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Why do CMA tests? Because they check vitamin levels in your cells, not just your blood. 🧬

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Why do you need intracellular testing? This is something most people don't know about. No one really talks about it, but testing the levels of micronutrients inside of your cells can be incredibly beneficial to you. At the Per Wellness Clinics under Dan Perer MD, we do CMA, cellular micronutrient assays, which is

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a test that tests over 100 different substances and for deficiencies within your cells. CMA is incredibly important to show exactly which deficiencies you have. We like to take a look at what genetic snips you have. Uh that can show

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if you have MTHFR or PMT or other versions of of SNIPS that we like to look at specifically. Uh because with these SNIPS, these are what cause your intracellular deficiencies. So, we like to look at the genetics, but then to get

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an actual snapshot of where these deficiencies are at, we use the CMA to look at what your cells have been deficient in over the last 90 days or so. So, we take we look at a CMA result and from that we can build a customized

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nutrient and nutrition plan for each of our patients. Uh, I just did my CMA again recently and I was surprised that I had a major tyrrosine deficiency. I'd never had that one before, but that's definitely one I'm taking now. So, finding out exactly which deficiencies

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you have can lead to the reduction of many different symptoms. All of our MTHFR patients once they get on the right right versions of B vitamins, they do so much better. They are able to overcome their fatigue and be and are able to actually function. So that's why

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CMA is so important. We designed all of our physician designed products based off of the most common deficiencies we see on our test results. MTHFR daily was built exactly from that. What are all the top deficiencies MTHFR people have?

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Boom. We made the MTHFR daily to fill all those holes. Glutathione is another one that we see often as well as CoQ10, PQQ. These are antioxidants that are extremely protective. But if you're deficient in your cells, you're going to have oxidative stress and oxidative

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damage. So get a CMA, take a look and see take a look under the hood and see what deficiencies you're suffering from inside your cells. See what symptoms we can relieve.

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