Healthy Living Assessment

Blood Panel

**FASTING

$190-350

The Healthy Living Assessment Panel is a COMPREHENSIVE hematological(blood) panel that is a important baseline analysis of your health. This assessment indicates the health of your:

1.Blood and Bone-including your iron levels and electrolytes and rules out anemias, allergies, certain cancers, infections and more.

2. Immune system-rules out if there are any low grade infections, including parasites or general problems that can be dormant in the body until full blown dis-ease occurs. This includes indications of pre-cancerous conditions as well as inflammatory conditions.

3. Metabolism - indicates health of digestive system and assimilation of nutrients. Highlights major nutritional deficiencies (that are detrimental to cellular functioning) that need to be further investigated

3. Thyroid -including with other metabolic markers

3. Liver/Gallbladder function -including any signs of pre-diabetes or diabetes that has not been diagnosed

4. Renal (Kidney) function -including Uric acid and disposition to Kidney stones or Gout

5.Lipids - including Cholesterol and markers that predispose one to Metabolic Syndromes

6. Vitamin D and B12 levels: helping prevent fatigue, low immunity, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and more.

This panel gives valuable information to almost any aspect of dis-ease that could be laying dormant within your body or could be a potential threat to your health. All sorts of information on your digestion is provided by this panel as well and helps guide the next steps to testing with the digestive and hormonal disturbances.

This panel is highly recommended for anyone as a baseline to your health and especially recommended for a COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CHECK-UP at the age of 30 years old and then suggested to do EVERY FIVE YEARS. The Healthy Living Assessment is easily taken by a blood draw at your closest LifeLabs Laboratory and requires requisition from a Naturopathic Physician.

The Healthy Living Assessment provides OBJECTIVE (scientific) evidence of the health of your internal milieu and is recommended as both a preventative method to disease, and as a baseline measure.

This test is taken by a simple blood draw at your nearest LifeLabs Laboratory.

Thyroid Assessment

Blood Panel

$90-190

The Thyroid Assessment (Basic and Enhanced) provides the complete assessment to your thyroid which laboratory assessment is often not being done in completion in the allopathic medical system, unfortunately. The basic panel tests basic markers of thyroid health that are still being missed/not tested for in the western medical system while the enhanced panel tests if there is an autoimmune issue occurring along with peripheral conversion issues of the thyroid hormones in the liver.

Note: Dr. Romanchuk occasionally adds other important blood markers to these tests to rule out other issues which can occur together with thyroid dysfunction and can increase the price of testing.

The Thyroid Assessment is highly recommended if you are suffering from the common signs and symptoms of the thyroid dysfunction: change in energy (+/-), weight changes (+/-), skin/hair/nail dryness, hair loss, appetite gain or loss, depression or anxiety (or both), fatigue (often overwhelming), feeling too ‘hot’ or too ‘cold’, changes in sleep, cravings for simple carbohydrates and fats, inability to loose weight.

Hypothyroid Symptoms:

Energy: Fatigue, Poor quality, Lethargy/Drowsy, Low exercise tolerance. **Wake up feeling exhausted &/or easily exhausted part way through the day

Craving: Carbohydrates: Sweets, Breads, Pastries, Alcohol, Coffee/Caffeinated beverages, and yet appetite itself is generally low

Digestion: Often poor, constipation common.

Mind: Signs of depression &/or anxiety: low mood, easy to cry, feel sad/tired/down, forgetfulness, brain fog, poor memory, poor concentration, moody

Skin/Hair/Nails: Dry, lusterless, nails and hair break easily, hair getting easily tangled is a common sign

Body: Weight gain, general lethargy and edema (puffiness of face, hands, feet), may notice throat feels “off”, legs often feel heavy, whole body can feel heavy. BODY FEELS COLD: need to wear extra clothing, consistently feeling cold. Not easy to sweat is another major symptom

Throat: May notice a lump (goitre), raspy voice, low grade sore throat

Hyperthyroid Symptoms: **not as common

Energy: Unintentional Weight loss, a feeing of too much energy and as if it’s hard to sit still/concentrate. Energy can feel “scattered” -like trying to do five things at the same time

Insomnia

Anxiety

Heart Palpitations

Oily Skin, Hair. Hair and nails grow fast.

Digestion is quick, diarrhea can be common. Can feel increased hunger.

This test is taken by a simple blood draw at your nearest LifeLabs Laboratory.

