Functional Healing & Energy Restoration

Stress & Hormone Profile (Saliva Test)

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The Stress & Hormone Profile is a functional saliva hormone test that evaluates how stress is affecting your hormones, energy, mood, and overall resilience.

 

This test measures cortisol levels at four points throughout the day, providing insight into your daily cortisol rhythm and adrenal stress response. Unlike single blood draws, saliva testing captures how your body is actually responding to stress in real time.

 

In addition to cortisol, the test assesses key hormones such as DHEA, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and melatonin, helping to identify hormone imbalances and unhealthy hormone ratios that may contribute to symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, poor sleep, weight changes, mood swings, low libido, and burnout. 

 

We also measure secretory IgA (sIgA), a key marker of mucosal immune function, to see how chronic stress may be impacting your immune system and overall resilience.

 

What This Test Helps Reveal

• Chronic stress patterns and adrenal dysfunction

• Imbalances in stress and sex hormones

• Disrupted cortisol rhythms affecting sleep and energy

• How stress may be driving hormone-related symptoms

 

This functional hormone test is especially helpful for individuals who feel “off” despite normal lab work, experience chronic stress or burnout, or want a deeper, root-cause understanding of their hormonal health.

 

Results from the Stress & Hormone Profile are used to create a personalized healing plan, supporting the body through targeted nutrition, lifestyle adjustments, supplementation, and nervous system regulation—helping restore balance, vitality, and long-term resilience.

 

Why Use Saliva for Hormone & Cortisol Testing?

 

Saliva testing is used because it measures free, bioavailable cortisol—the form of cortisol that actually enters cells and affects how your body functions.

 

Blood testing measures total cortisol, most of which is bound to a carrier protein and is not biologically active. This means blood results can appear normal or even high, while tissues may still be experiencing low cortisol availability. Saliva testing more accurately reflects what your brain, nervous system, and organs are truly experiencing.

 

Saliva testing also offers several key advantages:

• Captures cortisol throughout the day
  Cortisol follows a natural daily rhythm. Saliva testing allows for four samples across the day, revealing patterns such as low morning cortisol, high nighttime cortisol, or poor stress adaptation.

• Avoids stress-related test distortion
  Blood draws can artificially elevate cortisol due to the stress of needles and clinical settings. Saliva samples are collected at home on a typical day, providing a more realistic picture of daily stress physiology.

• Reveals HPA axis and stress-adaptation patterns
  Multiple saliva samples help identify how the body is adapting to chronic stress over time—not just a single moment.

• Simple, non-invasive, and cost-effective
  Saliva testing is easy to collect, gentle on the body, and well-suited for functional and root-cause assessment.

 

For these reasons, saliva testing is considered one of the most effective tools for evaluating stress hormones, adrenal function, and cortisol rhythm integrity in functional and integrative health care.

 

Price for test without shipping: $266