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Health Screening Test Kits

Living healthy is so much more than avoiding disease.  Many of us are walking around like ticking time bombs while inside of us, our bodies are struggling to be healthy despite poor nutrition and self-care.  The time to ensure good health is now! I have a variety of tools to discover the root causes of symptoms such as:

  • Headaches
  • Fatigue or feeling tired frequently
  • Weight gain
  • Skin problems
  • Cravings
  • Anxiety
  • Irritability
  • Depression
  • Digestive problems
  • Acid reflux
  • Poor immune system
These are all signs that your body is undergoing internal stress.  Internal stress can be anything from eating the wrong diet for your Metabolic Type® to having an overgrowth of yeast or bacteria in your gut.  These stressors will not go away on their own.  They will continue to take their toll on your health unless you intervene.  Restoring your health is as simple as taking 3 steps:
  1. Get tested for your Metabolic Type® and food sensitivities.
  2. Start eating the right foods for your unique body and stop eating the wrong foods.
  3. Get a Basic Health Intake to assess the health of your adrenal glands, digestion, detoxification ability, and immune system by taking a Functional Adrenal Stress Profile (#205-B) and Metabolic Assessment Profile (#101).
I offer these tests and many more.  Together, we can get to the bottom of your health complaints and start you on the path to feeling your best.
Testing Services
Functional Adrenal Stress Test:  The # 205 Adrenal Stress Profile is testing your hormone and immune system function. The cortisol and DHEA measurements at these times tell us how well your adrenal glands are functioning. We also look at the main steroidal (sex) hormones, estradiol, estriol, progesterone and testosterone, and your sleep hormone melatonin. With this test kit, you will easily submit four saliva samples; morning, noon, evening and bedtime. This easy-to-use test kit includes four small vials for saliva collection. This kit comes with a pre-paid FedEx mailer for your convenience. Once mailed, Rebecca will receive your results from BioHealth Diagnostics within 10 business days and will contact you to schedule your Results and Recommendations phone session.

Poor adrenal and hormone function can result in the following symptoms:

  • anxiety, depression
  • immune system stress
  • sleep disturbances
  • thinning premature aging skin
  • poor concentration/memory lapses
  • heart disease/atherosclerosis
  • hot flashes
  • night sweats
  • osteoporosis
  • irregular menstruation
  • vaginal dryness
  • painful intercourse
  • slow healing
  • reduced libido
  • malaise/lethargy
  • unexplained weight gain
  • fatigue
  • loss of appetite/increased appetite
  • hair loss and dry skin

$225.00 includes lab fee, tax and FedEx shipping.

MRT Food Allergy Test:Is your food making you sick? If you experience any of the following symptoms, you most likely have food allergies at play. Take the LEAP (Lifestyle Eating And Performance) MRT Food Sensitivity Test and get back on tract with your health goals. The MRT LEAP Food Sensitivity Test is done through Signet Labs.

  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Migraine & Other Headaches
  • Chronic Diarrhea
  • Heartburn/GERD
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Arthrits
  • Joint Pain
  • Muscle Pain
  • Weight Imbalances
  • Chronic Fatigue
  • Chronic Sinusitis
  • Insomnia
  • Skin Eruptions
  • Autism/ADD

Click here to see a detailed brochure of the MRT test.

Click here for more info on the science behind MRT testing.

$75.00 plus lab fee

Mucosal Barrier Test: If you ever wondered how a dog can drink dirty water and not get sick - it’s the mucosal barrier! The mucosal barrier provides our first line of immune defense. It lines the gastrointestinal tract, from the mouth to the anus, and has been called our “second skin.” By testing its function, you will test how your gastrointestinal system could be compromised, and whether or not your immune system is doing its job.

A properly functioning mucosal barrier will:

  • Destroy pathogens (infectious agents) so they are unable to thrive in your body
  • Properly handle the balance of bacteria
  • Process food antigens
  • Prevent the onset of gastritis or leaky gut
  • Properly identifying and neutralizing foreign objects

How healthy is your Mucosal Barrier? Find out today! This easy-to-use test kit includes one small vial and requires the collection of your first morning saliva. This kit comes with a pre-paid FedEx mailer for your convenience. Once mailed, Rebecca will receive your results from BioHealth Diagnostics within 10 business days and will contact you to schedule your Results and Recommendations phone session.

