Advanced nutritional testing and treatment are cutting-edge areas of health and wellness beyond general dietary recommendations. It includes a highly personalized diagnostic and treatment plan tailored to your specific metabolic needs. Advanced nutrient testing can identify deficiencies caused by a wide range of chronic health conditions that are often considered normal in the aging process, including fatigue, mood disorders, maldigestion, malabsorption, cardiovascular disease, obesity, insulin resistance, and slow healing. The Youth RX provides advanced nutrient testing, including the NutrEval, A blood and urine profile of 125 markers to assess the body’s needs for vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It is a comprehensive profile for identifying nutritional deficiencies and insufficiencies. Some of the tests include:
Amino Acids: Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. Abnormalities in levels of amino acids can lower hormone production, preclude muscle building and repair, and lead to mood disorders, low energy, and poor immune function. These deficiencies can be evaluated with recommendations for supplementation to correct these imbalances.
Organic Acids: Identifying abnormalities in the quantity of certain amino acids can indicate deficiencies of certain vitamins, identify bacterial and yeast infections, and identify reasons for fatigue and mitochondrial function issues. Diagnosis of these abnormalities can lead to a treatment program to correct the abnormalities and regain your health, and optimize your performance.
Toxic Elements: Our world is full of environmental toxins, including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and other elements that can burden your system and cause a wide variety of symptoms and health problems that are otherwise unidentified as aging or non-treatable conditions. Identification of these heavy metals and treatment with detoxification can unload your body from the toxic burden and improve health and increase lifespan.
Gut Testing
The human gut is approximately 30 feet long and provides more surface area with the outside world than any other organ. It is responsible for maintaining a barrier between you and your immune system. It houses the gut microbiome, or a host of bacteria and other microorganisms that aid in digestion, destroy harmful bacteria that cause disease, and regulate the immune system.Disturbances of the gut microbiome can be the cause of anxiety, depression and other mental illnesses. These disturbances can be identified by testing, including the GI Effects Profile, which is a stool test that can reveal causes of common gastrointestinal conditions and non-GI issues, including bloating, indigestion, reflux, abdominal pain, IBS, autoimmune disease, mood disorders, allergies, joint aches, diabetes, obesity, and skin disorders. Testing includes:
Markers for Inflammation and Immunology: calprotectin levels, eosinophil Protein X, Fecal secretory IgA, fecal occult blood testing
Gut Microbiome Evaluation: comprehensive microbiome analysis, including abundance and pattern, parasitology, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targets, and fecal exam of ova and parasites.
Markers for Digestion/Absorption: Undigested protein that reaches the colon, fecal fat, and pancreatic elastase-1 are identified in the testing.
Other Biomarkers: Zonulin peptide, yeast prep, H. pylori testing, and Shiga toxin of E Coli
Microbiomix: whole genome sequencing to assess gut microbiome can be added to the profile to provide advanced information on your gut’s function
Collection kits can be drop shipped directly to your home and your test can be activated online.