Micronutrient Testing
Micronutrient tests are designed to understand the body as a system, to identify the cause of illness, and to provide an individualized roadmap to restore the balance in your body and achieve optimal health.
Contrary to established paradigms about health in America, the majority of chronic disease is attributed in large part to cellular deficiencies in micronutrients. By correcting deficiencies, you can prevent, treat, and reverse many medical conditions from the most serious to the not so serious.
What Are Micronutrients?
Micronutrients play an important role in energy production, hemoglobin synthesis, maintenance of bone health, adequate immune function, and protection of the body against oxidative stress and cellular damage.
Micronutrients include vitamins, minerals, co-factors, amino acids, metabolites, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids. These nutrients are found in small amounts in foods like organ meats, spinach, sweet potatoes, milk, certain nuts like almonds, mushrooms, tuna, avocados, and other like foods. These micronutrients are essential for human health.
Overwhelming evidence reveals that micronutrient deficiencies are associated with inflammation, and chronic disease, therefore affecting physical and mental health and ultimately, quality of life.
Even if you have adopted a healthy lifestyle, micronutrient deficiencies may be present for a host of reasons like:
• Biochemical Individuality: Everyone and their bodies are different, therefore individual needs vary, thus micronutrient requirements for you may be quite different from another.
• Absorption: Malabsorption or the inability to absorb different nutrients is common and is often aggravated by stress.
• Illness - acute or chronic: Just as micronutrient deficiencies can set the stage for disease or certain health conditions - medications often prescribed to treat them can contribute to micronutrient depletion.
• Aging: Our micronutrient requirements at age 20 are quite different from our requirements at age 40, 50, and beyond. The more our body ages and deteriorates, the more micronutrients we need.
• Lifestyle: Our lifestyle determines how well our bodies are able to absorb the micronutrients we do or don’t ingest. Physical activity that’s either too intense or not happening at all, prescription, and OTC medication use, smoking, and alcohol have an impact on individual micronutrient demands.
Micronutrient testing gives an ACCURATE assessment of cellular performance.
Why Is Micronutrient Testing Important?
Testing is important because suboptimal vitamin status (not having enough vitamin stores within your body) is associated with many chronic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cancer, and osteoporosis just to name a few. It is important to identify patients with poor nutrition or other reasons for increased vitamin needs as well.
Studies have shown that 38% of people have multiple deficiencies without previous supplementation, 43% of people have multiple deficiencies with the previous supplementation and 19% of people show no deficiencies, meaning most people have vitamin deficiencies and without being tested may not know it. This could have a significant impact on their health.
Most common Functional Deficiencies include: Zinc, Folate, Calcium, B12, Selenium, B1, Glutathione, Vit E, Lipoic Acid, Vit D, B2, Magnesium.
Hometown Pharmacy offers micronutrient testing that provides the most comprehensive nutritional analysis by measuring function deficiencies at the cellular level. The test is an assessment of how well the body utilizes 31 vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, antioxidants, and metabolites while conveying the body's need for these micronutrients that enable the body to produce enzymes, hormones, and other substances essential for the proper growth, development and good health.
Everyone can benefit and learn more about their bodies with micronutrient testing, but especially those patients who have the following symptoms, diagnoses, or risk factors should consider testing their extra & intracellular micronutrient status such as those who:
• are advancing in age
• are experiencing stress and/or fatigue
• are experiencing depression and/or anxiety
• have diabetes
• have cardiovascular disease
• have arthritis
• have skin problems
• have weakened immune systems
• have digestive disorders with malabsorption (Celiac, Crohns, Ulcerative Colitis)
• have long term use of prescription medications
• have obesity and/or stubborn weight gain
• have autoimmune disorders
• take part in intense athletic training
Nutritional deficiencies lie at the heart of so many conditions and unless they are corrected, a patient never really resolves their health issues on a permanent level. In many cases, these patients have struggled for years with symptoms that disappear or improve when their nutrient deficiencies are corrected.
To learn more about getting your micronutrients tested today, talk to your Hometown Pharmacist, so we can help evolve your health into wellness.
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