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Your lifestyle, eating habits, and vitamin supplements may not be helping you as much as you think!
50% of people taking multivitamins are still nutritionally deficient. You may be working at improving your health, yet you may not actually be getting enough of the right nutrients your body needs for optimal health. Why?
Several key factors influence your personal chemistry – eating habits, age, lifestyle, metabolism, prescriptions, and genetics – so the one-size-fits-all approach to nutrient supplementation fails. Correcting nutrient deficiencies with Micronutrient Testing and targeted supplementation is a far better approach to your total health and wellness.
You may not be eating the right foods or taking the right supplements to feel good and slow the aging process. Also, your body may not be absorbing the nutrients you’re taking as well as you think. Your micronutrient requirements at age 30 are quite different from your requirements as you age. And your lifestyle—especially your level of physical activity, use of prescription drugs, smoking, and use of alcohol—all impact your body’s chemistry. Chronic illnesses such as arthritis, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, fatigue and multiple sclerosis to name a few can be affected, directly or indirectly, by micronutrient deficiencies.
Getting the exact nutrients you need to live a long, healthy life and prevent chronic disease is a balancing act. You need to be very strategic about what supplemental nutrients you take and how well they are working for you. Vitamin, mineral and antioxidant deficiencies have been shown to suppress the functions of the immune system, which can contribute to degenerative processes. Even the prescription drugs you take can deplete your nutritional status. You could be deficient in key vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and/or other essential micronutrients and not even know it. Too much of any one supplement can be just as harmful as too little.
How do you know what your body needs?
Today, you can take a simple, non-fasting blood test that can provide a clear roadmap of your body’s chemistry and nutritional needs.
The affordable SpectraCell Laboratories’ Micronutrient Testing is administered locally by ARCpoint Labs in Fort Myers. It is the only blood assessment that takes all the key factors and many others into consideration to identify your nutritional status. With this information, specific deficiencies that could negatively influence your health can be addressed and corrected. You will receive your easy-to-read, comprehensive test results in about three weeks. Your detailed lab results will include an overview page with all deficiencies listed, numeric and graphic reports easily identifying deficiencies, and repletion and supplementation recommendations.
Standard tests do not measure if specific nutrients are functioning properly within your body.
Our Micronutrient Testing measures the function of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other essential micronutrients within your white blood cells. Analysis can reveal your functional nutrient status over a much longer time period than conventional serum testing and provide a more meaningful measurement of nutritional status than any other nutritional testing.
Are you feeling fabulous… or fatigued?
The answer is in your cells! The health of our cells – whether a brain cell, bone cell or fat cell – determines everything about the health of our entire body. Healthy cells → a healthy body. If our cells struggle, they will manifest differently for you, depending on your personal chemistry. Women may experience excess weight, while others may experience headaches or dry skin.
Fostering health vs. fighting disease. There is a paradigm shift happening in healthcare right now. In many ways, medicine has shifted from disease to prevention, but even a lot of “preventative” medicine – think mammograms and PAP smears – is actually earlier diagnosis. If you nourish your cells with precisely the right vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants your cells need, true prevention can occur.
Every physiological process uses micronutrients. Proper nutrients detoxify, produce energy, alter emotions, improve sleep, create thoughts, and fight rogue cancer cells. They profoundly affect our mood, our skin, our hormones – everything.
Take charge of your wellness and start living a healthier life today!
ARCpoint Labs’ Micronutrient Testing will shed light on nutritional deficiencies that may be compromising your health and well-being. The blood test is safe and may be covered by your health insurance, depending on coverage. It’s also available to individuals on a self-pay basis for complete privacy. To learn more, visit www.arcpointlabs.com/fort_myers or call 239-931-1036.
ARCpoint Labs is a full-service Third Party Provider and testing facility for affordable drug, alcohol, DNA, steroid, background screening and clinical lab testing in Southwest Florida. It specializes in consultation to businesses, schools, government agencies, judicial environments, and private citizens.
ARCpoint Labs offers a complete spectrum of drug, alcohol and DNA testing services that are the most competitive in the industry.
Because of the number of drug, alcohol and DNA tests it conducts, clients depend on ARCpoint Labs of Fort Myers to remain on the cutting edge of the evolving drug screening industry. As new and better tests come into the market, it will provide the tests and the expertise to interpret them.
4350 Fowler Street, Suite #2
Fort Myers, FL 33901
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