Using a Blood Test to Determine Nutritional Support and Endocrine Function?
NUTRITION TECHNIQUE
James Cima
Most allopathic doctors use a blood chemistry panel to determine biochemical diseases causing a patient’s suffering. Once this is accomplished, the doctor prescribes medication. For example, if your cholesterol number is high on your blood test, your M.D. then will give you a statin drug to lower your cholesterol level.
If your glucose level is over 100, many doctors consider you to be diabetic and they will give you insulin or metformin. This is typically how the average patient is treated when they go to an M.D. There are two problems with this type of treatment. First, the medication treats the symptom and not the cause. Second, the medication causes other diseases with its side effects.
Since most doctors aie familiar with cholesterol and statin dings, let’s use this as an example for the rest of this article.
There aie many reasons besides diet why your cholesterol might be high. The cause could be stemming from problems with your liver, gallbladder, thyroid, ovaries/testicles, adrenals, pancreas, and/or anterior pituitary. In fact, 72 different combinations of organ and glandular imbalances can cause problems with cholesterol levels. Putting someone on a statin drag for high cholesterol does not get to the cause of the problem and it creates problems (or, as they put it, “side effects”).
Some of these side effects include:
• Destroying the sex drive
• Cause liver and pancreatic damage
• Heait disease
• Anemia
• Muscle damage
• Memory loss
^Then, through the use of a proper diet and precise supplements, their body was able to balance endocrine function and normalize cholesterol levels without medication. J Ï
Over the decades, many of my patients have been able to eliminate the use of their medications (including statin drugs). How? Because I determined the true cause of their high cholesterol. Then, through the use of a proper diet and precise supplements, their bodies were able to balance endocrine function and normalize cholesterol levels without medication. This was confirmed by a follow-up blood test. Of course, their MDs were informed of what we were doing and they were usually part of the process.
As a side note, this is also a great way to develop professional relationships as well as getting referrals. MDs know the harmful effects of statins and would rather take their patients off drags if possible. They were just never trained on how to accomplish this without prescribing statins. The only way that a DC and an MD can work together is to have a common understanding. This is possible when you can prove to the doctor and the patient objectively with blood testing before and after treating the condition.
How can you use a blood test to determine where the problem is?
A blood test can be looked at in two ways. The first way is
from a pathological-disease perspective, and the second way is from a physiologic-functional perspective. Let me explain what I mean.
When you look at a blood test, each test has a reference range consisting of a high and low value. This is called the pathological range because once you ai e out of this range, you aie already in a pathological or disease state and a medication may be prescribed. For example, glucose has reference ranges between 65 to 115—you would be considered hypoglycemic at 64 and considered diabetic at 116.
There aie several ways that laboratories create these ranges. The first way is that labs gather up all the data on a particular test over the years and then create a bell curve where they have to fit a high percentage (95%) of the patients into that curve.
So, if we, as a nation, become more unhealthy and sick (which we ai e, but that is for another topic), the bell curve gets wider to accommodate the people who aie already sick.
For example, the alkaline phosphatase lab test range back in the early 1980s was between 75 to 165, but over the years the range continued to drop from 75 to 50, then to 40, and then to 30. Why would they do this? Well, they only consider high alkaline phosphatase bad because it relates to liver or bone cancer. Low values did not mean much because it didn’t have a pathological consideration attached to it. From a physiological-functional
perspective, though, alkaline phosphatase determines adrenal function. How many people do you think have a low adrenal function in America today as opposed to 1980? Remember, as we get sicker the ranges get broader.
Another way they manipulate ranges such as glucose and cholesterol is based on erroneous data. Such is the case with cholesterol (LDLs) causing heart disease, which was one of the biggest hoaxes perpetrated on the American public. Nothing can be further from the truth; even today, people and most doctors are obsessed with their patients’ cholesterol levels.
Footnote:
Anationwide study conducted by the UCLA School of Medi-
cine found that 75% of 136,000 patients hospitalized for a heart attack had LDL cholesterol within the “so-called safe range” (below 130 mg/dl). Even more astounding, 50% of patients had LDL levels less than 100 mg/dL (considered optimal levels). This study came from die American Heart Association database of 541 hospitals across the country. Their findings did not “reveal an association between elevated cholesterol and heart attacks”. This study was published in the American Heart Journal, January 2009.
Because of this cholesterol hoax, cholesterol levels that were between 225 and 325 in the early 1980s plummeted to under 200, and some doctors want you below 150. As I watched them drop friese values, I said to myself, “They aie going to cause diseases,” which is what they are doing now by creating erectile dysfunction, liver damage, diabetes, heart disease, anemia, muscle damage, memory loss, cell membrane damage, and the list goes on.
The same with glucose, which had a normal pathological range between 65 and 115. Now the high is 100. Why? It just puts more people on diabetic medication.
As you can see, many blood test reference ranges have either
‘ ‘A blood test can be looked at in two ways. The first way is from a pathological disease perspective, and the second way is from a physiologic functional perspective. 5 5
been manipulated or become wider due to us becoming more unhealthy and sick.
You have a choice: you can use these abnormal ranges or I can send you a list of functional physiological ranges that I feel aie much more accurate after 35 years of running thousands of blood panels. If you decide frie latter way of viewing blood tests, you can use a formula called the “mean median average” to create physiologic reference ranges. Once established, you can look at the test from a functional perspective and determine which organ or gland is causing the problem.
Once this is established, you can use nutraceutical support to improve organ and glandular function. In the third paid of this four-part series, I will describe how this is accomplished.
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Dr: Cima has been practicing in Palm Beach Gardens Florida since 1980. His specialties include nutrition, rehabilitation, andfwretiorral medicine. He is joined in practice with his daughter and son. For more information on blood chemistry analysis you can go to www.cimasystem.com or you can call his
cell 561-818-2972.
