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The laboratory at IHA provides many diagnostic services
to assist in understanding the underlying causes of
your health concerns. Using blood, urine, hair, saliva,
and stool samples, our clinic lab, or outside lab facilities,
can measure simple blood values, or more complex factors.
Your medical physician usually uses the conventional
medical lab to determine pathology and to make a diagnosis
of illness. Many specialty techniques are used for this
purpose. Of course this information is valuable to your
naturopathic physician and should be made available.
Although we are still able to perform standard blood
tests, the focus at IHA is to use laboratory testing
to find the information that will deepen our understanding
of the underlying disturbances that lead to chronic
health problems. Also, by identifying potential risk
factors, it is possible to prevent more serious pathology
or illness from developing.
Depending on your condition, we may look for:
- toxic conditions,
- heavy metal poisoning,
- hormone levels,
- cardiovascular risk factors,
- oxidative stress values,
- bowel disturbance,
- parasites,
- blood type
- sympathetic / parasympathetic nervous system imbalance,
- aging and degenerative indicators.
At IHA, special in-house diagnostic tools include:
- Cardiovision, to measure cardiovascular status;
- Heart Rate Variability Testing (Nerve Express),
to determine autonomic nervous system balance;
- blood typing; and
- Bio Terrain Analysis (BTA) to determine toxic
and nutrient conditions, and oxidative stresses.
Selecting and interpreting the tests that best serve
your needs, is a part of the process of creating a comprehensive
plan to help achieve your health goals.
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