Gary Brecka

Yeah, but getting that test was a game changer.

When it came back, it explained everything.

So let's head back to the whiteboard, and let's take a look at what we learned from this test.

So this is Sage's Dutch test, and this is a 24-hour urine test.

I think this is the gold standard for women's hormones, especially if you are perimenopause, premenopause, or postmenopausal, and you wanna get an accurate picture of your hormones.

The reason why is this doesn't just take a snapshot in time.

It looks at the ratio of hormones.

And listen up, women.

The ratio of hormones is as important as your levels.

because at some times during the day, they can be at different levels.

So when you just take a blood test and you just get a quick snapshot, you don't really get the true picture.

And then it's hard to prescribe hormone therapy because you don't have the full profile.

So before I explain what's going on here, and before we go into this test, understand that estrogen is a category of hormones.

So women have something called E1 and they have something called E2.

and they have something called E3.

So there is estrone, E-S-T-R-O-N-E.

Estradiol.

Yeah, estrone, estradiol.

I'm gonna tell you number three here in a second, but it's this estradiol that I wanna focus on here for a minute.

And the third one is estriol.