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We are proud and excited to announce that the best has been made even better with the scientific evolution of our flagship test, the PrivaTest. For over 12 years, Ideal Health has led the way in customized nutritional supplementation, based on sophisticated laboratory testing at Metametrix, the world-renowned functional-medicine testing facility.
As we have always promised, as science evolves, so do our test and product lines. The Ideal Health PrivaTest offers the very latest in functional nutritional testing.
The basic concepts underlying the three functional tests originally selected by our scientific team and the researchers at Metametrix… have been validated repeatedly by modern medical researchers over the last decade. The importance of your body’s ability to “quench” the fires of free-radical damage, to detoxify harmful substances, and to keep a delicate balance in your immune and cardiovascular systems cannot be overstated.
With recent advancements in laboratory technology, the PrivaTest can now tell you even more about your body’s function in a critical area: nitric oxide balance.
NITRIC OXIDE
Nitric oxide (NO) is a signal molecule in the body, transmitting information between cells. While functioning all over the body, NO is especially important in the nervous system, the immune system, the cardiovascular system, and as a gate keeper of blood flow to the organs. The proper regulation of NO is critical for your best health, making the measurement of urinary nitrate an outstanding marker in our original PrivaTest panel. Urinary nitrate remains an excellent NO marker.
Recently, though, our scientific team has become excited about an even more specific marker for NO production, the measurement of asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA). ADMA modulates the body’s production of nitric oxide in a precise way and can actually blocking NO production at very high ADMA levels. Gene researchers have identified 979 genes that change expression when exposed to high levels of ADMA. In fact, high ADMA has been associated with everything from poor control of blood pressure, to pregnancy and fertility issues, to accelerated aging, to erectile dysfunction — just to name a few health challenges related to altered NO production.
This newest NO marker in our PrivaTest will provide an even more sensitive look into your body’s nitric oxide production and give us the information we need to enhance your CustomEssentials blend as indicated.
For additional information on PrivaTest and CustomEssentials please email me at bsp@constant-health.com and I will email you detailed information.
