The old role of clinical laboratories in defining disease is now expanded to testing that allows identification of paths to health—an exciting new capacity of routine clinical laboratory testing.

 

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Old Role: Define Disease

• Infectious diseases
• Heart, Liver, Kidney
• Cancer markers
• Pathognomonic: hyperglycemia, hypercholesterolemia
• Hematology, Chemistry, Serology, Microbiology
  1. Positive or Negative results

New Role: Show Paths to Health

• Nutritional – vitamins, elements, amino acids, fatty acids
• Immunological – food antibodies, inflammatory responses
• Toxicological – metals, ammonia, xenobiotic
• Microbiological – microbiome effects
• Accelerated aging – oxidative stress, hormones
• GC/MS, HPLC, LC/MS-MS, Antibody assays, DNA PCR
  1. Results relative to physiological ranges

~ Dr. Richard S. Lord

Resources:
Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine