Why Choose ZRT Laboratory?

With over 20 years of experience and results from over 10 million tests, ZRT Laboratory is a recognized leader in innovative and meaningful hormone and wellness testing. Health care providers in all 50 states and over 100 countries, and research teams worldwide, use our tests, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and many renowned universities.

• We offer all four test mediums (saliva, blood spot, dried urine, and serum) and a varied menu of tests, giving you maximum flexibility and optimal timing of sampling.
• First-morning saliva sampling measures peak hormone levels and ensures correspondence with supplementation ranges that depend on time since last hormone use. No need to collect four daily samples except when testing diurnal cortisol.
• Unlike other labs, patients do not need to stop hormone supplementation to use ZRT's testing because we have ranges adjusted for age, menstrual status and supplementation types. This is the ideal method for tracking the effectiveness of hormone treatments.
• Turn-around time 3-5 business days.

• ZRT is the only laboratory to perform an extraction process for saliva testing, which separates hormones from background contamination. This ensures accurate test results for low-concentration hormones such as estradiol, which exists at 1/10,000 the level of DHEA.
• We determine reference ranges for individual patient ages, menstrual status, and hormone supplementation.
• We maintain precision and accuracy with rigorous proficiency testing both internally and externally. To help establish industry-wide standards, we initiated the Salivary Proficiency Inter-laboratory Testing (SPIT) program. As part of this program, results from carefully selected pooled samples are compared to results for the same samples from other saliva testing laboratories two times per year. This effort allows us to regularly evaluate our saliva testing accuracy.
• ZRT is the only specialty hormone laboratory to have qualified for the CDC’s Hormone Standardization Program (HoSt) – meaning that ZRT has successfully passed the performance criteria to qualify for the CDC Testosterone Reference Method and the CDC Estradiol Reference Method.

• Test results correlate hormone levels with reported symptoms and hormone supplementation, providing deeper insight into patient conditions.
• All reports are physician-reviewed with individualized comments and include previous test results to compare current and past hormone levels to monitor patient progress.
• Test reports are available via secure, online access.

• On-call clinical consultants are available without appointment to consult with health care providers regarding hormone testing and bioidentical treatment approaches.
• Educational webinars for medical professionals and patients presented by physician experts in the areas of physiology and endocrinology – recordings available in our resource library.
• Resource materials about our tests, including Provider Data Sheets, Patient Handouts, and other reference documents are available in our resource library.

• Ongoing clinical research, published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at scientific meetings, in collaboration with investigators around the world including the CDC, NIH, the military and academic research centers.