The Role of Functional Lab Testing in Nutrition Therapy
We use many functional lab tests, including blood work, urine testing, hormone testing, stool analysis, micronutrient testing, and many others. We also realize that lab tests alone don’t fully picture each patient's total health. That is why as part of our Functional Medicine Nutritional Therapy Assessment, we take a detailed history of past and current medical conditions, supplements, and medications and truly listen to you, the patient. We determine what your health priorities are and the health issues that are most important to you.
Functional Medicine Nutritional Therapy is a Multifaceted Approach
Information is derived from the part of the nervous system whose job is to regulate each organ's functions. These organs or areas or meridian access points have become extremely useful in our practice because they are so accurate.
Each area that gives a response represents a specific organ, tissue, or function and indicates the effect that energy/balance or the lack of energy/balance has on the body. By testing these organs/areas, we have a system of monitoring your body at each nutritional visit that has proven to be extremely accurate clinically and that helps us identify, in combination with functional lab testing, precisely what the body needs and how well we are meeting that need with natural support.
There are important links between nutrition and well-being, but even without scientific studies, there is a certain surface level connection between nutrition and mental health that is fairly important to understand. Nutrition is a vital part of maintaining a physically healthy body, as are a variety of other lifestyle aspects like sleep patterns, digestion, hydration, medications, physical activity, energy levels, etc.
