Are you struggling to lose weight despite trying various diets and exercise routines? It may be due to hormonal imbalances that prevent you from reaching your goals. The Life Extension® Weight Loss Blood Test Panel offers a comprehensive approach to identifying and addressing these underlying issues.
The Role of Hormones in Weight Management
Hormones play a crucial role in regulating hunger, cravings, stress, and energy levels. Therefore, balancing them is essential for successful weight loss. In today's world, numerous resources can help you track calorie intake and expenditure, develop exercise routines, and follow nutrition guides. However, Life Extension® provides a blood test that focuses on the hormonal aspect of weight loss.
Understanding the Life Extension® Weight Loss Blood Test Panel
This panel analyzes key hormones that contribute to weight gain or difficulty in losing weight. It helps uncover specific factors responsible for unwanted weight gain so that corrective actions can be taken. The new Life Extension® Weight Loss Blood Test Panel analyzes these hormones (along with other obesity factors) so that you and your doctor have the data to properly restore them to optimal ranges.
Test Procedure and Considerations
The test can be performed either fasting or 2-6 hours after eating. While both methods provide valuable information, testing 2-6 hours after a meal offers a more realistic assessment of your blood's state in everyday life. It's crucial to stay hydrated and take medications as prescribed. If you're supplementing with hormones, it's recommended to take them approximately 2 hours before the blood draw to observe peak levels. Hormones are best drawn between 8-10 AM. Hormonal contraceptives can interfere with progesterone and estrogen results. Pre-menopausal women with a 28-day cycle should have their blood drawn on day 21 (day 1 is the day bleeding begins).
What the Panel Measures
The Life Extension Weight Loss Blood Test Panel analyzes a host of metabolic parameters that may be blocking your ability to shed body fat. By measuring blood levels of hormones involved in fat metabolism, one can restore their hormonal profile to youthful ranges that existed when you were at normal body weight. The panel also analyzes C-reactive protein levels.
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It measures TSH (thyroid-stimulating hormone), free T4, and free T3 blood levels, allowing your doctor to optimize your thyroid hormone status to youthful ranges.
Benefits of the Panel
The lab work is much more comprehensive than what my doctor does. It gave definitive information about hormone levels. Helpful results. Phone consultation was thorough and helpful too. I never realized how easy it was to order my own blood test and walk into the lab.
By identifying the specific obesity factors responsible for your weight problem through proper blood testing, you can take corrective actions.
Addressing Metabolic Imbalances
Aging often leads to reduced insulin sensitivity, causing excess glucose and triglycerides in the bloodstream. Cutting calories alone may not solve this issue, as many overweight individuals lack the metabolic capacity to remove these excess compounds. The Life Extension Weight Loss Blood Test Panel analyzes various metabolic parameters that may hinder your ability to shed body fat. Once identified, proven methods can be implemented to purge your bloodstream of these dangerous obesity factors.
Suppressing Chronic Inflammation
Elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a blood marker of chronic inflammation, are often found in overweight individuals. C-reactive protein contributes to obesity by binding to the leptin hormone, which signals satiety and promotes fat breakdown. Suppressing elevated C-reactive protein is crucial for a scientific weight loss program. The Life Extension Comprehensive Weight Loss Panel analyzes C-reactive protein levels, and if elevated, proven methods exist to reduce it to safer ranges.
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Why Choose Life Extension®?
Life Extension is committed to empowering you to live a healthier life, ensuring that you receive the nutritional benefits your body deserves. 98% of their customers recommend them to family and friends.
Important Considerations
The laboratory services are for informational purposes only. It is not the intention of National Diagnostics, Inc and Life Extension to provide specific medical advice but rather to provide users with information to better understand their health. Specific medical advice including diagnosis and treatment will not be provided. Always seek the advice of a trained health professional for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Both the physician and the testing laboratory are independent contractors with whom National Diagnostics, Inc makes arrangements for your blood tests. A clinician's order is required for many tests. Where applicable, an independent clinician will review your test request and determine whether to authorize the test, if appropriate.
Genetic Testing for Personalized Weight Loss
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