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Evaluating Hormonal Dysfunction and Infertility

Dr. Kara Fitzgerald | New Frontiers in Functional Medicine, Longevity, Epigenetics

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How to Use Urine Testing to Measure Hormones

Roxanne Jones: I'm going to be mining you for pearls as much as possible. Why do you think this method is better? Like why did you use it or why are you using it in your practice as well? She says the first thing is like ease of collection. You don't have to have patients do a blood draw. It's really easy. Another big advantage is that hormones fluctuate throughout the day, and so when you look at just a single snapshot in serum, it's tough to know if you're truly high or low because you're catching just a minute, right? So what we've shown is that urine testing, the spot urine, the four spots

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