everything looks normal, but I'm not feeling good. What's going on with me?"
They trust themselves; they know there's something wrong with their body because they're not
feeling good. And we take the saliva test, a more sensitive testing, and they can see
their results, and one of the things I hear quite often is, "Oh, it's not all in my head!
I'm not going crazy!" So they see how their symptomology lines up
with the results of the salivary hormone testing.