i'm 172 cm tall and weigh 65 kg, meaning my bmi is a tad under 22. so, i have indeed gained around 5-10 pounds, relative to my normal weight.
i'm going to ask for a uric acid blood test to check for molybdenum deficiency, as low uric acid levels are a sign of low molybdenum. direct molybdenum tests do not appear to be available at all.
it turns out that alp is an indicator for manganese deficiency, and my alp levels were normal. i'm otherwise going to ask for a pyruvate test, as manganese is used in glucose metabolism and an abnormal level might indicate a shortage. lipase and amylase are also an indirect test for manganese. manganese is also used for bone mineral density (the test i did) and glucose tolerance (and my blood glucose is always fine...), so those are further indicators. i can get a direct manganese test, eventually.
and, while a chromium test is available, chromium deficiency is not currently understood, like, at all. they wouldn't know what to test for.
so, here's my update:
- i can't get an indirect for e. beginning of july, probably. haptoglobin would be indirect in children and my haptoglobin was fine. apparently, it's almost impossible to deplete your e stores....so it's not all that useful to measure serum e if you're concerned about recent changes in absorption status because your stores are probably beyond what you'd be able to exhaust any time soon.
- i can do indirects for k as: fibrinogen, prothombin time (pt) & partial thromboplastin time (ptt)
- indirect for selenium as glutathione, for now.
- i can get an iodine test
- no covered tests for molybdenum, manganese, chromium
- ....but i can check blood or urine uric acid as indirect for molybdenum....
- ....pyruvate, lipase, amylase as indirect for manganese...
- ...and no symptoms of chromium deficiency are currently well understood.
- ascorbic acid
- crohn's: asca, c-reactive protein?, sedimentation rate (esr)
- oxalic acid
- salicylate
- mercury
- amino acid, fractionation & quantitation
- phenylalanine is covered, for some reason