Description
Why Measure Chronic Inflammation?
Most of us are unaware of effects of our lifestyle choices on the degree of inflammation happening in our bodies. Persistent low-levels of inflammation are the result of the downstream wear and tear our bodies experience from poor sleep, chronic stress, and excessive consumption of western diets.
Over time, without behavior or lifestyle change, chronic inflammation slowly creeps higher and as it does a wide range of serious health conditions, like insulin resistance and cardiovascular problems are more probable.
How do you know if chronic inflammation is impacting your health? You can’t see, hear, taste, smell, touch, or feel this consequence of your lifestyle choices. It is invisible. This assessment uses a simple, painless, and revolutionary blood-draw technology, providing a window through which you will clearly see and understand your body’s chronic inflammatory burden. Instead of guessing, you now have an opportunity to use this science-based, self-assessment to understand your personal inflammatory burden and inform the choices you make about next steps.
Why Measure C-Reactive Protein Levels?
Your immune system is complex, compartmentalized, adaptive, and highly specialized in its ability to respond to your environment. The science is clear: What you eat, how much you sleep, how much you exercise, and how you manage stress all influence your immune system’s function. C-reactive Protein (CRP) is a biomarker that reflects the general level of the activation of the inflammatory branch of your immune system. Inflammatory responses are adaptive in the short run, but if the response remains activated for longer periods of time problems arise. Unfortunately, our lifestyle choices have the capacity to extend inflammatory responses such that we experience chronic low-levels of inflammation. This CRP test helps you identify when inflammation levels are of concern.
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Comparing You-To-You: What Do My Results Mean?
Comparing you-to-you is much more meaningful than comparing you to others. You are not the average of a group, you are unique. That’s the power of this assessment. Its simplicity enables you to observe how your C-Reactive Protein (CRP) levels change over days, months, and years. Each time you repeat this assessment, the results add even more value to your understanding.
Within a basic assessment, you will establish where you are now, revealing your CRP levels given your current eating and activity habits and behaviors.
Your job is to then think about aspects of your health behavior choices, lifestyle, or eating and exercise habits as they relate to your report.
As you experiment with changing these behaviors and or circumstances repeating the assessment will provide an objective metric as to whether what you changed worked. The information provided can help you determine next steps on your journey to better health by lowering your risk.
If you need more help, our telehealth professionals are standing-by to also answer any questions you might have.
Review the sample results below for more information.
Overall HLC Index:
Our algorithm does all the number crunching for you to deliver an easy to understand Healthy Lifestyle Check Index or HLC Index. A good HLC Index in Chronic Inflammation means your body appears to be managing inflammation well and your test values were within a healthy level for this assessment profile. Over time, you can track and compare results to determine when you might consider additional lifestyle choices to keep your inflammation levels in the green!
If you see a lower HLC Index, don’t fret! Lower scores include an approved list of science-based healthy lifestyle recommendations to help support your body in managing chronic inflammation levels. The major benefit of this assessment is that you can now pick a single recommendation that easily fits with your unique lifestyle. Then you can determine precisely how effective this behavior is in improving your overall Inflammation Index through routine testing.
Individual C-Reactive Protein Scores:
On the flip-side you’ll gain access into the individual metric that is used to calculate your overall HLC Index. For inflammation, this is based on a single high sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP) sample.
Contact: Salimetrics (USA)
