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- Do you want to finally find out what is happening for you and do something about it- so that you can feel great again?
- Do you want to take proactive steps to secure your health and wellness and reduce your chances of getting sick?
Functional Health Tests offer you many health advantages:
- Can reveal the source of your symptoms.
- Are simple non-invasive blood, saliva, and stool tests that you can do in the privacy of your own home.
- No doctor's visit or prescription necessary.
- Are analyzed by professional independent laboratories.
- Pinpoint underlying health and wellness imbalances that are implicated in many common health complaints.
- Identify hormonal, metabolic, and gastrointestinal contributors to your health problems with scientific accuracy.
- Provide vital information to implement optimal balance and health.
- Functional Health Tests ordered through me come with an exclusive and informative personal telephone session with me to help you interpret and integrate the results.
- Can be ordered securely online.
Understand and correct underlying functional health and wellness imbalances.
You'll feel better. Not only can you target your treatment, you also gain confidence that there is something to work with to help you feel better. It is always better to know that there is something definite to treat rather than be told "It is all in your head. All your tests are normal. There is nothing wrong with you."
Be Empowered. When you are not feeling well, you know something is not right. When you can not find out what that something is, you feel powerless. When a health test identifies what you always suspected, the confirmation empowers you. You can do something – other than getting used to living with your symptoms
Don't wait until a functional imbalance turns into a condition or illness. You can take knowledgeable action to change the course of progression before you develop something that is harder to change.
Promoting wellness and longevity – Key preventive tools
Modern medicine has been very successful in the fight against disease. But, there are few tools available that evaluate basic human physiology before a condition or illness is evident. Diagnosis has traditionally focused on pathology rather than the underling reasons why a particular health problem developed or how certain patterns and stresses can lead to the development of a disease.
Functional Health Tests are a key positive step in the direction of keeping you healthy and well. Every person has a unique biochemistry and these simple non-invasive tests can highlight advantageous nutritional and health and wellness changes specific for you. Functional Health Tests can pinpoint your underlying functional imbalances so that optimal steps for balance can be taken.
Functional Health Tests evaluate your individual physiology. By comparing laboratory assessments with normal physiological ranges, stressful patterns and contributing factors to current and future health compromises are pinpointed.
Test results can suggest the root causes of chronic illnesses and degenerative diseases. These tests are particularly adept at addressing the causes of health problems and symptoms that have yet to manifest as a possible disease. Many health conditions develop over the course of years; exhibiting undiagnosed and seemingly unrelated symptoms.
Early detection and amelioration of health stresses and compromised patterns have consequences reaching far beyond the alleviation of symptoms.
By identifying the underlying imbalances of chronic health conditions and addressing your unique biochemical composition, these tests play an important role in preventative medicine, improved health and wellness care and reducing the risk of degenerative disease.
You can identify risk factors for a variety of health problems long before they become symptomatic, enabling you to take preventive measures to reduce your risks for cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other degenerative conditions.
You can have the benefit of scientifically based nutritional plans, immune enhancing strategies, and longevity programs. Positive results increase dramatically when therapeutic protocols are based on your unique scientific data. Functional Health Tests give you an exceptional opportunity for comprehensive, individualized health, wellness and preventive care.
If you want to work with your health concerns and understand the underlying factors affecting your complaints rather than simply treating symptoms, these functional assessments can be invaluable tools
...Leading to a healthier lifestyle and greater well being.
Functional Health Tests offer a profound opportunity to see how your body is working at its deepest level.
Functional Health Testing offers health and wellness solutions that can identify possible underlying causes of chronic health conditions, reduce the risk of degenerative disease and address your individual and unique biochemical composition. These Functional Health laboratory assessments are useful for finding solutions to the underlying foundations for many health compromises including:
- Digestive disorders
- Food intolerance
- Food allergies
- Neuroendocrine disorders
- Hormone imbalances
- PMS
- Depression
- Metabolic disorders
- Heavy metal toxicity
- Autoimmune conditions
- Chronic pain
- Immunological disorders
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Chemical sensitivities
- Sleep disorders.
As a Licensed Certified Nutritionist I have access to a plethora of functional health tests to assess the foundations of your health and improve health care outcomes. The data provided by these tests gives you a wealth of information about your health status compared to a baseline of patterns and trends known to correlate to optimal health. They can signal a need to restructure some of your current health care habits and point the way to not only resolving symptoms but creating fundamental health and wellness for you.
Each laboratory I work with offers professional consultation in the interpretation of the results and provides innovative and comprehensive client and practitioner educational material, interpretative guidelines and tools to support the implementation of your individualized program and help ensure clinical effectiveness.
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Looking for another test? I have literally hundreds of functional tests available. If you don’t see what you want here contact me.
Identify before you treat
I use Functional Health Tests to identify hormonal, metabolic, neurotransmitter, and gastrointestinal contributors to health problems with scientific accuracy.
Often these foundations of health are overlooked by allopathic medicine because they are not diseases or illness but rather imbalances. With the information from functional testing, individualized biochemically accurate preventive and wellness programs can be more accurately designed.
