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1 day agoWhat Is a DUTCH Test? The Hormone Panel Explained
Women often face dismissive attitudes from healthcare providers regarding perimenopause symptoms, leading to frustration and a lack of proper testing.
While standard at-home ovulation tests predict fertile days by tracking estrogen and Luteinizing hormone (LH), they don't measure the hormone that confirms your ovulation, which is progesterone metabolite PdG. Inito allows women to measure estrogen, LH, progesterone (PdG), and FSH on a single test strip. Inito's AI models interpret these levels to reveal fertility hormone patterns, track fertile days, and confirm ovulation.
The actual name is the Withings U-Scan, a $380 at-home urinalysis test with a removable cartridge that either measures your nutritional biomarkers or the likelihood of developing kidney stones. Somehow, for legitimate work purposes, I was going to spend the next several weeks measuring my pee. Because my pee was going to provide crucial data about my ketone, vitamin C, hydration, and "bioacidity" levels, whatever the hell that meant. Armed with this data, I could theoretically further optimize my diet and... I don't know. Be healthier?