Cortisol is the main stress hormone of your body. It's produced by your adrenal glands and can support inflammation, immunity, energy, and mood, but when it's too high or low you can begin to feel brain fog, inflammation, joint pain, low mood, low energy, hair loss, cognitive decline, and rapid aging. Chronically elevated levels will also begin to negatively impact and lower the sex hormones listed below. This is one of the only labs that measures cortisol throughout the day to give you a full picture of how well your adrenals are responding to stress.

Estrogen is the primary female hormone, but both men and women produce it. In women, it is important that this hormone is balanced with progesterone or it may lead to estrogen dominance and symptoms of adult acne, weight gain around the hips, low mood, night sweats, and bloating. Men must be careful that testosterone is not converting too much to estrogen.

Progesterone is the most overlooked hormone for women. Men produce very little of it, but women are meant to have peak progesterone levels around day 19 of their menstrual cycle. If women do not have higher levels during their luteal phase of their cycle (days 15-28) they may experience irritability, anxiety, low mood, water retention, infertility, and other symptoms of estrogen dominate.

This is the ratio of Estrogen to Progesterone that is measured in women. It is the crucial factor that allows women to know if they are in estrogen dominance. This is why this lab should be run ideally on one day during days 19-21 of a woman's cycle. Men, menopausal women, or women without a regular cycle may run the lab any time of the month based on highest symptoms.

Both men and women produce testosterone, although men produce much more of it. When levels are low it can appear as symptoms of low mood, fatigue, irritability, low libido, low ambition/motivation, lack of muscle tone, and weight gain. Higher levels can lead to PCOS based symptoms such as hair loss, acne, aggressiveness, irritability, hair growth, and more.

Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is also a greatly overlooked hormone produced by both men and women. It is responsible as a precursor for the other sex hormones, and it is a powerful force for inflammation, anti-aging, and your immune system. Declining lower levels can represent a weakening of the body as you age.

Free T4, or free thyroxine, is a hormone produced by your thyroid gland. It is the precursor to Free T3, which is the more active form in the body. If T4 levels are low it may mean there is not enough precursor hormone to create the active thyroid hormone responsible for your metabolism in your body.

Free T3, or free triiodothyronine, is the most active form of thyroid hormone in your body. If this value is low on your lab it may mean your thyroid is not functioning optimally leading to weight gain, low energy, poor circulation, brain fog, low mood, dry skin, thinning hair, low libido, and low mood.

TSH, or Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, is a hormone produced by the pituitary gland that stimulates the thyroid to produce thyroxine (T4), and then triiodothyronine (T3), which stimulates the metabolism of essentially your entire body. If this value is too high it may mean that your body is either under great stress, and/or you're having difficulty making enough active, useable T3.

Thyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO) when elevated may be a sign that there is an imbalance with your immune system. This is not a medical diagnostic test, but may serve as a warning that a correction is needed in order for the thyroid to become rebalanced.

Both vitamin D2 and vitamin D3 (ergocalciferol-D2, cholecalciferolD3), are assessed on this lab in order to ensure your levels are adequate. Non-optimal vitamin D3 will affect almost every hormone and immune factor in your body, which is why it's crucial to know your unique number and increase it as necessary to boost your overall health.

Insulin is secreted by the pancreas in order to regulate how much glucose (sugar) is allowed to remain in your blood stream at any given moment. The higher the value the more stress there is on the pancreas in order to release insulin to shuttle the glucose out of your blood.

Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C) tests what your average blood sugar (glucose) level was over the past two to three months. This enables you to know how balanced your glucose levels have been if you do not do daily monitoring.