Laboratory
Chemistry Nutritional Evaluation
How We Evaluate Body Chemistry
The Laboratory
Chemistry Nutritional Evaluation is a computerized analysis
of a very specific blood chemistry screen and CBC (complete
blood count) which provides us with a way to monitor and
balance your body chemistry. The body chemistry is the
action of key elements in the blood upon the cells of the
body. These elements are:
- The electrolytes: sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate,
phosphates, and sulfates. Electrolytes exist in different
concentrations inside the cells and in the fluid between
the cells. The differences in concentration literally generate
the electricity that you experience as energy. Diet and
supplements dramatically influence electrolyte concentrations.
- Calcium and other minerals: We tend to associate the function
of calcium and minerals with the bones and teeth, but calcium
is also critical in muscle relaxation, nerve conduction,
hormone function, and blood clotting. Calcium also regulates
the permeability of all cell membranes, and hence the movement
of nutrients into the cells and wastes out of the cell.
Other minerals are essential as enzyme catalysts, enabling
the cellular production of ATP, ADP, and NADH, compounds
that store and deliver energy.
- The Organic Elements: oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen
are obtained from water, air, and food (proteins, fats,
and carbohydrates). Combustion-like chambers inside the
cell, the mitochondria, make energy as oxygen combines
with carbon. But some oxygen combines with other elements,
which lose electrons in the process. This is oxidation,
and excessive oxidation causes loss of energy, chronic
disease, and premature aging. Optimal levels of nutrients
at the cellular level minimize these processes and optimize
youthful vitality.
Nitrogen is a critical element.
Only proteins contain nitrogen. The muscles are made mostly
of protein, and most of the nitrogen in the body is in
the muscle mass. There are also nitrogen compounds called
NADH and NADH2 in every cell in the body. These nitrogen
compounds store and deliver energy; they are the currency
of your body's electrical energy-generating system. The
Blood Chemistry Nutritional Evaluation measures your body's
stores of nitrogen and its ability to utilize that nitrogen
in energy-producing electrical-chemical reactions.
Food is the obvious immediate
contributor to the chemistry. Other factors include heredity,
water quality, emotional stress, and exercise. Every cell
in your body shares the same basic body chemistry, and
every cell's vitality is determined by your basic body
chemistry. The body is a battery. Chemical reactions generate
electricity. The "charge" on the body's battery
is determined by the elements discussed above.
The Laboratory Chemistry
Nutritional Evaluation assesses the concentrations and
relative ratios of these various elements, pinpointing
definitive impairments in the body chemistry, and serving
as a basis for making simple but far-reaching adjustments
in the kinds and relative amounts of proteins, fats, and
carbohydrates you eat. Supplements that are truly right
for you can be used to complement the highly individualized
diet you and I design. The realistic goal is greater energy
and the reversal of medical problems. |
