San Francisco A4M Live Diagnosis

Overview One of the best parts of the BHRT Symposium is the LIVE diagnosis by Thierry Hertoghe, MD. Doctor Hertoghe will take random patients that have come with their Meridian Valley Lab tests in hand, and he will diagnosis the patient’s hormone deficiencies LIVE on stage. You will experience the art of the physical examination done by a world renowned expert in Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy. This is one of the most important parts of the course you will experience after you have been through the basics of Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy. You actually see applied Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy and watch how Doctor Hertoghe provides the patient with the diagnosis, hormones, labs, nutraceuticals to be ordered and what to do in follow up consultations.

BHRT Symposium will provide attendees a hormone deficiency questionnaire and asking them to contact a lab to provide serum, 24 hour urine or a saliva lab test prior to the meeting. Bring the labs and questionnaire to the meeting and follow along with the live diagnosis on stage to diagnose your own hormone deficiencies.

Why choose Meridian Valley Lab’s 24 Hour Urine?  A 24-hour urine sample is most accurate because it provides a stable indicator of output not susceptible to the hour-to-hour fluctuations seen in serum or salivary measurements. Urine hormone testing is well-established in medical literature as a reliable method of assessing physiological hormone levels. Meridian Valley’s 24-hour urine profile reference ranges have been validated over many years of testing in a clinical setting and correlate well with patient symptoms and with therapeutic interventions.

Urinary estrogens can be a sensitive monitor of liver detoxification capability. Elevated urinary estrogens in normally-cycling women may indicate a history of exposure to compounds that stress the liver such as environmental chemicals. This phenomenon has also been observed in peri- or post-menopausal women who have previously taken conjugated equine estrogens. Interventions intended to improve liver function result in a gradual normalization of the abnormal estrogen levels. Thus measurement of urinary estrogens can give insight into other aspects of physiology.

Urinary evaluations also allow the measurement of many estrogen metabolites that are now thought to play a more pivotal role in the positive and negative sequelae related to estrogens. A recent concept in hormone-related cancer prevention is the measurement of the ratio of two estrone metabolites: 2-hydroxyestrone and 16α-hydroxyestrone. A decrease in the 2/16α ratio is associated with an increased risk of breast and cervical cancer. This ratio is available only in a urine collection.

Similarly, the broad array of glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid metabolites measured in a 24-hour urine hormone profile provides a more comprehensive picture of long-term adrenal health, short term stress response, cortisol/cortisone balance, and other measures of adrenal health and function than cortisol alone.

Getting Your Results Interpreted Several physicians, lab consultants and pharmacists will be at the meeting to help you interpret the results and help you create a treatment program for you. As an added benefit of coming to this meeting Ryan Shelton, ND will be available to answer your questions and help you get started in the practice of Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy after the meeting.

How to Participate? Contact our Customer Service Representatives at 425.271.8689 or tell free at 855.405.8378 and say you would like to order your 24 Hour Urine Profile for the San Fransisco A4M Conference. Orders must be completed and samples sent in by February 29, 2012 in order to ensure delivery or lab results in time for conference.