Immune system check-up
What is an immune system check?
The immune system check serves to analyse the state of your body’s own defences. These consist of many “departments” that are closely interlinked and are also known as the immune system network. If the organism gets out of balance, it tries to react via the immune system and create a balance. Simple tests can be used to find out how effective the immune system is at doing this.
The immune system check serves to analyse the state of your body’s own defences
Why is a functioning immune system important?
If the immune system network is out of balance, it is increasingly unable to fulfil its essential task of maintaining the integrity of our organism. The natural protective function against pathogens and foreign substances is weakened. This results in the development of many diseases. Nowadays, the increasing incidence of many allergies and autoimmune diseases, as well as the increasing number of cancers, can clearly be seen as a known, dramatic consequence of immune system dysregulation.
How is your immune system doing?
With the immune system check, we want to find out whether your immune system is “in order” and fully functional. We want to take a close look and, if possible, send you home with a “passed” test result. What would that do for you?
You have certainty. You have consciously looked at your body and asked it how it is doing. You have created clarity and awareness for your health and well-being.
With the newly gained knowledge after the immune system check, you can either go home with peace of mind or, if necessary, develop a strategy together with one of our doctors to specifically strengthen and balance your immune system. This may involve, for example, intestinal cleansing with adjustments to your eating habits, replenishing deficient micronutrients (possibly also through infusion therapy), targeted support for individual organs or coaching to strengthen your mental health.
Immune system check-up at the THERA Praxisklinik in Berlin
Standard *
- Two half-hour medical consultations
- + detailed laboratory examination with testing of important micronutrients
- + basic screening kidney, liver, thyroid, pancreas, inflammation, gut
Premium **
- Two half-hour medical consultations
- Detailed laboratory examination as for standard + additional:
- + Checking the cellular immune function
- + Checking mitochondrial function and metabolism
- + Detailed gut check with analysis of gut flora and gut integrity
Should I do an immune system check-up?
If you answer “YES” to one or more of the following statements, then you should be interested in our immune system check. The immune system check will help you get to the bottom of things. We support you in the process.
“We measure the functionality and balance of your immune system to give you clarity about your state of health. On request, we will then draw up a personalized treatment plan for you – according to your requirements, wishes and possibilities.”
Dr. med. Ralf Heinrich
What exactly do you get when you opt for our immune system check-up?
- You will not only receive a copy of all the results obtained, but your doctor will of course explain the results to you and place them in the context of “How is my immune system doing”
- Tips and recommendations for strengthening your immune system in everyday life, including taking dietary supplements (if necessary) according to your blood results
- A specific medical contact person for questions or problems
- The opportunity to follow up directly on the results obtained and work out a detailed treatment plan with your doctor in a separate appointment (outside of the immune system check)
Fig.: Large mineral profile, IMD
If you opt for the Immune System Check Premium, you will also receive:
- A concrete statement on the state of your mitochondrial/cell metabolism. If necessary, we can initiate targeted measures to support the regeneration of the mitochondria. Read about the importance of mitochondria in a holistic understanding of medicine HERE
- Laboratory analysis of your immune status (cellular immune function)
This provides information about any disorders in the cellular immune system and whether sufficient immune cells are present at all. This analysis is also particularly suitable for monitoring the course of active immune processes in chronic infections, autoimmunopathies or malignancies.
Fig.: Exemplary representation of the laboratory analysis “cellular immune function”, IMD
- A detailed analysis of the intestinal flora and intestinal integrity.
90% of our immune system is located in the gut! If we want to strengthen it, we can’t avoid the gut. A detailed gut check provides us with a wealth of information: Is there a leaky gut syndrome? How is the mucosal immunity? Is the protective flora sufficiently present or have putrefactive bacteria or fungi gained the upper hand? Can the food components be digested well?
It is also possible to draw up an individual treatment plan for your intestinal rehabilitation following the immune system check, if necessary.
The costs
The costs stated above refer to patients with statutory health insurance (= self-payers). As we are a private practice, the costs are unfortunately NOT covered by statutory health insurance.
Are you privately insured?
Of course, you can submit both the laboratory invoice and our private medical invoice to your health insurance company in accordance with GOÄ. Whether and to what extent the costs are actually covered in the end depends very much on the respective insurance company.
Important notice: For privately insured patients, the costs may differ from the above prices, as the laboratories differentiate in their price calculation between “self-payers” and “privately insured”.
* Standard immune system check-up
- Two half-hour medical consultations
with recording, evaluation and individual recommendations - Detailed laboratory examination
- Examination of important micronutrients with detailed mineral analysis
(Ca, Cr, Cu, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, P, Se, Zn+Cd, Hg, Ni, Pb, Vit B12, 25(OH)-Vitamin D) - Kidney (basic screening)
- Liver (basic screening)
- Thyroid gland (basic screening)
- Pancreas (basic screening)
- Inflammation (basic screening)
- Gut (basic screening)
** Premium immune system check-up
- Two half-hour medical consultations
with recording, evaluation and individual recommendations - Detailed laboratory examination
- Examination of important micronutrients with detailed mineral analysis
(Ca, Cr, Cu, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, P, Se, Zn+Cd, Hg, Ni, Pb, Vit B12, 25(OH)-Vitamin D) - Kidney (basic screening)
- Liver (basic screening)
- Thyroid gland (basic screening)
- Pancreas (basic screening)
- Inflammation (basic screening)
- Gut (basic screening)
- Checking the cellular immune function
(T, B, NK cells, CD4/CD8 ratio, naive/memory, regulat. and terminal memory CD8 cells, activated T cells, protein electrophoresis) - Mitochondrial function and metabolism
- LDH isoenzymes
- Detailed intestinal check with analysis of intestinal flora and intestinal integrity
Specific examinations for a given indication
If indicated, the immune system check can be supplemented by the following specific tests:
- Infection diagnostics (infectious agents such as borrelia, chlamydia, herpes viruses)
- Allergy/immune function diagnostics (food allergy test, molds and environmental allergens, intolerance to dental prostheses/endoprostheses)
- Exposure to foreign substances/heavy metal test
- Hormone diagnostics
- Antibody diagnostics for suspected or existing autoimmune diseases
- Fatty acid profile/ Omega-3 index
Of course, your doctor will discuss the procedure with you again and agree it with you. If necessary, further examinations not mentioned here may also be useful or necessary.
Without diagnostics, you’re in the dark …
We want to treat you in the best possible and individualized way. To do this, it is necessary to carry out a comprehensive diagnosis. Often symptoms are not due to a single cause, but various stresses accumulate over time. Sometimes they reinforce each other and at some point the barrel overflows. Which stresses or disruptive factors have caused the barrel to overflow in your case? Where are you deficient? Where is there an imbalance? How can we work together to relieve your body-mind system and remove blockages to healing?
Let’s take the path together and make an appointment now.
Your contact persons
Contact and appointment possible at any time
Do one or more of the above points apply to you and would you like to do something for your health? Are you curious? Please feel free to contact us by phone to make an appointment.
You can reach us according to our opening hours at tel. 030 79016533. We look forward to your call or message.