For most of her life, Lake Country’s Lorraine Andres has been helping horses overcome stress and helping people better understand their animals.
Now the mother of four grown children is taking her career in a new direction, something that ultimately will still help animals and people.
The owner of the Tranquille Rehabilitition Centre is a certified coach that works with horses and with their owners to overcome difficulties.
But over the past year, she been training in a relatively new field in Canada: live blood analysis. And now, Andres has started offering an a proactive approach to health for people and for animals with her new company, Tranquille Technologies.
“Live blood analysis is a great and natural way to show people exactly what is going inside of them, to show where the imbalances in their health are,” said Andres, who is training as a certified natural microscopy practitioner.
“It just takes one drop of blood from the end of their finger and it goes on a microscopic slide and it will show where the imbalances are in people’s lives. It’s an insight into your future. By being proactive you can avert serious health conditions.”
Live blood analysis looks at live red blood cells along with a person’s immune system (white blood cells), the platelets that help your blood to clot (thrombocytes) and the plasma that they are suspended in.
Many blood anomalies can be found using the system that remain unseen using traditional techniques.
Andres is being trained through Live Blood London.
She says the techniques of live blood analysis are not readily used in Canada but very common in Europe and other parts of the world, adding it’s a way for people to be proactive about their health as opposed to running to the doctor to find out what is ailing them.
“There are things that people can do something about before going to the doctor,” she said.
“Typically we see a lack of vitamin B12 or for various reasons there are toxicities in their blood. If we’re starting to see a few indicators that there is something a little more serious, you can take the results to your doctor for further testing. There are a lot of things that people can get the upper hand on and it’s preventative. I can give them some insight or direction with the ultimate goal being to get them healthy.”
While Andres will begin her new business offering live blood analysis to people, her background in the animal care business has given her insight into animals and how the same technology that analyzes human blood can help diagnose problems in animals.
She says she plans to offer the service for animals as well and relates a story of a young maltese dog that lacked energy and had gone through several tests at the vet with no results.
During blood analysis, Andres’ testing showed the dog was low in live enzymes (probiotics) and they were able to give a supplement to the dog, who showed marked improvement the very next day.
“Everybody is really dependent on their vet and they absolutely play a critical roll in the overall well-being of our animals but this is a measure a person can take instead of spending thousands of dollars on one test after another,” she said.
“If I can pinpoint that there is something wrong and narrow it down to one problem, they can focus on that.”
Andres will operate the service as a home-based business in Lake Country and also plans to have an office in Kelowna.