Health Markers

  • Vitamin D

    Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin which plays critical roles in the human body, for instance, bone health, immune support, and calcium regulation. However, the statistics show that the deficiency of vitamin D is rampant and affects millions of people all around the world. Vitamin D deficiency ca... View Post

  • Transferrin Saturation

    Transferrin saturation is an indicator that helps measure how efficiently iron is transported in the blood and then made available to the body. It is quite helpful in determining patients with abnormalities associated with iron metabolism, especially deficiency and overload. Transferrin saturatio... View Post

  • Ferritin

    Ferritin is a protein that takes on a very central role in iron storage, and ferritin levels in your body give you very vital information regarding your general health, especially concerning iron metabolism. This article will describe why ferritin is crucial, what role a ferritin blood test plays... View Post

  • Zonulin

    Its Role in Intestinal Permeability, Autoimmune Diseases, and Beyond Zonulin is one of the most important regulators of intestinal permeability. For a long time, research has demonstrated that dysregulation of the zonulin pathway has been linked with multiple diseases, particularly those involvin... View Post

  • Vitamin B12

    About Vitamin B12 Vitamin B12, also known as cobalamin, is a vitamin that is essential for maintaining healthy nerve cells, producing DNA, and synthesizing red blood cells. It is one of the eight classes of B vitamins absolutely essential for proper body function. While most vitamins can be produ... View Post

  • Lactoferrin

    Lactoferrin is a glycoprotein that plays a basic role in many physiological functions within the human body, from immunity to antimicrobial and antiviral activities. Its presence is chiefly in secretion fluids such as saliva, tears, and most often in the human and bovine milk. Being a member of t... View Post

  • Fecal Calprotectin

    Fecal calprotectin is one of the very good biomarkers that have drawn much attention for non-invasive gastrointestinal investigation, mainly in terms of its use as a marker for diagnosing and managing IBD. Calprotectin is a protein found within neutrophils, which can be considered a subset of whi... View Post

  • Pepsin

    Pepsin is an enzyme that catalyzes the action of breaking proteins into their simplest forms also known as amino acids. Primarily, it is active in the stomach and therefore has been termed one of the most vital digestion catalysts. The presence of pepsin in many parts of the alimentary tract is h... View Post

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