Our Hormonal and Nutritional Testing

Wellness is the natural state. The human body is a powerful self-healing system that is designed to be well, to regenerate, and to thrive. Unfortunately, the past model of health care, contradicts this truth. Illness and disease are misrepresented as the natural state and as the inevitable result of aging, rather than as the reflection of imbalance and a hindered regenerative process. The result of this disease management system has been catastrophic to the health of our general population. Generations are disconnected from their innate healing potential and believe they must survive in disease.
Our Awaken to Wellness Hormonal and Nutritional testing is a method of reintroducing practice members to their self-healing design and empowering them with tools to evaluate and restore balance and return to wellness. Specifically, we use testing methods to establish the individualized hormonal and metabolic pattern of a patient. One can then identify the most appropriate, effective, and least invasive method for restoring and sustaining endocrine balance. Provided with the proper physical and lifestyle support a person can respond rapidly, and normal endocrine function can return.
Primary testing methods include saliva testing, in addition to evaluating symptoms and lifestyle patterns. Protocols include lifestyle management, whole food nutritional supplements, high quality herbal supplements, and when necessary, bioidentical hormone assistance therapy.

Why Saliva Testing?

Advantages to measuring saliva levels vs. serum or urine levels
•Non-invasive: no blood draw is needed, no risk to the patient
•Convenient: the specimen can be collected at home or at work
- at any time of the day
- does not require a trip to have the specimen collected.
•Precision: since hormone levels may vary during the day or during the month, multiple specimens can be collected conveniently offering precise measurement.
•Saliva measures the biologically active fraction of steroid hormone
•Samples are stable for several weeks

Lab Quality

Compare the quality of testing that Diagnos-Techs offers to other laboratories.  Established in 1987, Diagnos-Techs was the first laboratory in the United States to offer saliva-based hormone testing into routine clinical practice.  Diagnos-Techs has a rigorous quality assurance program and is the only saliva-based testing facility to offer accreditation by the Joint Commission (an independent national quality assurance organization representing the American Medical Association, American Dental Association, American College of Physicians, American Society of Internal Medicine, American College of Surgeons, and the American Hospital Association).  Diagnos-Techs also participates in the quality control programs of the American College of Pathologists, American Proficiency Institute, and the American Association of Bioanalysts. Diagnos-Techs is licensed in the state of Washington under the Federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) #50DO630141.