Metabolic and Hormone Tests

Discover Your Body's Hidden Map: Metabolic and Hormone Tests

Do you find yourself feeling tired, unmotivated, and sometimes thinking, "I'm healthy, but something's not right"? Blood tests come back normal, but you're still experiencing low energy, weight loss, and sleep problems? That's where Physicians Lab's advanced Metabolic Performance Profile (MPP) and Urine Hormone Testing come in.

These tests hold a magnifying glass to your body, revealing hidden biochemical details. Like the gauges in an airplane cockpit, they provide a simultaneous view of all your critical systems, from energy production to hormone balance.

Metabolic Performance Profile – Full Score of Your Cellular Performance

The Metabolic Performance Profile analyzes more than 50 metabolic biomarkers from a urine sample. It reveals how efficiently your energy production is working, how much fuel your mitochondria are burning, whether your vitamin and mineral stores are full or empty, and how effectively your detox systems are functioning. This test can sometimes reveal deficiencies that aren't visible in blood tests: micronutrient deficiencies like B vitamins and magnesium, mitochondrial bottlenecks, and free radical overload. All of these provide the answer to the question, "Why am I tired?"

Those who often feel tired and brain fog

Those who have difficulty losing weight

Those who need detox

Those who have poor sleep quality and wake up feeling dragged in the morning

Those who do sports but cannot fully increase their performance

This test converts the signals your body whispers to you into scientific data.

Some of the main areas measured in the MPP test are:

• Energy production biomarkers: Some metabolites involved in mitochondrial energy production; these indicate cellular energy capacity, oxygen utilization, and ATP production.
• Metabolites indicating vitamin/mineral status: Clues to the deficiency or use of certain vitamins or minerals (e.g., B vitamins, magnesium, zinc).
• Detox/Phase 1 and Phase 2 detox pathways: Metabolites of how well the liver, kidneys, or other detox systems are functioning; status of toxin excretion.
• Oxidative stress and antioxidant defense: Cellular oxidative stress, antioxidant enzyme activity; free radical combating capacity.
• Hormone precursor metabolic effects: Signals that indirectly contribute to metabolic hormone metabolism; such as insulin-like signaling pathways and glucose utilization efficiency.

When you receive the report, you are presented not only with numbers but also with a personal road map:

• Replacing missing vitamins and minerals
• Amino acid balance in your body
• Nutrition and exercise recommendations to increase mitochondrial energy production
• Lifestyle changes that support liver detox
• Planning according to antioxidant needs

In short, you start managing your health based on concrete data rather than "guesswork." The final report typically includes categories like "optimal/normal/low/high." Specific recommendations are also recommended: nutritional supplements (e.g., specific vitamins or minerals), dietary adjustments, herbal supplements, or lifestyle changes. 

Urine Hormone Tests – Your Secret Diary of Hormones

Hormones are your body's language. But most blood tests only look at current levels. A urine hormone test, on the other hand, tells the 24-hour story of your hormones. It shows how they fluctuate throughout the day, how your liver metabolizes them, and the pathways through which you eliminate them. Analysis of estrogen metabolites, in particular, reveals the pathways by which they are broken down. Some pathways are protective, while others can increase the risk of cell damage. Your cortisol levels throughout the day mirror how your stress levels affect you and provide valuable information about insulin resistance, weight gain, and sleep disturbances.

Who is it suitable for?

• People, especially those over 40, who want to improve their health status by optimizing their hormone levels.
• People with low libido and sexual performance problems.
• People who want to balance their overall hormonal status to increase muscle mass.
• Those with hormone-related symptoms (menstrual irregularity, severity of menstrual symptoms, menopausal symptoms, hair loss, etc.)
• People with symptoms of stress: sleep disturbances, morning fatigue, suspected abnormalities related to cortisol secretion.
• People who want to monitor supplement use, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) effectiveness, and hormone metabolites.
• To monitor the pathways of estrogen metabolites in individuals at risk for hormone-related cancer (especially in hormone-sensitive tissues).
• Individuals with suspected hormonal imbalance related to thyroid function or metabolic syndrome.

What Do Test Results Show?

This test lays out a hormonal map of your body and shows you which areas need fine-tuning.

• Primary hormones: Free and/or metabolite levels of hormones such as estrogen (estradiol, estrone), progesterone, testosterone, DHEA.
• Metabolite pathways: How estrogen is broken down in the body (e.g., phase 1 and phase 2 detoxification pathways), types of metabolites, and the balance of toxic or protective forms of estrogen.
• HPA axis assessment: Diurnal rhythm of adrenal hormones such as cortisol and cortisone; morning and evening differences.
• Metabolic effects and hormone balance: Insulin sensitivity along with hormone activity, hormone metabolites affecting energy utilization, and the potential impact of conditions such as estrogen dominance or androgen dominance.

How are the results reflected in life?

Knowing your hormone balance can make a big difference in your life:

• By knowing your cortisol rhythm, you can personalize your stress management and find out which supplements are suitable for this.
• By knowing estrogen metabolites you can optimize your nutrition and detox.
• By knowing your progesterone and testosterone levels, you can implement the right strategies in areas such as sleep, libido, and muscle strength.
• You can seek both herbal and hormone support to optimize deficient or high hormone levels.

Stay One Step Ahead in Your Health. These tests aren't just lab reports; they're a guide that shapes your future. The power of seeing your energy levels, hormone balance, and metabolism with real-world data allows you to take control of your health. Knowing is protecting. And these tests are the most advanced way to know.