Functional Nutritional Medicine Diagnostic Tests
Functional Nutritional Medicine is a truly preventative approach to your health
Functional Nutritional Medicine offers a proactive approach to health by addressing the underlying causes of symptoms and illness, focusing on how body systems interact. It goes beyond treating symptoms, aiming to identify and correct imbalances in three core areas:
1. Nutritional Deficiencies
Insufficient levels of essential nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fatty acids. These deficiencies can impair normal bodily functions and contribute to chronic health conditions.
2. Toxic Overloads
Accumulation of harmful substances such as heavy metals (mercury, lead, cadmium), environmental toxins (e.g., BPA, glyphosate), and an overgrowth of undesirable microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, or imbalanced gut flora. These excesses can disrupt health and contribute to inflammation and disease.
3. Dysfunctional Body Processes
Malfunctions in critical systems, including hormonal imbalances, digestive dysfunctions, and metabolic irregularities. These disruptions often result from genetic factors or external triggers, contributing to chronic symptoms and illness.
Functional tests delve deeper than standard blood tests, providing insights into genetic, nutritional, biochemical, metabolic, and hormonal imbalances that standard pathology may overlook. These results guide personalized recommendations for diet, lifestyle, and supplements, empowering individuals to address root causes and achieve long-term wellness.
This comprehensive approach helps reveal how these imbalances interact with genetics to drive health issues, making it a powerful tool in addressing conditions like chronic fatigue, gut disorders, hormonal imbalances, and more.
Functional Testing
Organic Acids Test (OAT)
Clinical usefulness of the Organic Acid Test:
Evaluate energy production
Assess central nervous system function
Reveal high levels of GI yeast/fungal and bacteria overgrowths
Detect nutritional and antioxidant deficiencies
Determine problems in fatty acid metabolism
Identify excess oxalate
DUTCH Complete Hormone Panel
DUTCH stands for Dried Urine Test
for Comprehensive Hormones
The DUTCH test is a complete panel that shows how your body processes and metabolises hormones.
The DUTCH test looks not just at your sex hormones, it also looks at your stress hormones, your androgens (male pattern hormones), your melatonin and organic acid markers for mood (neurotransmitter metabolites) and nutritional balances (such as vitamin B12 and B6).
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA)
HTMA Comprehensive Hair Test + Written Report
The HTMA test provides a detailed blueprint of your nutritional metabolic activity.
Includes:
Adriana's recommended supplement protocol based on your HTMA (and what you should prioritise)
Complete GI Map Stool Tes
Complete GI Map Stool Test
/ Complete Microbiome Mapping
The GI-MAP (GI-Microbial Assay Plus) quantitatively assesses a person’s microbiome with attention to bacterial, parasitic, and viral pathogens that can cause disease, disrupt the normal microbial balance and contribute to chronic GI illness.
The stool test detects the presence of pathogenic yeast, parasites, and bacteria, which could be contributing to chronic illness and neurological dysfunction. It provides information about prescription and natural products that may be effective against specific microorganism strains detected in the sample. The test also evaluates beneficial bacteria levels, intestinal immune function, overall intestinal health (presence of occult blood, pH, mucus, and other criteria), and markers for inflammation.
THE COMPREHENSIVE STOOL ANALYSIS INCLUDES:
- Bacterial Pathogens
- Viral Pathogens
- Parasitic Pathogens
- Parasitic Protozoa
- Parasitic Worms
- Normal Bacterial Flora
- Opportunistic Bacteria
- H. pylori with Virulence Factors
- Fungi and Yeast
- Digestion
- Immune Response
- Inflammation
- Antibiotic Resistance Genes
Zonulin (Leaky Gut marker)
Pathology Test Analysis
Pathology Analysis- Pathology analysis provides an in-depth insight into your health.
How often have you requested blood tests that come back within the reference-range and you’re told ‘it all looks normal’? If I had a dollar. Even if your results are within the reference-range, you may be presenting at the high or low-end of that range which may indicate underlying health issues.
Adriana has the expertise and experience to analyse pathology results and make professional nutritional recommendations based on those findings. Clients receive a pathology report with a detailed written explanation of the test results, plus customised nutritional recommendations to improve underlying health concerns.
Pathology results are used to confirm or exclude the presence of nutrient deficiencies, inflammation, infection and disease. This information may also be used to monitor medical conditions, screen for certain health issues and monitor responses to certain medications and dietary alterations.
Pyroluria – the Stress Disorder
Pyrrole Disorder/Pyroluria or Pyrroles is a metabolic disorder that most commonly manifests as gut and mental health conditions.
Many people with Pyroluria report having these KEY symptoms their whole life, including childhood:
- severe inner tension
- ongoing anxiety and/or depression
- poor stress tolerance (with added stress of any kind making the symptoms worse)/ overwhelmed in stressful situations
- digestive issues and difficulty digesting protein
- frequent colds and infections requiring antibiotics, often adenoids/tonsils removed, grommets put in
- joint pain or stiffness
- acne, eczema or psoriasis
- mood swings and reactivity
- poor short term memory
- a tendency in many to lean towards being a loner
- cold hands and feet
- constipation
- poor dream recall
- early greying of hair
- hypersensitivity to noise/bright light/smells
- tendency towards iron deficient anaemia
- poor memory
- hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar)
much higher capability in the evening than mornings