24-Hour Urine Comprehensive Hormonal Profile

The comprehensive 24-hour urine hormone profile provides considerably more information about the hormone status of an individual than can be gleaned from individual measurements.

• In fact, we devised our profile, in contrast to so-called panels, to furnish a quasi picture, the essence of which is greater than the sum of its parts.
• Due to the large number and complex nature of the metabolic pathways of steroid hormones, profiling has been a goal since the late 1960s.
• Gas chromatography coupled with unequivocal identification and quantification of steroids in urine via mass spectrometry (GC/MS) has been the preferred approach to profiling.
• In fact, it is this approach which is used to detect illicit steroid hormone use amongst athletes including those participating in the Olympics.
• However, this strategy has largely been confined to universities and medical schools, owing to high equipment and personnel costs associated with this still rather sophisticated equipment and methodology.
• Striving to make state-of-the-art hormone profiling widely available we offer research-quality testing to the ever-growing community of health-care professionals and their patients who recognize the importance of the delicate balance inherent in steroid hormone production and metabolism.
• It should be pointed out that urine testing is still considered to be the “gold standard” upon which the performance of many immunoassays is based.
• It is the immunoassays which are used in routine clinical testing of individual hormones.
• A profile using this latter approach would be prohibitively expensive, costing upwards of one thousand dollars.
• Thus, whenever three or more hormones are of interest a complete profile becomes a more cost-effective means of obtaining the desired results.
• Here is what is included in our 24-hour test:
• 27 different hormones will be tested for within the 24-hour urine hormone profile.