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For the patient who wants to be proactive, I recommend specialty lab testing. These tests provide an assessment of core nutrients in 5 key areas: Antioxidants, B vitamins, Digestive Support, Essential Fatty Acids and Minerals. This tells you if you are eating right, taking the right  (or wrong!) supplements, digesting and absorbing nutrients properly and can pick up on deficiencies that could cause problems in the future.   Lifestyle intervention with dietary changes, supplements and sometimes medications can keep your body functioning optimally.  

 A thorough work up of your hormonal system, including estrogens (we can measure up to TEN of them!), progesterone, androgens, thyroid and adrenals.  For the patient who wants to be proactive in keeping their hormones in balance, or for the patient with issues like PMS, PCOS, irregular cycles, estrogen dependent cancers or menopausal symptoms. Labs can be drawn with serum (blood) at Quest using your insurance (this sees how much gas is in the tank per se) and/or with Precision Analytical using their “Dutch Test”.  The Dutch test (urine and saliva) is much more in depth than serum labs (such as Quest) and tells you how your hormones are being utilized in the body. The hormonal end products can be protective against diseases like breast and prostate cancer, or they can be carcinogenic and increase your risk. Anyone with a family history of breast or prostate cancer, and especially someone taking hormone therapy, should know how the hormones are being used in your body.

 This is for the patient with health issues that are affecting their lives and who want to solve the underlying pathology that are causing these health issues.  This is what functional medicine does at it’s best!   This typically includes a comprehensive GI workup with a specialty lab. This is an advanced stool test that provides immediate, actionable clinical information for the management of gastrointestinal health (which affects all the other systems in the body). Utilizing cutting edge technologies, it can reveal the root cause of many common problems and it evaluates the entire microbiome, quantifying the good bacteria, identifying bad bacteria, assessing pancreatic sufficiency, overgrowth of fungal and parasitic organisms and much more. The work up also includes organic acid testing. 

This evaluates organic acids via the urine, which evaluates central energy production, detoxification, neurotransmitter breakdown and also small (not large) intestinal microbial activity (which cannot be evaluated with the stool analysis).  The results of these tests allow lifestyle change and treatment with supplements and medication, which can get the system running back the way it should.