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Nutritional Analysis through "Absolute Nutrition & Accident Recovery, Inc"
Possible nutritional analysis tools available to all Alternative Care Doctor’s Offices
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Nutritional Analysis through
"Absolute Nutrition & Accident Recovery, Inc"

Nutritional Blood Analysis is a method of using diagnostic testing to reveal nutritional deficiencies or tendencies toward disease. Using these valuable tests, a doctor can make recommendations for proper supplementation and dietary changes and monitor progress. Science Based Nutrition not only represents a method of the highest level of nutritional analysis but also is an organization of doctors dedicated to providing this level of nutritional analysis.

Not only is this the most important tool you can have to prevent disease, but it can also be used to optimize the health of your body to promote healing and repair. Many problems can be identified in the blood long before you actually experience symptoms. Certain tests that when properly read, will indicate if you are progressing towards a serious illness, such as cancer, diabetes, liver, heart, or many other diseases.

What separates us from other nutritionists? Our TESTING of course, and RETESTING to determine your progress and make necessary adjustments to your program according to how your body responds to treatment.

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Possible nutritional analysis tools available
to all Alternative Care Doctor’s Offices

There are obviously many tests that a doctor can order. The intent here is to list tests that might be unfamiliar to the common medical community.

Food Allergy Tests: It has been estimated that 60% of the U.S. population suffers from some reaction to a food that can cause or complicate a health problem. Many times the patient does not even know of his or her allergies.

The best method for determining food allergies requires a sample of blood serum. A measurement of antibody titers is taken against certain food groups. The greater your level of antibodies to a particular food, the greater your allergic reaction. There are no interruptions to be made as in a skin prick test. These tests are very accurate. The “Ig” stands for “immunoglobulins.” The A, E, GE and G4 represent the type of immunoglobulins being tested:

IgA: Acquired allergies that cause an immediate allergic reaction.
IgE: Acquired allergies that cause an allergic reaction within about three hours.
IgGE: Allergies you were born with that usually have a reaction within three hours.
IgG4: Acquired allergies that have a delayed reaction of up to four days, and are very difficult to figure out due to the average four day delay before your allergic reaction occurs.

Amino Acid Testing: Amino acids have a powerful effect on strength and endurance, mental-emotional health, immune function and inflammatory processes. Amino Acid balance is critical to good health. The test can utilize either blood or urine. Amino Acids are the building blocks of protein and are essential for many bodily processes. Your digestive tract breaks down protein from food you eat into individual amino acids, which are then absorbed into the blood stream.

Amino Acids are used to build structural proteins of muscle and connective tissue. They make enzymes, which control every chemical reaction in your body. They make a variety of brain neurotransmitters and hormones, generate energy, and stabilize blood sugar and aid in detoxification and anti-oxidant protection.

“Essential” amino acids are those that your body cannot make, they must be supplied from your diet. They can be converted into other important amino acids.

Some of the symptoms of amino acid deficiencies can include:

Chronic Fatigue
Food and chemical sensitivities
Learning and behavioral disorders in children
Mental-emotional disturbances
Blood sugar dysregulation
Substance abuse
Weakened immune system
Developmental delay I children
Arthritis
Impaired detoxification
Heart disease

Hormonal Balance: The preferred method utilizes saliva as the medium. Women during menses must take the test between days 19 and 21 of their cycle. Men or women of any age can take this test. Both men and women have all the sex hormones. Obviously women have a much greater amount of female hormones and men a greater amount of male hormone. I have on several occasions had a female patient present me with a female hormone test that their medial PPO had ordered for them. Generally it does not tell me much as they were only tested to see how much estrogen they had. What kind of estrogen? How much progesterone? What was the ratio? How about the other hormones?

Saliva testing is the most reliable way to measure free, “bioavailablity” hormone activity - hormone activity at the cell level. Most blood tests do not measure “bioavailablity” hormone levels.

Saliva hormones more accurately reflect tissue uptake and response of hormones delivered through the skin from creams, gels, or patches. Blood and urine assays significantly underestimate hormones delivered topically, often resulting in overdosing.

The preferred hormone values to test for in a single test panel (all are tested at the same time), are:

Estradiol (E2)
Estriol (E3)
Estrone (E1)
Progesterone (Pg)
Testosterone (T)
DHEA-S
Androstenedione
Cortisol (Adrenal Function)

A much better job of hormone interpretation can be done for patients when the doctor has a fuller picture of all these hormone values in each patient tested.

Hair Analysis: This is a very simple test for basic parameters of both toxic metals exposure, and a good picture of the patient’s nutritional status of vitamins and minerals. The results should be interpreted by a physician, or carefully understood by the patient. Confusion could occur such as:

The toxic elements demonstrated will be from acute (everyday) exposure, not from toxins that are deep within the tissues, hidden from most of the daily blood stream activity. The only way to determine if metals are hidden deep within the tissues is with a chelator challenge such as EDTA or DMPS.

The vitamins and minerals, if very high, could mean just the opposite, due to the body dumping out the elements instead of utilizing them in the biochemistry. The challenge will be to determine why the body is dumping out those particular nutritional elements.

DISCLAIMER This information is provided for Educational Purposes Only and has NOT been designed to diagnose, treat or cure any health conditions. Please consult a qualified Health Care Professional with Nutritional Training to diagnose your health conditions and avoid self-diagnosis. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have not evaluated statements about these health topics or any suggested product compositions.