Testosterone Tests - Increase Testosterone
Testosterone tests are conducted to determine the testosterone levels in the body. There are two types of tests carried out to check these levels and they are blood and saliva tests. Testosterone tests are necessary to diagnose and treat certain kind of syndromes and diseases related to the deficiency of testosterone.
These tests are carried out to determine the uncertain sex characteristics, early puberty, excessive hairiness, virilism in female, masculinisation, infertility in men and tumors in testicles and ovaries.
Laboratory Tests
In laboratories, your blood sample is taken to carry out the testosterone tests. The blood sample is collected during the morning hours as the levels of testosterone are higher during these hours. Equilibrium dialysis is the most accurate test (blood), which measures testosterone (albumin bound) plus some portion of free testosterone.
Home Test Kits
There are some kits,which help you do a self test for evaluating the testosterone levels at home and these test kits are available on online sites and stores. They carry out a saliva test to measure t testosterone level. These tests are helpful for senior citizens or people who have undergo testosterone replacement therapies. These test kits will also help you to determine the levels of other hormones such as progesterone, cortistol and DHEA.
Home test kits available to check testosterone levels are very simple – you need to collect the saliva in the tubes present in the kits, during couple of times in a day. Then you need to fill in a simple form and send the sample with the form enclosed in an addressed mailer (prepaid). You will get the results in 10- 15 days.
Ease of Testing
The advantages of carrying out saliva based hormone test is cost effective, collection is convenient, you can collect the sample in your own privacy and you can collect multiple samples in a day without waiting for long time in a laboratory. Collecting multiple samples can give you more accurate results.
In men the normal levels of testosterone range from 300 to 1,200 ng/dl, while in women it ranges from 30 to 95 ng/dl in women, in case of pre-pubertal boys it is less than 100 ng/dl, in pre-pubertal girls it is less than 40 ng/dl.
Conclusion of Findings
- Decrease in levels of testosterone indicates deficiency of chromosomes, down syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome and hypogonadism (primary and secondary)
- Increase in levels of testosterone indicates premature sexual growth, tumors in testicles, hyperthyroidism, and tumors related to adrenal glands, encephalitis’s viral infection and testosterone resistance syndrome.
To increase testosterone, there are numerous ways, which are discussed in details on other pages of this website.