PATIENTS
Why measure nutrients?
"Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Thy Food." Hippocrates
Nutrients are essential for good health. They are crucial parts of many kinds of biochemical conversions in the body, such as enzyme reactions. Deficiency or excess of nutrients can lead to a decreased function of several (organ)systems and the human body as a whole.
Before complaints and diseases become manifest, disturbances in the nutrient balance can already be detected. Measuring the nutrient status has therefore an important preventive and diagnostic role. Based on nutrient analysis a dietary or nutritional supplement therapy can be applied, specified to the individual situation.
Nutrient measurements also contribute to the follow-up of a patient and can be used to check the effects of a therapy.
How to choose and order a test?
Method 1: In depth analysis through your physician
Depending the health issues that your are going through, we recommend that for in depth and complicated tests you always consult a physician.
For these tests your physician will use our
professional order form that we only accept when requested by a physician or other medical/nutritional professional.
Test kits and test material will be send on request. Laboratory testresults are send to your physician/professional for interpretation.
Method 2: Order a panel analysis yourself
More and more people find their own information on how to maintain good health. In order to monitor that yourself, we believe our panel tests for essential nutrients should be directly available for the consumer under supervision of our practioners.
Different panels can be ordered directly through our website, given that we receive your blood or urine samples.
You can either stop by at our two locations to give your blood sample or contact one of the national sample points.
How to test your mineral and vitamin status?
In an ideal situation we would like to see how every cell in the body is nourished. This would only be possible if we would take punctions from every organ and examine the cells. Not something you wish to do regularly! Therefore most lab test are limited to analysis of blood, urine, stool and hair samples as most non-invasive techniques. Minerals can be tested in Blood, Urine and Hair. Whereas vitamins can only be tested in Blood. The tests below, are a good indication for your nutritional status, we believe that with some background knowledge you can monitor these yourself.
We recommend that you repeat a mineral test to check your improvement every 1-3 months since levels are restored rather rapidly. Vitamin levels however can take up to six months to adjust. Re-testing should therefore be done after 3-6 months.
Good Health is in our blood
Still one of the best ways to determine our health is by examining our blood.