Mana Health Blood Test Panel

The Mana Health Panel includes:

Complete Blood Count (CBC) With Differential and Platelets:

A complete blood count (CBC) provides critical information about the numbers and kinds of cells in the blood, especially platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells. A CBC helps physicians identify the cause of such symptoms as bruising, weakness, or fatigue. Further, a CBC also helps diagnose infections, anemia, and many other conditions and disorders. The CBC provides information on your:

• WBC: White blood cells are the body's primary defense against disease. White blood cells help fight infection. 
• RBC: Red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide away from all cells. Iron deficiency will lower RBC.
• Hemoglobin: A chemical compound inside red cells that transports oxygen through the bloodstream to all cells of the body. Oxygen is needed for healthy organs. Hemoglobin gives a red color to blood.
• Hematocrit: Hematocrit measures the amount of space red blood cells takes up in the blood. It is reported as a percentage.
• Lymphocytes: The results of this and basophils, eosinophils, monocytes, and neutrophils deal with white blood cell function. Crucial to the body's defense against infection and the assessment of nutritional status. 
• Monocytes: The results of this and basophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, and neutrophils deal with white blood cell function. Critical to the body's defense against infection and the assessment of nutritional status. 
• MCH Mean: Corpuscular Hemoglobin is one way to measure the average hemoglobin concentration within red blood cells, which varies from normal with different diseases.
• MCHC Mean: Corpuscular hemoglobin concentration. 
• MCV Mean: Corpuscular volume measures red blood cell volume.
• Neutrophils: The results of this and basophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes deal with white blood cell function. Essential to the body's defense against infection and also critical in the assessment of nutritional status.
• Platelets: Blood cell particles involved with the forming of blood clots. 
• RDW: Red cell distribution width (RDW) calculates the variation in the size of your RBCs. In some anemias, such as pernicious anemia, the amount of variation (anisocytosis) in RBC size (along with variation in shape – poikilocytosis) causes an increase in the RDW.

Testosterone Free (Dialysis) and Total Testosterone Test, LC/MS/MS: 

• Total testosterone: A hormone that gives shape to masculine attributes. The male blood level is used to research irregular sexual development and sexual dysfunction. Small quantities are produced in the female ovaries; the blood level is used to determine virilization. A drop in testosterone levels can lead to weight gain, muscle mass loss, moodiness, and decreased libido.
• Testosterone, Free (Dialysis): Tests the amount of testosterone not bound to other blood chemicals. This measurement may assist in assessing testicular function when cirrhosis, thyroid disorders, or obesity may affect testosterone-binding proteins.

Estradiol (E2) Blood Test:

• Estradiol (E2): A hormone essential to developing female physical features and reproductive functions. It is also the primary form of estrogen that nonpregnant women produce. Small quantities are made in the male testes (testicles); the blood level is used to determine an abnormal level or hormone imbalance. An imbalance of E2 may be characterized by irregular menstrual cycles, infertility, hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, or prostate enlargement.