Why Test
Why testing is necessary before taking nutritional supplements.
Metabolic testing and customized supplementing are no longer luxuries for the rich. They are a necessity for anyone who wants to stay healthy.
According to USDA figures taken in the 1950s and those taken within the last five years, the produce that is commercially available today in the U.S. contains up to 75 percent less nutrition then it did 50 years ago.
Most experts agree that this alarming decrease in the nutritional value is due to over-planting, soil depletion and the widespread use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Furthermore, modern manufacturing methods destroy or weaken many of the nutrients in processed foods.
The "experts" reverse a 30-year stand against the need for taking vitamins.
It's no wonder that a recent report by two Harvard University researchers in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)-the voice of the American medical establishment--stated emphatically that Americans need to supplement to remain healthy.
Simply taking vitamin supplements is not enough.
However, those who have always been at the leading edge of health and nutritional knowledge have discovered that simply taking vitamins is not enough. Here is what many leading nutritionists and medical professionals are now saying about metabolic testing and customized nutrition.
Supplementing needs to catch up with science-and reality.
A variety of factors impact human health-from man-made toxins, to "free-radicals," to the amount of nitric oxide the body.
Is the liver receiving the nutritional support it needs in the right amounts?
Poisons and carcinogens are in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. Fortunately, your body is equipped with an amazing organ that can remove these poisons: the liver.
However, if your liver is not getting the right nutritional support, it cannot detoxify your body and neutralize the toxins that bombard it from every direction.
Are the right anti-oxidants in the right quantities available to protect the body's cells?
Science has made great strides in understanding the damage that "free-radicals" can do to otherwise healthy cells, and in identifying the "antioxidants" that can protect them from free-radical damage. But at the same time, too many anti-oxidants can dampen the very systems they were designed to protect.
Are nitric oxide levels where they should be for immune, nervous and circulatory system regulation?
The 1998 Nobel Prize in medicine was given for research in nitric oxide regulation and its impact on vital metabolic functions in the immune system, the nervous system and the circulatory system. Only by keeping these systems in balance can good health be maintained.
Scientific testing is the only dependable way
to know the answers to these questions.
Laboratory analysis of an overnight urine sample can examine key biochemical pathways and determine whether a person has the nutritional support needed to protect tissues against cellular damage from uncontrolled free radicals, eliminate harmful toxins, and keep the immune, vascular and nervous systems in balance.
In fact, without testing, vitamin supplements that cost $80 a bottle may be as ineffective as the drug store brands that cost $9 a bottle. Neither can address an individual's specific needs in a way that supports your optimal health.