Let’s explore “hormones”

No single normal cutoff fits every patient. Ask your clinician to use age, baseline, trend, prostate size, risk factors, and shared decision-making.

Often used when total PSA is in an indeterminate zone. Ask your clinician to use the performing-lab risk table.

Method-specific. Clarify its role in hair, prostate, androgen therapy, or enzyme questions.

May assist selected fertility evaluations; not a routine wellness marker.

Ask your clinician to use exact assay cutoff and clinical indication.

Collect at a defined time. Assay-specific; dynamic testing may be required.

Time-specific and assay-specific.

Your clinician may request a morning sample, collected and handled in a particular way, alongside a cortisol test.

Age, sex, nutrition, liver disease, diabetes, and assay matter.

Pulsatile secretion makes random GH difficult to interpret; stimulation/suppression testing may be needed.

Ask your clinician to read this result with calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, vitamin D, and kidney function.

Sodium intake, posture, potassium, time, medications, and renin method are essential.