DUTCH TEST UK | Hormones | Adrenal | Menopause, Anxiety, Periods
This well known, gold standard Hormone Balance test is immensely popular with practitioners and clients alike in Menopause, Peri-menopause, PCOS, irregular periods and fatigue.
What is the DUTCH Test?
‘Dutch’ can be confusing but is in fact an acronym (dried urine test for comprehensive hormones.)
What does the DUTCH tell you?
The unique benefits of this test is that it looks for three key underlying causes and factors in any hormone imbalance:
Which hormone is imbalanced
Why it’s imbalances
What’s causing it to be imbalanced
Is the DUTCH Test worth it?
The dutch test is great value as it also includes the important adrenal health/fatigue analysis, also checking nutrients, oestrogen dominance, and looks at other factors that could cause low mood or anxiety. This is super useful, because if your results come back clear, you still get some answers to why you feel the way you do.
The test is excellent for a variety of scenarios, such as:
PCOS
Perimenopause
HRT monitoring (effectiveness and safety)
Fertility
Irregular periods
PMS/PTM
Endometriosis
Oestrogen dominance
Anxiety and Depression
It’s also useful in those taking HRT to assess effectiveness and t make sure you break down your oestrogen in a healthy way.
Get in touch to ask about your hormone concerns and we’ll be happy to answer your queries!
This well known, gold standard Hormone Balance test is immensely popular with practitioners and clients alike in Menopause, Peri-menopause, PCOS, irregular periods and fatigue.
What is the DUTCH Test?
‘Dutch’ can be confusing but is in fact an acronym (dried urine test for comprehensive hormones.)
What does the DUTCH tell you?
The unique benefits of this test is that it looks for three key underlying causes and factors in any hormone imbalance:
Which hormone is imbalanced
Why it’s imbalances
What’s causing it to be imbalanced
Is the DUTCH Test worth it?
The dutch test is great value as it also includes the important adrenal health/fatigue analysis, also checking nutrients, oestrogen dominance, and looks at other factors that could cause low mood or anxiety. This is super useful, because if your results come back clear, you still get some answers to why you feel the way you do.
The test is excellent for a variety of scenarios, such as:
PCOS
Perimenopause
HRT monitoring (effectiveness and safety)
Fertility
Irregular periods
PMS/PTM
Endometriosis
Oestrogen dominance
Anxiety and Depression
It’s also useful in those taking HRT to assess effectiveness and t make sure you break down your oestrogen in a healthy way.
Get in touch to ask about your hormone concerns and we’ll be happy to answer your queries!
This well known, gold standard Hormone Balance test is immensely popular with practitioners and clients alike in Menopause, Peri-menopause, PCOS, irregular periods and fatigue.
What is the DUTCH Test?
‘Dutch’ can be confusing but is in fact an acronym (dried urine test for comprehensive hormones.)
What does the DUTCH tell you?
The unique benefits of this test is that it looks for three key underlying causes and factors in any hormone imbalance:
Which hormone is imbalanced
Why it’s imbalances
What’s causing it to be imbalanced
Is the DUTCH Test worth it?
The dutch test is great value as it also includes the important adrenal health/fatigue analysis, also checking nutrients, oestrogen dominance, and looks at other factors that could cause low mood or anxiety. This is super useful, because if your results come back clear, you still get some answers to why you feel the way you do.
The test is excellent for a variety of scenarios, such as:
PCOS
Perimenopause
HRT monitoring (effectiveness and safety)
Fertility
Irregular periods
PMS/PTM
Endometriosis
Oestrogen dominance
Anxiety and Depression
It’s also useful in those taking HRT to assess effectiveness and t make sure you break down your oestrogen in a healthy way.
Get in touch to ask about your hormone concerns and we’ll be happy to answer your queries!
What Does The Dutch Hormone Test for Women Measure?
The test looks at oestrogen balance, progesterone production (in still menstruating woman), testosterone, DHEA, as well as your cortisol (stress/adrenal). What makes this test unique however, is that it doesn’t just measure how much of these hormones new make - it also looks at how we might use them and manage them in the body. The key bit about the test however, is that, whilst it tests hormones - it looks at a range of factors which may be contributing to imbalanced hormones. Having the ‘WHY’s help you create an action plan straight away.
What does the DUTCH Complete Test Include?
The Dutch Complete (Adrenal and Sex Hormone) is a comprehensive assessment of sex and adrenal hormones, and gives unique insight into how your body processes and balance these hormones. The DUTCH Complete test is broken down into 3 areas and the test covers the following elements:
DUTCH Sex Hormones
DUTCH Adrenal
DUTCH Organic Acid Tests
DUTCH Sex Hormones
The DUTCH sex Hormone panel looks at hormone measurements including oestrogen metabolites, androgen metabolites (testosterone, DHEA, DHT) and progesterone metabolites. As well as the raw data this information is provided as a graphical representation so that any breakdown pathways can be easily understood.
DUTCH Adrenal Panel
The DUTCH adrenal measurements looks at daily free cortisol and cortisone, in addition to looking at metabolites of cortisol and DHEA, produced by your adrenal glands.
DUTCH Organic Acid Tests (OAT)
This is one of the most useful measurements taken by the DUTCH test. The Organic acids measured in this test, helps us see not only if there’s an imbalance in your hormones, but WHY there is an imbalance. How our liver processes toxins and hormones is hugely important in uncovering the cause of your hormone issues. In the DUTCH Organic Acid test, we get a comprehensive snapshot overview of nutritional deficiencies that can be causative in experiencing hormone imbalances. Many other Nutritionists have a poor understanding of these mechanisms, but at Advanced Nutrition, we’re unrivalled in understanding what, from your test results, are the key things you should be focusing on in your diet and lifestyle. We have this deeper understanding because of our ability to research the latest Nutrition Science.
Mood and Sleep
Because hormones tend to affect sleep, mood and how we feel in ourselves, this tests also covers neurotransmitters and melatonin, our ‘sleep hormone’.
Note that the test is not available to the public without help by a professional. You need to book an interpretation-session (or with another practitioner/GP) with your Dutch test as the results are complex.
Note that the DUTCH test is a Functional Health test with the aim of giving you diet and lifestyle changes to help your symptoms. It is not a diagnostic test.
This is a urine test that you carry out at home, and post to the lab. You will need have an awareness of your menstrual cycle, but the lab or we can help you with working out when you need to do the test. This is so that you capture progesterone which spikes in a particular time of the month and indicate ovulation. If you’re post menopausal or not measuring progesterone, you can carry out the test at any time.
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“The Dutch test revolutionised how Practitioners are able to manage hormone imbalances for their clients..”
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