Lab Ordering Essentials: Adrenal Hormone Labs

Self-Guided Bootcamp

Getting started with ordering adrenal lab kits requires you gain confidence in understanding their value to your patients. This course provides you the confidence to inspire any patient to purchase a test kit. Once purchased, the data from the lab reports allows you to design life-changing programs for patients with complaints directly brought on by stress. For most of our students, these adrenal programs become a key tool used to assess all patients.

You will learn specific scripts and techniques for explaining the value and critical importance of these labs. As you develop your patient communication skills, you will be able to explain the role that stress plays in the development of a majority of common health complaints, which in turn allows you to have a simple, reproducible method for ensuring patients buy their test kits. We’ve successfully trained thousands of practitioners in this approach to patient education and it works, is easy to learn, and relieves any stress you may have about convincing patients to get started with a program.

• Learn about the differences between various types of adrenal hormone tests: salivary cortisol and DHEA, the cortisol awakening response (CAR), and urinary metabolites (HUMAP and DUTCH testing)
• Understand the types of patients best suited for stress hormone testing
• Master the scripts that will guide patients through a step by step process of understanding the purpose of testing and correcting the stress response
• Gain the confidence required to answer any patient questions or address the most common concerns patients have: it’s too expensive, why can’t  I do this test with my regular doctor through my insurance, what’s the point in testing, all my regular lab work shows I’m fine…
• We will review the condition description technique which has proven to be effective in thousands of practice settings worldwide - this communication technique allows you to personalize your explanations as to why a test is important for a given patient
• Learn about our next step educationally for you, our Lab Interpretation Workshops, in which you can learn the basics of how to interpret these lab reports and develop clinically effective programs based on lab data and time tested protocols used by generations of practitioners.