You can help your doctor or health professional immensely by learning to understand your own blood test results. You might also wish to remain discreetly silent about it in order not to offend him/her. There is an element of mystique created around test results in order to keep them off-limits to patients and hold them hostage. I believe this practice is archaic. Not only can you learn to interpret blood test results, you can learn not to panic or take up doctors’ time needlessly. Find solace in the fact that you are going to learn to solve most problems yourself, right now!
Your blood test results are easy to understand, although the form looks complicated. In one column, your results are given. In another column the expected “normal” results are given. The normal results will be given as a range because healthy people can be expected to vary to some extent. Your first step is to fit your result into the normal range given on your printout to see whether it is above, below, or in the middle of it.
Common abbreviations
Blood Sugar
Take glucose (blood sugar), for example. The range given by our lab was usually 65 to 115 mg/dL. If your value was 95, using this range, it is exceptionally good. To understand the meaning of a result using a different range, you should know how the range was decided.
One of the very large testing labs analyses the blood sugar results for, say, the last 10,000 patients it has tested. It is assumed that they represent the healthy population (which is, of course, not true, since illness brought them to the lab for testing to begin with). The average blood sugar level is found. Then ninety-five percent of all these patients’ results are clustered around this average to make a “normal curve”. Five percent are thrown away as representing abnormal levels. The lowest and highest levels for these 95% are used to give the range.
This is far from a true standard of good health. It assumes that 95% of the population is healthy. If, in reality, only 80% are healthy, very many people are not being attended and consequently not being alerted to the need for improvement because they are assigned to the “normal” group. Preventive health care is not being served.
A concept of “sick” or “not sick” depending on whether you fit into the values seen for 95% of the patient population is misleading. It is like defining overweight as over 500 pounds (200 kg)! A wrong concept such as this does a disservice to society. Don’t let a physician’s reassurance that “everything is normal” fool you into thinking you are normal (meaning healthy). Your standard should be higher than “statistically normal,” your standard should be “healthy.”
However the body stays surprisingly constant when it is healthy, making the task of identifying healthy values fairly easy.
Sometimes your laboratory will have a wildly different range for a particular test even though the units are identical! That is because there are different types of tests for the same substance. You should scale your result, then, before comparing it to the ranges in my chart. For ex- ample if your lab’s range goes from 240 to 380 but our lab’s range goes from 120 to 200, you can assume that your lab’s procedures roughly double the results. Therefore you must divide your result in half before comparing it to our lab’s range.
Let us return to the blood sugar, glucose. It should never be lower than 80 mg/DL whether you have fasted before the test or not. The liver should always be able to make blood sugar for you, even if you have not eaten recently. The liver stores a reserve of blood sugar for this purpose. If yours is below eighty, the liver is not able to keep your level up, either because its stores are empty, or for other reasons.
Cancer patients have a special disability in that part of their liver metabolism that makes and stores blood sugar. At the same time, cancer patients use up more blood sugar than normal, healthy persons, so the blood sugar drops as cancer advances. As you recover, the liver will regain this function. If your blood sugar is already below seventy, you must eat throughout the day to renourish your body. Your body must be nourished to heal. You should eat the richest, most nourishing (but safe) foods you can find. If your blood sugar is over 90, you are still in good condition. You must work hard to eat enough high calorie, nutritious food to keep this figure from dropping.
There are only three categories of foods: carbohydrate, fat, and protein. All your carbohydrate foods, potatoes, rice, grains, pasta, vegetables, and fruit, are turned into blood sugar by the body’s chief factory, the liver.
Why couldn’t we simply eat glucose (also called dextrose, or confectioner’s sugar) to supply it all? Because there are many food-factors packed into ordinary foods that you would miss by eating plain sugar. Nevertheless, if no food can be digested, a beverage of honey water or maple syrup in water will sustain you for several days, until you are able to eat. If vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fats, and a few extra nutrient factors are added, you can be sustained for six weeks, plenty of time for tumors pressing on the liver or intestine to shrink enough to let regular food pass again.
If your blood sugar is much too high, due to diabetes, in addition to cancer, consider yourself lucky, especially if somewhat obese. This means you have not gone through your reserves yet. Do not try to lose weight even if you are overweight. Your diabetes will improve while on this program; it may even be cured. It is most important not to eat artificial sugar or calorie-reduced food. You must nourish your body better than ever before to heal from your cancer. You must eat three regular meals and three snacks a day to help your body heal itself. As your diabetes improves, your weight might drop drastically, effortlessly.
CBC
CBC stands for complete blood count. A small amount of blood is dispensed into the automatic counter to determine how many of each kind of blood cell you have.
There are three kinds, white blood cells, red blood corpuscles, and platelets, but they are all made from the same original “baby cells” in the bone marrow, called stem cells. Stem cells are constantly multiplying to provide us with these three kinds of blood cells.
White Blood Cells (WBC)
These cells are our defense team. One type has the ability to crawl (by means of pseudopodia!), squeeze through tiny spaces, respond to something dead or toxic far away by moving toward it, and simply eat it to destroy it. These are called granulocytes (and also called “segs” or “polymorphs” or “neutrophils”) and should constitute about seventy percent of your total WBC. About twenty percent are smaller, rounder, and capable of destroying viruses; those are the lymphocytes. The lymphocytes are further divided into T and B lymphocytes, named after the thymus or the bone marrow. Lymphocytes get their “final training” at one of these two organs. The last 10% of your WBCs are other varieties.
Your total WBC count should not be below 5,000/mm (same as 5,000/uL). Any amount below this implies a toxin in the bone marrow. Toxins abound. Heavy metals and azo dyes are especially attracted to your bone marrow probably because of its high fat content. (Metals and dyes are fat soluble.) Lead, mercury, thallium, nickel, germanium, copper, cobalt and vanadium are commonplace. These consume your sulfur supply, especially glutathione. Then bacteria and even parasites are allowed in. Many of these metals and dyes were found to be carcinogens decades ago. Carcinogens have a special affinity for the stem cell line in the bone marrow that makes white blood cells, probably because they are constantly in mitosis. Scarlet Red dye (Sudan IV), Sudan Black B, DAB, and other dyes are commonly found here. Hydroxyurea is found here too if Ascaris is present. Hydroxyurea specifically kills stem cells. Copper and lanthanide metals cause very large mutations, breaking the chromosomes at characteristic places. This is, no doubt, how the “Philadelphia chromosome” and other translocations are induced. We have found that this mutation disappears when synthetic dyes are removed from food, teeth, hair and clothing, vanadium is removed from teeth, and copper water pipes are changed.
