Now Available at RareBird Acupuncture
Functional lab testing is now available at RareBird Acupuncture for new and established patients. Salivary diagnostics is a dynamic and emerging field utilizing nanotechnology and molecular diagnostics to aid in the diagnosis of oral and systemic diseases using oral biomarkers for disease detection.
- Functional lab testing through DianosTechs. Noninvasive saliva tests for metal toxicity exposure, adrenal stress, female and male hormone panels, gastrointestinal, bone health, and food sensitivity, as well as custom flexi-matrix tests.
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Nutritional supplements are a great way to support your health and healing, especially if you are not getting proper nutrients through your food. Supplements can be taken alongside your custom Chinese herbal formulas.
There are a lot of companies out there that provide options. I chose these three companies because I can monitor their manufacturing processes to ensure a clean, effective product. Detox kits are also available and are a great way to support your system, either yearly or seasonally. All supplements are only available through ordering; I won’t be stocking inventory in the office.
- Biotics Research products are now available for order through RareBird Acupuncture.
- Standard Process products are now available for order through RareBird Acupuncture.
- Metagenics products are now available for order through RareBird Acupuncture.
More about Functional Lab Testing
When compared with serum testing, saliva testing offers several advantages. Saliva is a clinically informative, biological fluid (biofluid) that is useful for novel approaches to prognosis, laboratory or clinical diagnosis, and monitoring and management of patients with both oral and systemic diseases.
Saliva contains multiple biomarkers. It is easily collected and stored and is ideal for early detection of disease as it contains specific soluble biological markers (biomarkers). Salivary diagnostics is a dynamic field that is being incorporated as part of disease diagnosis and clinical monitoring, as well as for making important clinical decisions for patient care.
These tests are done in the comfort of your own home and shipped directly to the lab. Saliva collection is simple, noninvasive, stress-free, painless, and safe for the patient and practitioner. The collection time for saliva testing is more controllable than that for serum testing.
Saliva Hormone Testing
Hormone testing through blood provides very different results from saliva and reflects how your body stores and circulates hormones because guess what? We all process, produce, and circulate them differently. Saliva is an excellent medium for the measurement of the biologically active fraction of steroid hormones in the bloodstream because it is a natural ultrafiltrate of blood, and steroids are not bound by carrier proteins in the blood and freely diffuse into saliva.
The baseline measurement of hormone levels in saliva provides an accurate assessment and can be used to identify or monitor a number of clinical conditions, including climacteric changes in perimenopausal or postmenopausal women, adrenal disorders such as Addison’s disease or Cushing’s disease, and androgen deficiency in men and women. The age-related decrease of hormones such as testosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone can also be assessed and monitored.
