3/22/07 - And the results are in

Well, it’s here. It’s a nice little book, separated into sections. There’s way too much to process here in one write-up so I’m going to do this in pieces.

I’ll start with a confession. I skipped right over the introduction, which looked like a lot of blah, blah, blah about the approach, the system and a context for the results, (I’ll get back to that later), and jumped to my test results. Wouldn’t you?

What you see first: There is a chart which puts “Optimal Health” in the top right corner, and “Action Required” (nice euphemism, by the way), in the bottom left corner, and five different areas of interest are graphed against that. The five areas are: Bone Health, Detoxification, Heart Health, Inflammation, and Insulin Sensitivity.

First, the good news: Most of my results are in the top right quadrant. Yay for me!

My immediate response is surprise. Things are in different places than I expected.

Here’s to my naturopaths
A number of alternative healers have focused on inflammation in my system (which would account for, among other things, my arthritis). And it’s the one that’s closest to the top right side, meaning it’s the one requiring the least attention. Maybe all those visits to alternative healers have been more useful than I imagined.

An excuse – I think – for some of my grouchiness
The one that looks as though it needs the most attention is Insulin Sensitivity – probably not a surprise, given my weight, among other things. And one or two doctors (mainstream and alternative) have referred to my Insulin Sensitivity – especially when I tried the low-carb diet, which nearly killed me I felt so bad, which didn’t surprise them – but it was interesting to see it come up again.

And it makes me feel better about how incredibly grouchy I get when I don’t eat. I nearly bit a friend’s head off one time when I was visiting because she kept running errands and I was starved and begged her to stop and get a bagel or something, and she was doing all the errands in between where we were and the “good” bagel store. I finally snapped and told her to stop anywhere, but get me something to eat as I was getting lightheaded.

How many blueberries can one gal eat?!
And yet. When I get to the written information about my results, it puts antioxidant/detoxification function as the one requiring the most immediate attention. I guess this is because it’s slightly lower on the chart than the others even though it’s so far to the right. This really surprises me since I work hard to eat and drink so many antioxidants. I suppose this result supports the fact that my genetic make-up trumps at least – some – of my eating/exercise habits. Imagine where I might be if I weren’t eating so many blueberries, tomatoes and broccoli and drinking green and white tea! Hang on, I need to make some green tea.

All right, next, I’m going to start breaking down the results section by section.

Questions:

What do you think might be your trouble areas (assuming you haven’t already gotten results)?

Are you likely to freak when you see your results or do you think you will just take it in stride?

For those of you who have gotten results, what was your initial reaction?

Was it the same after you took the time to really study your results?

One Response to “And the results are in”

1. J. Taylor Says:
   April 25th, 2007 at 3:08 am

   I’m intrigued by your results, and assume that if I did this I would be intrigued by mine. I would not likely freak out about them; the more information we have, the better choices we can make.

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