Basic Saliva Test Kit

Your body’s stress response is largely regulated by the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, which controls the production and rhythm of key stress hormones such as cortisol and DHEA.

The Adrenocortex Stress Profile Basic is a four-point saliva test that measures cortisol levels throughout the day along with morning DHEA-S, providing insight into your daily stress hormone rhythm.

Cortisol should normally follow a predictable circadian pattern - rising shortly after waking, gradually declining throughout the day and reaching its lowest levels at night to support sleep. When this rhythm becomes disrupted, individuals may experience symptoms such as persistent fatigue, poor stress tolerance, sleep disturbances or mood changes.

By measuring cortisol at four points across the day, this test helps identify patterns in your stress hormone rhythm rather than relying on a single snapshot, providing a clearer understanding of how your body is responding to stress.

Adrenocortex Stress Profile Basic Saliva Test Kit

$155.00

This test evaluates key hormones involved in the body’s stress response and adrenal function.

Cortisol Rhythm

Cortisol is measured at four points across the day, allowing assessment of your circadian stress hormone pattern.

Samples are collected at:

• Morning (6–8am)
• Midday (12pm)
• Afternoon (4pm)
• Evening (8pm)

These measurements help identify whether cortisol follows a healthy daily rhythm or shows patterns such as flattened, elevated or inverted cortisol curves.

DHEA-S

Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) is measured from the morning sample.

DHEA works alongside cortisol and plays an important role in:

• Stress resilience
• Hormonal balance
• Immune function
• Healthy ageing

The ratio between cortisol and DHEA can provide additional insight into overall adrenal resilience and stress response capacity.
This analysis may provide insight into:

• Disruptions to the daily cortisol rhythm
• Patterns associated with chronic stress or HPA axis dysregulation
• Low or elevated cortisol levels throughout the day
• Altered cortisol to DHEA balance
• Biological patterns that may contribute to fatigue, sleep disturbances or poor stress tolerance

Understanding these patterns can help guide personalised strategies aimed at supporting energy levels, stress resilience and hormonal balance.
This test may be beneficial for individuals who:

• Wake feeling exhausted despite adequate sleep
• Experience mid-afternoon energy crashes
• Feel overwhelmed by stress that previously felt manageable
• Have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep
• Experience fatigue, anxiety or poor stress tolerance without a clear cause

It may also be helpful for individuals wanting a data-informed assessment of their stress hormone patterns.
Once your results are available, you will be required to book a results consultation to review your report.

During this session, your results are interpreted within a clinical context and translated into practical health strategies.

Your consultation may include discussion around:

• Stress management and nervous system regulation strategies
• Nutritional approaches to support adrenal and metabolic function
• Targeted supplementation where appropriate
• Sleep optimisation strategies
• Lifestyle adjustments to support a healthy cortisol rhythm
To ensure accurate results, please follow these guidelines when collecting your samples:

• Collect saliva samples at four specific times throughout the day:
– 6–8am
– 12pm
– 4pm
– 8pm

• Avoid eating, drinking (except water), brushing your teeth or smoking for at least 30 minutes before sample collection

• Follow the instructions provided in the kit carefully for proper sample collection and storage

• Return the samples according to the shipping instructions provided
Your results report will show your cortisol levels at four time points throughout the day, alongside your morning DHEA-S level.

The report typically highlights:

• Your daily cortisol rhythm, including whether levels rise and fall appropriately throughout the day
• Patterns such as flattened, elevated or disrupted cortisol curves
• Your DHEA-S level, which reflects adrenal hormone production
• The cortisol to DHEA balance, which provides insight into stress resilience

These patterns can help identify whether symptoms such as fatigue, sleep disruption or poor stress tolerance may be linked to altered stress hormone regulation.

Interpreting these results within a clinical consultation allows personalised strategies to be developed to support healthy stress physiology and long-term resilience.
Many people take supplements without truly understanding what their body needs. While some nutrients can be helpful, taking supplements without proper assessment may mean addressing the wrong problem or missing important underlying factors.

Functional testing allows us to move beyond guesswork and instead use objective data to guide personalised health strategies.

Testing can help identify:

• Nutrient deficiencies or imbalances
• Environmental exposures that may impact health
• Microbial imbalances within the gut
• Genetic variations that influence metabolism and cellular processes
• Biological patterns that may be contributing to symptoms

Rather than taking a generalised approach, testing provides information that allows recommendations to be tailored to your individual physiology.

This helps ensure that nutritional strategies, supplementation and lifestyle interventions are targeted, appropriate and aligned with your specific health needs.

For this reason, all testing offered through the clinic is reviewed within a clinical consultation, where results are interpreted and translated into practical, personalised recommendations.
Functional health testing can provide valuable insights into how the body is functioning. However, interpreting these results correctly requires clinical context.

Laboratory reports often present large amounts of technical data, and results may fall within reference ranges while still indicating patterns that are relevant to your health.

Working with a practitioner ensures that your results are reviewed in relation to your:

• Symptoms and health history
• Current diet and lifestyle factors
• Medication or supplement use
• Environmental exposures
• Overall health goals

Rather than looking at individual markers in isolation, a practitioner assesses patterns across multiple systems to better understand what may be influencing your health.

During your results consultation, findings from your test are translated into clear and practical recommendations, which may include targeted nutrition strategies, lifestyle adjustments and appropriate supplementation where required.

This personalised approach helps ensure that testing leads to meaningful, actionable changes that support long-term health outcomes.

Adrenocortex Stress Profile Basic Saliva Test Kit

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