Hormone Testing in Southlake

Evaluating Your Hormones

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Hormone Testing at DLHC

When you want to live a healthy life, keeping your hormones balanced is a must. At Dynamic Life Health Center, we offer hormone testing in Southlake as the first step toward combating hormone deficiency. Your consultation will determine which specific hormones you may need. Hormones do not just influence your body’s responses—they also influence each other. If just one hormone is out of balance, your symptoms will not improve.

With your results, we put together a customized hormone treatment plan that aims to get you back to a state of optimal wellness!

  • ZRT saliva hormones

  • Dutch urine hormones

  • Genova essential estrogen

  • Genova Rhythm Plus

Achieving Balance Starts With Testing

Stay Youthful

Hormones play a crucial role in maintaining youthfulness and overall bodily function. They regulate processes like metabolism, energy levels, mood, skin health, and muscle mass.

Enhance Energy

It’s normal to feel tired after a long day, but feeling constantly fatigued may indicate you have a hormone imbalance. Feel the difference with our treatments.

Live Holistically

When one part of your body fails, other systems in your body can be impacted.

When to Get Tested

Recognizing the Need for Hormone Testing

If you are getting older, chances are you may not be feeling the same as you used to. This may take the form of increased fatigue, low sex drive, decreased fitness performance, and more. These are signs of a hormonal imbalance, which can then affect every part of your body and slow down its normal functions.

Beyond their impact on age-based wellness, hormone imbalances can create problems in your general health. Since hormones are your body’s main messengers, this can create delays between the systems that protect you from disease. In order to keep your defenses strong, your hormones need to work together in harmony.

Saliva Testing

Why ZRT Saliva Testing is Effective

Many providers do blood serum testing for hormones. Saliva testing is going to give you a much more detailed idea of what is specifically going on with you. Saliva testing measures your hormones that are bioavailable to organs and tissues.

When you come in for hormone testing in Southlake, our team is thorough in their examinations of your sexual, thyroid, and adrenal hormones. This guarantees we gather the necessary information to balance your hormones and restore your well-being.

How it Works

The bloodstream carries your total hormone load, which includes both the active and inactive hormones throughout your body. It serves as a pathway for everything circulating throughout the stream. In an ideal situation, your bloodstream would carry everything exactly where it needs to go. However, that isn’t always the case.

Hormones need to reach the applicable cells and tissues. Think of your bloodstream like a road, and think of your cells as houses along that road. Your major hormones (both active and inactive) will show up in a blood draw. However, a blood draw can’t reveal whether the hormones are getting into your cells like they should be. You may have seen a provider before who has tested your hormones via blood serum tests and prescribed you hormones based on those results. Unfortunately, because they can’t see what is going on in your cells, you may not feel better, even though you are on hormone therapy.

Conversely, saliva testing can identify the exact imbalances that don’t show up on a blood test. It’s also a more accurate method when hormone rhythms need to be identified to determine why you are feeling the way you are.

We will send your saliva samples to ZRT Laboratory for diagnostic testing. This is one of the top labs available for hormone testing, and our patients’ results have helped get them the care they need for years.

The hormones that are tested via the ZRT saliva test (and some depend on whether you are male or female) include:

  • Estradiol
  • Progesterone
  • Ratio of Progesterone to Estrogen
  • DHEA
  • Testosterone
  • Cortisol

More About Hormones

Estrogen and Progesterone

Two vital hormones in your body are estrogen and progesterone. As you age, both estradiol and progesterone decline, causing a multitude of symptoms that affect your daily living. Getting hormone testing in Southlake may help us understand the root causes of these symptoms.

Symptoms of deficiencies include:

  • Insomnia
  • Low libido
  • Anxiety
  • Inflammation
  • Joint pain
  • Migraines

Testosterone

Testosterone is important for both men and women in maintaining vitality. For women, a sharp decline in hormones is called menopause, and for men, the decline is referred to as andropause.

A decline in testosterone can cause:

  • High cholesterol
  • Poor sexual function
  • High blood pressure
  • Decreased muscle mass
  • Depression
  • Low endurance

About The Thyroid

T3 and T4

The thyroid produces chemicals that control many of your body’s functions, including your metabolism. A decrease in either T3 or T4 can lead to issues with your digestion, mental health, and cognitive health. Keeping a good balance of these hormones can prevent:

  • Weight gain
  • Irritability
  • Anxiety
  • Menstrual changes
  • Irregular heartbeat
  • Muscle weakness

Versatile Care Options

Treating Hormone Conditions

Once we have the results from your hormone testing in Southlake, we work on creating a treatment customized just for you. This can include BHRT, diet and lifestyle changes, supplements, gut optimization, and more.

