These results indicate that daily saliva
samples can be combined to clarify the interindividual differences in
E2 and PG levels in premenopausal women, and that these
interindividual differences may be greater than previously imagined.
low cortisol pattern with elevated DHEA found in women with PTSD. Additionally, elevated levels of TNF-alpha and IL-6 were found. Hormone evaluation was tested through saliva.
granted, this comes from the American Journal of Primatology; but their conclusion says it all: "we recommend that saliva collection may be the moste effective method of measuring stress reactivity and as the potential to complement behavioral, cognitive, physiologic, and welfare studies".
Saliva can be used as a diagnostic specimen not only to obtain information more inexpensively and efficiently than serum, but also to provide information not readily available from serum testing.
early study looking at saliva testing in infertility treatment. This goes back almost 33 years. But of course, it took medicine 176 years to recommend that Vitamin C help prevent scurvy on long sea journeys.
conclusion incorrect. blood testing is a poor testing method of transdermal progesterone therapy would be the more accurate conclusion. Other studies have shown that transdermal progesterone therapy raises progesterone in saliva when blood levels show no change.