Lab Testing

Listener Questions: Food Allergies, Elemental Dieting, Lectins

Answers to your questions about what gut-healing remedies may be beneficial for food allergies, mold illness, yeast overgrowth, and more.

A new scientifically validated lab test for diagnosing gut dysbiosis helps point the way toward novel treatments for IBS and IBD.

Personalized care in functional medicine is data-driven and patient-centric instead of relying on emotion, algorithms, and marketing.

Relying on lab testing (such as results from food allergy tests), rather than treating the symptoms, is less likely to benefit the patient -...

Treating the patient (not the lab results) and weeding out unnecessary tests improves health outcomes in functional medicine.

Recent gut health findings include studies on leaky gut, SIBO, elemental diets, low FODMAP, H. pylori, IBS, zonulin, depression and more.

Lab testing is overused in functional healthcare. We use a science-guided framework focusing on clinical outcomes rather than improving lab results.

Blastocystis hominis,a protozoa long thought to cause gut symptoms like IBS, may not be a parasite at all and may not even need to...