Saliva hormone testing

[tango]

Could anyone with information please inform me on what is the best method of getting various hormone levels tested? How do you guys feel about saliva test kits that you send in vs. bloodwork?

Please forgive me if this has been addressed.

 

[CB]

I analyzed hormone levels in Saliva for 5 years from 2000 to 2005. I'm not sure how much has changed in the accuracy and detection ability since then, but i would lean toward bloodwork. There are so many factors that can throw off results in saliva sampling. You have to follow a strict ingestion schedule before collection, because numerous foods can skew results, such as garlic, chocolate, etc. They may be much improved in the past three years. If not, i would stick with blood tests.