I’ve encountered the force that useful and integrative medicine can need to radically further develop an individual’s prosperity. The Center of this experience is working intimately with a profoundly prepared specialist who can arrange and decipher advanced functional medical lab tests – including advanced stool testing, biochemical testing, metabolic testing, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

Functional Medicine Lab Tests

Our functional testing permits our patients to get underlying pathogenic and biochemical marker imbalances that give great insight into the explanation for dysfunction.

Advanced Functional medicine Australia has partnerships with a variety of specialized functional laboratories through Australia, Europe, and USA giving you the most up to date and accurate testing methodologies and procedures worldwide.

After seeing our functional medicine experts, we can request advanced lab testing through our Lab Portal, to give great insights, these are the lab tests we have regularly seen requested for patients. 

Organic Acids Test (OAT) 

Type: Urine 

An organic acids test, frequently alluded to as an OAT, is an essential utilitarian medication test that is a “metabolic preview of a patient’s general wellbeing.” It is ordinarily requested for some patients and is suggested as a standard test after the underlying arrangement, particularly if the patient is managing state of mind problems, exhaustion, stomach-related objections, or weight issues. 

An OAT takes a look at natural acids in urine created in a patient’s digestion and regularly incorporates markers that assess gastrointestinal yeast and microscopic organisms. This test is presented by various labs; the most famous at Rupa Health is the Organic Acids Test (OAT) from The Great Plains Laboratory and the Organix® Profile from Genova Diagnostics. The Great Plains Laboratory’s OAT likewise incorporates markers for nutrient and mineral levels, oxidative stress, neurotransmitter levels, and is the main OAT to incorporate markers for oxalates, which are valuable markers in treating a wide variety of conditions.

GI Map Stool Test 

Type: Stool 

Solutions (GI-MAP)

By a wide margin, the most regularly requested test we see in Australia is the GI MAP stool test, typically requested after the initial consultation with a functional medicine practical or integrative specialist. The most famous stool tests we see experts requesting are GI Effects® and GI-MAP. These tests are so well known with suppliers in light of the fact that the gut assumes a fundamental part in the overall patient health

These useful medication lab tests investigate numerous biomarkers, including those for: 

• Assimilation and retention levels of nutrients

• Stress levels 

• Presence of parasites and worms 

• The gut microbiome breakdown 

• Microorganisms including h. Pylori, Campylobacter, Clostridium difficile 

Fascinating that we frequently see functional medicine practitioners requesting one of these tests regardless of whether patients have suspecting gut issues or not. In one supplier’s words, “I request this for each and every one of my patients since it assists me with getting what’s happening in the body from an underlying driver point of view – taking a look at the gut can give one of a kind understanding into general wellbeing.” Stool testing has detonated as of late with the development of exploration around the gut microbiome and its inexorably perceived impact on overall wellbeing. 

Dutch Hormone Testing 

Type: Dried Urine and Saliva 

In Australia, the DUTCH Hormone Test (Dried Urine Test for Comprehensive Hormones) is the most far-reaching chemical board by Precision Analytical, an asymptomatic organization gaining practical experience in chemicals. It’s important that essentially every supplier we work with has a record with Precision Analytical! 

The DUTCH Plus is intended for all kinds of people. It takes a look at the creation of sex hormones and their metabolites, just as the examples and dispersions of each, giving practitioners a visual aftereffect of the chemical pathways in an individual’s body. Accuracy Analytical offers an entire set-up of chemical tests; notwithstanding, the DUTCH Plus is the most far-reaching. We see suppliers moving from other hormonal tests to this one at an expanding rate. 

The DUTCH Plus’ fortification comes from the expansion of Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) estimations, which acquires biomarkers from one more key piece of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis). 

Like the stool test, the DUTCH Plus is on our rundown in light of the fact that instead of simply checking for a “green banner” or “warning” for a particular biomarker, it is a far-reaching view into how an individual’s hormones are metabolising. These sort of advanced functional lab tests assist functional medicine practitioners with understanding what’s really going on in the body.

SIBO Breath Test 

Type: Breath 

Numerous patients come to practical medication after 3+ long periods of looking for treatment and being seen by 7+ suppliers (essential consideration, subject matter experts, other elective medication suppliers, and so on) with no replies. In the event that a SIBO test hasn’t as of now been requested by a regular specialist, it’s one of the principal tests requested in case patients are encountering GI side effects that may be SIBO-related. 

Little Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) happens when microbes enter the small digestive tract, which is ordinarily sterile, and start to colonize. It can cause an assortment of normal gastrointestinal indications. By estimating the arrival of hydrogen and methane in the breath, this test assesses the presence of SIBO.