BioAging Stress Test
The individual stress analysis with professional evaluation

Chronic stress
First and foremost, stress is a regulatory mechanism of the body that by activating vital life-sustaining processes helps the body react swiftly and aptly to threatening situations.

Stress is hence a most complex reaction that activates and calls upon a wide variety of sensory, cognitive, emotional and neural-endocrine systems. Diverging from the original interpretation that stress embodies an unspecific adjustment of the body (Selye 1936), today it is viewed as a complex psycho-neuroendocrine response to various triggers (Henry 1986). If a stressful situation is repeated or perpetuates, blocking any chance of intermittent recovery, a chronic permanent stress load is the result (‘allostatic load', McEwen, 1998), the effects of which can be considerable.

To start with, the psycho-neuroendocrine systems are continuously fired to a maximum with the enhancement of cortisol (CRF, ACTH, EOP) and catecholamine, androgen, LH, cytokine, prolactin and blood pressure, as well as alterations of the heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV).

The test
Besides the calculators for risks of disease, we offer a module covering the major motors of disease in the industrial nations: a stress test in two different stages. All single modules of the stress test are evaluated individually and personally interpreted. The results are given in text and graphic form anchored in an extensive report of several pages.

Stress test - basic
This stress test comprises the following obligatory minimal profile required to procure findings: a questionnaire on stress factors and stress amplifiers, cortisol daily profile (saliva), serotonin (2. morning urine) and the blood pressure measurement. The questions are either completed online or manually and then transmitted. The laboratory parameters are sent to our partner laboratory BioLabs™. You will receive the full sampling kits from us, as well as instructions for your patient.

Once all parameters are available, we will let you have your patient's individual stress profile including the personalized interpretation.

Stress test - professional
In addition to the basic stress test, you can also have more parameters determined in the professional stress test: catecholamine in the 2. morning urine (adrenalin, noradrenaline, dopamine), heart rate variability (24-hour measurement, Suunto measurement belt can be obtained from us), VO2Max, stress parameter in serum (LH, free testosterone, prolactin and oxidation status)

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