Posted by tea on January 24, 2010, at 17:04:36
In reply to Re: Cortisol fasting? » tea, posted by bleauberry on January 24, 2010, at 6:19:13
I guess I'm trying to say that you can only use testing as a guide or another indiccation. It must be viewed together with symptoms and cannot be considered "precise". Both saliva and blood testing do not precisely reflect what is occuring in tissue in various parts of your body, but they do serve as indicators.
I like Elaine on testing ( as that's her training and work area)
http://www.elaine-moore.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=%2F9L8vChnSgg%3D&tabid=139&mid=589
A lot of the promotion of saliva against blood testing is done by those who run the saliva tests or docs that are not authorised to scrip blood tests.
Red the glass V plastic . I last loked at this in 2003 ish. At the time a no of studies were thought to be possibly compromised by the switch, at least that's what I heard. It looks like since then it's been decided they are OK.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15147155
The main concerns were with measurement hormones where the amounts were really small.
best wishes,
Jan
PS Due to limited time and not much energy I try to just answer the question as simply as possible.
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