Cortisol, serum, afternoon/evening — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
These are starting ranges for adu…
ACTH, morning — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
These are starting ranges for adu…
IGF-1 — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
These are starting ranges for adu…
Growth hormone, random — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
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Parathyroid hormone (intact PTH) — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
These are starting ranges for adu…
Aldosterone — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
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Renin / plasma renin activity — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
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Aldosterone-renin ratio — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
These are starting ranges for adu…
Plasma free metanephrines — lab reference
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The wider testing context
For some hormone tests, the time of day, your position, fasting, stress, sleep, medicines, and kidney health can matter more than one number.
Using this range
These are starting ranges for adu…
Genetics and the transsulfuration pathway
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How the pieces connect
Cysteine, glutathione, oxidative stress, and energy pathways connect to this discussion. A pathway map can guide questions but cannot diagnose the effe…
Homocysteine, inflammation and pain
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Pain is an experience, not one laboratory value
Dr. Purser asks how inflammatory signals might influence pain pathways. A mechanism can explain why researchers investigate a connection without establishing t…
Homocysteine, D-dimer and inflammatory markers
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Dr. Purser puts several measurements next to one another, but a shared discussion does not make them interchangeable. D-dimer relates to breakdown of cross-linked fibrin; CRP is an inflammatory marker, and hsCRP is a more sen…
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