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A
Summary Of How To Use Ideal
Health's
In-Home
Test Kits In Your Practice.
By
S.
Randy Sarantos, DDS, MS, ABO, ABOM*
The
PrivaTest.
This important test identifies the exact nutrients that each patient needs to have in three key areas and eliminates the guess work involved by patients in selecting which nutrients to pick out of a bewildering variety of "one size" fits all nutritional supplements.
Scientific analysis of an overnight urine sample can provide a patient with the answer as to which nutrient protocol is needed in order to protect that individual and his or her body tissues from free radicals, eliminate harmful toxins and keep the body's immune , vascular and nervous system in balance. In other words it helps to maintain homeostasis.
Custom Essentials is a major healthcare advance but it is not the total answer to all health needs since it does not analyze and report on all of the metabolic pathways in the body. There is no other cost effective test at this time that will provide the single nutritional step that is available that can (1) help patients to get rid of toxic substances (2) help maintain proper immune function (3) help maintain proper vascular integrity (4) help maintain proper nervous system function and (5) help protect against the cellular damage caused by free radicals.
This test can be used as the main screening test for all patients in order to ascertain their nutritional competency and level of wellness and health. The information garnered by the practitioner will be most helpful in properly monitoring and following the nutritional status of each patient for the first time. Deficiencies and aberrations in chemical balance are addressed and targeted custom nutrition directed at helping patients to allow their chemical imbalances to return to normal and thus establish proper homeostasis. The PrivaTest crosses all healthcare boundaries and applies to patients in all practice situations. It represents a base targeted and individually structured custom nutritional supplement maintenance protocol that can serve as the scaffold upon which more sophisticated and therapeutic levels of nutrition can be added if deemed necessary.
The
StressTest
Stress is a major killer and undermines good health in many ways in our bodies. The adrenal glands release the stress hormone cortisol that in an unstressed healthy body is cycled in a daily rhythm called the circadian rhythm. Researchers have established the optimum levels of cortisol for specific periods of the day and night and thus it can be very accurately monitored. When one encounters stress the adrenal glands gear up for action so that the body can handle any emergency or condition coming its way. This response increases heart rate, blood pressure, shuts down the digestive tract and increases blood sugar as the liver dumps stored glucose into the bloodstream. One can see how chronic activation of this "flight or fight" reaction by the stressors in our daily life can lead to a host of health conditions that plague our population today.
The StressTest can tell us how
well the body is adapting to the stressors encountered each day and can
reveal what to do to give the body what it needs to support healthy adrenal
gland function. Specific and individualized nutritional supplements are tailored
to fit the level of the cortisol secretions and the adrenal glands
supported with nutrients to help restore
proper balance and homeostasis.
The StressTest in today's exceptionally tense environment is an important monitoring tool and offers a great way to analyze the stress level of all patients. It can be used alone or in combination with the vanguard PrivaTest to afford a more broad monitoring of each patient's body chemistry. Failure to address elevated cortisol levels will invariably produce not only fatigued and exhausted adrenal glands but other seriously damaged organ and tissue systems and can lead to major health consequences.
The StressTest is
particularly important for patients complaining of temporo-mandibular
joint disease, bruxism, facial
pain and spastic facial muscles, sleep apnea
and in general exhibit a higher level of stress and anxiety in their
daily lives.
The OsteoTest
Adult human bone is constantly being recycled or remodeled through a metabolic process called the "bone cycle" whereby every 90-120 days old or injured bone is removed in Phase I and replaced with new bone in Phase 2. These two phases are tightly coupled and in balance in order to insure proper bone harmony. If bone is lost more rapidly than is being deposited then health problems ensue.
With increasing age or body chemical imbalances brought about by lifestyle, stress or poor dietary habits both men and women can begin to experience alterations in the balance of the "bone cycle." Over time, accelerated bone breakdown (resorption) can cause bones to become fragile and altered in both strength and appearance. X-ray examination of the skeleton can reveal osteoporosis-"porous bone"- which is the 12th leading cause of death in America. One of the problems encountered is that changes in bone metabolism are very subtle and can take years to actually become detectable in x-rays and by that time serious skeletal damage may have occurred.
Now The OsteoTest can inexpensively and effectively determine if one is
losing bone at an accelerated rate by monitoring the "bone cycle."
It is important to remember that The OsteoTest does not diagnose osteoporosis
but gives valuable insight and information on how your "bone cycle" is
functioning and in doing so, can give years of advanced notice if there is a
metabolic problem in this important bone cycling pathway and permits the
formulation of proper nutritional supplementation to help correct the imbalance
occurring. Clinical studies have
shown that the presence of high levels of
a special bone protein fragment in the urine indicates rapid bone resorption
and can predict a specific risk for developing future bone health
problems.
The OsteoTest can become one of the most powerful laboratory tools to monitor the health needs of patients by all healthcare practitioners and should be combined adjunctively with The PrivaTest and StressTest to form a powerful trio of necessary health screening tools. The vital metabolic pathways that each of these tests cover are extremely important to the health and wellness of patients and not only is it important for practitioners to know what is going on with each patients but even more reassuring is the knowledge that through the science of metabolic monitoring that appropriate targeted and custom nutrition is being formulated for each patient to nutritional meet their specific chemical imbalance and so help the body to return to a more normal chemical balance and state of homeotasis.
