HuMap Test
Hormone & Urinary Metabolites Assessment Profile
The HuMap™ Test is the best non-invasive method for discovering any type of hormone imbalance in either males or females. A hormone imbalance can occur at any age and can be due to a multitude of reasons.
The HuMap™ provides a comprehensive overview of steroid hormones, their metabolites, and the efficiency of the enzymes that metabolize these hormones.
Much like a human fingerprint, metabolism is inherently unique to everyone. Understanding how the major hormones of the body are metabolized as well as the activity of the enzymes responsible for metabolism is a rare glimpse into a patient’s health.
Collection: Urine
Turnaround Time: 1- 2 weeks (estimated)
Hormone & Urinary Metabolites Assessment Profile
The HuMap™ Test is the best non-invasive method for discovering any type of hormone imbalance in either males or females. A hormone imbalance can occur at any age and can be due to a multitude of reasons.
The HuMap™ provides a comprehensive overview of steroid hormones, their metabolites, and the efficiency of the enzymes that metabolize these hormones.
Much like a human fingerprint, metabolism is inherently unique to everyone. Understanding how the major hormones of the body are metabolized as well as the activity of the enzymes responsible for metabolism is a rare glimpse into a patient’s health.
Collection: Urine
Turnaround Time: 1- 2 weeks (estimated)
Hormone & Urinary Metabolites Assessment Profile
The HuMap™ Test is the best non-invasive method for discovering any type of hormone imbalance in either males or females. A hormone imbalance can occur at any age and can be due to a multitude of reasons.
The HuMap™ provides a comprehensive overview of steroid hormones, their metabolites, and the efficiency of the enzymes that metabolize these hormones.
Much like a human fingerprint, metabolism is inherently unique to everyone. Understanding how the major hormones of the body are metabolized as well as the activity of the enzymes responsible for metabolism is a rare glimpse into a patient’s health.
Collection: Urine
Turnaround Time: 1- 2 weeks (estimated)
The Basic Package vs The Premium Package
Both packages include your test results, but the premium package includes a 30 minute consultation with Dr. Don, virtually or in person, to go over your test results.
Who is this test useful for?
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Menopausal symptoms
Breast Health
Endometriosis
PCOS
PMS/PMDD
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Erectile dysfunction
Prostate health
Loss of muscle mass
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Metabolic syndrome
Thyroid pathologies
Inflammation
Oxidative Stress
Fatigue/insomnia
Libido
Mood or cognitive concerns
Family history of hormone-driven cancers
HRT/BHRT utilization
Weight gain
What does this test show you?
The HuMap™ provides a comprehensive overview of steroid hormones, their metabolites, and the efficiency of the enzymes that metabolize these hormones.
This non-invasive test requires only 4 or 5 separate urine collections. Because the breakdown of hormones relies so heavily on processes within the liver, this test can also show areas of interest as it pertains to conjugation (temporary unity) of each metabolite.
Additionally, testing urinary hormone metabolites can contribute to further understanding of endogenous hormone secretion, supplemental hormone utilization, enzyme activity, oxidative stress, and insight into how your body metabolizes hormones.
The comprehensive HuMap™ profile reports not only important markers and metabolites, but it also calculates the relationship of different kinds of estrogens (2OHE1, 4OHE1, and 16OHE1) that give a window into a person's capacity for various detoxification processes and a person’s methylation function. Understanding how estrogens break down as well as the rate of methylation, which renders potentially harmful metabolites inactive, can help mitigate risk and determine individualized treatment.
Another highlight of HuMap™ is the corticoids pathway, notably the relationship between cortisol and cortisone as well as their metabolites. The daily cortisol and cortisone output is graphed in a diurnal pattern displaying the influences of these analytes during the day. The cortisol / cortisone ratio aids in the understanding of its influence on both the active (cortisol) and inactive (cortisone). Because too much cortisol can be damaging, it’s important to have the correct balance between these two major hormones.
To further explore this balance, the “daily metabolized cortisol”, a calculation based on the addition of cortisol and cortisone metabolites provides the most representative estimation of cortisol output. Because metabolites are end products, this calculation is representative of what the body can process which is based on liver metabolism, thyroid hormone levels, and peripheral fatty tissues.