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Ready To Prioritise Your Health With Our Essential Health Check…

Begin the journey to improving your health and wellbeing with our Essential Health Check.

  • Test for 18 different health markers, covering: cholesterol and triglycerides, liver function, vitamin D, iron deficiency and B12.
  • Simple at-home finger-prick blood test. No social interaction required.
  • Provides hospital standard, easy-to-read traffic light results.
  • Supporting guidebook provided to help you make effective lifestyle changes.
  • Receive advice to better support your overall health.
  • Customers must be aged 18 years or over to take this test. This test is not available to customers who are pregnant or breastfeeding.
  • Only available in the UK
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Optimise your health at home

Using a quick and easy home-to-laboratory finger-prick blood test means we can measure exactly what’s going on in your blood. Get your results within 7 days, and you’ll receive advice on whether your results are acceptable, if lifestyle changes are required, and if a visit to your GP is recommended.

Take care of yourself

It’s time to start taking care of yourself, including your immune system. The Essential Health Check offers a scientific understanding of whether you are deficient in vitamins and iron, with advice to take simple steps to better protect your health overall.

Take steps to change your life for the better

Take control of your health in a positive way. Receive guidance about your liver health, and the “bad” and “good” cholesterols, and triglycerides. With support and guidance to hand, it’s easy to make changes to better support your wellbeing.

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How it Works

4 Simple Steps to a Healthier You

1

Receive your test

Order online and we’ll post your kit directly to your home.

2

Take the easy finger-prick blood test

Collect 2-3 drops of blood and post your sample to our laboratory.

3

Receive your results within 7 days

Review your easy-to-read results.

4

Ongoing support

Ongoing support and guidance from our Customer Care Team.

What's In The Test?

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What’s in the Essential Health Check

With 18 key health markers to test for, your kit includes a free return envelope included, making it easy for you to post your sample back to us securely. You can leave the rest to us, while our team of diagnostic experts analyse your sample in our in-house lab.

  • Essential Health Check Test
  • A prepaid return envelope (UK only)
  • Two single-use lancets
  • One blood collection tube
  • One blood collection tube label
  • One plastic blood collection tube case
  • Two adhesive plasters
  • A cleansing wipe

What We Test For

Iron Deficiency

Ferritin is a protein that stores iron in the body and is the most useful indicator of iron deficiency as stores can be decreased before any blood iron levels are low. This test can also indicate if blood iron stores are too high. If your body is storing too much or too little iron this requires follow up testing from your GP.

Vitamin B12

Vitamin B12 has many roles in your body. It plays a really important role in red blood cell production and helps your nervous system to function properly.

Vitamin B12 levels are important for aspects including boosting your energy, improving your memory and helping to prevent heart disease.

Vitamin D

Vitamin D is needed by the body for both physical and mental health, but is best known for making sure that bones and muscles (including your heart) are strong and growing properly. It also helps regulate the immune system. Vitamin D deficiency is related to conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers. The development or worsening of mental health conditions, such as depression and low mood has also been linked to inadequate levels of vitamin D.

Liver Function

The liver is responsible for functions vital to life. The liver primarily processes nutrients from foods, removes toxins from the body and builds proteins. It breaks down fats, it converts glucose into energy stores and produces hormones. It also helps the body fight off infections.

What we measure

Albumin; a protein that is made in your liver. It helps to transport nutrients and hormones, as well as helps to grow and repair tissues in your body.

Globulin; a group of proteins made in your liver. Globulins play an important role in liver function, blood clotting and fighting infections.

Total protein; your albumin and globulin levels combined.

Alanine aminotransferase (ALT); a protein enzyme that is only found in your liver, so it’s a good indicator of your liver function. A high ALT level can be a sign of liver damage as the ALT protein is released into the bloodstream from the damaged liver cells.

Alkaline phosphatase (ALP); your liver is one of the main sources of ALP, but some is also made in your bones, intestines, pancreas, and kidneys.

Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT); a protein enzyme found mainly in the liver. A high GGT can indicate damage to the liver or bile ducts.

