A Blog on Health Testing and How to Use It
Reference: Wang P, Yao J, Li Y, Zhang Z, Jin X, Li L, Huang X. Integrative analysis of vitamin D, ferritin, and eosinophilic inflammation in predicting acute exacerbations of childhood asthma. Front Immunol. 2026 Apr 20;17:1746377. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1746377. PMID: 42088485; PMCID: PMC13135990. Results: In a study of 120 children with …
Reference: Bahadoran Z, Norouzirad R, Jeddi S, Ghasemi A. Higher salivary nitrite is associated with improved glycemic control and insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2026 May 5. doi: 10.1186/s12986-026-01104-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 42087156. Notes from abstract: Salivary nitrite (SNO2), a marker of …
A March 2026 publication in Frontiers in Neurology provides clinical evidence of increases in systemic inflammation in declining Alzheimers patients. Multiple cytokines and other serum inflammatory markers were measured in 155 Alzheimers patients, matched with 100 healthy controls, with the following results: Key Points From Study Findings Our work extends existing …
Living bodies require iron for many things, including oxygen transport, DNA synthesis, and metabolism and detoxification. Iron is so important, in fact, that the body has no method for excreting iron, and even has an iron recycling program that reclaims iron from old red blood cells. Our bodies evolved in …
Phillipe Caron published a short review in 2022 on thyroid disease exacerbated in patients who have received the covid-19 vaccination. If thyroid markers on routine bloodwork are abruptly out of range, this could be one contributing culprit. In my weight loss resistant clients, I focus primarily on identifying and removing …