Metabolism & Excretion – increased metabolism can deplete nutrients and may increase the need for higher levels.

Also, some conditions will actually sequester nutrients.

Storage – if you eliminate the nutrients as fast as you get them in you can still be deficient.

Either of these can occur for a number of reasons.

Absorption – either your intestines aren’t absorbing nutrients or the nutrients aren’t getting into the cells.

Make sure you take the highest quality supplements available. If you are taking a supplement and still low then you aren’t taking enough, they are poor quality supplements, or you have an absorption problem. Insufficient Intake – if you don’t get enough then it would make sense that your levels are too low.That is a great question and we hear it all the time! There are several reasons your cells could be dysfunctional due to nutrient insufficiency. I take supplements so why am I deficient? It tells us, based on cell performance, how your nutrition and supplements stack up. It offers the comprehensive nutritional analysis. But how do you know if you are getting enough? Nutrition is quite simply the single most significant contributor to most of our patients’ health. We often recommend nutritional supplementation and daily vitamins and minerals. You NEED your cells to function at the highest level possible! Your body can’t be healthy if your individual cells aren’t healthy. The better each soldier functions the better the Army functions. But, these accomplishments are simply the sum total of each individual soldier doing their job. I’ve been amazed at the ability of the US military to accomplish some unbelievable tasks. I’ve been in the US Army for nearly 30 years. Your health is dependent on the function of your individual cells. List to our Podcast on the Spectracell test. The Spectracell Functional Intracellular Assay (FIA) test is one of the best and most comprehensive lab evaluations of your intra-cellular nutritional status. Of course there is also the problem of acid blocking medications for heartburn (Prilosec, Prevacid, Omeprazole, Tums, etc.), people taking these medications will likely case B-12 and calcium deficiency.Spectracell is a cell function test not a nutrition test This is because you need stomach acid (HCL) to absorb Vitamin B12, and when you are under stress you stop making enough stomach acid to absorb it. Vitamin B12 cobalamin is especially difficult to absorb when you are under stress. Injectable nutrients are helpful in situations when stress impairs the digestive system. We believe in using the highest quality of sterile injectable ingredients. Vitamin B injectables are commonly injected for stress, energy, sleep, anxiety, and immune illnesses. Custom IV formulations are available based on conventional and Spectracell Micronutrient testing. Intravenous nutrients are helpful in treating nutrient deficiencies, iron deficiency anemia, digestive malabsorption, and immune deficiencies. IV TherapyĪt Lighthouse Natural Medicine, we use only the highest quality sterile injectable/intravenous nutrients.

We offer Well Child Checks, Annual Exams, Sports Physicals, Family Planning, Birth Control, Ear Lavage, Allergy Testing, Thyroid Testing/Treatment, Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement, In House Urinalysis, Rapid Strep Testing, STD testing, and Prescription Medication Renewals. Naturopathic physicians provide care for the whole family.

Naturopathic medicine is practiced by a physician trained in the conventional primary care and alternative medicine. We offer blood draw services to our patients by appointment.

Some of the labs we use are Quest Diagnostics, Spectracell Laboratories, NeuroScience Pharmasan Labs, and US BioTek. Lab TestingĪt Lighthouse Natural Medicine, we use conventional and specialty lab work to diagnose and track our treatments. This stimulates a healing response and almost immediately reduces pain. Injections of sterile water, saline, B vitamins, lidocaine/procaine/marcaine, and sterile homeopathic solutions can be injected into acupuncture points and trigger points.

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