Laboratory Testing
To help identify imbalances and fine-tune your nutrition programme
I regularly make use of tests from reputable laboratories and I recommend that you first make an appointment with me so that we can discuss which one would be most appropriate for your needs. When you get your results I can then help you to interpret them and suggest the appropriate dietary and lifestyle changes to help relieve your symptoms.
Below are some of the tests that I have found most useful in my practice, some of which you can book directly here. However i can arrange a wide range of functional tests and the clinic also provides a phlebotomy service. Please contact me for further information.
Digestive
A variety of digestive profiles, which can be used to help clarify a variety of digestive symptoms. Tests include a Digestive Stool Analysis/Parasitology, a Candida Antibody Profile, Intestinal Permeability Assessment (leaky gut test), and a Helicobacter Pylori Breath Test.
Optimum Nutrition Evaluation Test
The ONE test is a unique combination of nutritional tests that provides an analysis of key nutritional biomarkers in one convenient urine collection.
This helps to assess the functional need for antioxidants, B-vitamins, minerals, digestive support, and amino acids.
Toxic elements screen plus fluoride
This urine test is a screen for 18 nutritional and toxic elements (aluminium, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, thallium, tin and zinc).
Adrenal Stress Index
Stress hormones are produced by the adrenals, and may become unbalanced over periods of stress, especially if it is prolonged. Appropriate nutritional support for the adrenals can be provided to help maintain balance and relieve symptoms.
Thyroid Function Tests
these are offered as either blood or urine tests and help to give a comprehensive picture of thyroid function, measuring TSH, T4, T3, rT3 and thyroid auto-antibodies.
Bone Resorption
Osteoporosis Risk Assessment is a useful indicator of bone turnover and can be used to help monitor progress of medical treatments to help slow down bone loss.