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Would you like indepth information and assesment of your nutritional status and digestive health? Then working with one of our Clinical Nutritionists is where you want to start. We have numerous nutritional assessments available to determine optimal nutrition for you. Nutritional assessment testing is not meant to diagnose or treat any disease; the infomration provided is intended to assist you in making healthy eating and supplement choices.
Metabolic Blueprint
Get Maximum Results by Individualizing Your Nutrition to Match Your Metabolic Blueprint!
Aging, fatigue, disease, weight gain, headaches, low libido, autoimmunity and many other conditions can be reversed with optimized, individualized nutritional support that boosts your metabolic cellular function. The link between diet and health is clear: getting the nutrition that is right for your individual body will help prevent and treat suboptimal health. Your Metabolic Blueprint targets specific needs by integrating powerful nutritional metabolic testing, customized and compounded nutrients, and customized food guidelines into a single innovative tool offering customized intervention options.
The foods you eat provide fuel for your body. The nutrients you consume each day are your body’s source of raw materials. A shortage of any nutrient can shut down the “assembly lines” that are your body’s biochemical pathways.
Each person’s body has unique needs called bio-individuality. The Metabolic Blueprint customizes diet, vitamins, minerals and amino acids to fit your body's unique metabolic needs. The Metabolic Blueprint optimizes wellness and helps prevent disease states from occurring and may reverse the cellular and metabolic aging process.
Why should I get my Metabolic Blueprint?
The Metabolic Blueprint reveals your body’s unique needs by combining information from measurements of digestion, nutrients and vitamin and mineral deficiency as well as cell and organ dysfunction.
The Metabolic Blueprint evaluates your ability to burn fuel (foods) and create energy at the cellular level. To burn carbohydrates, fats and metabolize protein requires nutrients such as B-vitamins, CO Q10, lipoic acid, minerals and carnitine to name a few. All of these nutrients come from foods but may be in short supply based on your personal metabolic blueprint. Nutrient needs are highly individualized -- just like you.
The Metabolic Blueprint can determine where you might be missing nutrients that affect your unique ability to burn fat or fight fatigue. The Metabolic Blueprint evaluates your amino acid profile. Amino acids are the “building blocks” of proteins that factor in chemical processes affecting physical, mental and emotional biochemical reactions such as improving serotonin levels and cellular energy.
The Metabolic Blueprint includes an evaluation of the top 30 foods that are associated with “delayed” food reactions that can worsen or may contribute to many different health problems, such as inflammatory bowel disease, ADD/ADHD, skin problems, fatigue, migraine/headaches and more.
Based on your Metabolic Blueprint lab test, you will receive a comprehensive report and program to optimize your nutrition, supplementation, lifestyle and diet to correct your metabolic issues resulting in optimal health. No more one size fits all diets and supplements. The Metabolic Blueprint is tailored specifically to your body and your metabolic needs.
Your Metabolic Blueprint™ Snapshot will contain all of the laboratory results, your health history and a complete report explaining the test results in detail so you understand your body’s blueprint.
In your Metabolic Blueprint™ Meal Plan, we will develop your unique eating guidelines reflecting your unique metabolic needs, lifestyle and goals based on your lab results including plans to manage hormones and increase natural weight loss or maintain your ideal body weight.
Your Metabolic Blueprint™ Supplement Plan details exactly what nutrients and enzymes your body needs -- nothing more, nothing less. Your supplement plan includes custom, compounded nutrients that correct your individual metabolic issues -- based on your lab results. No two people are alike, and your supplements should not be either! Your Metabolic Blueprint is unique, exact and personalized!
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Nutritional Testing
Health is a continuum. At one end is peak energy and vitality; at
the other is disease, even death. Many of us live much of our lives
somewhere between the two extremes: not quite ill, but not truly well
either. Optimal nutrition can help us move positively toward peak health,
with fewer illnesses and more vitality, even as we age. Nutrient Testing can help you do that.
What tests are available?
The Metametrix ION (Individual • Optimal • Nutrition) Profile is the
most comprehensive profile available, revealing nutritional deficiencies,
metabolic dysfunction, and toxicities. Combining profiles of organic
acids, amino acids, fatty acids, nutrient and toxic elements, and
antioxidant vitamins, the ION Profile represents your best testing value.
It measures more than 100 components, integrating them into a complete
picture of your individual biochemistry.
Food Allergy/Antibody Testing
Scientists estimate that approximately 12 million Americans suffer
from food allergies.* A food allergy or sensitivity is an immune system
response to a food that the body mistakenly believes is harmful. Once
the immune system decides that a particular food is harmful, it creates
specific antibodies to it. (*www.foodallergy.org)
Gastrointestinal Stool Testing
Gastrointestinal (GI) function is important for general health. This
includes balancing beneficial microbial flora in the gut to enhance health
benefits. GI health is key in digestion, nutrient usage, and ridding the
body of waste and pathogens. Poor digestion and malabsorption can
lead to immune dysfunction, nutritional insufficiencies, and various
disease states. Poor GI function can also lead to food allergies and other
toxicities.
We Test for:
• Inflammation
• Immune function and gluten sensitivity
• Yeast
• Parasites
• Bacteria
• Pathogens
• Pharmaceutical and botanical sensitivities
• Cancer-preventative short chain fatty acids
• Pancreatic function
• Markers for digestion and absorption
Adrenal Stress, Hormone and Neurotransmitter Testing
Chronic stress is a state of ongoing physiological arousal. This occurs
when the body experiences so many stressors that the autonomic nervous
system, which helps one adapt to changes in the environment, rarely
has a chance to activate the relaxation response. This type of chronic
stress response occurs all too frequently from a modern lifestyle, when
everything from high-pressured jobs to loneliness to busy traffic can keep
the body in a state of perceived threat and chronic stress. In this case,
our fight-or-flight response can wear down our bodies and cause us to
become ill, either physically or emotionally.
A stressful lifestyle can lead to consistently high levels of cortisol, and
low levels of the hormone DHEA (dehydoepiandosterone), which can
be damaging to the brain and other tissues. Cortisol (a stress hormone)
elevation also impacts immune responses, such as secretory IgA (sIgA)
and anti-gliadin antibody (AGA) production. SIgA, part of the first line of
immune defense against pathological microorganisms and food antigens
in the lining of the gut, decreases during stress. AGA is elevated in people
with gliadin intolerance and celiac disease, which affect about 12-14%
of the US population. When immune defenses in the gut are diminished
by stress, gut permeability increases as does the amount of AGA in the
bloodstream.
The Adrenal Stress Profiles use a non-invasive salivary procedure to
monitor the activity of the adrenal cortex and its ability to react to stress.
The procedure monitors the rhythmic biological cycles recurring at
24-hour intervals of cortisol and DHEA-S levels.
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