A method for measuring more accurately Fatty Acids and Essential Fatty Acid (EFA) Deficiencies (EFAD). The invention includes a disease diagnostic method for the diagnosis of lipid and fatty acid biochemical abnormalities found through the analysis of tissues of a test subject, deriving indices of lipid and fatty acid biochemical status, and analytically comparing patterns or domains obtained from indices of a subject with similar indices derived from tissues of subjects with normal and abnormal biochemistry, for the purposes of diagnosing abnormalities. A specific mixture of nutrients (test mixture), prepared according to this invention, is given to a test subject to modify the tissue composition of said test subject in order to verify or modify a diagnosis, including mixtures of w3 and w6 fatty acids. Another specific mixture of mixture of nutrients (treatment mixture), prepared according to this invention, is given to a test subject to correct lipid and fatty acid abnormalities found in said test subject.
What is claimed is:
1. A method of characterizing an abnormality of lipid or fatty acid biochemistry or metabolism in a human test subject by analyzing substances in a body tissue of said test subject and calculating indices derived from the quantity of each substance thus obtained, said method comprising the steps of:
(a) obtaining at least one tissue sample from a test subject;
(b) separating and quantifying at least two individual substances in said tissue sample(s) of said test subject to obtain the variables concentration and/or percent of each substance, including the calculation of percents of one substance as a percent of the total amount of substances within a specified group of similar substances;
(c) defining new variables as functions of the concentration and/or percents of said substances, including formulas that depend on the arithmetic operations of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, wherein one of the variables is a concentration of one of the substances and another of the variables is a percent of a substance or ratio of concentrations of substances;
(d) calculating indices of the biochemical status of said test subject, and p1
(e) representing the relationships among two or more of said indices into a characteristic pattern, including a point in multidimensional space called the characteristic index, or equivalent representations in the form of tables.
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