When the WBC count is much too high, over 15,000, it may represent leukemia. The simple step of changing copper water pipes often corrects the problem in its early stages. But when the WBC is over 30,000, much more must be done quickly. Removing all plastic and metal from teeth, killing parasites and bacteria can reduce the count to 20,000 in ten days. Removing all dyes brings it down further. At this point it is important to provide selenium and vitamin A. Your WBCs need these to battle pathogens.
Special caution to avoid benzene is essential to get back your normal WBC count, whether too high or too low. Benzene goes preferentially to the bone marrow and thymus where WBCs are “nesting”.
There should never be any blasts in your CBC. These are baby white cells, allowed out into the circulation before they are mature enough. It always signals overproduction (namely leukemia) in the bone marrow.
The healthy level of WBCs is 5.5 to 7.5 thousand per mm .
(A mm , also written as uL, is about the size of a poppy seed.)
While levels below five reflect a toxin in the bone marrow, levels above this range reflect overproduction. This could be due to stimulation by bacteria. This alerts you to an infection some where.
The eosinophil count should be ≤ (less than) 3%; higher values imply the presence of parasites, particularly Ascaris and your body’s “allergic” response to them.
When the WBC is extremely low (below four) immunity is much too low. You are susceptible to any invader. Levels below three are life-threatening. But even levels as low as 1.5 have been quickly doubled (in six weeks) by avoiding benzene, doing dental work and killing parasites.
Red Blood Corpuscles (RBC)
The healthy level of red blood cells is 4.4 to 4.6 million per mm for both men and women. We have been taught that 5million is the perfect result, especially for men. This is not correct. All levels higher than 4.6 are the result of cobalt and/or vanadium toxicity! These toxicities are very common. When fossil fuel is breathed chronically, as with gas or oil heat. Of course, the cleaner the furnace burns, the cleaner the air remains. Vanadium could come from the gas stove or leaking refrigerant. Humans should not be inhaling vanadium mist constantly. Although there is plenty of vanadium in the dust and dirt outdoors, it does not accumulate in us to a detectable level from this exposure. Even worse than fossil fuel pollution, is sucking on objects day and night that release vanadium, namely tooth prostheses (fillings, caps, root canals, crowns).
Cobalt causes the same deceptive elevation in the RBC level.
The RBC count is a masked value. Certain toxins elevate it, while other toxins lower it. If they occur together, a middle value is reached which appears to be in mid-range, and is, there- fore, considered normal and “healthy.” Carcinogenic food dyes target the bone marrow. Anemia (low RBC) results. The anemia is not noticed when the RBC count is artificially elevated by cobalt and vanadium. Are we a nation of anemic people, lulled into complacency by falsely high RBC levels?
The RBC level can rise to normal or drop to normal in five days, after removing cobalt and vanadium! We have been trained to believe that it moves very slowly, taking months to achieve a significant change. This is true when iron is being supplemented to force a rise in RBC level. When so many toxic forces are acting, the RBC level can only move very slowly. But when toxins and parasites are removed the RBC moves toward normal very swiftly.
When hydroxyurea and carcinogenic azo dyes are no longer bathing the bone marrow (after the parasite treatment and dental cleanup) an “anemia of long-standing” or “anemia of chronic disease” or “anemia of unknown origin”, (such as an RBC of 3.4) frequently rises 0.5 units in five days! These “anemia” labels are given to indicate “mysterious” diseases but are simply caused by toxicities.
If the RBC falls below 3.0 a transfusion must be obtained promptly (the same day). Some hematologists focus on the hemoglobin level rather than the RBC to assess the need for transfusion. This might result in waiting too long.
When the RBC or hemoglobin drops too low, not enough oxygen is delivered to your tissues. If not enough oxygen reaches the heart, it can be permanently damaged. Heart failure is not far away. It is best to get two units of blood together and raise the RBC to a comfortable level for your body, rather than to skimp along on one unit received more often. To heal, your body needs lots of oxygen, not a survival amount. Use your transfusion time wisely; it is “borrowed”. Hurry to clear parasites, bacteria, artificial teeth, and environmental toxins out of your body. You may request erythropoietin from your clinical physician to help build blood temporarily.
If your religion does not allow you to accept a blood transfusion, find a hospital that has experience with your circumstances the Chamber of Commerce is always willing to help. If your bone marrow has been killed by radiation, a transplant may be necessary. Often your own marrow can still grow back if you make every effort.
Take vitamin E (400 units,) and calcium (1000 mg) daily if you are getting blood transfusions. It seems a wise policy to toughen the RBC walls and to support clotting. Be patient with your bone marrow.
Although we use “blood builders,” they are not effective if the toxins still remain so all effort should be focused on removing toxins.
Platelet Count
You should have 200,000 to 300,000 platelet sinamm (uL) of blood. A count below this implies a toxin in the bone marrow where they are made, or a destruction process going on after they arrive in your blood. An allergic response may cause platelets to burst and be suddenly gone, too. When platelets are sparse, not enough clotting action is present in blood. Surprisingly, our blood vessels spring leaks all the time, and must be patched by platelets. Numerous small bleeds do not get patched, and are allowed to develop, when the platelet count drops below 100,000. If dental work is necessary and platelets are below 100,000, a dose of platelets should be given just a few hours before the appointment (not sooner).
Platelets should be given before the mouth and gums are bleeding. Removing copper, cobalt, vanadium and azo dyes restores the bone marrow’s ability to make platelets again.
As the platelet count drops below 10,000, emergency care is needed. Extra precaution against copper toxicity is now most important. Large doses of magnesium (magnesium oxide, 300 mg, three a day) will slow platelet destruction.
Of course, dental extractions to remove the copper, cobalt, vanadium, and germanium will trigger the very bleeding that is necessitating platelet transfusions. But time is of the essence every minute counts now.
High platelet levels such as over 400,000 results in too much clotting activity; the blood will run sluggishly because it is too viscous and therefore does not deliver enough oxygen and food to the cells. A small amount of niacin ( /16 teaspoon or a pinch) and an equally small dose of aspirin (1⁄2 baby aspirin) are given three times a day to thin the blood in this case. Platelet counts of 500,000 to 800,000 tell us there is a small amount of bleeding going on chronically somewhere in your body (the body is trying to stop it by clotting it!) The bleeding should be searched for. However, often the platelet count does not go up, as expected, so bleeding must be guessed at by watching the RBC to see if it is steadily dropping.
BUN and Creatinine
BUN stands for blood urea nitrogen—namely, how much urea is in the blood. Since the kidneys excrete urea, we have mistakenly thought that high levels in the blood imply kidney disease and low levels imply extra good kidney function. Neither concept is correct.
Have found that high urea levels imply a bacterial infection somewhere and low levels mean there is a block in its formation. When your body cannot form urea, there is serious trouble ahead; yet it has routinely been interpreted as “extra-good” kidney function.
