[Victorian Rose]

So I've been looking through the forums about hormone testing and also googling it and I can't seem to find a whole lot of information. I'm planning on getting a hormone test in October when they accept new patients and I was wondering if anyone knows the best way to get accurate results?
Should I detox with milk thistle first and if so for how long? And is there a better time to do this?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Sorry I forgot to respond to your question in the other thread.
Now when I told the people who do pretty comprehensive tests I wanted to get my estrogen/progesterone tested I mentioned I was taking maca and fenugreek - their response was to stop ONE day prior to the test .
Assuming these people are herbal experts that would implicate that the likes of maca and fenugreek have no hormonal impact right?

I have always read milk thistle detoxes excess estrogen from the system BUT then I read milk thistle is a source OF phytoestrogen...

Either way any detox formula or hormone balancing supplement I have taken or been asked to contains milk thistle.

In your shoes, id take the milk thistle right up to a week or two (likely the longer the better) prior to taking the test, along with lemon water, apple cider vinegar and google (hormone balanceing detox) cause for all the naturopathic consultations etc I have had I swear to god they haven't taught me anything new (or very little) I didn't know myself already from just utilizing google..

OR you just do nothing whatsoever in the meantime, that gives you a few weeks of NO hormonal influences whatsoever to let your body reset . The reason I say this is BECAUSE the main organisation in my country were the very ones to say to me to not take any hormone influencing herbs a day or two prior to the test. Now if we cant trust them than who can we trust right?

Hope this helps a little, be open to whatever anyone else contributes too as well.

Right, it's such a complicated and confusing process lol. I'm really trying to read and understand it all but sometimes I have to ask questions I can't seem to find anywhere else. I did get those vitalerbs I think you were the one who mentioned them to me.. and so far they're doing well.. That's the only thing I'm taking right now, although I thought about stopping that prior to the hormone test because it says it has things like dandelion root in it and ginger etc.. which I thought were herbs recommended for NBE. But then again that's like eating foods which contain that as well... but I'm just trying to get the most accurate results mostly because I hear it's expensive and I don't really want to have to redo it, you know?

Yet at the same time.. I'm sure this multivitamin I will be taking every day regardless so unless for some reason it would cause issues with any future NBE herbal plan.. I'm really not sure.. :/ Any insight from you or anyone would be great. I know it's a kind of trial and error but I figure the more you know the better.