Endocrine Health Specialist

Endocrine Health services offered in Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL

Hormones are the chemical messengers that a body produces to regulate the different functions of the human body. Having a little too much or even a too certain amount of hormones (hormone imbalance) can impact your well-being. The expert practitioners at the National Wellness Group offer you the hope for better healing with the hormones testing, which would be helpful in the evaluation of the hormone balance.

Endocrine Health Q & A

Additional Detail about Hormone Testing

The hormones of a human body change as you age, and some might change throughout the day. Therefore, we use hormone testing to detect and evaluate the hormone imbalances that might be making you sick. We also conduct the testing of hormones using different blood samples, but some of the tests might require saliva or urine samples.

Most probably, we test the levels of:

Estrogen and testosterone
Growth hormone, prolactin, and other pituitary gland hormones
Adrenal gland hormones, such as cortisol

Suppression and Stimulation Hormone Testing

The tests that we use are called the suppression tests and the stimulation tests that evaluate the hormonal imbalance. We provide you with the hormones and other substances that will either start (stimulate) or stop (suppress) the production of certain hormones. Then, we will check that you’re your body is beginning to respond.

There are many common types of suppression and stimulation testing that include:

Response of Growth hormone to glucagon:

We will be injecting the hormone glucagon into the tissue of muscle and measuring the growth levels of the hormone levels over for around3 to 4 hours.

The cortisol response to cosyntropin:

The doctors give you cosyntropin, which acts like the ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone). ACTH is the hormone produced in the pituitary gland that is used to stimulate the adrenal gland to produce cortisol. Your cortisol levels are measured every 30 minutes for an hour. This would be helping us to test to enable us to confirm adrenal insufficiency.

Glucose Tolerance test:

The growth of your hormones should be lowered by a sweet drink that we will give to you. The levels of the development of hormones in the blood of yours are measured by us every two hours. This test would be helping us to confirm the acromegaly.

The cortisol response to dexamethasone:

A pill (dexamethasone tablet) will be needed to consume by you at night that would be blocking the production of cortisol. On the next day, to measure the level of cristol, we will be taking your blood sample. It will help us confirm Cushing's syndrome.

Suppression test of Metyrapone:

A pill (metyrapone tablet) will be needed to consume by you at night that would be blocking the production of cortisol. . On the very next day, to measure the level of cristol and ACTH, we will be taking your sample of blood. It will help us confirm adrenal insufficiency.