The bacteria that raise the BUN most are the exceptionally bad ones, Clostridium varieties. Others add their part, too. Bacteria make copious amounts of ammonia which is extremely toxic to us. (It has the odor of a diaper pail.) So our bodies catch the ammonia and make urea out of it, so it can leave our bodies quickly. Urea is removed from the blood by the kidneys and bladder.
When your BUN is quite near or actually over the top of the range, you must quickly kill bacteria. The main sources, of course, are decaying teeth and your bowel contents. Use the techniques discussed; tooth extra\ction, betaine supplement, hydrochloric acid, enemas, Lugol’s, turmeric, and fennel to quickly reduce your bacterial burden. Double or quadruple the kidney herb recipe until you can produce 1 to 11⁄2 gallons of urine in 24 hours. The BUN should drop in a week.
A BUN that continues to rise becomes life threatening. At higher levels such as over 50, urea begins to damage the tissues, including the kidney itself. If the kidney becomes damaged, BUN will rise still further and dialysis must be used as a stop gap measure until kidney health recovers.
A BUN level over 55 often brings dizziness and delirium, yet some persons can endure a level of 80! There are many ways of clearing up this condition, even at this late stage. Take numerous (four) enemas in a day. Help the kidneys by stopping all malonate consumption methyl malonate is the kidney toxin. Detoxify it with as much vitamin C as you can tolerate. Cysteine is a specific kidney helper (take two 500 mg capsules three times a day for several weeks). But first of all, kill parasites and start taking the increased amounts of Kidney Cleanse recipe. All the clinical techniques for lowering BUN (hydration, etc.) should be used, too.
BUN levels can be too low for many years without you being aware of it. A test result that is near the bottom of the range or below is too low. There is a block in the urea synthesis cycle somewhere, probably in the liver. Malonic acid can do some blocking; toxins produced by bacteria themselves may contribute; dyes also block urea formation.
The ammonia that is blocked from making urea is forced to make pyrimidines the very nucleic acids that unbalance the ratio of purine to pyrimidine bases.
If the BUN corrects itself, but then goes to an extreme again, search for the same causes as before they have probably returned!
Creatinine is more truly a test of kidney function than BUN. Yet, creatinine formation can be blocked too, and be extra low. Again, this does not imply extra good kidneys!
Since creatinine is made from creatine, an extra low value could mean too little creatine is being made, or at least left in the body. Too little would be made if the necessary ingredients are in short supply. The ingredients are glycine, arginine and methyl groups donated by SAM. Malonic acid toxicity shortens the supply of these. Without enough creatine turning into creatinine, blood levels must be low.
Creatine is muscle food. Some cancer patients waste a lot of their creatine because the muscles are unable to use it. So it is excreted. Again, there is very little left to turn into creatinine, giving the appearance of “extra-good kidneys.” The amount in your blood should not be less than 0.9. Even this value is “too good,” since it is the level of young healthy persons. If you have cancer and yet have a creatinine level that is very low, you can guess that you are unable to make enough creatine or are wasting it in the urine. Stop eating malonic acid foods immediately and get the malonate (plastic) out of your dentalware. In the meantime, supplement yourself with shark cartilage and amino acids, both essential and non-essential.
Creatinine levels rise when the kidneys fail to clear it from the blood. A level of 1.4 should not be exceeded. If it goes above this, vigorous help for the kidneys should be obtained at once. The Kidney Cleanse, starting with the usual dose but doubling it (or quadrupling it) after a few days helps most. Lots of water (at least two quarts/liters a day) helps. Cysteine (three grams a day) and lysine (five grams a day) are especially useful supplements. Alkalinizing your body with 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda or sodium/potassium bicarbonate mix (two parts baking soda, to one part potassium bicarbonate) at bedtime helps the kidneys, too. Sometimes a drug is responsible for kidney failure. To test this all drugs should be eliminated or substituted with an equivalent variety for at least a few days to see if the creatinine will fall. If the kidneys respond and creatinine levels drop, do not go back to earlier drugs. Even a creatinine level over 5.0 can be reduced to safe levels again in these simple ways.
But clinical help should be requested before it rises above 3.0. This will buy you a small window of time; use it wisely to extract rotten teeth or get plastic out of teeth, kill bacteria and parasites, change diet, and find drug replacements.
Liver Enzymes
The liver is the body’s main manufacturing plant so its health is reflected in our health. When the liver gets sick, we get sick. That is why nearly half of the blood tests done are actually liver tests, in some form. The liver can regenerate new cells and keep itself repaired! Old worn out cells must die to facilitate this rejuvenation. If the liver is injured chemically, many more cells will die. If they die, they release their enzymes into the blood stream. Three common enzymes are:
AST (aspartate amino transferase), also known as SGOT.
ALT (alanine amino transferase), also known as SGPT.
GGT (gamma glutamyl transpeptidase).
The two transferases go up quite readily when there is any kind of liver disease or when drugs are used, since drugs are toxins to the liver meaning that liver cells are killed. If your transferases, also called transaminases, are going up, a liver toxin is present and you must search, even amongst your “natural” supplements for a toxin. If your transaminases are over 70, and rising, don’t wait; try going off all supplements for five days to see if the transaminases will fall. If not, replace all your drugs, too, with substitutes for five days.
Sometimes an essential drug such as a heart drug or anti seizure drug is responsible for the elevated transaminases. Even if the transaminases merely climb over 70 U/L, replacement prescriptions should be requested from your doctor.
Transaminases over 350 can still be brought down to safety, if you act quickly. But if they soar higher, liver failure is in progress. You must make every effort to help the liver. (Seek out IV therapy.)
The GGT reflects a different liver function.
All three enzymes should be below 25 U/L. (It is unrealistic to expect to see the truly healthy level of 12 in a cancer patient. Some damage may be permanent.) If yours are elevated, try to find the cause. You can be pleasantly surprised just by stopping painkillers and substituting other anti-pain measures. Changing pain killers sometimes works. Using two or three different pain killers, each in a small amount, also may work to lower your liver enzymes. Don’t give up, even if your GGT is over 1000; it can still be corrected.
Total bilirubin (T.b.)
It is the liver’s job to detoxify the hemoglobin that is salvaged from old worn out red blood cells.
Since red blood cells have a life span of only 120 days, about one percent of them die each day, and must be trapped by the spleen in order to salvage certain parts. Their iron must be salvaged. Their hemoglobin must be conjugated (detoxified), and excreted as bilirubin in the bile. If the liver is not capable of conjugation or the bile ducts are blocked, raw (undetoxified) bilirubin builds up in the circulation. You can detect a yellowish tint first in the whites of the eyes. It is called jaundice.