Read more about the thyroid under the ‘Education’ tab

Basic Metabolic

Blood Panel

**FASTING

$125

Tests the blood markers indicative of Metabolic Syndrome & Diabetes Mellitus while also giving information on systemic inflammation and liver health.

This is especially important for people who are noticing blood sugar disturbances, weight loss or weight gain, mood changes, skin changes. This becomes an important test to test general health after the age of 30 years old and rule out latent blood sugar disturbances.

TEST PREP: MUST FAST FOR 12 HOURS BEFORE TEST: NO FOOD/BEVERAGE AFTER 8 PM NIGHT BEFORE TEST

This test is taken by a simple blood draw at your nearest LifeLabs Laboratory.

Read more about the metabolic health under the ‘Education’ tab

Metabolic Health

Urine + Blood

At home testing

$649 - $849

This is a metabolic health panel that describes the required nutrition that needs to be added to the diet to have full MITOCHONDRIAL, CARDIAC, DIGESTIVE and COGNITIVE- HEALTH. Furthermore, this assessment tells how much of these missing elements needs to be acquired each day to come into ultimate health.

This is the assessment for elite athletes and other extraordinarily healthy individuals that want to optimize their health, alongside the people that want to minimize aging by maximizing mitochondrial health to maximize energy and longevity AND this is also the test that gives important direction to the best avenues of testing and treatment navigation for a person that has had long standing dis-ease.

This is the assessment for both those that wish to acquire ELITE HEALTH and it also gives valuable information for the cases that come in and there is not a clear idea of what exactly is occurring with the health, but a variety of symptoms such as fatigue and all other major/common reasons for this major symptom have been ruled out. This is especially for ATHLETES (both elite and general), and also a great test for anyone that wants to know how to “tweak” their diet and nutrition to maximally optimize their health. This is an especially important assessment for VEGANS/VEGETARIANS and those on SPECIALIZED DIETS including Keto-diets.

This is an important assessment for WEIGHT MANAGEMENT and also a very important assessment for anyone struggling with MALABSORPTION issues (IBS/IBD) as this is the test for the people that are here with major interest in Orthomolecular (IV) therapy: this test literally guides what nutrition you need and how to efficiently bring you into a state of health.

This is an especially useful test for those suffering from CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME and/or FIBROMYALGIA alongside chronic hormonal problems and digestive imbalances.

This assessment tests/gives important information on:

• 125 Biomarkers: including Minerals, Vitamins, Amino Acids, Electrolytes

• Mitochondrial Health: Key nutrients required for Kreb’s Cycle + Electron Transport Chain

• Digestive Enzymes

• Health of Digestive Tract including micro-biome (digestive flora) health

• Methylation Pathways: required for neurotransmitters and many other biochemical processes in the body

• Oxidative Stress + Inflammation

• Oxalate Markers: KD Stones, GB Stones, Gout

• FATIGUE!!!

• Anti-aging

• Cardiovascular Health

• Mood disorders

• Metabolic Syndrome including Obesity and Weight issues

• Toxic Elements: Heavy Metals and Toxic Nutrient Components

• Detoxification Pathways

When to use the Metabolic Health analysis:

• Athletic Optimization

• Health/Energy Optimization

• Fatigue/ Mitochondrial Dysfunction

• Chronic Stress/Inflammation including CFS & Fibromyalgia

• Chronic Digestive Disorders including dysbiosis

• Hormone Imbalances

• Mood disorders

• Sleep disorders

• Vegans/Vegetarians/Specialized Diets

• Nutrient-depleting Medications -PPIs, antibiotics, antidepressants, BP medications, Birth control, NSAIDS, some autoimmune medications

• Post Sickness/Cancer especially post chemotherapy treatment

This test is mailed directly to your home and is a urine sample and a simple blood prick. A shipping company is arranged to pick up the package for return to laboratory for assessment.

TEST PREPARATION REGIMEN:

NO neutraceutical/herbal supplements, vitamin water, electrolytes, protein powders, artificial sweeteners for 2 DAYS BEFORE COLLECTION (best done on a Saturday/Sunday)

Eat bland food (broth soups, not much salt, rice, animal protein -eat as if you were sick and did not want much food). The night before test collection eat a regular meal (Sunday night).

MUST FAST FOR 8 HOURS (minimum) after regular meal.

(Monday Morning): First morning urine void —> Freeze it!

+Finger prick —>Let dry over day

Shipping Company will pick up package up the next (Tuesday) morning after collection. Keep urine in freezer until package ready for pick up.

