Advanced Anti Aging Lab

How To Prepare For This Lab: 

Fasting is not required for any of the Vibrant Anti-Aging Advanced tests. However, for the Micronutrient test, serum amino acid results may reflect any dietary protein/amino acids consumed in the 8 hours before the test.

The Micronutrient test also measures white blood cell amino acids for many (but not all) of the amino acids on the Micronutrient test. Fasting or not fasting will have no effect on white blood cell amino acid results because the white blood cells reflect longer-term micronutrient status. There are no dietary supplement restrictions required before Micronutrient testing.

However, some ordering providers may recommend you discontinue dietary supplements 7-14 days before testing to assess your "baseline" (normal) micronutrient levels. Some ordering providers may prefer to test your micronutrient levels while you are taking dietary supplements to assess how well the dietary supplement is absorbed. If you are taking steroids, immunosuppressive medications, biologic agents, or other immunmodulating medications, you may not get an accurate result of your antibody levels on the Neural Zoomer Plus, Food Zoomers, or Food Sensitivity tests.

If you are taking any of these medications you may get falsely lower or falsely higher antibody results. For this reason, to ensure the  most accurate results, your ordering provider may recommend testing 14-30 days after discontinuing these medications, or they may recommend testing Total Immunoglobulins (Total IgE, Total IgM, Total IgA, and Total IgG) before testing specific antibodies on the on the Neural Zoomer Plus, Food Zoomers, and Food Sensitivity tests. Consult with your ordering provider regarding whether they recommend that you fast for 8 hours, continue or discontinue any dietary supplements or medications, or test Total Immunoglobulins before your tests.

Lists of immunosuppressive medications and biologic agents can be found HERE and HERE. 

Blood Sample Required.