Test Don't Guess
Standard bloodwork is designed to rule out disease. Functional testing is designed to find out why you don't feel well — often long before conventional labs would flag anything as a problem.
The difference is in what we're looking for. Conventional testing asks "is something seriously wrong?" Functional testing asks "where is the body struggling, and what does it need?" It looks at a much broader range of markers, assesses patterns rather than isolated values, and gives us clinically actionable information that we can actually build a protocol around.
This is not guesswork. It's root cause investigation — giving us a clear picture of what's driving your symptoms so that every recommendation is targeted, personalized, and specific to you.
All testing at Nutritional Solutions is recommended based on your individual health picture following an initial consultation. This ensures you're doing the tests that are actually relevant to what's going on in your body — not an expensive panel of things that won't change your protocol.
Gut Microbiome Assessment
Your gut is home to trillions of bacteria that influence everything from digestion and immunity to mood, metabolism, and inflammation. This stool-based test maps the composition of your microbiome — identifying imbalances, overgrowths, pathogens, and markers of gut lining integrity that standard testing simply doesn't look for. The Deep Gut Scan provides a more comprehensive picture including additional inflammatory and digestive markers. Ordered on your behalf and completed at home.
Hormone & Stress Testing
A single hormone blood draw gives you a snapshot. These panels give you the full picture. Using saliva and/or urine collected at multiple points across the day, hormone and stress testing maps how your cortisol rhythm is actually functioning, how your sex hormones are being produced and cleared, and where the breakdown is happening. Far more clinically useful than standard bloodwork for understanding fatigue, mood, weight, and hormonal symptoms. Ordered on your behalf and completed at home.
Mineral & Heavy Metal Testing — HTMA
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis is one of the most underutilized tools in functional health. A small hair sample reveals your mineral status over the previous 3 months — including key minerals like magnesium, zinc, calcium, and potassium that drive hundreds of metabolic and cellular processes. It also screens for heavy metal burden — lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium — which are increasingly common drivers of fatigue, brain fog, hormonal disruption, and chronic inflammation. Ordered on your behalf and completed at home.
Food Sensitivity Testing
Unlike a true food allergy — which produces an immediate reaction — food sensitivities are delayed, often taking up to 72 hours to produce symptoms. This makes them nearly impossible to identify without testing. This IgG panel tests your immune response to a broad range of common foods, identifying which ones are quietly triggering inflammation, digestive upset, skin reactions, fatigue, and more. Results come with a detailed review and personalized dietary recommendations. Ordered on your behalf and completed at home.
Live & Dry Blood Analysis
This is one of the most eye-opening things you can do for your health. A single drop of blood examined under a high-powered microscope reveals what's happening in your body at the cellular level — in real time, on a screen, together. Hydration, digestion, inflammation, oxidative stress, nutrient status, immune activity — all visible before standard lab work would ever flag a concern. Live blood shows us what's happening now. Dry blood shows us patterns and history. Together they give us a starting point that is genuinely unlike anything else in conventional or functional health assessment. This is where root cause work begins.
Genetic & Nutrigenomic Testing
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Your genes are not your destiny — but they are your blueprint. Nutrigenomic testing looks at specific genetic variations that influence how your body processes nutrients, detoxifies, responds to stress, manages inflammation, and regulates hormones. This is not ancestry testing. This is clinically actionable information — identifying where your body may need extra nutritional support based on how you're actually wired. Results are reviewed with you in full and built directly into your protocol. Done once. Relevant for life.