How Mead Labs Can Help
The good news is that you don't have to accept the changes in your body's appearance or function that hormone imbalances force upon you. If your hormone levels are once again brought back into the healthy range, your body can continue to function well.
It is important to remember that the goal of bioidentical hormone replacement is to re-adjust the body back to the healthy, balanced hormone pattern that we had at a younger age. Hormone levels are very much like high blood pressure, in that there is a range that is healthy for each individual. No one would expect to start on blood pressure medication without first checking to see if they even had high blood pressure. And, if high blood pressure was diagnosed and medication was started, everyone would expect to recheck the blood pressure to see if the medication was keeping it in the healthy range. Similarly, the goal of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is to get hormone levels back into the healthy, youthful range. Thus, before any therapy is started, a test should be done to figure out what the individual hormone imbalances are. Then, once hormone therapy has been started, follow up tests should be performed to see if your supplements are getting your hormone balance to healthy, protective levels.
Mead Labs uses a state of the art saliva test that measures only the active parts of each type of hormone. This FDA approved test uses 4 saliva samples that you collect in a location and at a time that is convenient for you. 4 samples throughout the day are taken to achieve a precise average. It takes 2-3 minutes for you to collect each saliva sample, and then the entire self-contained kit is mailed back to Mead Labs in the self-addressed, postage-paid box. Results are available rapidly, and you receive your own copy for your permanent records. Then, based on your individual pattern of hormones and symptoms, and after review by a protocol of bioidentical skin creams and/or oral supplements will be recommended, to address your imbalance. Repeat saliva tests are administered to ensure that hormone levels are staying in the healthy range, and dosages are changed as necessary.