Why Blood Test Analysis is Essential for Optimal Health
Wouldn’t you like to know where you stand in the big health picture? Blood tests are a good way to catch red flags early, before they become “pink flags”. Detailed computer analysis can help unveil trends before they manifest into full-blown problems.
Comprehensive testing beyond the typical blood panel can uncover a bigger health picture; ie, a typical blood test will not include testing for HgA1C (see explanation below for why this tells you more about your blood sugar regulation than your blood glucose level.) A typical blood panel also does not include CRP, a marker of inflammation that can be extremely helpful in assessing one’s overall health picture. A low TSH will reflect thyroid dysfunction, but a normal value does not necessarily reflect optimal function. Other thyroid hormones such as T3, T4, reverse T3 and others must be measured to get a clearer picture of the endocrine balance.
Nutritional supplement support recommendations can help establish a protocol for achieving optimal values.
Dr. Iris Rosenfeld utilizes a program called Functional Health Evaluation that will analyze your results in detail based on advanced algorithms, provide definitions and descriptions, and suggest the dietary, lifestyle and nutritional protocols best suited to individual needs based on unbiased lab values.
Take Glucose as an Example:
Many people with single low blood sugar readings are low on the day they are tested, but those levels can reach elevated levels on other days. In extreme cases, when people exhibit “reactive hypoglycemia”, blood sugar levels can fluctuate severely from day to day. This explains why a glucose reading can be normal even when there is dysfunction in the sugar-handling process.
A glucose reading on a typical blood lab test is a snapshot in time. It tells the person what the glucose level was in that exact moment. It is not an accurate picture of what blood glucose levels are over time. There is, however, a way to measure how the body handles sugar levels over time. This method of measurement is much more accurate than a single glucose reading, and the reason we can use it is because of a process called glycation. Glycation involves a protein binding to sugar, getting oxidized, and forming a compound that can be measured in the blood. This is what happens to the hemoglobin of the red blood cell (RBC). The hemoglobin protein molecule binds to sugar, gets oxidized, and forms a compound known as hemoglobin A1C, or HgA1C. Since the average life span of an RBC is 120 days, measuring the hemoglobin that has been bound to glucose and oxidized gives a pretty good picture of what the blood sugar levels have been doing over time. Monitoring these levels can be very helpful in determining the support protocols best suited for each individual.
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