*Make sure requisition form is fully filled out properly or laboratory will refuse product and cost of laboratory will still be charged.

Female Panel

Blood Panel

$499

This is a complete women’s health panel to give important objective evidence to hormones in the body and also indicates the needed evidence of fertility health.

This panel provides clinical laboratory (measurable) evidence into hormonal imbalances and ovarian reserve for better assessment, treatment and monitoring along the pathway to health, and pregnancy.

IMPORTANT: This test indicates if more (important) assessment needs to occur for hormonal/fertility health. This is a very baseline blood panel to rule in and out other issues surrounding issues regarding the menses and fertility.

Indications of female hormone imbalance and when to test:

Loss of breast tissue

Loss of libido

Not feeling “feminine” -can literally start to feel aggressive and agitated as testosterone increases in the body

ANY ISSUE WITH THE MENSES!!!

Major indications reside with the menses: PMS symptoms, pain, heavy or light flow, change in timing of cycle or flow, clots

Pain after intercourse

Emotional lability especially anxiety or depression

Blood sugar imbalance: get “hangry” -angry if have not eaten food regularly (within 2-3 hours)

Insomnia

Anxiety

Weight gain

Hair loss

Male characteristics: deepening of voice, hair growth on chin, darkening of the skin on the upper lip/armpits/groin

Miscarriages

Trouble getting pregnant

Fertility “work-up”

Anovulation: not having a temperature spike around day 14 with BBT measurements

Luteal phase defect: <12 days between ovulation and menstruation (indicative of low progesterone - very needed for implantation, to prevent miscarriage AND to prevent hyper-estrogenic states and the plethora of health problems that come from too much estrogen)

This test is done at home by salivary collection.

TEST PREPARATION:

Take saliva sample as close as possible to 8:00 am for a proper morning cortisol reading

**Note: there are also month-long hormone assessments which provide urine/salivary samples measuring hormone metabolites over the month beginning at $375. These are highly recommended as it measures the change of hormones over the month. The Female Panel provides a baseline measurement of important markers of health whereas other hormone assessment panels provides even depth of information on the female hormone cycle. Other important hormone panels can test salivary + urine hormone metabolites to give more precise data however the Famale Panel is what is needed to begin the important analysis, and most importantly: rule out any other disease processes such as anemia, thyroid dysfunction, metabolic disease, systemic inflammation and more.

Male Panel

Blood panel

$259

Other Important Panels:

Basic Hematological Assessment: CBC+diff , Iron/TIBC + Ferritin, B12 $89

Fasting Lipids Assessment: Cholesterol, Triglycerides, LDL, HDL $69

Adrenal Function Panel: Tests Cortisol levels throughout the day $110

Enhanced IgG Food Allergy Testing: 220+ Foods: Defines what foods need to be removed from your diet to heal the health of your Gastrointestinal Tract $425

Candida add on: $65

Common Signs and Symptoms of Food Allergy: fatigue (often extreme), bloating, mood swings, foggy mind, anxiety, depression, body aches (can be extremely severe), joint pain, headaches, insomnia, constipation or diarrhea (or even worse: alternating), gas/bloating/belching, abdominal pain, lack of lustre with the skin, hair, nail, VERY COMMON SYMPTOM: unhealthy looking skin: acne, rosacea, too dry or too oily.

Candida Testing: $89

Comprehensive Digestive Analysis: 1-3 day analysis of Ova & Parasite $349-449

SIBO Testing: 3 hr Lactulose Breath test $290

IgE Allergy Testing: Foods, Inhalants, Molds $285 each

CoVID-19 Serology: tests antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 $125

**There are other important laboratory panels where testing may be recommended for your individual case, and price will be given at that time. These panels are comprehensive for the specifics of what they are testing for however may require additional laboratory marker to rule out other dis-ease progression, and therefore the price may increase based on personal intake. On the same note, these panels may not be required (too extensive) for your need and the price may be lower based on your need. Listed above are the most commonly used comprehensive laboratory panels.

Laboratory Analysis by Life Labs, Rocky Mountain Analytical, Doctor’s Data, USBiotek, SIBO Canada, Armin Laboratory

Provincial Health Coverage does not cover laboratory costs

Dynalife Laboratory covers Northern Alberta.

No tax is charged on clinical visit or laboratory analysis.

Dr. Ashley Romanchuk is a proud member of the:

• College of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia

• College of Naturopathic Doctors of Alberta

• Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors

• British Columbia Naturopathic Doctors Association

• Canada Health Alliance

• Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment