Blood chemistry & CBC analysis
Using blood chemistry and CBC analysis is a matter of comparing a test result with conventional laboratory reference range, in order to determine whether or not the results of the clients/patients are normal or abnormal and attempting to fit them into a particular disease pattern or pathology. Unfortunately these conventional laboratory ranges are designed only to identify and diagnose disease states and pathology. People who fall within the reference range are assumed to have no clinical signs and symptoms of any disease and are considered normal. In the field of Alternative and Preventative medicine we know that often clients/patients are by no means ‘normal’, despite their lab results evaluated by conventional methods. Therefore, it is our belief that our method of analysis, which looks at blood chemistries, from a functional or prognostic perspective, can give us data on how the physiology is functioning. Our conventional lab testing becomes more comprehensive by being prognostic and preventative as well as pathology oriented.
Medicine and health care are undergoing a paradigm shift. We are experiencing more and more demand from our clients/patients to evaluate their complex cases from a holistic rather than a mechanistic or reductionistic perspective. In order to accomplish this we need methods that focus on physiological function as a marker of health, rather than merely the presence of pathology or tissue change as a marker of disease.
Functional View
- The body is viewed as a dynamic and complex interconnected system of mind, body, and emotions.
- Emphasis is placed on identification of areas of imbalance or dysfunction in normal physiology.
- Integrates data from many different systems and methods.
- Addresses the underlying causes of dysfunction.
- Focus is spent on both subjective and objective information gathering based on a concept of optimal physiological function.
- Allows for an early prediction of dysfunction.
- Health is measured along a wellness continuum which is a spectrum moving from health to disease. Intervention can be made at every stage of the spectrum to restore and/or improve health and wellness.