There is no time to lose. If your T.b. is over 1.0, there is a serious problem. The problem can be corrected if the T.b. has not gone too high. Most of the time, the problem is aflatoxin toxicity. Stop at once eating all grains, including rice, bread, pasta, cereals, and popcorn. Only oatmeal and corn on the cob present no danger from aflatoxins. Also eat no food that could be moldy: all nuts and many fruits and anything fermented. Five days of complete relief will get the T.b. moving downwards.
You must stay on this restrictive diet until the T.b. is back to 1.0; then return to normal food slowly—watching the T.b.
If your T.b. hovers around 0.9 to 1.0, you are too close to the brink of jaundice. Reduce grains; go off nuts, whole wheat, and brown rice.
The most insidious source of aflatoxins is the inside of your own tumors. From here they leak out slowly to reach your liver where the harm is done. But this ends when the tumor contents are detoxified. Sometimes a high T.b. is due to obstruction of bile ducts by tumors pressing against them. This is a clinical emergency. A bypass (stent) can be put in place to help them drain again. While waiting for this surgery, do the entire tumor shrinking program. Shrinkage can begin in twenty-four hours. When the bowel movement regains its dark colour, you know the bile is draining again. HCl drops may be maximized to stimulate bile secretion. Coffee enemas also stimulate bile formation. Taking glucuronic acid as a supplement may help the liver do its conjugation.
When the T.b. reaches thirty, it can still be filtered out of your blood in a clinical procedure. It is important not to let it get higher, since it may damage your other organs. It also helps to give albumin by IV, one bottle (12.5 gm) daily to absorb some of it. Exposure to direct sunlight for one hour seems to help our patients. Raised levels of glutathione (20 gm per day) and vitamin C (3 tsp. or 15 gm per day) help the liver the most with this severe jaundice (if these levels give you diarrhea, spread them out over the day). Do not give up even if T.b. reaches fifty! You may be improving your situation, namely curing your cancer, and yet not losing your jaundice. The pigment seems tightly stuck in your tissues for some time. Be patient. Do the program meticulously.
Uric Acid
When a cell dies the body wisely recycles it by breaking it down, keeping what can be reused, and getting rid of the rest.
When the body breaks down nucleic acids, specifically, their purine bases are turned into uric acid, which must be excreted through your kidneys. Traditionally, a high uric acid level in the blood is thought to be bad (and even causes gout), while a low uric acid level is thought to be good, reflecting efficient kidneys.
But in cancer, the uric acid level is often much too low, and again, this is not due to having superior kidneys. It is because there is a lack of purine bases that uric acid comes from.
Why is your body short on purines? The correct answer must wait for more research, but five possible explanations come to mind:
Bacteria are eating the purines.
Excess ammonia is making too many pyrimidine bases.
This in turn is using up an equal number of purines (all of them, in fact) when double strands of nucleic acid are being made.
Purines can’t be made because they require glutamine, and glutamine is being destroyed by glutaminase, and glutaminase production is being stimulated by malonic acid.
A blocked urea synthesis cycle may be related to low uric acid levels. Cancer patients typically reveal low urea levels (BUN), implying cycle blockage, and when urea is fed, the uric acid level rises, too.
Maybe some purines exist, but the enzyme, xanthine oxidase, which transforms purine bases into uric acid, is missing.
It’s even possible that all of the above are responsible in varying degrees! Every time the uric acid level is too low, it would be Clostridium,
soon as they are killed, purines and xanthine oxidase are again present, and the uric acid level rises to a more normal value!
Even if you are perfectly healthy, would having low uric acid levels be good? Maybe not. Uric acid is not a useless waste item, merely to be eliminated. In other animals it goes on to make allantoin, a healing agent. We are taught that this does not occur in humans it must surely occur at a low level. With very low levels of uric acid, perhaps we fail to make any of this beneficial and mysterious substance.
Another possible benefit of uric acid is that it is itself a pu- rine, and as such would have solvent action on PAHs. Therefore uric acid may draw PAHs along with it into the intestines or kidneys and out of your body. The ultra low levels of uric acid in cancer patients may have allowed dispersal of PAH-like mutagens throughout the body.
Uric acid levels can be manipulated. Supplementing glutamine raises it by increasing purine synthesis. We prefer to give glutamic acid, though, since this turns into glutamine by picking up a molecule of ammonia, thereby helping to dispose of ammonia at the same time. It takes three to ten grams a day of glutamic acid to raise the uric acid level significantly in five days. Unless bacteria are removed, though, it will fall back down.
Folic acid lowers uric acid levels. If killing bacteria raises uric acid levels from too low to too high (above six), this is evidence for a folic acid deficiency. A daily intake of twenty-five to thirty-five milligrams will reduce uric acid levels to three or four,
Uric acid levels are another example of a “masked” result, where a folic acid deficiency can mask a glutamine deficiency, leaving uric acid levels looking normal. But it doesn’t mean you are healthy. By the time a huge bacterial infection arrives, forcing low uric acid levels as we see in cancer victims, a lot of he
Without the disturbances of disease and deficiencies, we might not need a daily intake of twenty-five milligrams of folic acid. Stopping malonate consumption would reduce the need further. The maximum allowable supplement in the United States is one milligram. This is not nearly enough to correct our common health problems. The regulation is important, though, because taking a lot of folic acid can mask a B12 deficiency. A better solution would be to make it mandatory to provide B12 along with the larger amount of folic acid, all in the same dose.
Triglycerides and Cholesterol
Triglycerides are your blood fats. They are usually much too low in cancer patients. The reason is not yet understood by scientists. But it is easy to see that cancer patients are very malnourished, using up both blood sugar and fat to sustain the body. At the same time the patient feels neither hunger nor appetite, and loses weight steadily.
If your triglycerides are below one hundred, you must eat, eat, eat to catch up on lost calories and nutrition. Even if your triglycerides are above one hundred, you must struggle hard to keep this level up. Your food must be as rich in fat as your digestion allows. Five or six meals a day is the norm. You must force yourself to eat, even without appetite.
Triglycerides that are “too high,” such as over 300, are a welcome sight in cancer patients. It shows there is plenty of energy reserve to support the sick body. Do not try to lower your triglyceride level by dieting. Your diet must be extra nutritious now, without regard for calories. As your health improves, especially kidney health, high triglycerides may suddenly drop by one hundred points, putting you on the brink of too low triglycerides!
Cholesterol levels tend to go with triglyceride levels, and are often much too low, as well. Since cholesterol is largely made in the liver, low cholesterol reflects a sick liver. Cholesterol is needed for every cell it forms the outer coat or membrane. Old cholesterol must constantly be disposed of, and new cholesterol made. A healthy cholesterol level of “two hundred- plus-your-age” was established decades ago for Americans. It is not less true now, despite the current emphasis on cholesterol lowering. Cholesterol levels that are too high (over 300) will come down automatically as liver health is improved, as the thyroid level comes up, and as liver blockages are removed with cleanses.
