CONTACT
peter@nutricentric.com
TYPE OF BUSINESS
Food Intolerance and Professional Screening and Testing Diagnostics
You notice things in a community pharmacy. Like how a single-item script escalates into a bagful. How diet and lifestyle take a cumulative toll. Along with environmental stressors and genes. But diet and lifestyle can be changed. Many people only need to be pointed in the right direction at the right time.
Nutricentric Healthcare offers a toolkit of affordable, quick and easy-to-use fingerprick diagnostic tests to help you. Recent advances in technology have closed the gap between small-scale diagnostics and laboratory testing. Our Vitamin D and HbA1c tests are also certified by the international lab benchmarking “referees”.
We can also provide Consent and Report forms that help explain the results.
PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
FOOD INTOLERANCE
Food Detective Professional
40-minute ELISA (the standard lab test for antibodies) test for elevated IgG antibodies against over 50 foods including the usual suspects. Many people are already cutting foods that may or may not be problematic for them. Controlled trials support use of IgG results for designing the Elimination-Rechallenge diet in treating food intolerances. SOPs, report forms available. RRP £110
VITAMIN D (quantitative)
Rapi-D
Sub-optimal Vitamin D levels are common in Northern Ireland with implications for bone health, mood, pain resilience and immunity. But not enough people are being tested. Rapi-D tests for 25-hydroxyvitamin D (the lab standard) in just 15 minutes. The results allow you to calculate the evidence-based dose of D3 supplement to attain Sufficiency after 12 weeks. The test is benchmarked and certified by DEQAS (UK-based international Vit D test “referee”). In line with international best practice, you’d check levels at 12 weeks and adjust dose if necessary. RRP £40
BLOOD LIPIDS
QuCare Multi
QuCare is a new strip and meter system that gives a full lipid profile (TC, HDL, LDL, TG) in 2 minutes. Fingerprick sample. No fasting needed. RRP £20-25. We also have a home Total Cholesterol test.
BLOOD SUGAR
GluCoA1c
This is the 3-month measure of excess glucose in the blood as measured by the amount that attaches to haemoglobin (HbA1c) over the lifetime of the RBC. Identify pre-diabetes and track dietary change. Track ketogenic diet. The test is certified by NGSP. RRP £15
GLAUCOMA SCREENING
EasyTON
Raised Intraocular Pressure (IOP) is one of the key risk factors for eye damage due to glaucoma. Most methods involve contact (even via air pressure) with the eye and/or premedication. EasyTON is a new Pen device that measures pressure through the eyelid in seconds. Results are expressed in the same units (mmHg), and correlate well with the leading hospital technology (Goldmann Aplanation Tonometry). Screen and monitor. Works even when wearing contact lenses.
ECG
D-Heart
D-Heart is neatly boxed (like a large glucometer) with integrated leads and lanyard for wearing around the neck. It connects to the smartphone app by Bluetooth which guides use. No expertise needed. You can upload ECGs to the dedicated cardiology support team who give a straightforward green, orange or red flag verdict inside 15 minutes. Permits screening of sports teams.
OTHER TESTS
Ask about our inexpensive Nitric Oxide saliva strips (guide to dietary nitrate intake – nitric oxide is the body’s vasodilator, also for oxygenation of muscles during sport) or the Urine Ketone strips (to guide ketogenic diet or weight loss). And we’ve a solid range of COVID diagnostics including Antigen nasal tests approved for the EU QR Code travel cert, Neutralizing Antibody tests (for spike protein) to check that there are still vaccine antibodies present and more.