Functional Testing

Modern Naturopathy offers specialist laboratory testing, often called functional testing. These are assessments that evaluate how well the body’s systems are functioning. Unlike standard medical tests that primarily diagnose disease, functional testing identifies potential root causes of health concerns by examining how the body’s systems are operating and interacting.

They provide findings on nutrient status, and gut and hormonal health amongst others, and can greatly improve client outcome and reduce the number of clinic visits. These are tests not available usually through your GP. We will only suggest testing if the findings would be valuable to you, and we can supply a referral for your GP for any relevant NHS funded tests that you can access free of charge.

They are an expense, but this is offset against the results and time benefits, often costing less long term. They are extremely useful for preventative, acute, medium and long term care, and for any referrals, or future appointments you may have with another healthcare practitioner. For children, and those with mental health difficulties I strongly recommend testing, as the input and parameters required for a more trial and error approach over time is often harder to implement.

Many individualised tests are available according to individual needs, based on personalised treatment.

The tests most commonly recommend are:

GI Effects or MetaXplore GI Plus comprehensive stool test, Metabolomix+ nutrient status test, KBMO food intolerance tests, various advanced thyroid panels, DUTCH complete hormone test, Lifecode nutrigenomics reports, mycotoxin panels, and adrenal stress panels.

For more information on these, or any other functional test, please contact us.