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gut health
Gut health refers to the overall well-being of your digestive system, particularly the gut microbiome—the trillions of microorganisms living in your intestines. A thriving gut is essential for not just digestion and nutrient absorption, but also for immunity, metabolism, and even your mental well-being.
What is the Gut Microbiome?
Your gut microbiome is a bustling, complex community of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that call your intestines home. These microorganisms are crucial for:
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Digestion: Breaking down food and aiding nutrient absorption.
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Immunity: Supporting your immune system and protecting against harmful invaders.
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Metabolism: Influencing your metabolism and helping regulate weight.
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Mental Health: Communicating with your brain, potentially affecting mood and cognitive function.
GI Relief Program
Are you looking for relief from bloating, constipation, diarrhea, heartburn, or other gut-related symptoms?
Our GI Relief Program offers a comprehensive, six-month treatment plan designed to help you heal and restore optimal digestive health. Over the past decade, we have refined the best combination of tests, treatments, and follow-up care so you can focus on healing—not on deciding which steps to take next.
This program includes:
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Comprehensive functional testing
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Targeted treatment protocols
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Nutritional supplements
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Food sensitivity education
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Leaky Gut Syndrome education
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Long term recommendations
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Four extended one-hour appointments with our care team
Give us a call to take the next step in healing your gut health!
LEAKY GUT syndrome
Leaky gut syndrome is a term often encountered in lay literature, but it is not recognized as an official medical diagnosis. Individuals may attribute a variety of gastrointestinal symptoms—such as diarrhea, bloating, abdominal pain, and nausea—to this condition. The causes are believed to be multifactorial, including factors like previous infections, inflammatory bowel disease, or certain medications. Leaky Gut is how inflammation can create full body symptoms. Through testing we can detect and help with Leaky Gut and overall gut health.
Organic Acids Test (OAT)
Nutritional & Metabolic Profile
The Organic Acids Test (OAT) offers a comprehensive metabolic snapshot of a patient's overall health with 76 makers. It provides an accurate evaluation of intestinal yeast and bacteria. Abnormally high levels of these microorganism can cause or worsen behavior disorders, hyperactivity, movement disorders, fatigue and immune function. Many people with chronic illnesses and neurological disorders often excrete several abnormal organic acids in their urine. The cause of these high levels could include oral antibiotic use, high sugar diets, immune deficiencies, acquired infections, as well as genetic factors.
Our OAT also includes markers for vitamin and mineral levels, oxidative stress, neurotransmitter levels, and is the only OAT test to include markers for oxalates, which are highly correlated with many chronic illnesses.
If abnormalities are detected using the OAT, treatments can include supplements, such as vitamins and antioxidants, or dietary modification. Upon treatment, patients and practitioners have reported significant improvement such as decreased fatigue, regular bowel function, increased energy and alertness, increased concentration, improved verbal skills, less hyperactivity, and decreased abdominal pain. The OAT is strongly recommended as their initial screening test.
$379 Includes testing, interpretation, and a plan of action based on your results.
IgG Food Allergy Test
+ Candida
Food & Yeast Sensitivities
IgG (immunoglobulin G) test results can aid in the structuring of elimination diets that may relieve symptoms of many chronic neurological, gastrointestinal, and movement disorders. IgG antibodies are present in all body fluids and serve as a first line of defense against infections, but do not release histamine or produce familiar immediate hypersensitivity reaction of itching, hives, flushing, or sneezing associated with classic IgE allergic reactions. In Contrast, IgG antibodies may have more subtle immune effects, ranging from gastrointestinal bloating and nausea to headaches, mood changes, and fatigue. Unknowingly, people may continue to eat "offending" foods, not connecting delayed reactions to the foods eaten hours or days before.
By measuring IgG antibodies specific to antigenic proteins, it is possible to identify which foods may be responsible for hard-to-define symptoms. The 93 foods tested in the IgG Food Allergy Test with Candida include representatives of major food groups common the western diet. Elimination of IgG-positive foods can improve symptoms pf irritable bowel syndrome, autism, ADHD, cystic fibrosis, rheumatoid arthritis, and epilepsy, according to numerous clinical studies.
Please note that the elimination diet is based only on IgG testing. To be safe, testing for IgE antibodies to food allergens should be considered PRIOR TO BEGINNING an ELIMINATION DIET. IF a patient has negative results for IgG antibodies, it does not necessarily mean he/she is negative for IgE, IgM, or IgA antibodies.
Mosiac Diagnostics has added Candida to the IgG Food Allergy Test. Candida problems are thought to be caused when the benign yeast form of Candida albicans or other Candida species mutates to its fungal form.
can overgrow portions or the intestinal mucosa, causing numerous symptoms. If allowed to grow out of balance, the toxins produced by Candida can create minute holes in the intestinal lining, leading to "leaky gut" syndrome. When Candida or its byproducts enter the blood, Candida contributes to a chronic inflammatory immune system response (CIRS). A wide range of disorders have been linked to Candida, including autism, multiple sclerosis, depression, and chronic fatigue. Use of oral antibiotics, oral contraceptives, chemotherapy, and anti-inflammatory steroids greatly increase susceptibility to Candida.
The IgG Food Allergy Test + Candida helps determine if food reactions are contributing to physical/ mental symptoms.
$329 Includes testing, interpretation, and a plan of action based on your results.
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