The OsteoTest can have a huge impact in medicine and even a greater impact in dentistry. There is virtually no procedure in dentistry that at some level does not involve bone chemistry and the dentist is in an extremely important position to best monitor and observe some of the earliest changes in bone metabolism and the "bone cycle" by observing subtle and early periodontal changes both clinically and by x-ray analysis. The use of the OsteoTest as a routine screening tool will give dental practitioners an inexpensive and extremely accurate laboratory tool they never had before to gain valuable information as to the "bone health" of their patients. This is extremely powerful in better planning of iatrogenic mechanical procedures and long term health goals such as seen in orthodontic and periodontal treatment, cosmetic dentistry and implant mechanics, dental surgery procedures, TMJ problems and denture and crown and bridge mechanics.
The AllerTest
This innovative test has been cleverly devised to uncover allergies and sensitivities to certain common foods that can make individuals sick and produce a host of health problems. There are several kinds of allergic responses to foods: one kind is called an IgE reaction which occurs immediately or within 2 hours and is looked upon as a "cause and effect" reaction. An example is eating oysters and breaking out in hives. It is immediate! The second kind of allergic reaction is called an IgG reaction and is much harder to relate to a specific food because it occurs many hours or days later. In fact, most people don't relate these delayed symptoms with previous foods eaten and do not admit to any allergies even though they may feel tired all the time, have trouble losing weight, experience aches and pains and have bad skin and chronic respiratory problems.
Allergies to foods are increasing at an accelerated rate causing oftentimes puzzling and debilitating symptoms and for the most part such allergies are the result of our lifestyle, poor diet and lack of proper exercise with a small percentage being attributable to heredity. One of the most recognizable altered body functions that contributes to increased allergies is a condition called "leaky gut syndrome" wherein the natural barrier in the intestinal wall is damaged or altered and allows large protein food fragments to enter the system and into the blood stream. Our body defense system mistakes these "large" food particles as "foreign invaders" and mounts an immune response.
The AllerTest nutritional
protocol is designed to give gastrointestinal
dietary support with friendly lactic acid probiotic microorganisms to help
restore proper intestinal flora balance along with natural antihistamine and
antioxidant nutrients, sulfur containing compounds to support gut-healing and
detoxification, digestive enzymes to help in the complete breaking down of foods
and a complement of herbs and bioflavonoids to help support gut healing
and integrity.
Practitioners should consider using this test if there are indications of food allergies or food sensitivities, history of allergic symptoms such as hives or ongoing history of tiredness and fatigue, history of candidiasis, repeated bladder infections, multiple antibiotic use in the past, long term use of birth control pills and use of cortisone, bowel problems and unexplained skin problems. The importance of proper intestinal balance and harmony as one of the first lines of defense in our bodies can not be overstated and as an old saying goes "show me a healthy bowel and I will show you a healthy person."
The AllerTest can give practitioners a great deal of information about their patient's reactive level to medications, drugs, chemical agents, etc, that might be used during routine therapies and the possible hyper-response by such individuals. Of particular importance is the additional use of antibiotics or other xenobiotic drugs and / or medications that might be used in such overly sensitive individuals either to be taken orally, used topically or inhaled in some cases. It is important to perhaps ascertain the level of sensitivity of such persons by using the AllerTest and placing the patient on the suitable nutrition protocols to re-balance the gastrointestinal system and thereby by doing so strengthen the immune system and its response to various stressors imposed on the body whether they be from outside sources or produced by the mechanical activities of practitioners as part of treatment therapies on their patients.
The FitTest
This test ends the confusion
about losing weight and replaces it with a customized way of eating based on
scientific testing. It eliminates
guessing as to what foods to eat or not to eat by learning about your bodies
biochemical makeup. Thus,
the FitTest is an analysis of both laboratory testing and physical body
measurement data that gives insight as to how the body handles the food that is
eaten.
This test monitors the
absence or presence of minute
amounts of protein in the urine - a condition called microalbuminuria
that is strongly linked to large amounts of circulating insulin, the
fat-storage hormone. When following the dietary protocol suggested in this test one
can lose significant amounts of fat, reducing the weight and waistline and in
those that are not overweight to begin with, improve body composition by
maximizing lean body mass.
The FitTest fills a very important health need since probably obesity is one of the most prevalent and serious health problems today confronting all age levels of Americans and can lead to hundreds of serious health consequences if left unchallenged. This test is absolutely different since it is based on science and can literally save the lives of thousands of individuals. An obese patient is a walking health risk and carries the seeds of his or her own early demise and certainly returning a patient to a proper and healthy weight will to the greatest degree imaginable return such an individual to a very high level of health and wellness and in the eyes of such a patient their practitioner will earn the respect and admiration of such an individual and probably a whole host of new referral patients.
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Notations. The
PrivaTest, FitTest, AllerTest, OsteoTest and StressTest are all
trademarks and copyrights of Ideal Health, Inc and as such
are the property of Ideal
Health. These tests and the nutrition protocols derived from such lab analysis
are not meant to be diagnostic in any way or
to cure or prevent any
disease condition.
The above report is meant to be educational in its
format and is to a large degree a condensation of data from authorized marketing
materials released by Ideal Health. Further
information about the tests can be obtained from contacting an authorized
Marketer from Ideal Health or by calling 1-800-768-7667.
This report was prepared by Custom Nutrition
Alternatives, Inc. who is an authorized Marketer with Ideal Health for use by
its healthcare practitioner clients and patients and as such, is considered the
intellectual property of CNA, Inc.
Dr. S. Randy Sarantos is founder and president of
Custom Nutrition Alternatives, Inc,
and is a diplomate of the American Board of Oral Medicine and the American Board
of Orthodontics.
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