Principle Health Group Services
Principle Health Group provides a wide range of professional services to meet your needs. We are here to support your unique journey toward optimal wellness with customized solutions.
Micronutrient Testing
Overwhelming scientific evidence and published medical research documents the role that essential nutrients play in achieving and maintaining good health.
Our micronutrient test measures 31 vitamins, minerals, amino/fatty acids, antioxidants, and metabolites and how they affect cellular function in a person. It will tell you exactly what your micronutrient deficiencies are.
Correlating micronutrient deficiencies not only slows aging and degenerative disease progression, it can also prevent as well as repair cellular dysfunction, and by extension, disease.
Lipoprotein Particle Profile
Cholesterol has historically been used as the standard indicator for cardiovascular disease, often being classified as—good—(HDL) or—bad—(LDL). Studies have found that it is actually the lipoprotein particles that carry the cholesterol throughout the blood, not the cholesterol within them, that are responsible for key steps in plaque formation and the development of cardiovascular disease.
The small, dense, cholesterol-depleted particles impart the highest risk, as does a higher number of these lipoproteins. Standard cholesterol testing does not tell us enough about the particle types—or subgroups—of each of these LDL and HDL families; therefore, it misses the earliest opportunity to prevent adverse cardiovascular events, when it’s easiest to treat.
Genetics
MTHFR
An inability to methylate properly can disrupt any of these processes, ultimately compromising one’s health as the body is not able to effectively respond due to the shortage of methyl groups. Impaired detoxification, cardiovascular disease, neurological problems, and weakened immune functioning in general, are some conditions linked to undermethylation
Methylation refers to the biochemical pathway in which methyl groups (one carbon and three hydrogen atoms) are added to molecules. Because it is involved in nearly all of the body’s functions, it contributes to countless biological processes including:
- Detoxification
- Energy production
- Genetic expression/DNA repair
- Inflammatory, immune, and stress
response
- Neurotransmitter balance
- Production and recycling of glutathione
Telomere Testing
Telomeres are sections of genetic material that form a protective cap at the end of each chromosome in every cell of the body. When a cell divides, the telomere gets a tiny bit shorter, until there is no more telomere left to protect DNA from—unraveling,—and the cell dies. Cellular death causes the body to age, thus making telomeres a novel biomarker for biological age.
The longer one’s telomeres, the younger one’s biological age. Moreover, the rate at which telomeres shorten is accelerated by inflammation, oxidative stress, nutritional deficiencies, genetic pre-disposition, and other lifestyle habits. Telomere shortening, when expedited, contributes to cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, and cancers.
Reach out to the Principal Health Group and turn your health concerns into actionable healthy solutions!
We look forward to working with you so you feel your best and fend off chronic diseases!