CardioMetabolic Panel

Lab Kit + Customized Email Lab Review

$375.00

The Cardiometabolic lab helps you to truly understand your cardiovascular risk as well as gain understanding on what you can do with diet and nutritional supplements based on the results.

Includes a customized email lab review by a functional medicine dietitian that includes food-as-medicine and supplement suggestions.

$375.00

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This Lab Includes:

Total Cholesterol
HDL Cholesterol
Triglycerides
LDL Cholesterol
LDL Particle Count & Distribution
Lipoprotein (a)
C-Reactive Protein
Homocysteine
Hs-CRP
Fasting Insulin
VLDL
Apo A
Apo B

Get the CARDIOMETABOLIC test kit today to truly understand your cardiovascular risk as well as gain understanding on what you can do with diet and nutritional supplements based on the results.

This lab purchase includes an email interpretation by a functional medicine Registered Dietitian, note this will be a quick walk through of your results with highlights and supplement suggestions to implement a plan on your own. This package does not make you an active patient at Naturally Nourished clinic.

Standard cholesterol testing only gives you a piece of the picture, leaving many people with “normal” cholesterol numbers unaware that they are still at risk for a heart attack.

50% of people who have a heart attack have normal cholesterol levels (PER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH)

The National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) introduced new risk factors that are responsible for cardiovascular incidents and stroke. These risk factors can only be identified with advanced lipoprotein testing.

According to the National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines, 50% of people who have a heart attack have normal cholesterol levels. Cholesterol is carried through the body in little balls called lipoproteins. It is the lipoproteins, not the cholesterol inside them, that leads to clogging your arteries.

NCEP NEW RISK FACTORS:

Small, dense LDL: these atherogenic particles are easily oxidized and penetrate the arterial endothelium to form plaque. Lp(a): this small, dense LDL is involved in thrombosis.

WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LIPOPROTEIN PARTICLES?

When the vessels are prone to higher pressure with hypertension, tiny micro-tears can occur more readily in inflamed vessels. When inflamed vessels are exposed to elevated blood sugar levels, those sugars coating the red blood cells aggressively rub along the surface of the vessel causing tears.

The Cardiometabolic Panel identifies risk factors for heart disease and stroke beyond cholesterol and lipoprotein size. The LPP particle element of this test provides information on your levels of inflammation in the entire body, c-reactive protein, as well as a marker, homocysteine, specifically in the vessels. Also, this test provides a complete particle count and insulin value to assess blood sugar metabolism and risk for metabolic syndrome. Research has shown that there are different sizes of LDL and HDL particles and some are more dangerous than others. Although we think of the LDL as “bad” cholesterol, the larger buoyant LDL particles float through the vessels without causing harm. It is the small dense LDL particles that are prone to oxidation (damage) leading to plaque formation.

View a sample report here

What happens next?

Once you purchase your lab, please be on the lookout for a follow-up email from Brady. He will need the name and date of birth of the person who is running the lab in order to drop ship your kit. To accelerate the process, you can email this information directly to brady@alimillerrd.com upon purchase.

Brady will provide information on locating a draw site for any blood draws or further instructions for collection and shipping of stool, saliva, and urine specimen kits. You will also get a brief form to fill out to provide information on goals of running this lab, current diagnosis or symptoms, supplements and medications, and diet recall. Please fill this out so that we can customize your lab review as much as possible.

Your lab will likely take 2-3 weeks to process once received by the lab. You will get a direct email from Ali or Becki that includes your results, a brief interpretation, and direct supplement recommendations.

NOTE: for women, do not run this panel while actively on your menstrual cycle as this may skew results.

For everyone, for best results refrain from strenuous exercise 48 hours prior to testing and note that excessive exercise, active injury or illness may affect your hsCRP.

This is a fasted blood draw best done after a 12 hour fast. Prolonged fasting may alter test results. Fasting entails water, black coffee or tea ONLY--no fatty coffee or tea with butter, cream, milk or other add ins!