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What screening tests are used at your clinic?

These are screening tests used to assess your overall health status and monitor the efficiency of treatment protocols. These are not diagnostic tests and often a referral will be given to follow-up results with further medical diagnostics.

Comprehensive Screening Questionnaires

  • Comprehensive Health Appraisal-
    • A detailed documentation of your health history, signs, symptoms, and specific organ systems to help formulate an appropriate assessment of your health status, further necessary diagnostics and treatment protocol.
  • Cardiovascular Risk Assessment-
    • A comprehensive assessment of all the well known CVD risk factors including lipids, blood sugar levels and lifestyle factors such as smoking and exercise. In addition, it also provides the opportunity to assess emerging CVD risk factors including inflammation, stress, elevated homocysteine levels and obstructive sleep apnoea.
  • Depression, Anxiety & Stress Assessment-
    • The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) questionnaire is a designed to measure the three related negative emotional states of depression, anxiety and tension/stress. This measure has been repeatedly tested for its accuracy and efficiency and has been proven to be a reliable way to assess your mood state.
  • Mood and Stress Questionnaire-
    • The Mood and Stress Questionnaire will help identify the best prescription for you based on your clinical symptoms and can be used as a monitoring tool to watch your progress and to identify changes in treatment priorities as they occur.

Body Mass Index (BMI)Body Mass Index (BMI)

The body mass index (BMI) is a statistical measure which compares a person's weight and height. Though it does not actually measure the percentage of body fat, it is used to estimate a healthy body weight based on a person's height. Due to its ease of measurement and calculation, it is the most widely used diagnostic tool to identify weight problems.

Zinc Tally Test

Zinc Taste Test provides a quick and reliable clinical test for the assessment of zinc status. By using the oral Zinc Taste Test to determine the need for zinc, and retesting after 30 days of supplementation, one can not only determine zinc requirements, but also monitor that the zinc is being properly absorbed.

Numerous research studies have found that sub-optimal levels of zinc are very common at all ages, especially in the elderly. An Australian study found that 85% of women and 65% of men do not receive the RDA for zinc in their diets. This can lead to problems with skin condition, immune function, infertility and other disorders

Urinary Indican Test

The Urinary Indican Test measures the putrefaction (Decomposition of organic matter, by microorganisms, resulting in production of foul-smelling matter) of protein in the gastrointestinal tract by dysbiotic bacteria. If the test results are positive, it suggests gastrointestinal toxicity as a result of dysbiosis.

Possible Causes of a Positive Indican Test:

  • Intestinal overgrowth of anaerobic bacteria (dysbiosis)
  • Intestinal mucosal permeability (leaky-gut)
  • Protein maldigestion (poor digestion or excessive intake)
  • Constipation

pH Test

The symbol "pH' expresses the urine as a dilute acid or a base solution and measures the free hydrogen ion concentration in the urine: "7" is the point of neutrality on the pH scale. The lower the pH, the greater the acidity: the higher the pH, the greater the alkalinity. The pH, therefore, is an indicator of the renal tubules' ability to maintain normal hydrogen ion concentration in the plasma and extracellular fluid. The kidneys maintain  normal acid-base balance primarily through the tubular secretion of hydrogen and ammonium ions. Secretion of an acid or alkaline urine by the kidneys is one of the most important mechanisms of the body for maintaining a constant body pH. 

Why test urinary pH? Ingestion of different foods such as a high diet of animal proteins produces acidic urine, while a diet high in fruit and vegetables produces alkaline urine. It is important to have a good balanced diet, testing your urinary pH will help to assess your dietary balance. 

Live Blood Analysis (LBA)

LBA is a revolutionary form of Darkfield Live Blood Screening that investigates the size, shape, associations, ratios and fine structure of the red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.

The advantage of LBA is that it allows you to be involved, you can see your blood instantly on screen and are able to see the condition of your blood and watch it improve over consecutive consultations. You will receive a customised report to keep in your medical files for future reference.

LBA can assist in screening for health limiting processes, such as:

  • High/low white blood cell count.
  • Inflammation
  • Oxidative stress & free radical damage
  • Reduced nutritional status
  • Poor liver function
  • Reduced digestive Integrity
  • Impared immune performance