$400 includes lab fee, tax and FedEx overnight shipping

Metabolic Assessment Profile: Your Digestion and Detoxification

This important test measures three aspects of your digestion and detoxification processes; Indican, Lipid Peroxides, and UBAS (Urinary Bile Acids). When the liver works too hard, it may become clogged and eventually spill MUC into the kidneys and out through the urine. This MUC is called urinary bile acid sulfates, or UBAS.When UBAS is elevated, the key is not only to use the proper protocols to cleanse and flush the organs of detoxification, but to find out WHY the liver was overloaded in the first place. Root causes may include:

  • Leaky gut syndrome
  • Poor diet
  • Food sensitivities
  • Adrenal fatigue

If your digestion and detoxification processes are compromised, it can lead to various acute or chronic conditions, such as:

  • heartburn/reflux
  • stomach pains/cramps
  • intestinal pains/cramps
  • constipation
  • diarrhea
  • bloating sensation
  • gas or any kind
  • nausea, vomiting
  • painful elimination
  • food cravings
  • depression
  • fatigue
  • dark circles
  • skin conditions
  • headaches

Do you have a balance of pro-oxidants and anti-oxidants? Your body is made up of 100,000,000,000,000 cells.  It is the fighting power of antioxidants against pro-oxidants that keeps your cells, and therefore you, healthy and disease free.  This test includes a measurement of your antioxidants versus pro-oxidants.

This easy-to-use test kit includes two small vials and requires the collection of your first morning urine. Each kit comes with a pre-paid FedEx mailer for your convenience. Once mailed, Rebecca will receive your results from BioHealth Diagnostics within 10 business days and will contact you to schedule your Results and Recommendations phone session.

$175 includes lab fee, tax and FedEx shipping

Other specialty testing available includes Candida Screening, GI Pathogens Test, Gluten and Wheat Sensitivity Test, Advanced Hormone Profile, and more!

The statements made herein have not been evaluated by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, nor do they necessarily agree with a consensus of orthodox medical opinion. None of the products or suggestions on this web site are specifically intended or recommended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any medically recognized disease. If you need assistance in selecting any of the suggestions, we recommend that you consult with a licensed health practitioner. If you have any questions, you may contact me at stayfit@rebecca4fitness and I will be pleased to assist you in making such a selection.

Got Pain Relief?

 Egoscue (named after Pete Egoscue, its founder) is a series of gentle exercises and stretches that provide pain relief by correcting postural dysfunctions.  In a nutshell, the body is designed to line up in a certain way.  From the front or back view, our head should be centered between both shoulders, and if you were to draw horizontal lines across our shoulders, hips, knees and ankles, each of those joints would line up horizontally or be a mirror image of each other.  From the side, your ears should line up with your shoulders and your shoulders should be stacked over your hips, hips over knees, and knees over ankles.  Your pelvis should not be tilted front or back and your weight should be distributed equally on both feet.  This is a functional posture.  Many of us don’t fit this mold either because of injuries, learned patterns of movement, or muscular compensations.  The problem lies in repeated mis-use of the body.  When we overuse one side of our body day in and day out for months or years, not only do we lose muscle, flexibility and neuromuscular pathways on the side being under-used, but we break down our joints and muscles on the side that is working too hard.  When you have one hip doing the job of both hips, you’re going to have hip pain, knee pain, perhaps even shoulder pain.  Rather than treating the symptom by having surgery, Egoscue offers another possibility for becoming pain free and treating the problem at its source. 

There are Egoscue clinics all over the U.S. and even some in Japan.  You can also work with an Egoscue trained Postural Assessment Specialist, like myself, and learn what compensations your body has made that are no longer working and are causing you to be in pain.  Once we know what the dysfunction is, we can write you a menu which is a series of exercises, or as Pete calls them, “e-cises”, to help your body gain back its functional, pain-free design.  If you stick to doing your menu, your body will transition back into a healthy, pain-free movement machine so that you can go about your daily life again.

To learn more, please visit contact me directly or visit www.egoscue.com.