Functional Testing
Why Test?
Clarity for better results
Functional testing helps uncover the hidden factors affecting your health. With accurate data from blood, saliva, stool and urine tests, we can create a focused strategy tailored to your body’s needs.
Depending on your symptoms and health goals, testing may provide additional insight into areas such as:
- Digestive and gut health
- Hormone balance and stress response
- Nutritional status
- Nutritional Energy and metabolic health
- Food sensitivities
- Immune and inflammatory markers
Looking Beyond “Normal”
Testing is not always necessary.
In many cases, we can make meaningful progress through nutrition and lifestyle changes alone.
However, where appropriate, functional testing can provide valuable insight—especially if your symptoms are more complex, long-standing, or not improving as expected.
If I feel testing would support you, I will always explain why. We will decide together if it feels right for you.
All testing is optional and carried out at an additional cost.
How This Helps You
Functional testing can help inform a more personalised and targeted nutrition and lifestyle approach. By gaining additional insights through testing, we can build a clearer picture of the factors that may be contributing to your symptoms and use this information to guide tailored nutrition and lifestyle recommendations.
Working With Trusted Laboratories
I work with a number of trusted laboratories that provide clinically relevant functional testing.
I partner with a number of leading functional medicine laboratories to ensure high-quality, clinically relevant testing.
“What happens after testing?”
What To Expect
- Testing is recommended only where appropriate.
- Kits are delivered directly to your home.
- Results are reviewed and interpreted for you.
- Recommendations are personalised to your results and symptoms.
What To Expect
I offer comprehensive testing options to assess thyroid function, metabolic health, gut health, sex hormones plus more. Book your free discovery call to find out which test is right for you.
- Testing is recommended only where appropriate.
- Kits are delivered directly to your home.
- Results are reviewed and interpreted for you.
- Recommendations are personalised to your results and symptoms.
Gut Health & Digestive Testing
May be useful for symptoms such as bloating, reflux, irregular bowel habits, or digestive discomfort.
Can provide insight into:
- Gut bacteria balance
- Digestive function
- Inflammation markers
- Gut lining health
- Hormone imbalances
- Allergies & food intolerances
Comprehensive stool testing may also help identify factors that can contribute to wider systemic health concerns, including those relating to immune, skin, metabolic, and neurological health.
Hormone Testing
May be helpful for symptoms relating to energy, mood, menstrual health, sleep, or stress resilience.
Can provide insight into:
- Sex hormones
- Stress response markers
- Antioxidant markers
- Melatonin markers
More comprehensive hormone testing for females can assess patterns across the menstrual cycle, providing additional insight into hormone metabolism, detoxification pathways, and hormone excretion.
This may be helpful for exploring a wide range of hormone-related symptoms, establishing baseline hormone patterns, or monitoring changes alongside HRT support.
Nutritional & Metabolic Testing
Used to explore nutritional status, metabolic health, blood sugar balance, and overall wellbeing.
Can provide insight into:
- Nutrient status and functional nutrient demand
- Blood sugar regulation and metabolic health
- Oxidative stress and antioxidant status
- Cellular energy and mitochondrial function
- Amino acid balance
- Neurotransmitter and mood-related pathways
- Detoxification pathways
- Environmental toxin exposure
These tests may help identify nutritional imbalances and patterns that could be contributing to symptoms such as fatigue, poor energy, stress-related symptoms, metabolic health concerns, inflammatory presentations, and overall resilience.