Nutritional Profiles
Carbohydrate Profile
Carbohydrates are important sources of energy. They act as fast burners mainly for your red blood cells and your brain to satisfy their energy requirements. This profile explains how your body responds to carbohydrates. Depending on your genes you may produce a differing amount of insulin and chemical factors in your pancreas in response to carbohydrate consumption. This can positively or negatively impact how your body functions.
Your carbohydrate profile also helps indicate if glucose (sugar) transportation and absorption is leading to destabilized blood sugar levels following a carbohydrate meal. How your cells grow and differentiate along with inflammation in your body are important factors that can also be identified. This profile will also indicate the suggested level of intake, best time of day, frequency and type of carbohydrate that will minimize negative effects on metabolism.
Protein Profile
Proteins are described as the building blocks of life and your protein requirements are dependent on a number of factors such as genetic constitution, age, stress, physical activity and nutrition. Proteins not only play a role in your metabolism and satiation but are equally important for your the building process of hormones, the ability to use fats as a fuel source and how inflammation responds in your body. This profile will determine how your metabolism is affected by proteins, the ideal amount of protein needed based on all the above factors. This profile will also outline if your metabolism functions best with intermittent fasting or a three-meal plan etc to maximize metabolic function and prevent chronic conditions such as acidosis and inflammation
Fat Profile
Good fats are your body’s preferred fuels. Unlike carbohydrates, they provide long-term energy to almost all your organs. They also protect your organs, serve as building blocks for your cells and play a key role in hormonal and immune system. Specifically, saturated fats can affect the production and response of 3 metabolic hormones leptin, adiponectin and ghrelin. This profile describes how fats can influence your weight, affect your appetite and can explain your food-seeking behavior. Decreased ability to breakdown stored fats or increase production of inflammatory substrates when consuming fats are critical to evaluate and will be determined. The profile details a treatment protocol to support these metabolic challenges along with recommended daily amount of different fats.
Dairy Profile
This profile looks at how you metabolize milk components including lactose. If you have this problem it may be because your digestive system produces too little of an enzyme known as lactase. Metabolic issues may cause digestive issues like bloating, flatulence, diarrhea and other inflammatory conditions.