Until recently, steroid hormone level evaluations were carried out on blood samples, but blood collection has its limitations. It is invasive, expensive and difficult to time precisely. Perhaps more importantly, blood hormone levels represent your body's total hormone content. Your saliva contains these free hormones which can be easily measured to give an accurate picture of those hormones that are readily available to your tissue. With the convenience and privacy of home collection, saliva hormone testing is non-invasive and economical.
Blood collection is sometimes very stressful while saliva collection is simple.
Saliva sample collections can be timed precisely which is critical for some hormones. Multiple saliva collections can be taken in a single day to evaluate daily fluctuation. Prepaid mailers containing your saliva specimen can simply be dropped into your nearest mailbox for delivery to Aeron. This convenience is possible because saliva hormones are stable at room temperature for at least 3 weeks.