As soon as you are well enough to do a liver cleanse, you may use this to improve a high cholesterol. Do not eat cholesterol reduced foods nor take cholesterol lowering drugs when recovering from cancer. Remember that high cholesterol and triglycerides are evidence that part of your metabolism is still working well. A too low cholesterol will come up automatically as liver health improves.
The sugar, fat and cholesterol content of your blood tells you the state of your nutrition. Are you a well-fed specimen or barely getting by? Now, more than ever, you need to supply calories of the highest quality to accomplish the extra task of healing that your body has taken on.
Electrolytes
Sodium, potassium, and chloride are your electrolytes. Sodium and chloride together make up familiar table salt. As you eat it, daily, in foods, you must excrete it in exactly the same amount so that your blood level will stay the same near the middle of the range. Excreting just the right amount is the job of the kidneys and adrenal glands. When sodium and chloride levels are too low, the kidneys and adrenal glands are letting too much escape into the urine. You must assist these organs in particular.
Five supplements are especially helpful for the adrenals when electrolytes are too low (below the range):
vitamin B6 (500 mg a day),
magnesium oxide (600 mg with each meal),
folic acid (50 mg a day),
pantothenic acid (3 teaspoons a day),
vitamin C (10 gm or two teaspoons a day).
Other supplements most useful for the kidneys at this time are lysine (5 gm a day), and cysteine (3 gm a day). Altogether, these can help you avoid the need for IV therapy with steroids, albumin, and saline. But if the problem persists or is even worsening, clinical assistance must be found.
Low levels of sodium and chloride contribute to fatigue. Yet eating salt does not raise these levels and would be quite detrimental. Tumor cells and other sick cells have become “waterlogged” with sodium and chloride. These elements must be coaxed out with potassium.
Potassium chloride is tissue or cell salt. When it is too low, you may feel fatigue, as with low sodium. Your tissues are constantly lapping up the potassium in your blood for the internal use of the cells. This would lower your blood level quickly if you did not replenish it by eating.
The healthy level for potassium as observed is 4.5 to 4.7. All cancer patients have a severe deficit of potassium which takes weeks to bring up to normal. The potassium level of your blood does not rise quickly. Most persons, even those who consider themselves healthy, have levels that are too low! The cause is not known, although I suspect vanadium may play a role by substituting itself for potassium. For cancer patients, it is very important to raise your potassium level to the maximum, 4.7. This is to stimulate respiration, namely, oxygen utilization by the cells. Potassium was one of the first nutrients found to stimulate oxygen utilization by tissues. At the same time it coaxes sodium and chloride to come out of cells and reside in the blood again, raising the electrolyte levels.
Often the chloride level is adequate, while the potassium level is too low. For this reason we do not supplement with potassium chloride but rather with potassium gluconate. This avoids raising the chloride level. If your potassium level is very low (under 3.5), you will need three teaspoons daily of potassium gluconate. Use one teaspoon with each meal, stirring it into food, or as “salt.” (One teaspoon potassium gluconate supplies 480 mg potassium.) If your level is 3.6 to 4.0, you will need 1⁄2 teaspoon, three times daily. If your level is 4.1 to 4.4, you will need 1⁄4 tsp. three times daily. Your tissues will gradually load up on this precious nutrient. Foods known to be high in potassium, such as bananas are not enough to raise the potassium level.
Whenever you are on a potassium supplement for more than a few weeks you must get a follow-up blood test. When a level of 4.7 is reached, you must stop the supplement, and rely on wholesome foods for further supplies. If you cannot schedule a blood test in this time frame you must stop taking potassium after three weeks just in case it is high enough.
Persons with a potassium level that is too high, such as 4.8 or higher, have a thyroid problem (not caused by taking potassium). Naturally, we would not supplement potassium when it is already high. Without enough thyroid hormones the tissues cannot lap it up; this lets it accumulate in the blood while the tissues are starving for it. Thyroid problems are mainly caused by dental toxins. High potassium levels (over five) can cause symptoms such as slow heart rate.
As you do the dental clean-up the thyroid recovers quickly, and now the tissues eagerly lap up more potassium from the blood stream. This can cause a sudden drop from too high to too low levels. Another blood test is necessary to see if you now need to supplement potassium. You cannot rely on your doctor to be aware of these subtle relationships. You must notice them yourself on follow up blood tests.
Your blood salt content determines your blood pressure to some extent. Salt holds water; it was meant to hold water in your arteries and veins. If your salt level drops too low, you cannot hold the water in your blood vessels. Water will escape into your tissues because the blood vessel walls are porous. As the fluid escapes into your tissues they become water logged (edematous) and your blood pressure must drop, causing fatigue. Most of this escaped fluid can be drawn back into the blood vessels when the salt level rises again, but the bigger amounts cannot. Extra potassium in the diet helps to absorb edema.
A diuretic is sometimes used to force extra excretion through the kidneys so that an extra pulling force is felt at the location of edema. If you already have edema, help it drain by bandaging it in the morning, elevating it, as well as using supplements for the adrenals and kidneys. Now, more than ever, drink the kidney herb tea, increasing it to three cups a day after a few days. (Be sure to start slowly, though.) Hydrochloric acid drops (taken with meals) and cysteine are both diuretics, as is ozonated water. But you may still need an additional diuretic such as spironolactone, our natural diuretic (100 mg, two a day), or a drug variety.
When electrolyte levels are too high, this is nearly always evidence of dehydration. You need to drink more water. Do not confuse water with beverages. To help the kidneys excrete salt and other wastes, they need plain water to dilute all the wastes they must process. One liter/quart a day, plain cold tap water, besides other beverages, is a good rule to follow for rehydration. If rehydration is needed immediately, drinking water does not suffice; it must be given by IV. Prolonged diarrhea can result in such an emergency, and requires clinical help.
Calcium and Phosphate
These are considered together because they make up our bones and are regulated together by the parathyroid and thyroid glands.
Four little parathyroid glands the size of peas are nestled in the thyroid gland; they make parathyroid hormone (PTH). The thyroid gland makes thyroid hormones, such as thyroxine (T4), but also calcitonin.
These two glands together control calcium and phosphate levels in the blood and whether your bones will become harder and healthier or will dissolve and become fragile.
But when copper, cobalt, vanadium, the malonates, urethane, bacteria, or synthetic dyes are present in the gland, PTH disappears. This causes the calcium level to drop.
But when these same toxins are present, calcitonin disappears and the calcium level rises. All this happens in days, not weeks.
