Metabolic Disorder

📖What is Metabolic Disorder?

Metabolic disorder is a broad term for conditions that disrupt the body's normal chemical processes for converting food into energy, building and breaking down proteins, fats, and carbohydrates, and maintaining the internal balance needed for cells to function properly. These disorders can be inherited, resulting from a missing or defective enzyme that disrupts a specific metabolic pathway from birth, or acquired later in life due to conditions such as diabetes, obesity, thyroid dysfunction, or liver and kidney disease. Depending on which pathway is affected, metabolic disorders can lead to abnormal buildup of toxic substances, deficiency of essential products, or dangerous imbalances in blood sugar, electrolytes, or acid-base status. Diagnosis typically relies on specialized blood and urine testing to identify the specific biochemical abnormality involved.

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