At-Home Test Kit: 8 Key Hormones — Comprehensive Saliva Panel with 4-Point Cortisol
The Hormone Trio covers the three core sex hormones — but hormonal health doesn’t stop there, and stress hormones have a way of throwing everything else out of balance. The 8 Key Hormones test kit expands the panel significantly: a comprehensive saliva-based profile testing waking levels of estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA-S, and a full four-point cortisol rhythm across the day, for a far more complete picture of where your hormonal system stands.
How the 8 Key Hormones Test Kit Maps Your Complete Hormonal Picture
This comprehensive profile tests waking levels of estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA-S, and cortisol — but the real depth comes from the cortisol testing specifically. The kit provides a full cortisol profile at four time points during the day (morning, noon, evening, night) for extremely accurate results, capturing the natural rhythm cortisol should follow (high in the morning, declining through the day) rather than a single snapshot that could miss a pattern entirely out of sync.
Combined with estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA-S — a hormone that plays a role in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis stress response in addition to its role as a precursor to sex hormones — this panel tests for amenorrhea, PMS, DUB, estrogen dominance, hypogonadism, sexual dysfunction, osteoporosis, fibrocystic breast disease, PCOS, anovulation, menopausal symptoms, and adrenal fatigue. For men, it monitors estrogen dominance, hypogonadism, andropause, fatigue, low libido, erectile dysfunction, and osteoporosis risk.
Ideal For
- Anyone with fatigue, sleep issues, or stress symptoms alongside hormone concerns
- Those suspecting adrenal fatigue in addition to sex hormone imbalances
- Comprehensive baseline testing before starting any Balance Therapy product
- Anyone whose symptoms span multiple systems — energy, mood, cycle, libido
- Those wanting the most complete picture available from a single at-home kit
The Adrenal Connection Note — Why Cortisol Timing Matters
Progesterone is considered the “master hormone” and is necessary for the production and balance of other important hormones, primarily estrogen and testosterone — but the adrenal glands, which produce both DHEA and cortisol, also draw on shared hormonal pathways. When cortisol is chronically elevated or follows an abnormal daily rhythm (as the four-point testing in this kit is designed to detect), it can affect how the body produces and uses progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone — meaning a sex-hormone imbalance might have an adrenal/cortisol component underlying it.
This is why the 8 Key Hormones panel includes the four-point cortisol test rather than a single reading — a morning-only cortisol level can appear completely normal even when the overall daily rhythm is disrupted, and that disruption is often invisible without testing at multiple points throughout the day.
How to Use
Collect saliva samples at the four specified time points (morning, noon, evening, night) following the detailed directions included in the kit. Mail samples to the partner lab using the provided prepaid materials. Results include reference ranges adjusted for your age, sex, and current supplementation.
Full Ingredients
This is a diagnostic test kit, not a topical or ingestible product. The kit includes saliva collection materials for four time points and prepaid return packaging for laboratory analysis of estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA-S, and cortisol (4-point).
