Description
Women’s hormones are meant to move in a beautiful, predictable rhythm each month — estrogen rising in the first half to prepare for ovulation, and progesterone rising in the second half to stabilize mood, energy, and reproductive health.
When that rhythm is disrupted, it can affect every aspect of a woman’s physical and emotional well-being.
DUTCH Cycle Mapping™ follows estrogen and progesterone every single day of your cycle to give you a complete hormone curve, not just a one-day snapshot.
How It Supports Women’s Hormonal Health
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- Identifies Ovulation Health
• Confirms whether ovulation is happening — and if not, pinpoints why you may struggle with fertility or PMS.
• Shows the strength and length of your luteal phase (the second half of the cycle), which is crucial for pregnancy success, mood stability, and preventing estrogen dominance.
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- Detects Estrogen Imbalance
• Finds if your estrogen peak is too low (low energy, poor bone support, low libido) or too high (PMS, heavy bleeding, bloating, fibroids, breast tenderness).
• Identifies estrogen dominance — when estrogen outweighs progesterone — a state linked to PMS, migraines, fibroids, and higher risk for hormone-related cancers.
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- Optimizes Fertility Planning
• Accurately determines your fertile window — even if ovulation kits give unclear results.
• Helps understand why conception might be difficult or miscarriages have occurred.
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- Supports PMS & PMDD Management
• Links mood swings, anxiety, or depression to specific hormone phases so they can be targeted more effectively.
• Reveals if progesterone drops too early, causing symptoms before your period.
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- Guides Perimenopause Care
• Tracks the irregular hormone patterns that occur in your 40s and beyond — showing if symptoms are due to skipped ovulation, short cycles, or hormone surges at the wrong time.
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- Prevents Long-Term Hormonal Damage
• Early detection of persistent estrogen dominance, weak ovulation, or erratic hormone surges helps address patterns before they lead to chronic problems like osteoporosis, metabolic issues, or hormone-related cancers.
Important to Know
- For cycling women only — not for those who are postmenopausal, pregnant, or with complete hysterectomy.
- If you have a hormonal IUD and still cycle, this test can still give useful insight, but the synthetic hormones may influence results.
- If your cycles are irregular, we use ovulation predictor kits (OPKs) or basal body temperature (BBT) to help you start and stop collection at the right time.
How the Test Works
- Collect a small dried urine sample each morning starting on day 7 of your cycle until your next period starts.
- Each sample is analyzed for estrogen (E1, E2, E3) and progesterone metabolites.
- The results create a day-by-day hormone map showing your exact hormone rhythm for the month.
DUTCH Cycle Mapping™ turns your monthly cycle into a clear, visual map — so you can see exactly where your hormones support your health, and where they may be holding you back.
