Meet Kathryn, who was concerned about her high risk of familiar cancer after three members of her family had already died.

She was keen to do some testing to see how healthy she really was and I recommended the DUTCH test [Dried Hormone Test of Complete Hormones - £249] to assess how her hormones were being metabolised, especially as she was hypothyroid and not on HRT.

She also did a Functional DX Femme Inspect blood panel [£355]. Amongst the 95+ biomarkers we tested it was the fasting insulin, iron, cholesterol and thyroid hormones that we were most interested in.

Kathryn was feeling tired but thought that maybe she needed to increase her thyroid medication. [In fact the tests indicated she may be overmedicating!].

She also felt that she was above average fitness, had never smoked or drunk much alcohol and had been pescatarian since 1985, so pretty much on track with a healthy diet and lifestyle and wasn’t “anticipating anything earth shattering in the results."

What actually happened was that Kathryn was very surprised by the results, which “created a ripple effect in the family.”

Her vitamin D level was low, as were her vitamin B12 and folate, plus protein and cholesterol levels also not optimum. Her greatest concern was the early signs of insulin resistance and fatty liver - the effects of eating too much sugar and carbohydrates!

We agreed a plan of action and initially she thought that cutting out sugar would be hard. She wasn’t a big chocolate fan but ate lots of fruit, often by itself without anything else. She also didn’t really eat bread or potatoes but she found aiming to eat less than 20% carbs was initially hard.

Her first 3 days she was grumpy! ☹

But as her taste buds quickly adapted she persevered and very quickly [within 5 days] noticed how much better her skin was, eye bags were gone and she'd lost weight around her middle (4 kilos and counting).

Kathryn is now feeling better and has much greater peace of mind that she is on the right path now to better health with a reduced risk of developing cancer.

You too can get results like this - with or without testing!

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