Having two organs that regulate something in the blood and having them situated so close together that they actually touch each other shows us the wisdom of Mother Nature. We see the same principle at work in the kidneys and adrenal glands. They can stay closely coordinated. Toxins usually saturate the smaller organ first; the larger one has more reserves.
The parathyroids, being smaller glands, are injured more easily by dental toxins, so the calcium level drops first; As the toxins increase, they begin to affect the thyroid, eventually injuring it substantially. Now calcitonin is negative also and calcium rises too high. Bone is being dissolved as the calcium level rises. Dis- solving bones release their phosphates too. Now both calcium and phosphate are too high.
A calcium level over 9.7 is too high even though it is well within the “normal” range. And a phosphorus level over 3.9 is too high also; it reflects bone dissolution. (Growing children are an exception, their phosphate levels should be higher.)
A calcium level below nine indicates a toxin in the parathyroid gland. Cancer patients may have endured ten years of such a low calcium level before serious disease sets in. Taking in more calcium in the diet helps a little, but does not correct the problem. Taking vitamin D helps a little, too, but must be carefully limited.
When the calcium is lowered by a parathyroid problem and at the same time raised by a thyroid problem, both problems together result in a level that may appear perfect, when actually serious disease is in progress. The calcium level in the blood test is therefore another “masked” value.
The disease process is unmasked as you begin to remove the toxins. If the parathyroids are cleaned up first, the calcium level elevates. If the thyroid cleans up first, the calcium level drops. Hurry, to clear both of them from toxins so no extremes result. Your body corrects itself very swiftly. Your calcium level may drop from a life threatening 16.0 to 10.0 in five days as the dental toxins, copper, cobalt, vanadium, germanium, food malonates, urethane from plastics, dyes, and bacteria leave the thyroid. Similarly, a life-threatening low of 6.8 can rise to 7.5 in five days by doing the same clean ups.
Calcium levels higher than 15.0 may begin to cause mental confusion. Calcium may precipitate (settle) in the kidneys; this could become irreversible damage although the kidney herb recipe may still reverse this.
We have brought down a level as high as 19.0 safely, due to lightning-speed attention. Tooth extractions of all artificially- filled teeth, in a single sweep, on the day of arrival can bring the calcium level down several points the same day, to begin the recovery. Levels below 7.0 must have the same emergency procedure: tooth extraction will gain a few points in twenty-four hours, to bring you back into the extremely low, but surviving, patient group. The correct level is 9.1 to 9.6.
A relatively new class of drugs, the diphosphonates, can be used to block bone dissolution so that calcium levels are forced to drop. This may be life saving and provide you with the window of time needed to detoxify your thyroid gland. A popular brand, Clodronate, is available in Mexico (and Aredia in the United States). Giving calcitonin is also useful for short periods. But ultimately neither medication can save you unless the thyroid and parathyroids are helped.
Phosphorus levels that are below three indicate a need for vitamin D. The correct level is 3.0 to 3.9 mg/dl. As your kidney health improves this will improve also. For this reason, we prefer to wait a week to see if it has corrected itself before giving a
vitamin D supplement; there is always the risk of pollution to consider, especially with lead.
Besides vitamin D, vitamin C also plays a role in bone health. But when vitamin C is oxidized, it cannot participate, leading to scurvy, in which your bones (notably teeth) soften. Oxidation of vitamin C is common, due to the oxidizing action of phenol made by Streptococcus and due to the prevalence of Ascaris infection.
Textbooks may point out that calcium levels are tied to total protein levels so they go up and down together. And correcting one may help the other somewhat. But never wait too long for a textbook prediction to come true. Help both.
Total protein (T.p.)
The liver makes our two main blood proteins, albumin and globulin. One of their functions is to give your blood osmotic force so water will stay in the blood vessels rather than seep into the tissues (similar to the action of salt). Albumin is more effective and is, therefore, more important. But there is more than one kind of globulin, and they are also your antibodies, so have additional importance. The total of albumin plus all your globulin is called total protein (T.p.). It should reach a value of about seven; 7.5 is better. This assures good osmotic strength.
The amount of albumin, in particular, is so essential for life itself; that only an extremely careful study could decide the optimum level or irreversible terminal level. It is best to scramble with utmost haste to raise an albumin level that has fallen below 3.5. Cobalt and vanadium are the chief culprits in disturbing the albumin and globulin levels, and again, emergency dental care to extract toxic teeth is the only life-saving measure. It was reported in 1967 that vanadium can cut the albumin to globulin ratio in half yet that fact seems to have gone unnoticed in Western medicine.
Unfortunately, eating more protein does not significantly raise T.p. You must improve your liver by removing cobalt and vanadium from it.
When albumin goes up, globulin is expected to go down, to keep the T.p. fairly constant. But if globulin goes up due to a mutation, and albumin does not go down, the T.p. can rise too high. Stopping the mutations is a much faster route to lowering T.p. than chemotherapy.
Another force pulling the albumin up or down is the calcium level. Yet all these legitimate forces and relationships can go astray. If albumin is mortally low, you cannot wait. Clinical help is advised. IVs of albumin and calcium are needed.
Albumin, as injectable, in 8.0 or 12.5 gram bottles, should be given without delay. Two bottles are needed if albumin levels are below three. Each albumin bottle should be sterilized to kill bacteria and Ascaris eggs by adding 1⁄2 cc of ethyl (grain) alcohol through the stopper, then shaken for ten seconds to prevent precipitation. Filtering alone does not remove the Coxsackie viruses that accompany Ascaris eggs.
Getting a few days of injected calcium and albumin can save your life and give you just enough time to do your dental extractions, parasite killing, new diet, new lifestyle, and supplement routine.
Injections of calcium by IV should also be accompanied by magnesium to keep them in balance. Additionally about 25 grams (one entire bottle) of vitamin C should be given to balance pH and keep everything in solution. (These, too, must be sterilized with 1⁄2 ml ethyl alcohol and filtered). Whether the basic IV is chosen to be dextrose or salt (saline) depends on your blood test results. If your sodium and chloride level are also low, choose saline. If not, choose dextrose. If both are low, choose saline and add concentrated glucose. The IV bottle will be automatically sterilized when the injectable is added containing the alcohol. But if none has been added, then 1⁄2 ml alcohol should be added to the bottle itself.
Twenty-four hours after teeth are extracted, the relief is felt by the thyroid and parathyroid gland, as well as the liver, allowing albumin, globulin and calcium to correct themselves.
When albumin is too high (greater than 5), the same toxins are responsible, cobalt, vanadium, and dyes. Even when T.p. reaches twelve or higher, you can still recover by doing immediate dental extractions and filling removal. But time now matters to the minute. And there is nothing to lose but life.
