Annual Functional Bloodwork
Whether you're taking your first steps into functional medicine or seeking an annual check-in after completing a 1:1 membership, Align's screening tests offer a comprehensive look at your health status.
These tests detect potential health concerns early on, providing a valuable and proactive screening tool to assess your health.
What’s included in the Annual Bloodwork package?
CBC, CMP, advanced lipid panel, HbA1c, insulin, homocysteine, hs-CRP, full thyroid panel, ANA by IFA, ferritin, serum iron & IBC, uric acid, vitamin D-25 OH, RBC Mg & more as needed
45-minute appointment to review your results through a functional medicine lens
Personalized recommendations & supplements
Turnaround time ~10 business days from lab draw
Option to add-on a functional lab test
Accepts HSA & FSA cards
$499
You’ve been told your bloodwork looks great, but you continue to feel unwell
This might explain why…
‘Optimal’ range
Usually much more narrow than standard lab ranges
Anything outside of these optimal values can show patterns and markers that spot trends toward disease
Catches markers early on to reverse or stop disease progression altogether
Accounts for bio-individuality (optimal for one person might not be optimal for another)
‘Normal’ range
Standard lab reference ranges used by the laboratories that analyze samples based on averages of a healthy population
In early stages of disease, lab test results can fall within the normal reference range due to their wide reference ranges (cellular dysfunction is being overlooked)
Assumes the standard range = optimal functioning
For example, let’s take look at the Thyroid…
Most conventional doctors will only test for TSH when assessing thyroid function.
While TSH is a valuable marker for assessing thyroid function, it is limited in its scope. TSH alone may indicate a general issue with the thyroid gland, but it does not pinpoint the specific nature or location of the dysfunction.
We need a broader range of thyroid markers that are able to help us identify where the root cause of thyroid dysfunction is coming from.
A complete thyroid panel should include:
TSH
Total T4
Free T4
Total T3
Free T3
Reverse T3
T3 uptake
Thyroid peroxidase (TPO) antibodies
Thyroglobulin antibodies (TgAb)
Comparison of reference ranges
TSH
Standard: 0.45-4.12 mlU/L
Optimal: 1.0-3.0 mlU/L
Free T4
Standard: 0.93-1.70 mlU/L
Optimal: 1.0-1.5 mlU/L
Free T3
Standard: 2.8-4.0 mlU/L
Optimal: 3.0-4.0 mlU/L
Reverse T3
Standard: 8-25 ng/dl
Optimal: 9-18 ng/dl
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