Food Intolerance Testing.
Undiagnosed food sensitivities can affect your quality of life. Manage your health and well-being with the RMA FST™ IgG Food Sensitivity Test, a report looking at up to 222 foods. Food sensitivity is not a disease, but it may play a role in causing disease or worsening certain symptoms. Symptoms associated with food sensitivities develop slowly over time and create inflammation. The RMA FST™ IgG Food Sensitivity Test can help identify potential food sensitivities.
There is a growing body of evidence to support the clinical benefits of eliminating IgG reactive foods from the diet. In an IgG reaction, the IgG antibodies bind to food antigens, creating antibody-antigen complexes. These complexes are normally removed by immune system cells called macrophages. However, if complexes are present in large numbers and the reactive food is still being consumed, the macrophages can’t remove them quickly enough. The food antigen-antibody complexes accumulate and can be deposited in body tissues. Once in tissues, these complexes can trigger inflammation, which may be responsible for a wide variety of symptoms.
Hormone Assessment.
Hormones are essential for the body to function optimally. Comprehensive Hormone Insights™ provides important details on hormone production and metabolism to provide a more complete picture of one’s overall hormonal health.
Comprehensive Hormone Insights™ (CHI) measures important hormones and hormone conjugates that allow evaluation of metabolized hormones, insight into hormone stores, and a view into liver function. CHI also includes many clinically meaningful cortisol measures including those that may inform on cortisol awakening response, recovery and repair, and cortisol conjugation pattern. CHI also includes 17-OH-pregnenolone, an important precursor steroid, along with clinically relevant estrogen ratios that provide insights into breast cancer risk and estrogen metabolism.
The Comprehensive Hormone Insights™ requires 4 urine samples collected over a period of two days, eliminating the need for a cumbersome 24-hour collection.
Patient Assessment Panels.
Patient Assessment Panels are a great tool for gaining comprehensive insights about your health status, improving one’s understanding of the underlying imbalances that lead to disease.
We work with LifeLabs to provide a new, easier way to access and order conventional blood tests with the development of 17 Patient Assessment Panels. Each of these panels has been designed by a group of doctors within the Medical Science team at LifeLabs to include the key tests required for assessment of patients based on their healthcare needs. Each panel has been developed with specific clinical questions in mind.
Comprehensive Stool Analysis with Parasitology.
Gastrointestinal complaints are among the most common in medical care. This comprehensive profile helps pinpoint the causes of gastrointestinal symptoms and chronic systemic conditions, and measures key markers of digestion, absorption and inflammation. Using growth-based culture, the standard of practice in clinical microbiology, as well as sensitive biochemical assays and microscopy, this thorough profile evaluates the status of beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms including aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, yeast and parasites. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing to prescriptive and natural agents is also performed for appropriate bacterial and fungal species at no additional charge.
Parasitology testing can include one-, two- or three-day collection.