Ensuring the proper balance of vitamins and nutrients is essential to our overall health. Nutritional deficiency testing can help you understand which vitamins and nutrients you need to restore your body to balance.
At JoyDeVie, we offer a variety of nutritional labs designed to measure a wide range of deficiencies. From determining your basic health profile or metabolic panel, to testing for blood type, vitamin deficiencies, and even kidney or liver function, we can help bring you closer to holistic health by better understanding your body’s needs. JoyDeVie offers the following lab tests:
Vitamin B-12 is an important vitamin for many bodily functions, including brain health, blood cell production, and proper nerve function. Vitamin B12 is supplied to the body via diet or supplementation and is not naturally produced by the body, making it an important vitamin to measure.
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Test for both a deficiency of Vitamin B12 and Folic Acid with this panel – cause anemia or neuropathy.
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Vitamin D functions to aid in the absorption of calcium during bone formation. Having the correct levels of Vitamins ensures healthy bones and keeps inflammation levels down along with maintaining normal muscle, immune and nervous system functions.
Test for deficiency of Vitamin D with this test. When exposed to the sunlight, your skin can produce its own Vitamin D. Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium and phosphorus, both essential for building healthy, strong bones as well as cellular health.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Gain insight into your overall health with this essential screening – from heart health to kidney function. This test identifies markers associated with common health conditions, helping you make informed decisions and take actions toward better health.
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
This test identifies your blood group (A, B, AB, or O) and whether you are positive or negative for the Rh antigen. Your blood type is inherited and based on the presence of absence of certain sugars (ABO blood group antigens) or proteins (Rh antigen) attached to the surfaces of your red blood cells. You will find out your ABO blood group and Rh blood type (also called Rh factor).
Recommendations: No fasting is required
This test identifies your blood’s ability to clot and how long it takes. It also determines if there is abnormal blood clotting in your body. This test can help assess bleeding problems, and help monitor those taking certain medications (warfarin or anticoagulants).
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Are you concerned about heart disease? Monitor your heart and your arteries with this cholesterol panel. Unidentified high cholesterol can go on for years. By checking your cholesterol regularly, you can monitor your health and stay on top of your heart health!
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
This panel measures the amount of cholesterol and triglycerides in your blood. The test runs 5 different items and identifies if there are any abnormalities. Unidentified high levels can increase your risk for heart disease. Monitor your numbers to stay aware of your heart health!
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
This test looks at three types of blood cells in the body: red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. These three types of cells help identify specific conditions, infections, inflammation, and even how well your body is clotting.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
This tool allows you to look at 14 items with one sample, specifically to evaluate your bodily electrolyte balance, blood sugar levels, liver function, kidney function and more! Gain important information about your body’s chemical balance and metabolism.
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Determine if you are at risk for diabetes with this test. This tool allows you to run 5 different items with one sample and allows you to stay ahead of your health!
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Monitor the effect of diabetes medications on blood sugar levels. Track your progress in reaching your overall treatment goals. Stay up to date on your diabetes with this easy tool!
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Monitor 5 of your body’s main electrolytes: sodium, chloride, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. An electrolyte imbalance may be a sign of a heart, lung, or kidney problem. Stay on top of your health with this simple exam!
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Monitor your A1C levels with this test – a simple blood test that measures your average blood sugar levels over the past 3 months. Stay up to date on your diabetes with this easy tool.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Iron is a key mineral for healthy skin, hair, and nails and also plays a role in your energy. Used by your red blood cells to transport oxygen, low iron levels can lead to anemia. At a deficiency, you may feel fatigued, shortness of breath, headaches, and even hair loss.
Take this test to measure your total iron and your body’s ability to carry iron.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Healthy kidneys remove waste and excess fluid from the blood. Identify how well your kidneys are working using this panel that runs 11 different items. This test will detect, diagnose, and monitor kidney issues.
Did you know that some conditions, including diabetes and high blood pressure, can affect how well your kidneys work? It is important to know your kidney numbers.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Monitor your liver function with this test that analyzes 8 different enzymes, proteins, and substances made by the liver. Identify if you are experiencing liver damage or disease. If levels are outside of the normal range, it may be a sign of liver disease.
Consider this test if you are currently taking medications that can affect the liver, want to monitor current treatment plans, or want to stay in tune with your body!
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Knowing if you are pregnant quickly is important. Blood tests are the most accurate and are often required pre-surgery
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Do a whole system check to make sure you are feeling your best. The Male Health Test checks the main systems to provide a look at how your body is functioning. Make sure you are feeling the best you can.
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Do a whole system check to make sure you are feeling your best. The Male Hormone Test checks the main components of the male hormone system to ensure a healthy balance.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Healthy prostate in men can be evaluated with a PSA test, which tests for a protein that the prostate gland produces. Elevated levels of PSA can mean cancer or a predisposition to prostate disease and early detection can be key in prevention and management.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Testosterone is a male hormone that is usually found in the blood of both men and women. Testosterone is responsible for many essential characteristics and functions within the male body. A testosterone test can help you determine if your testosterone levels are within the range for your age. This test is clinically appropriate for men 18 years old or older. For women, the Women’s Hormone or Women’s Fertility tests are more appropriate.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
The thyroid is important in making the hormones involved in energy, brain function, heart and muscle function and organ function. Having unbalanced thyroid function can cause complications in other organ and body systems.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Metabolism is the way your body converts food into energy. Having the right balance of hormones and ensuring your stress levels are balanced is key to healthy levels.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Do a whole system check to make sure you are feeling your best. The Women’s Health Test checks the main systems to provide a look at how your body is functioning. Make sure you are feeling the best you can.
Recommendations: Fast for 8-hours prior to this test
Feel your best and identify abnormal hormone levels. Hormone imbalances are known to affect your menstrual cycle, metabolism, sex drive, and even sleep cycle. Gain insight so you may take action faster!
Common symptoms include: difficulty concentrating, sleep issues, irritability, fatigue, weight gain, temperature changes, irregular menstrual cycles, and more.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Gain insight into the hormones linked to your menstrual cycle, ovulation, and reproductive health. This helpful test helps you understand your fertility and how you are impacted by your hormone levels.
Common symptoms: headaches, hair loss, irregular menstrual cycle, fatigue, temperature changes, weight gain, and more.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Do you feel like menopause is approaching? Have you experienced symptoms or menstrual changes? This perimenopause test measures hormones often affected by menopause and has been linked to changes from sex drive to body temperature!
Common symptoms include: night sweats, hot flashes, weight changes, sleep changes, irregular periods, and low libido.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Has your body felt different after menopause? Measure key hormones related to post-menopause symptoms. Knowing your hormone levels can help you make decisions on the next steps, including hormone replacement therapy.
Common symptoms include: skin changes, night sweats, hot flashes, weight changes, sleep changes, irregular periods, vaginal dryness, and low libido.
Recommendations: No fasting is required
Nutritional labs are helpful in assessing blood chemistry, hormone function, gut health, metabolic function, blood sugar regulation, food sensitivities and allergies, organ function, and more.
Nutritional imbalances can cause weight gain or loss, muscle mass and/or bone density loss, muscle and joint pain, fatigue, poor memory and focus, insomnia, and even life-threatening diseases.
Modifying your diet or adding supplements is an easy way to correct deficiencies and achieve optimal health, but in order to do so, you have to know what you’re deficient in first!
“Good nutrition creates health in all areas of our existence. All parts are interconnected.”
–T. Collin Campbell
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