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Comprehensive Wellness Panel
Most often when blood testing is performed the values are shown to be within or outside of the laboratory reference range. The problem is that the laboratory reference ranges vary widely between labs and geographic locations based on the experience of the individual lab. That means that the reference range for glucose, for example, may be 70-110 in one lab in NYC and 65-115 in another lab in New Jersey. In addition the lab reference range is based on the experience of the lab; who usually goes to the labs in greater numbers, sick people? or healthy people? The answer is sick people and therefore when blood chemistry comes back within the reference range it merely may tell you that you are not sick as opposed to healthy. There is a big difference between being not sick and being healthy.
When the biochemists in charge on the national level were asked for the reference ranges of the healthiest in our nation the reference ranges were much tighter, for example the functional range for glucose is 85-100, making a finding of 80 not so normal if there are certain other markers and symptoms that confirm a potential health problem. Looking at "functional ranges" is important to pick up on patterns that may explain certain symptoms, lead the clinician in a different direction or pick up on patterns that could be corrected easily with nutrition and lifestyle change before it becomes a medical problem requiring pharmaceuticals.
Wellness panels we order tend to include markers that are not usually included on your GP's panel. For example Vitamin D, full thyroid panel, antibody evaluation to determine if there is autoimmune disease before thaere is major tissue destruction.
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Most often when blood testing is performed the values are shown to be within or outside of the laboratory reference range. The problem is that the laboratory reference ranges vary widely between labs and geographic locations based on the experience of the individual lab. That means that the reference range for glucose, for example, may be 70-110 in one lab in NYC and 65-115 in another lab in New Jersey. In addition the lab reference range is based on the experience of the lab; who usually goes to the labs in greater numbers, sick people? or healthy people? The answer is sick people and therefore when blood chemistry comes back within the reference range it merely may tell you that you are not sick as opposed to healthy. There is a big difference between being not sick and being healthy. 