To sum up, cobalt and vanadium are what cause albumin and globulin to be too high or too low. These come from both plastic and metal tooth restorations.
Lactic dehydrogenase (LDH)
Hard exercise causes your muscles to make lactic acid, which is what makes you feel stiff next day. Your lactic acid was made from pyruvic acid because your Krebs cycle in the muscles couldn’t keep up with the pyruvate you were making while exercising. The enzyme that can interconvert lactic and pyruvic acid is LDH. Excess lactic acid can be used up by the liver while the muscles recover. Because LDH levels closely parallel lactic acid levels, labs can test for LDH instead of lactic acid. The test for LDH is much simpler, therefore, universally used to infer lactic acid levels.
We are taught that when an organ is metabolizing poorly the Krebs cycle also can’t keep up with the pyruvic acid made by glycolysis. Soon the pyruvate is piled up. Again, LDH is produced so that a batch of lactic acid can be made out of the pyruvate just until your liver or organ can catch up with burning the excess pyruvate again. But if your liver is not functioning well so the “catch up” is never reached, the lactic acid will build up higher and higher; a blood test now shows rising LDH. This is rare in healthy persons, but quite common in cancer sufferers because a tumor plays the part of the crippled organ that metabolizes poorly.
So it is thought that there are two large problems already in existence when the LDH is slightly elevated. A crippled organ (or tumor), and an injured liver. How a small tumor, often the size of a walnut, or even several of these could fill the bloodstream with lactic acid makes no sense at all. Especially considering how efficient the liver typically is at removing it. Liver enzymes are often not even elevated in liver cancer!
These uncomfortable facts are not discussed openly, ever, by professionals. Although every oncologist has seen the rising LDH in many cancer patients, discussions of it are as scarce as if it were a big secret! As if to say, Why ask questions that can’t be answered?
There are two reasons why the LDH goes up, not just one. A mutation that directly raises the enzyme LDH occurs when the azo dye Sudan Black B is present in the cell. Azo dyes are known to be highly mutagenic. All cancer patients with elevated LDH show this dye in abundance. It has been bioaccumulated because the body could not detoxify it nor could the immune system (WBCs) carry it away. WBCs belonging to the tumorous organ do not carry away the dye due to their inability to “eat” it, an immune dysfunction due to ferritin coating of their outside surfaces and due to inability to move about properly due to calcium deposits that keep them stiffened up. When we restore their immunity by removing ferritin and the calcium deposits (caused by lanthanide elements), the WBCs promptly show the presence of Sudan Black B dye. They are now finding it and eating it. But to our dismay, it causes the same mutation in them! Now their LDH levels go way up; it is spewed into the blood stream now, where they are traveling, where it can affect other organs and, of course, where it can be detected in the blood test. Any organ that dares to pick up some of this LDH will have its Krebs cycle suddenly curtailed since the pyruvate is now being changed to lactic acid.
So you can expect the LDH levels to go up at first as immunity improves! Symptoms are worsened. We must hurry. The affected WBCs must be helped with selenite supplementation to unload their toxic cargo in the kidneys and bladder for excretion.
The second cause of LDH elevation is indirect. When cells have lanthanide elements within them, a family of nucleoside analogs appear called dideoxy nucleosides. How this happens is not known, but that nucleoside analogs cause lactic acid elevation is well known. It is the side-effect of drugs used for
AIDS patients. Raising lactic acid would inevitably raise LDH. This needs further study.
By removing lanthanides with lightning speed (dental work followed by magnet therapy) as well as excess ferritin, the LDH drops without first rising and can be expected to drop 100 points in just five days, sometimes faster.
Remember that a normal LDH doesn’t mean you are cancer free. Not all cancer sufferers have an elevated LDH. But once it begins to rise in a cancer sufferer, it spells doom because other enzymes are mutated too; all body tissues will soon be dysfunctional. Hurry to get the dyes (dental plastic, etc.) out of your body! And avoid eating both dyes and lanthanides.
When the LDH is very high, over five hundred, all the dye treatments should be maximized. Normally, we reduce dyes with coenzyme Q10 and vitamin B2. But if the LDH is over one thousand and all your treatments are not bringing it down in the first five day period, you could be given a shot of benzoquinone oxidizer a clinical procedure originated by Dr. W. Koch. Even values as high as three thousand can be brought down with a shot of this oxidizer.
BQ treatment can be given several times, on alternate days. More will not help. It buys a week of precious time to accomplish dental work, deparasitizing, etc.
Thyroid supplementation is increased to maximum tolerated (four grains or more) to accelerate the LDH drop.
We use a cut-off point of 160 U/L for LDH if the laboratory uses a range up to 240. (But remember, not all laboratories use identical procedures, so if the range on your blood test goes up to 480, you would double 160 to get 320 for your acceptable limit.) This limit of 160 is arbitrarily chosen. A value well be- low 160, such as 120 to 130, may be better.
Occasionally, LDH values are much too low, below 100. This causes intense fatigue. This is due to cobalt inhibition of glycolysis. Large amounts of oxidized cobalt are produced by Ascaris as they consume your vitamin B12.
Alkaline Phosphatase (Alk phos)
This is an enzyme that moves calcium in and out of bones. The only time it should be above the normal range is if you are still a young, growing person.
High levels in cancer cases may implicate lungs as well as bones. Yet sometimes neither is involved! And sometimes they are involved without raising the alkaline phosphatase! This enzyme behaves as mysteriously as LDH. And for good reason! Its elevation is also due to an azo dye. When it is elevated, it, too, can be used as a tumor marker, to guide the way to cure. Its healthy level is 75 to 85 u/l.
One common azo dye is known to raise alkaline phosphatase levels, dimethylaminoazobenzene (DAB). DAB is present as a pollutant (or as an intentional colorant) of the most common of all antiseptics, chlorine bleach. Use of this bleach contaminates all manufactured products where bleach is used, so traces of DAB are left in them. All cases of elevated alkaline phosphatase seen had DAB distributed widely in their tissues and built up in the fat tissues. This dye induces a mutation that causes the alkaline phosphatase to be produced in excess. In fact, DAB and Sudan Black B frequently occur together, in which case both LDH and alk phos are elevated. Because white blood cells (if they are competent), busily eat up this dye, they are severely affected themselves. Their excess alk phos seeps out into the bloodstream, thus reaching the bones where the greatest harm is done.
Once you have too much alk phos, this calcium enzyme can start dissolving your bones, creating lesions typical of bone cancer. For this reason, I disagree with current thinking that might state “his prostate cancer metastasized to the bone.” I would say “the same dye, DAB, that caused elevated alk phos in his prostate, has reached the bones, and is now causing the same mutation there, so bones are now under attack.”
