Complex interactions within different systems.
Modern biometrics
Functional pathology
This provides a baseline evaluation of micronutrients, antioxidants, and amino acids. Your levels for each individual nutrient are compared against the established optimal range and as your body is unique, your optimal range could be quite different from someone else of your age, lifestyle and physical condition.
The complex relationships between the individual results are then analysed. While the individual results are important, the relationship and synergy between all your results is the most telling factor.
Hormone network
Your hormones are produced by the network of glands collectively known as your endocrine system. This system includes your pineal, hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, adrenal glands, as well as your pancreas, your ovaries or testes, and adipose tissue. Each of these tissues or glands produces individual hormones that are carried in your blood to specific organs where they do their work.
Every organ and every hormone affects another. If any part in the network isn’t working properly, your entire system may be off balance, including your reproductive system.
Immune profile
A balanced immune system has a level of tolerance and isn’t overreactive or under-responsive. In this state, the immune system maintains the ability to appropriately tolerate foods, substances and experiences while protecting the body from bacteria, viruses and other harmful compounds. The body has a natural tolerance to itself and if this becomes dysregulated it may lead to autoimmune disease, which is when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy body tissue.
Inflammation is a process has a very vital role in the body and we cannot exist without it. Issues may arise when this response becomes overreactive or there is a constant low level of activation due to ongoing exposure.
Nutrigenomic panel
Nutritional genomics, or nutrigenomics, describes how nutrients may influence gene expression, function and interaction particularly in the methylation cycle.
Methylation keeps the inner cogs of the body functioning on a molecular level, turning switches on and off as required to regulate the cardiovascular, neurological, reproductive and detoxification systems of the body.
Common gene variants may disrupt the optimal functioning of this cycle causing the symphony of switches to operate too fast or too slow, which may cause low production of some important hormones, antioxidants, neurotransmitters, amino acids and other substances in the body.
Metabolomic report
Metabolomics is the study of chemical processes and molecular products of metabolism. Each and every cellular process in the body leaves behind a chemical signature in the form of metabolites.
When the levels of different metabolites are measured, we receive a functional report card for each system in the body. The report card shows us how efficiently the systems in our body are performing. For the body to run effectively, it needs proper amounts of vitamins and minerals to help the enzymes activate. Without enough of these supporting factors these chemical pathways are unable to proceed at their normal pace.