All too often symptoms can be mis-leading and restoring health and wellness balance based on symptoms alone can lead to unsuccessful treatment and needless continuing suffering. It is important and saves time and effort to be able to accurately identify what is going on.
Is It Gluten?
Jane had been off gluten grains for about 6 years. She never had any testing done - either conventional or alternative. But she was having all sorts of GI symptoms and decided to eliminate gluten grains. Over the last 6 years, her symptoms improved somewhat - but not that much - and she just kept eliminating foods that seemed to set off her symptoms. By the time she came to see me, she was hardly eating anything!
We did some health testing – including a GI test and I encouraged her to do some conventional testing for celiac disease. Her GI test did not show any problems with gluten sensitivity and all her conventional celiac tests came back negative including the genetic marker. But her GI test revealed problems with GI bacterial pathogens, some slight GI inflammation, and an IgA sensitivity to soy. We treated those results and in time reintroduced gluten grains in her diet. She now feels great!
It is Gluten!
Chris had a similar history – she had been off gluten grains for about 8 years. Again, we did some health tests, including the GI panel and Chris went onto get medical testing for celiac. The most prominent result of the GI panel was a high sensitivity to gluten. Normal treatment for gluten sensitivity is to remove sources of gluten from your diet. When you have successfully avoided all sources of gluten, your gluten sensitivity test should come back negative.
With Chris’s high gluten sensitivity, the lab cautioned that celiac disease was likely, which her medical lab results confirmed. Chris and I worked together clearing up some additional health imbalances that had shown up on her health tests. Meanwhile I helped her design an up to date gluten free diet. After about six months she was symptom free and feeling great.
Is It Hormones? Or Is It Toxicity?
Martha had been trying to get pregnant for about 5 years. She had tried all kinds of treatments and tests. Finally, she found and ordered the Cycling Female Hormone Test Panel online and took the health test throughout the length of her next cycle. Turns out the communication between her brain and her ovaries is fine – no problem there. The test did show a slight estrogen dominance with a prolonged luteal phase and progesterone deficiency. In consultation with the lab that had performed the test, we determined that the most likely cause of the hormone profile was weakened ovarian follicles due to toxicity.
We went on to do some testing for various kinds of toxicity. Martha’s Mineral Hair Analysis revealed some mercury toxicity. We worked to reduce Martha’s toxic overload and in less than a year she was pregnant.
It is unquestionably worth it to identify what is happening for you and find out what to do about it.
What happens after you get your test results-
When you order a Functional Health Test through me, I include a complimentary session with me to help you interpret, understand, and integrate the results of your test. This complimentary session does not, however, include treatment recommendations.
After your complimentary session, when you understand how the imbalances that showed up in your test results impact your health and well-being, you are probably going to want to do something about them. After all - why identify an imbalance and then leave it to wreck havoc in your life?
When we review your test results, one of the things I do is outline options for treatment. Most of the time, you and I can go on to work together to effectively restore balance in your body. (If tests results suggest an imbalance outside of the scope of my practice, I will do my best to refer you to the appropriate practitioner.)
If we decide to go on and work together to treat your test results, I offer to my Functional Health Test clients a significantly reduced price on your first Functional Health Test Integrated Treatment Plan. I do this because I want to help you keep leveraging your wise decision to take deep and effective care of yourself. I know that if you wait too long to properly take care of what is negatively impacting your health, you may never get around to doing it. And that is an unnecessary waste of good life energy.
In the Functional Test Integrated Treatment Plan I design for you, I will give you key recommendations in the following areas:
- Herbs
- Nutritional Supplements
- Diet
- Lifestyle
- Exercise
- Body Maintenance
- Personal Foundations
Plus, in your treatment plan I outline a step-by-step overview for what is going to take to effectively restoring balanced fundamental functioning in your body.
Ready to start your journey to vibrant health and wellness? Which Functional Health Test will you start with today?
The list of tests available for order online.
How to get the tests:
Functional health tests are easy to order and complete. The tests listed above can be done without a doctor’s prescription.
The tests are ordered through me in my capacity as a Certified Nutritionist.
Call the number below or use our secure online shopping cart.
I'll have the test sent directly to you within a few business days. A small shipping and handling fee applies.
You send the necessary specimen to a professional scientific laboratory.
The test results are sent to me and I forward a copy to you.
You may also receive educational materials from the laboratory to help you easily understand the tests and the results.
We schedule a time to discuss the interpretations and implications of the results and options for further treatment appropriate for you based on the information.
The main value of these tests is to enable us to more accurately and
precisely implement preventative and wellness measures to increase your
health and well-being and reduce your future risks of illness and degenerative
conditions. These tests have a practical advantage because the test kit
is sent directly to your home. Samples are collected at your convenience
and mailed back to the lab.
If you are interested in ordering any of these Functional Health Tests, would like to discuss which tests would be most appropriate for you, or just have questions about functional testing, feel free to contact me and we can set up a time to talk.
Call 434-263-4996 or e-mail for more information.
Tests that can be ordered online are listed above.
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