Nutritional Blood Cell Analysis
Until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of it. I got emails from Abbey’s health food store, and there was an invitation to a nutritional blood cell analysis. “It can tell you things that your annual blood test cannot.” REEEEAAALLLY? Interesting. If it told me something about myself that my nurse practitioner couldn’t, why not? I made an appointment. There were two possible tests: wet and dry. Taking both gave me a discount. The technician poked me sufficiently to get six drops of blood. One was for the wet test. Five were for the dry test.
I was sitting in a private room in the back of Abbey’s. There was a screen linked to a microscope. The screen was big enough to share with the tech.
He put the first blood drop under the microscope after putting five drops on another slide and setting it aside.
The tech focused on the microscope and then started to tell me what he saw. It was fascinating. I was stunned when he asked if I’d had a beer in the last 24-hours, I was stunned. He saw a little urea in my blood. His observations were interesting and informative. Like a fortune-teller he balanced questions about diet and lifestyle with comments about the shape of some cells and hydration.
The dry test took me to an entirely different place. He made some observations on the first drop, pointing out this and that and explaining the first drop was a snapshot of my current nutritional status. The second drop is a step further back, say two or three years. He was impressed by my results and asked if I had any significant health changes? I had. I lost about 30 lbs and started doing landscaping on our three acres three days a week, two to four hours each of those days. He told me that losing weight correctly makes all the difference to nutritional health.
The next drop told us something else about my nutritional health, maybe 20 years ago, the next maybe 40 years, but one drop was left.
When it appeared on the screen, he said, “There it is, good genes.”
That last, smaller, dried smear reflected my childhood nutrition.
Pretty frou, frou, huh? I get the fortune teller vibe, too. But some of it just rang true. It had what we call narrative fidelity. It felt true.
I learned that Milkweed Thistle helps my liver forgive me for my bourbon and beer. I bought some. I learned that “superfood” powder provides an entire day’s worth of fruit and veggies in a tablespoon. Most people put the powder in a smoothy or sprinkle it in their food, but I mix it with water and take it like a shot. No sugar added.
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