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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 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 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: free-radical damage .
OXIDATIVE STRESS (Free-radical damage)
Just as oxygen “rusts” iron, uncontrolled oxygen can similarly damage the tissues of your body. This is called oxidative stress. Our original PrivaTest oxidative-stress marker, lipid peroxides, is a first-class general marker for estimating the level of free-radicals that have escaped the “trap” of your protective antioxidant system.
Our newest oxidative-stress marker — with the tongue-twisting name of 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine, or DOG for short — takes the PrivaTest to the next level.
DOG is only produced when your body is called upon to repair oxidative damage to your cellular DNA – the structure that contains all the genetic instructions that make you, YOU! When DNA is damaged, the body mobilizes specialized “excision enzymes.” Like microscopic tailors, these targeted enzymes “snip out” the oxidized DNA sections and repair the DNA strand.
The oxidized sections that are released and eliminated in your urine are DOG. Measuring DOG, in effect, takes a deep look into your genetic machinery, actually assessing the degree of free-radical oxidative “hits” that your DNA is experiencing and repairing.
With this incredible new measurement, you will learn if your body needs additional antioxidant vitamin and mineral protection to help support DNA repair and make sure your genetic information remains intact, minimizing the chances for cellular malfunction from damaged DNA. Your Custom Essentials blend will be chosen to support your antioxidant system at the level indicated by your DOG measurement.
With this new test there is no need to stop other supplementation or to avoid specific foods before testing. You can test the very next morning after you get your test kit, accelerating the process of receiving your CustomEssentials as quickly as possible!
For additional information on PrivaTest and CustomEssentials please email me at bsp@constant-health.com or write a comment to this blog and I will email you detailed information.
