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Accurately identify hidden causes of your symptoms with
Functional Health Tests

Simple to order. Take the test at home. Mail to the lab. Gives you accurate, easy to understand results.

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.

Functional Health tests:

• 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 imbalances with implications 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.
• Come with an exclusive and informative personal telephone session with me to help you interpret and integrate the results.
• Get specific recommendations based on your test information related to your situation.
• Can be ordered securely online (below).

Understand and correct underlying functional 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.

It is unquestionably worth it to identify what is happening for you and find out what to do about it.

Every person has a unique biochemistry. These simple non-invasive tests can highlight advantageous nutritional and health and wellness changes for you. Health tests can pinpoint underlying functional imbalances so that optimal steps for balance can be implemented.

Such data is vital to the assessment of basic physiological function and has implications in many common complaints. When used in comprehensive assessment, health tests can dramatically enhance the potential for positive outcomes.

By identifying the underlying imbalances of chronic health conditions and addressing your unique biochemical composition, these tests play an important role in improved health and wellness care and reducing the risk of degenerative disease.

Positive results increase dramatically when therapeutic protocols are based on individual scientific data. Functional health tests give you an exceptional opportunity for comprehensive, individualized health, wellness and preventive care.

Promoting wellness and longevity – Key preventive tools

As a practitioner, I can’t say enough good things about Functional Health tests. They are a cornerstone of my most integral Mood and Energy Management Programs. I have seen so many people suffering for years from unresolved symptoms. Since I gained access to these Health tests, my ability to relieve related symptoms has increased exponentially. Why are these tests so valuable?

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 assessments can evaluate individual physiology. By comparing laboratory assessments with normal physiological ranges, stressful patterns and contributing factors to current and future health compromises are pinpointed.

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.

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.

If you want to work with your health concerns and understand the underlying factors affecting your complaints rather than simply treating symptoms, 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.

In a one month period I had two emergency surgeries after which I had a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms that I did not have before. According to my surgeon, family doctor, osteopath, cranial sacral practitioner, and my myofascial practitioner there was nothing apparent that might be the cause of these symptoms.

Being my own health advocate, I went ahead and did a GI Health Panel for myself. Turned out my GI tract was now inhabited by some bacterial pathogens. Targeting treatment to this test result resolved my symptoms. Using the rest of the GI test results helped me highlight some needed gastrointestinal remedies. I feel immensely better since discovering and treating these functional GI processes which had gotten out of balance.

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 Female Hormone 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 are working to reduce Martha’s toxic overload and looking forward to improved fertility.

Identify before you treat

We 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. With the information from functional testing, individualized biochemically accurate preventive and wellness programs can be more accurately designed.

Functional testing offers health 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.

Monitoring of therapies

Functional assessments provide the way to monitor a wide array of therapies, including customized nutritional and wellness programs. Testing is used initially to establish an individual’s baseline physiological processes and subsequently to closely monitor the effectiveness of therapies. The value of the tests lies in the fact that they deliver clinically effective therapies that correspond to an individual’s health assessment.

Each laboratory 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.

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 will 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 such as a nutritional wellness program as appropriate for you based on the information.

The main value of these tests is to enable us to more accurately and precisely implement preventive 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 for a no charge, no obligation service appointment.

Call 434-263-4996 or e-mail for more information.

Tests that can be ordered online are listed above.
I have more tests available to help you than are listed.
Call for details and to find the best test for your situation.

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The list of tests available to order online