Teen Skin Panel 12+

Digestive disorders significantly affect quality of life through chronic symptoms including abdominal pain, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, and unpredictable bowel habits, while also potentially causing nutritional deficiencies, unintended weight loss, anemia, and systemic complications affecting other organs if left untreated. Early detection enables targeted treatment approaches before permanent damage develops and complications occur.

Personal health measurements encompass fundamental physical parameters that provide crucial insights into your overall health status and disease risk. These measurements include vital signs such as pulse and blood pressure, anthropometric measurements like height, weight, waist and hip circumference, and calculated indices including Body Mass Index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio.

Infection and inflammation markers detect active infections, identify autoimmune conditions where the immune system attacks your own tissues, and measure chronic inflammatory states that significantly increase risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease. Key biomarkers include C-reactive protein and ESR (general inflammation markers that rise with almost any inflammatory process), white blood cell count and differential (detecting infections and blood disorders), immunoglobulins (measuring antibody production), complement proteins (components of the immune system), and specific antibodies like antistreptolysin O or ASO (indicating recent strep infection).

Liver function tests assess your liver's ability to perform its over 500 essential functions including producing proteins for blood clotting, filtering toxins and waste products, metabolizing medications and alcohol, regulating blood sugar between meals, storing vitamins and minerals, and producing bile for fat digestion. Key enzymes include ALT and AST which leak from damaged liver cells, alkaline phosphatase or ALP indicating bile duct problems, and GGT which is particularly sensitive to alcohol damage.

Nutritional biomarkers assess your body's levels of essential vitamins, minerals, and trace elements that are absolutely critical for countless physiological processes throughout every system in your body. This comprehensive evaluation typically includes vitamin D (crucial for bone health, immune function, and mood regulation), vitamin B12 (essential for nerve function, DNA synthesis, and blood cell formation), folate (needed for DNA synthesis and especially important during pregnancy), iron status (oxygen transport), calcium and magnesium (bone health, muscle and nerve function), zinc (immunity, wound healing, protein synthesis), and selenium (antioxidant function, thyroid hormone metabolism).

These simple body measurements give useful context for every health assessment, helping us understand body composition, cardiovascular risk, and changes over time.