Even alk phos values as high as one thousand can be reduced by stopping all use of manufactured products and decontaminating your fruits and vegetables. But the accumulated dye does not leave the body quickly. It has become “bioconcentrated,” like Sudan Black B, in your body fat and within your tumors. From here it trickles steadily to liver, spleen, and bone.
A recovery Program has large doses of coenzyme Q10, vitamin B2, and ozonated oil (another dye destroyer), for several weeks.
Total Iron (Serum)
Iron is transported on transferrin in the serum. Serum is the liquid part of the blood (not the blood cells).
The ideal blood level of iron is 100 ug/dL but values as low as seventy-five are acceptable. Even values as low as fifty will allow hemoglobin to be made so red blood cells can be born in the bone marrow. But below this, body systems begin to fail.
A hallmark of advanced cancer is low iron levels so hemoglobin and RBCs cannot be made.
Although the serum iron level may be low in cancer patients, this does not mean there is a real shortage of iron. It is merely piled up in a useless mound of ferritin or of ferric phosphate. Some of it can be retrieved in ferrous form as soon as vitamin C appears on the scene. (Only the ferrous form is utilizable.) Vitamin C in its reduced form (as well as cysteine) can convert ferritin back to usable iron. But reduced vitamin C is absent in the presence of Ascaris parasites and all iron that is eaten in food or as a supplement merely adds to the pile of “wrong form” iron. It is probably not advisable to add to this pile by eating any more. What counts is getting rid of Ascaris, so vitamin C can be in its reduced form but then, of course, there is plenty of iron available without supplementing.
There are reasons for being cautious with iron supplementation:
1) bacteria need it too;
2) oxidized or metallic iron could behave like any other metal and induce mutations; and
3) high ferritin (iron in storage) levels lower immunity. Bacteria are likely to grab some of it for themselves especially while lactoferrin and transferrin levels are still low. These iron transporters keep it away from bacteria. For all these reasons, only a very small dose of iron is given as a supplement.
Part of the process of iron retrieval from ferritin is controlled by the enzyme FMN. It seems advisable to eat ginger when iron is very low. (And both cysteine and vitamin C, of course.)
When levels drop below 20 and the RBC is near transfusion level and lanthanides have already been removed, we supplement with a capsule of 300 mg ferrous gluconate (33 mg of iron) given for 5 days only.
In general, however, you can expect your iron level to normalize by itself, as you clear up other problems.
Hemoglobin (HGB)
HGB is the molecule that carries oxygen to your tissues from your lungs. Red blood cells (RBCs) contain hemoglobin, so levels of HGB and RBCs tend to rise and fall together. An HGB level that is too low may need to be rectified with a transfusion even if RBCs are adequate and vice versa.
Carbon Dioxide
Low carbon dioxide implies you may be huffing and puffing, even from mere walking, thereby expelling it too fast. It is needed as an acid/base regulator. It might be better to be on oxygen. High carbon dioxide reflects an acid buildup. Reduce sulfur and HCl; and add sodium and potassium. High bicarbonate (trapped carbon dioxide) may indicate too alkaline a blood serum.
Vitamin D Level or 25(OH)D or 25 Hydroxy vitamin DIf you have not had a Vitamin D Level done, then GET one! There is SO much evidence of the long term health effects ofVitamin D Deficiency that EVERYONE needs to have their level checked.Up to 85% of the population is deficient- even young people in Hawaii! So, if YOU get more sun than a young person in Hawaii, you are probably OK. Otherwise download my Fact Sheet on Vitamin D and learn the details about getting your level up to 'Optimal'- not NORMAL,optimal?
Magnesium Level or Mg Please see the Magnesium Level page to understand why Dr. Carolyn Dean, MD and founder of the Future Health Now Program- calls this test "Worse than Worthless"!
The majority of people with a chronic health problem haveSigns of Magnesium Deficiency. Unless it is HIGH, your magnesium level does not provide useful information. Please read the Magnesium Level page for more information.
Vitamin B12 Levels Another 'worse than worthless' test that should NOT be relied upon. If you have had this test done, please read the Vitamin B12 Levels page because being told that you have a 'normal' level is meaningless. A MUCH better test for B12 Levels is a Methylmalonic Acid Test.
Blood Calcium Level or Ca This test IS accurate and useful, but it's NOT a measure of whether or not you need calcium! Abnormal calcium levels often mean that you have a metabolic problem and should see your doctor. Please read the pages to learn more.
The Complete Blood Count, also called the CBC, is a measure of the actual blood cell portion of your blood and measures the numbers and types of Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells and platelets. It is one of the most frequent blood tests done. If you have had a blood test, then you have had a CBC. The CBC can give information about anemia, infections and bleeding problems.
Tests that are included in the CBC Blood Test are:
Red Blood Cell Count
Hemoglobin and Hematocrit
White Blood Cell Count
Platelets
The Red blood cells are Further categorized by their shape and volume in tests that are called:
MCH
RDW
The Metabolic Panel The Metabolic Panel Blood Test is another test that is nearly ALWAYS done when blood tests are done. It gives information about your electrolyte and kidney function. It can tell you about some basic nutrients, the cause of electrical disturbances and fluid status problems like dehydration. Some tests that are done on the CMP is a :
Potassium Level or K level- which has less to do with potassium than you would think!
Magnesium Level or Mg Level-(not ALWAYS done with a CMP) and must be 'requested' by the doctor to be added to this test. But mostly worthless anyway. Normal levels should be ignored.
Other Electrolytes
Kidney Function Tests - BUN and Creatinine
Celiac Disease and Gluten Testing
The Celiac blood test or Celiac sprue blood test. These tests are also called:
'Tissue Transglutaminase Antibody
'Endomysial antibody tests
IgA Gliadin
IgG Gliadin
While these tests are considered 'Accurate' for getting a diagnosis of Celiac Disease they are NOT accurate to determine if you will BENEFIT from a gluten free diet!
Diagnosing Gluten Allergy is not so straightforward, and doctors almost NEVER even consider the very real diagnosis of Non Celiac Gluten Intolerance which can greatly affect health. Gluten intolerance and Celiac Disease are some of the most UNDERDIAGNOSED medical problems in the world! Doctors are NOT understanding blood test results for Celiac Disease and Gluten Sensitivity and are leaving TENS OF THOUSANDS of people undiagnosed for decades. Do NOT rely on the Celiac blood test. Trying a Gluten Intolerance Diet is really the ONLY way to know for sure if you will BENEFIT from eliminating gluten from your diet.
Understanding Blood Test Results is extremely important because your doctor is NOT always right or necessarily looking out for YOUR best interests. YOU need to be looking out for YOUR best interests by understanding blood test results for yourself and questioning your doctor when something just doesn't seem right to you.