Reclaim your health and restore your vitality!

Your hormones control everything, including weight, mood, energy, anxiety, motivation, and much more. Learning exactly which hormones need support is crucial to feeling better and ultimately seeing results.

The Vitality Hormone DUTCH Program balances your hormones and stress response to help you overcome the vexing symptoms that keep you from living your best life. 

Did you know your adrenal glands assume the primary role for making sex hormones once the ovaries begin to shut down? This is in addition to their other major role, which is to make our stress hormones, such as cortisol, adrenaline, and norepinephrine. 

It’s no wonder that so many women start to feel symptoms in their 40s, which is when we start to experience this hormonal shift!

What is the DUTCH Complete test?

DUTCH stands for Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones. 

DUTCH provides a comprehensive assessment of both sex and adrenal (stress) hormones, as well as their metabolites, which reveal how the body is breaking down and detoxifying hormones.

DUTCH provides a complete hormone picture in a convenient, state-of-the art test that is mailed to you and completed in the comfort of your home using simple urine test strips.

Here’s what you can discover from the DUTCH Complete Test:

Sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone). These hormones affect our mood, body composition, sex drive, fertility, menstrual irregularities, PMS, perimenopausal, and menopausal symptoms. Testosterone breakdown is also considered and related to conditions like PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome). 

Stress hormones (DHEA, cortisol). These hormones are critical to our emotional and physical well-being. Imbalances impact energy, libido, immune function, mood, sleep, blood sugar management, digestion, and weight. The daily cortisol pattern provides further insight into energy and sleep issues. 

Detoxification patterns. Detoxification of estrogen and the breakdown of melatonin are also assessed. How estrogen is being detoxified is an important consideration when there is an increased risk for breast cancer and other estrogen-dependent cancers (read more about that here).

Oxidative stress. This marker assesses oxidative DNA damage in the body. Damage, along with chronic stress, degenerative diseases such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease and chronic hepatitis, and cancer affect hormones like estrogen and cortisol. 

Melatonin. Melatonin is considered one of our sleep hormones. It is made predominately by the pineal gland in response to darkness and is stimulated by melanocyte stimulating hormone (MSH). A low MSH is associated with insomnia and an increased perception of pain.

Much more…including markers of nutrient deficiencies (B6, B12), glutathione (an important antioxidant), and neurotransmitter metabolites (dopamine, serotonin, epinephrine/norepinephrine). 

How does DUTCH compare to other hormone tests?

Here are some compelling reasons to use DUTCH…

DUTCH Vs. Saliva Testing

While the free cortisol pattern in saliva has clinical value, there is a significant missing piece to surveying a patient’s HPA-Axis function with saliva testing—measuring cortisol metabolites. To properly characterize a patient’s cortisol status, free and metabolized cortisol should be measured to avoid misleading results when cortisol clearance is abnormally high or low. Likewise with sex hormones, measuring estrogen and androgen metabolites gives a fuller picture for more precise clinical diagnosis of hormonal imbalances and HRT monitoring.

DUTCH vs. Serum Testing

While the most universally accepted testing method (due to the availability of FDA-cleared analyzers that are reliable and inexpensive), serum testing is lacking in some areas. Adrenal hormones cannot be effectively tested in serum because free cortisol cannot be tested throughout the day. There is also a lack of extensive metabolite testing (especially for cortisol and estrogens).

DUTCH vs. 24-Hour Urine Testing

There are two primary drawbacks to 24-hour urine testing of hormones. First, the collection is cumbersome, and as many as 40% of those who collect, do so in error (Tanaka, 2002). Secondly, dysfunction in the diurnal pattern of cortisol cannot be ascertained from a 24-hour collection. Some providers add saliva for daily free cortisol. DUTCH eliminates the need for two tests.

Click here to download a DUTCH Complete Female Sample Report.

What will we do with this information?

I will use it to create a personalized protocol to improve your total hormonal picture.

Using all the information gathered—along with your health history timeline—I’ll give you recommendations on diet, lifestyle, and supplementation to help you feel healthier.

I’ll help restore your optimal vitality!

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE?

• 60-minute discovery session to review your health history, symptoms, and specific hormone-related challenges; order your DUTCH test.

• 3 follow-up sessions:

• 60-min session to interpret your DUTCH results and review your customized protocol.

• 30-min session to answer questions, troubleshoot any issues, provide continued support and guidance alongside your protocol and plan.

• 30 min-session 2–3 months after protocol is followed to check in on progress and make tweaks (if necessary).

Also Included:

• Your Customized Protocol per DUTCH results.

• My 7-Day Hormone Balance Detox Program (FREE) to kickstart your journey. Includes recipes, shopping lists…everything you need to succeed.

• 1-Week Hormonal Healing Meal Plan to get you started following a clean, whole-food, nutrient-rich diet.

Feel free to reach out with questions, or go ahead and sign up! 

Price: $475* or two payments of $250*

Once payment is received I’ll send you the information you need to order your test so we can get underway straight away.

*Cost of DUTCH test ($295) is NOT included in program package. 

*FedEx charges to ship test kit and send samples back to lab ARE included in program package.

Opt 2: DUTCH + GI map gut test

Depending on what you’re struggling with I may recommend upgrading the testing to run a GI Map stool test so that I can gain deeper insight into how your body is digesting and absorbing the food you eat. The test will uncover specific GI problems, including bacterial overgrowth, yeast, fungi and if dysbiosis from SIBO, LIBO, H.Pylori or Parasites might be present. It will also show us if you have a detox Phase III estrogen imbalance via a portion of your microbiomed called the Estrobolome, which effects how you recycle your excess estrogen.

If so, there will be an additional cost for tests and an extra two 45-min sessions.

Price for opt 2: $775* or two payments of $390*

*Cost of DUTCH and GI Map not included in price above.