Since DLHC specializes in functional medicine, we emphasize a whole-body approach to your healing. Living an optimal lifestyle by optimizing your diet, exercise and even your sleep schedule can help you rebalance your hormones.

Our Expertise

Dr. Berutti leads the team at DLHC with immense knowledge of identifying, treating, and managing hormone imbalances.

She has trained with world-renowned functional medicine and anti-aging specialists, gaining extensive knowledge of hormone therapy and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Her training with the American Academy of Anti-Aging ensures she stays continually up-to-date on the latest preventive treatments for perimenopause, menopause, andropause, and thyroid disease.

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Words of Praise

  • I am more than pleased that I’ve found Dr. Berutti! She is my personal physician as well as my anti-aging doctor. She is Board-Certified in both Internal Medicine as well as Anti-Aging…

    Donna K.

    I am more than pleased that I’ve found Dr. Berutti! She is my personal physician as well as my anti-aging doctor. She is Board-Certified in both Internal Medicine as well as Anti-Aging Medicine. Plus, she is a DO which is very important to me. She understands and believes in a holistic approach to health. I first visited Dr. Berutti in November 2016. After a course of tests – bone density, extensive blood work, and breast exam, etc. she began my bio-identical hormone treatment in February 2017. In a matter of 3 weeks, I began to feel more energetic, happier and stronger. My skin and hair both got softer and healthier. I have absolutely no aches and pains and for the first time in years, I am enjoying being more active…desiring to work out! My husband is hoping to jump on the HRT bandwagon soon. He has seen the changes in me and will be visiting Dr. Berutti in July. I HIGHLY recommend Dr. Berutti … she listens, she cares and most of all she delivers!

    Donna K.

  • I have been a patient of Dr. Berutti's for about 9 months and I have most definitely improved my heath and quality of life since I first saw her as a patient…

    Deanna M.

    I have been a patient of Dr. Berutti's for about 9 months and I have most definitely improved my heath and quality of life since I first saw her as a patient and began her recommendations and medical guidance for Hormone Replacement Therapy. I find Dr. Berutti extremely thorough and very specialized in this area of medical treatment. She understands how to balance hormones throughout the body and she is not a doctor that prescribes a one size fits all treatment plan. It takes time to get everything back in balance and I would encourage anyone that seeks this type of treatment to be patient and follow her advise and recommendations. It takes time to get dosages correct and everything in balance. NO more hot flashes for me. My energy level is so much better. Everything is better. I hope that she will continue to be my "anti-aging hormone balance" doctor for many, many years to come. She is truly the best and I highly recommend her.

    Deanna M.

  • I just wanted to say hello and THANK YOU for all you have done for Ruth and me over the years. We are doing well and thanks to your help, support and…

    Craig & Ruth

    I just wanted to say hello and THANK YOU for all you have done for Ruth and me over the years. We are doing well and thanks to your help, support and kindness when we were at our lowest point and ready to give up. We were able to get through the roughest time in our lives in part to your help and support. You came to our aid and supported us when we were ready to throw in the towel. We sure miss you and hope you are doing well. As we enter the Thanksgiving season, I wanted to make sure I said THANK YOU to one of the kindest people I have ever met. You were always more than just a doctor, you are our caregiver, wizard of all things big and small and most of all a friend. I will never forget you and all that you did for us.

    Craig & Ruth

  • Excellent care!! Started with Dr. Berutti 2 years ago. Vast knowledge. Another doctor who attended medical school with her told me, “She is very smart, you can trust anything she tells you,”…

    Lona J.

    Excellent care!! Started with Dr. Berutti 2 years ago. Vast knowledge. Another doctor who attended medical school with her told me, “She is very smart, you can trust anything she tells you,” and indeed I do. I went to her depressed, lethargic (could hardly get out of bed), no energy, no stamina, feeling arthritic, failing memory, aggressive at times, and the list goes on & on. I live 100 miles away, so every appointment after the first was via telephone conference (very convenient.) Dr. Berutti is very personable, pays constant attention to details, sincerely interested in what she can do to give you a dynamic life! We started with an extensive and lengthy interview (1+ hours), followed by a barrage of tests near home (blood, saliva, mammo, pap, history questionnaire, bone density, etc.) Everything but fingerprints!! Now I feel and act much, much better. Hard to explain what it’s like to live joyously again.... My deepest Gratitude to Dr. Lyn Berutti.

    Lona J.