Saliva hormone testing

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Saliva hormone testing is an effort to determine the amount of hormones found in saliva. Though promoted as an accurate way of determining hormone levels in the body, it does not represent either the amount of hormones in the blood, or their biological activity. Saliva testing is often used as part of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, though it has been criticized for being expensive, unnecessary and meaningless.[1][2][3]


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