Aaron Hartman argues serum testing remains useful in hormone medicine despite criticism from some precision medicine practitioners. Blood tests can measure baseline levels and specific markers like LH, FSH, and SHBG that aren't available elsewhere, though accuracy varies between labs.
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The interesting thing about why we see these patients all the time is precision Medicine World, it's doing the serum is a little bit frowned on because we're not ultimately going to be dosing patients on that. But if someone comes in and they're not on bioidentical hormones, you can't start with serum testing to get your general ballpark of where people are at. But there are some things you pick up like LH and fsh, which is your brain's response to what you're. Yeah, it's getting huge. Sex hormone binding globulin, which is the primary protein made by your liver that binds up all the hormones. Like you mentioned, free bound Pregnolone, I even like in a dheas, I think helpful. Well, correct. And that's not available except with blood. And so the serum has its utility. And then even with the celebrator, you have different people have different levels of accuracy.