| JOIN OUR LIST |  |
FEATURED SUPPLEMENT
|
 | Custom-Made Multivitamin-mineral
|
| |
Once you know your unique nutritional needs, the best way to meet them might very well be through a custom-made formula. Dr. Debé can design and have made a formulation that will give your body the appropriate amount of the nutrients it needs and leave out nutrients you do not need.
|
FEATURED LAB TEST
|
Individualized Optimal Nutrition
Profile
 |
Metametrix Clinical Laboratory offers the ultimate nutritional evaluation. To read more about the ION profile and to see a sample test report, click here.
|
"THE DIRTY DOZEN"
|
|
The following foods have been found to have the highest levels of pesticides. Do your best to only consume "organic" versions of these:
Celery
Peaches
Strawberries
Apples
Blueberries
Nectarines
Bell Peppers
Spinach
Kale
Cherries
Potatoes
Grapes (Imported)
|
|
|
Greetings!
Welcome to the February, 2013 issue of NUTRITIOUS BYTES where we identify "The Most Important Nutrient." |
|
|
Is it Vitamin D? Maybe. Is it "Omega 3"? Maybe. Is it Coenzyme Q10? Maybe. Is it...
| 
What factors determine your supplement use?
There is no shortage of hype surrounding the benefits of various nutritional supplements. Much of it is justified. I personally sent a newsletter entitled "The Miracle Vitamin". This was about vitamin D. Vitamin D has the potential to ease your aches and pains, improve your mood, protect from heart disease, and inhibit tumor growth, for starters. That is quite impressive. But we can say the same for fish oil. Coenzyme Q10 and other nutritional supplements may produce these and other very important effects.
If you were to take every supplement that had scientifically-demonstrated benefits to offer, the number would be at least in the hundreds. I speak with patients and acquaintances who buy and take a particular supplement because they heard it "was good" on The Dr. Oz show or read about it in a magazine. This is not in my opinion, the best way to determine what supplements you will take.
What is the most important nutrient? It is the one that your body has the greatest need for. For genetic and multiple other reasons, everyone has unique nutritional needs. What's more, these needs change over time.
"One man's food is another man's poison." I have had patients who I had to tell to stop taking fish oil and stop eating fish because they had created an imbalance. They had high omega 3 fatty acids and deficient omega 6 fatty acids. Instead, supplements of borage seed oil became necessary and the most important nutrient.
Personalized Nutrition Is The Most Effective
What is your goal in taking supplements? Some benefit, obviously, such as improvement of symptoms and health conditions and protection against disease. You are more likely to achieve these goals if you have an accurate assessment of your needs. I believe this is most dependent upon skilled interpretation of in-depth, sophisticated laboratory tests. As an example of this concept, I can tell you about two patients who came to me for chief complaints of chronic fatigue. One approach is the "cookbook", one-size-fits all treatment with an "energy" supplement such as vitamin B12. The problem is that neither of these patients were in need of any vitamin B12 beyond what they were getting already. So, taking vitamin B12 (a supplement "for energy") would do nothing. It turned out that one patient had fatigue related to a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium supplementation made a huge difference for this person but would have done little for my second patient who had good magnesium status but was lacking L-arginine.
For ten years, I have been running the premier nutritional lab test on my patients: the Individualized Optimal Nutrition profile or ION profile for short. The ION profile takes the guesswork out of determining and prioritizing nutritional need. The ION profile is a combination of several different lab tests assembled into one profile, which is heavily discounted. The ION profile consists of amino acid analysis, homocysteine, mineral levels, heavy (toxic) metals, lipid peroxides and 8-Hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (oxidative stress or free radical markers), vitamin D and other fat soluble vitamins, and organic acids. The 46 organic acids that are measured give a wealth of varied nutritional and metabolic information, including indicators of functional need for more B vitamins, L-carnitine, coenzyme Q10, alpha lipoic acid, amino acids, glutathione, antioxidants, and probiotics. For a detailed discussion of organic acid analysis, read my article, "Change Your Life with the Number 1 Test in Healthcare". The only thing better than getting an organic acid analysis is getting it as part of an ION profile, which measures dozens of additional biochemicals.
If you were to get the individual tests that make up the ION profile, you would have to pay about $1600 to the lab. The ION profile is discounted to $745 ($819 if you request a measure of 40 amino acids instead of the standard 20).
Now for the Really Good $ News...
The lab that offers this test has a new insurance payment option. With the exception of a few insurance companies, the following is now an option. You submit payment of $169 with your test samples and the lab will bill your insurance company for the rest. If you choose 40 amino acid analysis instead of 20 amino acids, the price is $218. As long as you have no deductible or coinsurance to meet, the lab will not ask for any other payment from you.
I encourage everyone to get an ION profile. If you are not taking supplements, you can learn what your body will benefit from the most ("The Most Important Nutrient"). If you are taking supplements already, how do you know you are taking the right amount? The ION profile replaces hype and guesswork with science to help you benefit the most.
|
|
|
Sincerely,
Joseph Debé, DC, DACBN, CDN
Board Certified Nutritionist
38 Great Neck Road
Great Neck, N.Y. 11021
(516) 829-1515
www.drdebe.com
|
|
|
