ELITE Fitness & Sports Diagnostics - Comprehensive
Test Parameters
About the Elite Fitness - Comprehensive
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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
- Weight loss & Fitness levels
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 and 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
Cortisol Known as "Stress Hormone", it increases blood glucose levels, decreases fat breakdown and suppresses immune function
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
Energy is created both in the presence (Aerobic) or absence (Anaerobic) of oxygen. Muscular and cardiovascular endurance requires optimum blood flow & oxygen transport for critical functions including temperature regulation and nutrient transport & waste removal from the cells.
Iron is needed by the immune system and the body uses the free radical action of iron to attack some pathogens. Iron helps the immune system in another way by enhancing the ability of white blood cells to engulf and kill bacteria.
Ferritin is Oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood is essential for endurance exercise as well as for normal function of the nervous, behavioural, and immune systems.
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
Inflammation & Recovery
Creatine Kinase / CRP / Hs-CRP / Homocysteine helps to detect inflammation and recovery markers and associated with muscle fiber damage and is also an indicator of overtraining . Managing training load and under recovery leads to injury and loss of protein in the body.
Protein Status
Albumin/Globulin/Total Protein Main carrier proteins in the blood and binds to key substances such as free fatty acids, testosterone and essential nutrient
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
- Fitness Pro & Athletes looking to optimise upon their fitness & performance parameters such as endurance, strength & recovery
- Fitness Pro & Athletes looking to monitor their key blood parameters so that they understand the changes their diet or supplements are making
- Fitness Pro & Athletes looking to overcome performance plateau whether its weight loss or speed, power.
- Elite Panel looks at important functions of your body including Energy & Metabolism, Performance Hormones, Optimum Vitamins & Minerals levels , Inflammation & overtraining and identifies the limitations in the body.
- Personalise right dosage levels for the supplements to become effective. Boost its efficacy with supplements pairing recommendations
- Monitor your health & recovery during rigorous pre-season and in-season to avoid fatigue and Injury
- 10-12 hrs of fasting is essential. During the fast you can drink water
- Please do not consume alcohol 24-48 hrs before the test
- Please do not engage in heavy exercise/workout 24 hrs before the test
