THE PURSER WELLNESS REFERENCE
Understand your lab vocabulary.
Compare Dr. Purser’s adult ranges with your own report. Units, symptoms and health history matter when you discuss a result with your clinician.
15 entries
Albumin — lab reference
Inflammation, hydration, liver synthesis, renal loss, and nutrition affect result.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesAlbumin/globulin ratio — lab reference
Calculated; interpret component values.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesAlkaline phosphatase (ALP) — lab reference
Age, bone turnover, liver source, pregnancy, and isoenzymes affect interpretation.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesALT — lab reference
The test method matters. Healthy-population upper limits may be lower than many commercial ranges.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesAmylase — lab reference
Not pancreas-specific; interpret with lipase and clinical presentation.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesAST — lab reference
Muscle, liver, hemolysis, alcohol, exercise, and medication context matter.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesBilirubin, direct — lab reference
Ask your clinician to review direct and indirect fractions together.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesBilirubin, total — lab reference
Fasting, Gilbert syndrome, hemolysis, and liver disease may alter result.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesCreatine kinase (CK) — lab reference
Exercise, muscle mass, sex, race, trauma, injections, and statins affect values.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesGamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) — lab reference
Alcohol, medications, metabolic disease, and cholestasis may elevate.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesGlobulin — lab reference
Often calculated. Ask your clinician to consider SPEP/IFE for unexplained abnormalities.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesLDH — lab reference
Broad tissue marker; hemolysis can cause false elevation.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesLipase — lab reference
Assay-specific; diagnostic thresholds for pancreatitis are separate.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesPrealbumin — lab reference
Negative acute-phase reactant; not a stand-alone nutrition marker.
Liver, Pancreas, Protein Status, and Muscle EnzymesTotal protein — lab reference
Ask your clinician to review albumin, globulin, and electrophoresis when indicated.
