ELITE Fitness & Sports Diagnostics - Foundational

About the Elite Fitness - Advanced 

• Top athletes take inside-out approach to optimise their biomarkers using personalised recommendations on nutrition & supplementations. Sometimes no matter how hard you train you will always be behind your objectives. Thats because of poor nutrient levels, imbalance in hormones, dehydration, overtraining etc. You should run this test if you are looking for -
  
  
  • Weight loss & Fitness levels
    
  • Sports Specific Performance 
    
  • Endurance activities such as Marathons, Triathlon, High-Altitude or long Trekking, Mountain Climbing  etc

If you are aiming to improve your athletic performance or fitness levels, baselining and improving key biomarkers that helps you to improve strength, power, endurance & recovery is crucial, For athletes, optimal ranges (not same as clinical range) are derived and the key parameters are - 

Energy & Metabolism 

Energy metabolism is the process of generating energy (ATP - the body's energy currency) from nutrients. It comprises a series of interconnected pathways that converts food to building blocks and also for energy use and eliminates the waste. Hormones and Enzymes influence how you metabolize fat, carbs, and protein to produce and store energy, and build tissues such as fat or muscle.  

HbA1c & Fasting Insulin –Chief source of energy for the body which if elevated slows down fat loss and is also a risk for diabetes

Cholesterol & Lipids – An essential fat that serves many vital functions such as energy creation and metabolism.  It is the principal building block of many of our hormones including estrogen, testosterone etc and also plays a vital role in Vit D production. 

Thyroid Function – Overall measure of thyroid stimulation affecting metabolism, energy, weight and temperature control 

Insulin Resistance

Beta Cell Function
  - Measures the ability of pancreatic beta cells to produce insulin.
  - Key indicator of pancreatic health and functionality.
  - Essential for understanding the body's insulin production capacity.

Insulin Sensitivity
  - Assesses how effectively the body's cells respond to insulin.
  - Critical for identifying potential insulin resistance.
  - Helps in evaluating the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other metabolic disorders.

HOMA-IR Index
  - Homeostatic Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance.
  - Combines fasting blood glucose and insulin levels to estimate insulin resistance.
  - Widely used and validated marker for assessing metabolic health.

Strength & Power

Strength capability is denoted by the amount of force that the muscle can create to counter the external load. Power is the ability to generate as much as force as fast as possible. The type and quaity of muscles fiber and the ability to gain muscle varies from person to person. It also depends upon the nutrition, training pattern, hormones, recovery and individual genetics.

Testosterone Anabolic "steroid" class of hormone associated with muscle mass, burning of fat and strength levels

Estradiol  it’s vital to maintain an optimised ratio of Testosterone and Estrogen for male health. Symptoms like fatigue, excess fat around your waist and belly, bone loss, lack of sex drive, anxiety, irritability, and depression are when your body is not producing enough Estrogen

Stamina and Endurance 

Essential Vitamins 

Optimal levels of Vitamins (A, E, K, D, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12) plays a very important role in strengthening your immune systems and cell repair. 

Essential Minerals

Magnesium & Calcium keeps the immune system strong, helps heal wounds, and supports muscle contraction, nerve transmission and also influences mood and sleep quality

Organ Health 

The liver is a vital organ and some of the primary functions include metabolism of fat, proteins & carbs, blood detoxification & purification, storage of glycogen and micronutrients. Hence liver is  important for energy regulation, metabolism and immunity. It also metabolizes drugs and regulates body cholesterol.

Kidney function/Liver function As athletes takes nutritional supplements its important to monitor the impact it may have on organs. 

About the Quality

Quality assurance is done at 3 levels 

• Sample collection from home using one time sealed QR coded sterile kits and transportation to the lab including the temperature condition requirements 
• Sample acceptance and QC at the lab 
• Sample run at the NABL/CAP/ISO certified labs