A Practitioner's Guide to Mastering Functional Medicine Lab Values - Hormonal Health & Balance: Panels for Reproductive, Adrenal, and Thyroid Function

Hormones Are Talking—Are You Listening? Your patient’s hormones are often at the root of their symptoms. But piecing together lab values from blood, urine, and saliva can feel overwhelming—especially when results look “normal,” yet they still don’t feel like themselves. Book 3: A Practitioner’s Guide to Mastering Functional Medicine Lab Values – Hormonal Health & Balance (Part 3 of 4) Panels for Reproductive, Adrenal, and Thyroid Function This third volume in A Practitioner’s Guide to Mastering Functional Medicine Lab Values focuses entirely on hormone testing—giving you one centralized clinical resource to interpret reproductive, adrenal, and thyroid markers with clarity and confidence. With 548 pages of practitioner-focused lab guidance, this volume helps you decode serum, urine, and salivary hormone data using optimized reference ranges and real-world pattern recognition. Blood Serum Hormone Panels Organized by sex, reproductive phase, and clinical relevance: Estradiol (Female and Male) FSH: Female, Postmenopausal, Male LH: Female and Male DHEA-S SHBG: Female and Male Cortisol: AM and PM Testosterone: Total & Free (Female and Male) Progesterone: Follicular, Postmenopausal, Male Estriol, Estrone, Prolactin DHT: Female and Male Pregnenolone Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) Urine Hormone Metabolite Testing (DUTCH Complete & Plus) Estrogen metabolites (2-OH, 4-OH, 16-OH pathways) Progesterone and androgen breakdown Free and metabolized cortisol/cortisone Melatonin, oxidative stress markers Organic acids and neurotransmitter precursors Sex-specific interpretation: male, female, menopausal Salivary Hormone Testing (Adrenal & Diurnal Panels) Four-point cortisol curve Cortisone, DHEA-S, estrogen, progesterone profiles Includes panels from ZRT, Genova, Doctor’s Data Key patterns for chronic stress, sleep, HPA dysfunction Thyroid Panel – Complete Serum Review Go beyond TSH with a full thyroid function and autoimmune workup: TSH, Total T4, Total T3 Free T4, Free T3 Reverse T3 T3 Uptake, Free Thyroxine Index TPO and TGAb antibodies Thyroxine Binding Globulin (TBG) Also Included: Functional and conventional reference ranges Male, female, pediatric, and menopausal interpretations Test comparison charts by lab and method Pattern recognition frameworks and common hormone presentations Quick-access tables and planning tools This Book Helps You: Uncover hormone-driven root causes of fatigue, cycle issues, infertility, weight gain, and mood symptoms Choose the right test and understand the “why” behind each result Interpret across testing methods—blood, urine, and saliva—with clarity Go beyond managing symptoms and build data-informed treatment strategies Whether you're supporting patients through menopause, fertility, thyroid dysfunction, adrenal fatigue, or hormonal anxiety and burnout, this guide equips you to assess and address hormone imbalances with clinical precision. This is your trusted companion for mastering hormone labs in real-world functional medicine.