Total bilirubin; a yellow pigment. High bilirubin levels can be a sign that your liver is damaged. Sometimes high levels can be caused by Gilbert’s syndrome which is a harmless inherited disorder.

Cholesterol

When you think of cholesterol, you probably think of ‘bad’ or high cholesterol. But there’s also a ‘good’ type of cholesterol that your body needs to keep at an optimum level.

Cholesterol plays an important role in many of the body’s processes. However, it’s important that cholesterol levels don’t go out of balance.

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is the good kind of cholesterol. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL), VLDL and non-HDL are the bad types of cholesterol along with triglycerides that you want to keep in check.

The Essential Health Check measures all of these and total cholesterol as well. The test also calculates your total cholesterol to HDL ratio and your triglycerides to HDL ratio which are both useful information for a GP in determining your risk of heart problems or stroke.

The main aim is to focus on lowering your “bad” cholesterol and triglycerides, and increasing your “good” HDL cholesterol to an optimum level.

Case Studies

Matt Perry
Matt Perry

“A simple test and re-education on your eating habits can turn your life around”

Symptoms:
  • IBS / Digestive Problems
  • Tiredness / Fatigue
  • Weight Management
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Matt Staniland
Matt Staniland
Symptoms:
  • IBS / Digestive Problems
  • Tiredness / Fatigue
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Debs Hill
Debs Hill

“I'm excited for what the future holds - I know there's a long path ahead when I start reintroducing foods but I've shown myself anything is possible.”

Symptoms:
  • IBS / Digestive Problems
  • Weight Management
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Trudi Stamp
Trudi Stamp

“The test has helped me to feel happy, energetic and more active.”

Symptoms:
  • Arthritis / Joint Pain
  • Brain Fog/Inability to Concentrate
  • IBS / Digestive Problems
  • Migraines / Headaches
  • Nausea
  • Tiredness / Fatigue
  • Weight Management
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Eleanor Newton
Eleanor Newton

“I feel very thankful for having the opportunity to be able to have found a solution to my problem, without having to take medication.”

Symptoms:
  • Brain Fog/Inability to Concentrate
  • IBS / Digestive Problems
  • Weight Management
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David Brown
David Brown

“I am a different person and the brain fog, anxiety and depression have now disappeared. I feel reborn and finally have my life back”

Symptoms:
  • Mental Health
  • Tiredness / Fatigue
Read more

Why choose us

Our heritage.

We have 40 years of expertise in providing reliable and scientifically validated home-to-laboratory testing services.

Quality, accuracy & expertise.

YorkTest’s products have a 98% reproducibility rate, meaning that two separate results of the same person’s sample will correlate with each other 98% of the time. All results are confidential and provided to you online via our wellness hub within 7 days.

Aftercare service & support.

We are the only food intolerance company to provide nutritional aftercare from a team of qualified Nutritional Therapists with the purchase of our food intolerance test.

In-house & UK based.

Based in York, UK, we’re fully audited and operate in our certified, in-house laboratory. All our tests are compliant with the European Medical Device Directive 93/42/EEC (Article 12) and the European In Vitro Diagnostic Directive 98/79/EC.

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* YorkTest provide laboratory test results and nutritional support services for informational purposes only and are not a substitute for professional medical advice. The results provided cannot be used to diagnose, treat or cure medical or health conditions. YorkTest has 40 years of experience in food intolerance testing and food allergy testing, optimising health and wellbeing with our range of health tests. The term “food intolerance” is used broadly to reflect that IgG antibody reactions to foods are measured by the YorkTest laboratory. These “food intolerance” tests are not allergy, lactose intolerance or coeliac tests. YorkTest recognise that food-specific IgG test results cannot be used to diagnose, treat or cure any specific food intolerances. YorkTest also recognise that the link between raised food-specific IgG levels, gut health and specific symptoms is not well understood and for this reason YorkTest always provide a Nutritional Therapist consultation to help guide an elimination diet. If you are concerned about your symptoms then please contact your GP. Information on this website is for educational purposes only and you must never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it based on the information provided. 82% of customers reported that their YorkTest Laboratories test had a positive impact on their health and wellbeing. Figure taken from STRAT7 researchbods survey 2021 (n=565).

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