Healthy Lifestyle Panel

The Healthy Lifestyle panel is IFCOR's dedicated screen for people following plant-based diets, intensive fitness regimens, or restrictive eating patterns who want laboratory confirmation that their nutritional strategy is working. Beyond the standard metabolic and cardiovascular markers, this panel adds transferrin and ferritin for iron status depth, vitamin B12 (critical for vegans), 25-OH vitamin D, and total protein with albumin to verify adequate macro-nutrition. At 1,950 Kč total, it provides a clinically validated nutritional audit that nutritionists and plant-based health advocates would typically need to assemble from multiple separate tests.

Plant-based diets and intensive exercise programmes share a common nutritional vulnerability profile that standard preventive panels often miss. IFCOR's Healthy Lifestyle panel addresses this directly by including biomarkers that go beyond organ function into nutritional adequacy. Transferrin is the main iron-transport protein; measuring it alongside serum iron and ferritin allows the calculation of transferrin saturation — the most sensitive indicator of functional iron deficiency before anaemia develops. Ferritin captures long-term iron stores. Together, these three iron markers enable accurate classification of iron deficiency, iron-deficiency anaemia, or anaemia of chronic disease. Vitamin B12 is the most critical nutritional deficiency risk in vegan diets, as plant foods contain no bioavailable B12; deficiency causes irreversible neurological damage if prolonged and often presents first as fatigue, mood changes, or tingling in the hands and feet before haematological changes appear. Total protein and albumin confirm adequate protein intake — both absolute quantity and the body's ability to retain protein, which may be impaired in malabsorption or chronic inflammation. Alongside these nutritional markers, the panel includes CBC, electrolytes (Na/K/Cl/Mg/Ca — notably including magnesium and calcium, which are commonly low in plant-based diets), fasting glucose, full lipid panel, liver enzymes (ALT/AST/GGT/ALP), bilirubin, urea, creatinine, CRP, uric acid, and urinalysis with sediment. The collection is a single fasting blood draw plus morning urine, with results delivered by secure email the next business day. No physician referral is required.