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Nutritional imbalance can on occasion result in difficult to diagnose physical symptoms. It may be hard to believe that neurological deficits, musculoskeletal disorders, endocrine dysfunction and autoimmune diseases can be caused by something as simple as Celiac Disease or gluten intolerance, but it is true. After more than ten years in practice, I have found that there are some patients that exhibit recurrent musculoskeletal symptoms that have nutrient deficiencies and food allergies as the underlying cause. Patients have symptoms that range from migraine headaches and neurological problems to Irritable Bowel Syndrome. This is why it is important to consider food allergies with persistent symptoms because a patient may be reacting to something that they eat everyday.

If you are serious about feeling better and are willing to forgo eating what may be some of your favorite foods, consider the Comprehensive Metabolic Profile Test (CMPT)

Costs and Benefits of a CMPT

Laboratory Cost: $425 paid by check or credit card is sent by you directly to the lab with the samples in a postage paid, preaddressed box, which is collected by Federal Express.

Nutritional Consultation to review lab test results: Fee $75 for 40 minutes Patients are given all test results with a detailed explanation of findings.

What does the CMPT evaluate?

Fatty Acid Profile of Omega 3 & 6 which can be used to detect "silent" inflammation and evaluate the risk of cardiovascular disease.

IgG Food Antibody Profile tests sensitivity for thirty of the most commonly positive food antigens, functional status of B-vitamins, specific markers of bacterial dysbiosis, lipoic acid and CoQ10 sufficiency, urine lipid peroxides (high levels are associated with cancer, heart disease, stroke and aging) and more.

Where is the test administered?

The patient administers a simple finger prick blood test and collects urine samples at home over a two-day period.

Turnaround Time: 7-14 days

 

Dr Hopson may suggest a nutritional workup based upon review of your presentation. The following excerpts illustrate the affects of one type of nutritional problem.

 

Gluten Sensitivity Information

Clinical Rheumatology 2005; 24:76-78

A 37 year-old woman presented with a 6-year history of back pain, progressively increasing diffuse musculoskeletal pain, and muscle weakness. She also complained of fatigue, tiredness, bilateral hip pain, difficulties in rising from a chair, holding her arms up, walking, and inability to ascend stairs for the preceding year. She had mild diarrhea for 8 years, which was considered as irritable bowel syndrome and treated symptomatically. She also had a history of weight loss in this period.

Antigliadin IgA and IgG antibodies were found to be elevated
IgA: 26.2 (0—12) IgG: 92.2 (0—12)

Subsequent duodenal biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of Celiac Disease. She was started on a gluten-free diet and also given vitamin D and iron supplementation. Within 3 months her complaints including muscle weakness and diffuse musculoskeletal pain resolved.

New England Journal of Medicine 348:25 June 10, 2003

Celiac disease is one of the most common lifelong disorders in both Europe and the United States.

The clinical presentation of this condition can range from the typical syndrome of malabsorbtion (chronic diarrhea, weight loss, and abdominal distention) to symptoms and conditions that can affect any organ system.

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999; 69:354—65

Celiac Disease is a permanent intolerance to gluten that results in immunologically mediated inflammatory damage to the small-intestine mucosa.

Gastroenterology Vol. 126, No. 1, Jan. 2004, 359—361

“…Celiac Disease (CD) ‘out of the intestine’ is even more frequent than CD within the intestine”.

New England Journal of Medicine Oct. 23, 2003 1673—4

…every time the disease is clinically diagnosed in an adult that person has for decades had disease in a latent or silent stage.